The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-04-04

dentistry, unless forming an integral part
of some recognized University.
Scarlet or white?" by DR. Willis M;ils.
Authors Publishing association, ia Fifth
avenue. New York. Cloth. price 81.
Another book aided to the host Of those
w'.tten upon the social purity question"
/; is a credit to DR.. Mills that he has han
died the question delieately, though 1t can
hardly be sad that he has furnished any
new IDEAS upon the well known Injustice
of certain unwritlrn laws concerning a
class Of unfortunate women. Dr. Mills in
slsts that there Is neither reason nor
common sense in socie;y blindly following
the customs of ages IN its treatment OF
these women. He also asserts that girl
like his heroine Lois Mitchell. who COM
ugts an error through trustfu!ness and
ignorance of the world. without the mo-
tive of viciousncss, should not be trampled
on for tho rest of her life by society, but
renstated and given absolutely equal
rights with her who has not slnned Rich
Americans paying millions for the pur-
chase Of foreign titles, together with the
Attachment" for their daughters. come
urder the authors occasional sarcasm.
practical Palmistry. or Hand Reading
Slmpllfied" by Comte c. de SR;nt-Ger-
man of the University of France, recenrly
published by Laird & Lee of Chicago, has
heon received by Tho Post from Bother
BROS. OF Houston. In this work the au-
thor gives to the public the results of his
twenty-five years close study of this
strnnge science, or art, or fad. which Is
called by tho various names of palmistry.
chiromancy chtrognomy--and, for short,
hand reading. 1t Is curious field oil
knowledge and has counted among It's IN
vestgators hundreds of the most profound
scientists of the middle ages as we'll us
snany savants of tho nineteenth century.
In the Comte de Saint Germains work
she opening chapter Is a defense of palm
.stry. and then the author tells how the
clear insight into his iife-past, present
and future. All the palmStlc indications,
what the various lines in gho hand ind.-
cate and how the close student may mus
ture are described at length. Tho WORK
ls Interesting and IA" IucIlN", no nat.si
what the reader may think OF the CALAIS
made.
Pioneers OF Evolution" from Thales to
Huxley, by Edward Clodd, Is the title OF
a remarkable work which viii be pub
lisheu shortly by d. Appleton & co. ihas
book attempts ito tell the story OF INC
origin of the evolution idea In the worAs
of the ancient philosophers and It's elano-
ration by Iucretius; It's eclipse during the
riGdle ages under the supremacy oil &C.
clesastical dosmas. and US rsnaseenees
ohoue A. ID. 1900 under the influence OF
discovery and Lord I3acon's phiiosophy;
II then shows how new conceptions S Sl
the earth's history We're suggnstei by Ing
study OF geology and OF the history OF ii ,y
by biology IT nariates The butidins up
of the doctrine OF EVOLUTION by speheeta
who formula ted the theory as whose the
year processing the publication o. tne
"Ohsin of Species" and Hu@ioy'
"Perfcc,ion CITY IS the title OF an en-
oellent novel iy Mrs. orpen, ~nHh mas
Just been published by ID. Appleton X Co
of New York. 1t is breezy western
story. the scenes bong located IN Kansas
Perfection city waf a new town where
the inhub.tapis oNnei everything ~ COM
mon am we're supfaFed 20 lead an iaeel
life. They had mlsay troubles N reAhts
however, snd developed - IEech S-seeI.7a