The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-08-29

Of New York. Newpcr. and Boston life.
which promises to be read with wide IN
terest BY all who are interested In Ameri-
can fashionable life. The first chapter
opens In tho September Cosmopolitan. NO
one knows the society Of these three CEN
tiers OF fashion better than Mrs. Cruger.
From her girlhood up she has had every
opportunity to observe, and we have had
no American woman OF more brilliant pow
ers, not only OF reading the human heart.
hut OF putting her Impressions In delight
full fashion. A charmingly fresh Massa-
chusetts girl is sacrificed in her youth to
the ambition OF ''rich marriage" De-
race for social leadership, and we follot
for twenty years. with ever-increasing in
terest, the career Of this able and beauti-
ful woman as she captures outpost after
outpost, falling In Boston only to change
her base of operations to England, ana
then attacking the main works OF the en-
emy at New York. and so on to Newport,
and finally beholds the capitulation OF Bos-
ton itself.
"The Sixth Sense, and How to Develop
IT, Is tho title OF the leading article In
the August Temple, which Is published
In Denver. Colo. In 1t Paul Tyner handles
the largo problem Of psychic perception
with bold originality. Clairvoyance. clair.
audience and psychometry are Analysed
and related In an interesting manner. The
authors method Is logical and sci-atitic,
and his discussion of the psychic sense,
its nature and attainment. is illustrated
by accounts OF several remarkable e%pcri-
ences In this field
The Morse Broughton company OF New
York announces several new features Tor
the fall numbers OF L'Art de la Ho1e. Com
mencing with the October number the read
ing matter will be printed in Ierman as
well as in English. At the same tine
a number Of additional illustrations will
be given each month and The *ery in
teresting and instructive articles OF spe-
cial importance to dressmaxers VIII be
continued.
Among recent contributions to Litelrs
Living Age, the following deserve special
mention: England and the European Con-
cert" by James w, Gambler, r. NJ.
"Woman's Place in the World of Letters"
by Alice Stopford Green; THE King Of
SIAM" by B. A. Smith; Newman and
Keenan," by Wm Barry, D. D.; The Dead
lock In Austria Hungary" by Austriacus:
Paris in June 1871" by A. j. Butler;
Royalties by f.. Max Miller 1.-THE
Joseph Edgar Chamberlin; Recent
Science" by Prince p. Kropotkin.
The first number of new and certainly |
most original monthly, the American Jour-
nal OF Palmistry, the organ of teacher and |
believer in all semi occult sciences, has |
just been issued from the Auditorium |
building, Chicago, under the editorship OF |
Comte c. de Saint-Germain, French uni
versity man and an author of reputation.
Godey's Magazine for September contains
some special features of timely interest
Among these may be mentioned the con-
tributions of S. T Willis, who writes of
Women in Religious Ministry as a de-
velopment OF the past half century; Joanna
r. Nichols article on THE Necessity of
Cooperation Between Sesmen and Surfmen
In the Life Saving Service" giving many
points on ship wrecks with ample illus
!ration from photographs: and Calvin Dill
wilson's paper on 1.-THE Superstitions of
the Jews" which tells OF the queer side
beliefs of the Hebrews.