El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-01-14


one article of particular interest to
l.. Pasoans. Robert T. Hills, Running
the CanonS of the Rio Grande. 1t is
| exceedingly well written in strong, pic
| turesque English, is full of fine, apt
phrases descriptive of the mountain
peaks of our part of the world and of
information concerning the river
| which he describes as one of the most
wonderful In the land. The article is
Superbly illustrated. Prof. Hill is well
known here. which gives the account
a personality and human interest to
further it's value, and the magazine
deserves a permanent place in every
library in Ell Paso were it for this ar
ticle alone.
Doctor Weir MitchelIs story, A Com
edy of Conscience, in the Century, is
one of those interesting studies of
| fine strung feminine conscience COM
bined with a clever tale of a stolen
diamond of superb quality. The fun
of the story comes in the contrasts be-
tween the lady who comes into the
possession of the diamond. ner qualms
| and her ladylike arguments and tie
thief and his story. The character of
| the solutions that her minister. her
doctor and her best friend give her of
her problem. and her own solution are
also highly amusing. The story is
sparkling and bright and light and ex-
ceedingly good reading.
Bertha Runkle's story The Helmet
of Navarro proceeds and continues the
interest. 1t is a good adventure story
of that adventurous time of Henry OF
Navarro and the characters are full of
| life and spirit. The hero and his little
squire become well loved characters as
the tale proceeds and tells of their
quick swords, their gallantry. their
songs under the ladys window AMI
their pride and anger against the enc
mics of their house.
There is short but interesting
| sketch of Stephen Phillips who gives
promise that his song shall rise above
| all the other songs of his day, with a
clearer finer note. His poems and
plays are full of human passion and he
is a skillful metricist, as Edmund
Gosse says. His Paola and Francesca
and the Herod are full of splendid
verse although neither seems so far
to have turned the workasay worlds
attention upon the young poet.
Charles Battell Loomis's account of
Some Americans Abroad" contributes
genuine fun to the magazine. The Uni
ted States Patent Office is well writ
ten up and most amusingly pictured.
Besieged in Pekin. the diary of Cecile
f. Payen. is woman'S daily account
of the days of that historical siege. 1t
is full of life and wonder and is one
of the most interesting of the Pekin
articles. to the average reader who
finds some of the accounts unduly pom
derous and toplofty-neither history
nor story. but simply righteousness.
Hamlin Garland's story, Her Noun
tain Lover. the tale of Colorado pros
pector in London is developing into one
of his psychological love stories where
he rather unpleasantly compares pas
sions but it still is delightful for the
contrast of the brisk. breezy young
westerner and his conventionaliZed,
staid English acquaintance.
Besant's East London types, are as
usual interesting to thoughtful read
ers. Hamlet's Castle is pictured and
described. and many other poems. pic
lures, sketches and articles go to make
up as fine a magazine as the public
can find in the book stalls
Pearsons magazine supplied cur
ious world with an interesting arti-
Gle on Where Will the Twentieth Cen
tury Commence which was illustrated
with some life like pictures of our
whirling globe. not photographs. but
the next best thing. accurate and yet
imaginative sketches. Why the Indian
Paints Hhis Face makes interesting
reading for westerners who know the
Indian and for anybody who loves to
pry into the affairs of his fellow hui
man beings and find out why they do
and do not do what they do
and do not do. An Indian
paints his face with symbols of his
brave or great deeds or of his riches
or his pride of ancestry. His paint
marks are to him and to other Indians
what the Englishman's crest and coro-
net, honors and decorations are to him
Every stroke of the paint brush is a
part of the design. Tn supply of