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

board and Middle States. are discussed
IN a very Interesting and suggestive
manner by Jacques w. Redway fellow
Of the Royal Geographical society. author
OF the Natural Biographies" so widely
used.
The political campaign and the Chi
nese problem are the most prominent
topics in the August Review OF Reviews.
In THE Progress Of the World the
editor analyses the platform adopted by
the democrats at Kansas City. Among
the contributed articles there Is b.ief
review OF the work OF the Kansas city
convention by Walter Wellman, followed
| by personal sketches OF MIR. Bryan ct
| Home Theodore Roosevelt" by Jaco ,
A. Riis, and "Roosevelt's Work as Gov
ernor" The Chinese Revolution Is
the subject of a well informed and time y
paper by Stephen Bousa.
China and the iron trade, the two top
les of absorbing interest, occupy the
leading positions in the August num-
Der of the Engineering Magazine. Mr..
George II. Hull, writing on the latter
topic, offers striking evidence that m e
matchmaking blooms" and pa alysn Z
depressions have their source solsly q
/ abnormal fluctuations in the price OF
I iron. The rise of 1899 viii be FOL cd
/ by disastrous stagnation unless the. great
iron masters are wise enough to put prices
down promptly to nearly normal hg IT >.
Mr.. John Foord, secretary OF the Ameri-
can Asiatic association, sees in the pres
ent turbulence the regeneration OF
| ia q ,ftraI f.f ll and Ina
new China has been BORN
Stephen Cranes 1.-THE Kicking Twelfth
in Ainslees for August. is battle story
and the vivid picture of the bloody
field which he has presented, must con-
vince the reader anew that American lit
erature has cause for regret in the un-
timely end Of this author Hairy Still
we'll Edwards "The stirrins Up OF Billy
| Williams" Is a delightfully."- humorous
story Of the South. Brand Whtlock, a.
] The Old House Across the Way o1cr.
a most moving and tender tale John
d. Barry's AT the Shrine of the Idol,
Is finished product of literary art. El-
gene Wood is as strong and ma u al il.
ever in a mining center story Gale
Il That About Laura Hornbaker." Alto
come captivating fiction, while the spe
eiai articles in it are of the usual d.
tinctioh.
The possibilities of the animal story
are remarkably we'll shown by MIR. w. A
Fraser in his new tales, entitled "Moosw;
of the Boundaries. These are stories o
Rod, the Boy, and the fur bearing animal!
of the Northwest, and the half breed trap
pers who hunt them. Each OF the tale.
teens with curious bits OF wood-lore am
little known facts about the moose, beay
err, bear, lynx, fox and wolf. Mr.. Arthur
Heming, who has illustrated the stories
Is sportsman and naturalist, as well a:
an artist. The first OF the Nooswa stogia
viii appear in the Saturday Evening Pos
of September /.
II the August number of the Mort
American Review seven articles are de-
voted to THE Crisis of China" ana eecl
of them regards it OF discusses it from
different point of view. John Barrett VIII
was formerly our minister to Siam, de
fines ""The Duty of America at this DO
mentous juncture. Lieutenant CaTlycI
Bal!airs of the royal navy. who was nava
attache of the British legation at Pekil
points out 'The Responsibility of tht
Rulers" for the lamentable condi ions eA
listing in the Celestial empire. Demetriu'
C. Boulger expresses the fear that thu
partition of China is inevitable, and insist
that America must prepare TO take hel
share of territory unless she would sulfe1
commercial effacement in the far Eas {
George B. SmXth, president of the Anglo
Chinese college at Foochow, gives the bes
account that has yet been published of HI
Causes of Anti Foreign Feeling in Chi
ma" Japanese diplomat TENS what hi
countrymen think Of the situation. R9ber
L. Lewis, an American gentleman rssiden
in Shanghai who has travelled in nearl.
every province in China, describes, in ar
article entitled The Gathering of tn
Storm" outrages which have been sys
tematlcally perpetrated upon foreigner
| In China for a space OF two years.
One Of the most valuable things In thu
, really superb issue of Success" for Au
gust IS a symposium by Elizabeth Cad!
Stanton. Jeanette l.. Glider and Elzabe /
B. Granns, on the question, "Should thu
Country Girl Go to the City," The stor,
OF John Wanamaker's rise from the tint
he used a pushcart to deliver his FIRST or
der. IN April, 1861. is graphically told
Likewise a story furnished by Elihu Roo
, and Whiteaw Reid about Sergeant Me
Kinley's gallant behavior at Antictam
with a pen drawing by James E Kelly
TORRENs LAND SYSTEM.
Some of Its Advantages Discussed u.
Judge james Il. Hill.