The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-07-30

prints letters about their pets from Miss
Jewet, Miss wilkins and others.
Four short stories, the beginning OF one
serial. and the concluding chapters OF
another give the August Ladies' iIcme
Journal claim to the title o. Midsummer
story Number. There arc besides upward
OF thirty other features; college Glils'
Larks and Franks, THE Haunted iiocees
Of New England" My simmer " IN Stme
Chlpmunks,' "a Missionary n the Great
Vert, by Rev. Cyrus TOWNSEND Erady,
"How Girl Can Work Her Way
Through College" "Convcrsa,lon and
Good Form in Public Places" etc PIC
torlally the August Journal is made un-
Usually sumptuous by the work Of nine
illustrators and by innumerAhle photo
graphs Through Picturesque 'merica"
will command particular attention, and
Howard Chandler Christy's Americas
Girl in Society is another notable artis-
tic feature. A waltz. Golden Poppies,'
is attune6 TO the slunberous summer days
and Is exceedingly pretty.
The August Atlantic Is pre- smlnently
fiction number, containing six brilliant
stories besides the concluding chapters OF
Mr. Howells delightful serial, "A Ditf-
| cult Case" but the more solid topics OF
the day are equally we'll provided for.
/ I'm Action, Sarah Orne Jewett's THE
Foreigner" will delight all 'eaders. Miss
Jewett is fscile princeps in her "hoien
field OF authorship, and this story is Of
her best. Alice Browns "A Sea Change
is notable as a sketch Of modern New Eng
lend life. MACMILLAN Fosters hungarian
Whooper" is lively hunting skstch cf
inlan6 forests. glens ana rivers Fanny
X. Johnson's "The Pathway Pound" and
Caroline F.. Browns Angels and Men"
touch the poetca and mystical SIDE Of
life-and death: while g. D. We.her1ees
Tho Circle Of Death" is wei-i and
thrilling Western tragedy. Rolln Lynde
HART describes Iowa and the Iowans."
The article is replete with Mr.. Hartt's
we'll known humor.
The August. fiction. number Of scrih-
ner's Magazine is always a notable one.
both for Its short stories and 'he unusual
number of illustrations. MIR Richard
Harding Davis article, Pretoria in war
Time" gives a vivid and novel idea OF
} the appearance and curious individuality
q OF the BOer capital and Of the wJy lie
people viewed tie approach - the Nit
ish. Mr. Ernest Seton Thompson, autho
a OF wild Animals ! Have Known" etc,
e contributes Tito, the Story of the Coyote
=, that Learned How" illustrated with a
> number of his own inimltable G.nwIngs
d THE Green Pigs" by sydney Herman
] Preston, a new writer, is an amusing
, story OF the adventures that befell youn
IL city nan In his attempts TO care fos tn
farm of a friend who left him in charge
T. Other stories as interesting as these are
a THE Duchess at Prayer by Edith Whar
- ton; "A Matter OF Opinion" George A
\. Hibbari: My Love Story" James Ray
~ mond Perry; "Old Carnations" Abr
"' Bigelow Paine; "Tobin's Monument" Ar
thur Cotton. The poems Of the numbe
include a fine nature appreciation, "Tr
c. Whom the Gods Love-" by Mrs. j. {
K Dorr; play Up, Piper" by Miss J.
- Peabody with a decorative border b
10 Maxheld Parrish "Grannys Omar" b
"a Mary Youngs. and Gossip by Olive
W Herford.
srt The midsummer Woman's Home Con-
IDS panion presents handsome and we
us edited issue OF journal that is tertainl
Eel well to the front among the 1rst- elias
cal magazines. The Abundance OF good storie
ted do not wholly contribute 10 the gen Il
X excellence. since there Is also varjet
or OF other features. such as illussrttel "a
nat counts OF city Play Grounds FOR Ctil
,de dren" and Women Of South Anrr;ts
emit Legations" together with articles on nj
two study, cookery, club womo1's .nterts
ply and many phases OF practical uome /
a economies. Miss Maud Andrews gives
tu- account of experiences is an Art sthGel
ore in Paris Young women Nno are 7Iil, II
air castles upon studying art n Paris vi
do we'll 10 inform themselves o. the fac
Il, set forth by her. An iunItra'ed featu
OF this number is tory of the trd.Iil
Of young girls in the "Sclool TO- Lit
Ner Mothers" Photographs aud dcscriptiN
rial accounts Of the finest of she nation s mo
The uments at Washington are gwen.
This change of title announced Nv Il
ber former proprletors OF 2ef-Cniwre Mag
ime zine for the July number, was postpon
Dry, until the end of the current volume TO en-
IS BILE the new owners 20 "cqIant ther
IS selves with the preferences Of Il cir pi
owe rons The new title has been 50 general
-eat Endorsed by the public, and by the trien
ling and supporters of the magazine. that
the is now adopted by the owners + 'fe b
law lief that with this more suit lhle anG cor
tho prehensive designation Modern Culture
-ons take that leading place among me mas
In zines and reviews of the lay, wh'ch
arr mast career of Self-Culture Mash@,,
',,ro iustihes them in claiming COR 1t, 'nc WI,
va their plans for the future, their CIV
gu enN personal attention, business mo, N'ds'
ttl it,arar,, i,,dpment must command.