The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-08-06
THE LATE MAGAZINES.

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THE LATE MAGAZINES.
The August issue OF Table Talk opens
with an article entitled Ancient Inns
and Modern" which will interest every
enc who travels. Another excellent arti-
Gle is or Mosquitoes" and is the fourth
paper in series on Household Insects"
wedding Anniversaries" is the title OF
an article written especially for Table
Talk by Mrs. Burton Kingsland an an
thority. The department of IAN Through
the Year Ia filled with latest information
for women.
The August Home Magazine has a
strong article on the Chinese question
Following this is an article by ID. Alien
/ Wiley on the Building OF a Battleship,"
in which especial attention is paid to the
building Of the Kentucky and the Kear
sarge in the Newport News shipyard In
the line of fiction there is a humorous
story by Morgan Robertson, entitled "Ex
tracts from Noah's Log: 1.-THE Soft Fair
HAND OF Fate" striking story of tie
British Boer war. Icy philin V. Miqheis;
.
/ by Alfred Henry Lewis; ami Edwin |.
sabln has a Western Cyclone cellar"
story entitled "A Matter OF Indebted
ness"
An attractive and now feature OF the
Little Chronicle Chicagos illustra cd
weekly newspaper for young people. Is the
trst of a series Of commercial conundrums
with which 1t is proposed to appeal to
the knowledge and reasoning powers of
school children. The query proposed this
time-and it viii no doubt puzzle many
old heads as we'll as young-is How has
the popularity of golf increased the cost
/ OF laying ocean cables" Other subjects
presented in the Commerce" department
are the commercial effects OF the Chinese
war, an explanation OF why the Bank OF
/ England has raised the discount rate Il
description Of the picturesque masi5ets Of
/ Tien Tsn, the gathering Of the Wild honey
crop in Texas aud an illustrated talk en-
the smaller corn stalk borer.
The August number of the National
Magazine contains a great amount and
| variety Of timely and readable matter
Joe Mitchell Chapple finds many things Of
great interest to gossip of in his "Al-
fairs at Washington" Art lovers will
appreciate sleep in Art" by careful
/ and competent critic, and What Rural
| Free Delivery is Doing" by Perry D
Heath, first assistant postmaster general,
| explains methods and results of free Mall
delivery 10 suburban districts. stan
correspondent now with the British ia the
| Transvaal writes Interestingly OF Cobb
nization Experiments in East Africa.
| A ~ for It's 0elr-
| ing on the present world crisis Is "Cninl
and the Secret Will OF Peter the Great
From e-bound Alaska an editorial rep
resautatiye writes OF summer Cruise
in the Atsiic."
IT'S Y.ic- Harvard Boat Race as
Spectacle" furnishes Lillian ID. Kesiey
the text for short but ably written
paper which leads in the international
Magazine tchlclgo) for August. Good
pictures Illustrate her sketch. I'm the
Bukowna," seigfried Lederer tells somc-
thing OF that practically unfamiliar
province OF Eastern Austria to which he
was sent to fill some official position,
Ghlcago's public parks are discussed, by
Eilye Howell Glover under the TIT G
"a Great City's Pleasure Grounds
The August issue OF the New England
Magazine with its attractive table o.
contents, is appropriately called an "old
Home Week Number," since its artl
cles all have some bearing on the ap-
proaching celebrations in New Hamp-
shire and Maine. Its frontispiece is a
fine portrait OF the founder of Old
Home Week, Governor Rollins of New
HRmshire Chocorua Lake, the Bear
camp, Squam Lake and other spots in
that region so dear to our Quaker
poet, are beautifully pictured in tho
pages OF David Lee Maulsby's paper on
'Whittier's Kew Hamshire."
The leading article In outing for Au-
gust is by Henry sava.e Lander, the au-
thor Of I'm the Forbidden Land" whcse
,ravels in Tibet have created world
wide interest In outing he relates and
aluarates one OF ,the pleasant rides
OF Tibetan life: their Racing for the
Kata." William Dinwiddie, the famous
!, Philippine war correspondent. tells Of
the wondrous physical CAPACITY OF "Tha
lgorrote Runners OF Luzon,"
In Guntons Magazine for August VII
itaih W. petes, 'he "Sii hhVNh authority
and writer on naval topics, formerly Uni
. ted States commissioner of navigation,
has a very forcihle article on Sound
shipping Protection" urging the policy
OF discriminating tariff duties in favor
OF American ships as opposed 10 sub
sides or bount!es, The Effects OF ropog-
, lraphy on Economic Development" with
, special reference TO the shipping AM
manufacturing Industries Of our sea-