The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-03-08
THE LITERARY FIELD.

The most intensely interesting people o
| tho world lust at this moment are tht
milions OF famine and plague stricken
India, But little is known of this region
by the people of the United states. Such
reports as come to us are the things seen
through British glasses. What has been
the effect of British rule in India? Why
these terrible famine? why plaguesl
julian Hawthorne has been sent by the
Cosmopolitan Magazine to India to OBJ
tain answers TO these questions at hrst
hand and deplct the situation as 1t APP
pears TO an American The March Cos
mopolltan contains the first of what is
| probably the mos. tnportan; series of ar
| ticles ever presented In this magazine.
Nothing has been publ.shed which gives
an adequate idea OF TIE larger operat ions
| of men iit,ed for suot work by thorough
familiarity with the subjects of when
| they write The artoe in tho March Oos,
| mopolitan on The N;hods OF BANKING
| by the president OF one Of the largest
| banks OF New York--i man of widest bus-
nos's experience Former Postmaster Cen
| eral James-ts one which every person,
| however humble his flerkshp or high his
| place in the financial world, VIII find an
| teressing and INSTRUCTIVE.
The National MagEne for March is in
d
| leading illustrated at,cle Is entitled In
the Florida Resort Land by Arthur w.
| Tartell. 1t is an iteresting sketch of
our great winter resets in the american
Riviera" and of th round of pleasure
that the tourists emily IN the Southland.
| The second article Is 1.-The Surviving
Leaders of the Confderacy," giving por-
| traits and sketches all those men now
| liNing who held prominent positions gov
eimmen. al a. 4 m'litsy' during the late
Centennial Exposition Is still another ar
| trla of intense Sounern interest. as II
forecasts. in a descrltiye and illustrative
manner the great en- bition 20 be held
next May In addibo to these the table
OF contents includes he nfth chapter of
the popular religious ierial now being 81
widely read Chris, al HIS Time"
The present New Egland Mazagine Is
not the first nagaze with that title
which has been published tn Boston The
| first New England Magazine was estab-
lished by Joseph I. Rockingham as long
ago as 1891. and lived complete Us ninth
| volume. The old NewEnglanl Magazine
has now become alm0t forgotten, hut /.
played in Its time WY important part.
| The first of pr. Homes "Aufocrnt OF
| the breakfast Table" iapers appeared In
| IT'S PAGES AMI anon rs contributors
WIN ildW tnpIift tE'EAflipM, w M TIER,
Edward Everett and III the brightest
minds of the time. l,v. George Willis
| Cooks contributes Il through and inter-
I esst,ns article upon A. historic puh!..a-
England Magazine. Is article Is Illus
irated by COPIES of the ictures which APP
! peared in the mtsaz NJ successive vol
utnes. and the iniercs.ig account VIII he
read with eagerness ~ all VINO like to
| dive INTO our literary aiiQuitics Warren
r. kellogg. Park Squ'e, Boston, Mass.
The first article Of a o,able series dc.
scrlbng the official, soal ma domestic
sides of life In dhe Vile House Is ono
of a score or mora ad4rable features
which make up the Mar, Ladies Home
Journal. 1t Is by ex-Predent Harrison,
and presents q vivid, inttsuue pen nc
ture of "a Day with the resident at In, |
Desk" detailing the wTsomo routine !
of our chief executive uAy NE An |
other article with y beArg N the samn |
direction recalls when ln'oln Was ryrst |
Inuugurated 1t tells he Incidents OF |
AIR. Lincoln's memorial trip to Wash |
ihgion and n s induGuriou, the appre-
hension for his safriyinl the eXcfed
condition of the count at that time.
Conspicuous in the samissue arc Paolo |
Tosti's Home Asaln't song without
NotdS-the first instrum.al composition |
hv this famous song 1ter and Alice
Barber stephens draw.y, THE Woman
in Religion, the secon Of her "Ainerl-
can Woman" sketches. "rhe Day After
the Servia Got In" adelighifui short |
story, records The rog2tlc adventure of
Ion, gives some Ginning .ll,,nns.. 'Ii,,
southern ne Edwal W. BOX spcaks
WIN dlroGlhSs ana the point regard.
,nr nc III gounsnan; discusses the
tt~atIs "LhteIaiuro md the uses Of adj
VeISt E-totrdch MS toloe the hrlrhi sid.
of things. '''a"' quo
The Nah number q the Aror, o,,o,.
with the irst of s.r.es of i,,,.,,.,.,,'
| contrhutns on the tiyclonn,.ot ,,,l
| Io"n OF '| SoVernntnt in the Unitea
| states. ne first arAcle is by Hon In.
| san pufy mayor o. boston ,vi,', ~"
| m express himself as In favor .f t6a
| Hunl, ownership Though not uerrs. |
IT, sSrys ~ sI, nht'acipal oIrrat!on, OF put
| H. 90. W, a'cl as gas ana electric lght
ing ancreet railways. Dr, 4 - 'r ,mo-
49, IN, " " pllico OF experiment. sta |
,S,tc,,i,a ".. - states department of
ans Fa deals in an interss,9 n., 'vWn
WIN tPHeSNon or the crowilnr If nsc.
"" =, ,pe country into the already
looks IN as natural ana ineyltnhle" mt
1o ur mat tho town res dtnt nni - - I
, rsro... tba o country should more fully '
; and All como nSea -, OF zach TO the other, ,,
ins. also makes some exceIl.rt '' ',,,i /
~ ~ 70 lehing with the pinbl,Tn :
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( toin2n The Relation OF I;ol%cy ~ v
hL.N, IS search rE 0dvorse ciris
, c,tMthe seventh chapter OF iprrfeesor u
X recent work on COME Mn i
< anu nHefi but IT is also much mar i
= HON thoroughly up-to-date exr,s .'T,', i
y al 1heNil theory OF organic C,i,i,,t' ~ a
' losc "S'' 90 Ph-- ="
u Tonnspieee OF McClure's Magazine Il
forch is fine portrait Of Mark II
iwPalhied by Charles Noel Flapy ~
"t'ef before reproduced 1t intro. +,
! umh extremely Interesting numhe- s
l Tn the opening installmen, of ne,y a
n n" Hohert Louis Stevenson the nst ~.
nor shan ever have from maj mao, If
A eng OF ronancers. There is n hr.ct VI
T, Nfl.hhr, APT and C0mnrshensi,,, a., II
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{ ~ OF itndyarl Kipling asn mo, ,, lt
W'o""is There Is Paper OF nef
'ns cI ON NJ tho gvt.ltn.t su
otrptNC art SITS. Daniel Nierr, hv &,
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