El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-01-14
The LIBRARY TABLE
Written Especially For the HERALD.

stories In this thick magazine is gener-
GUS and ranges through adventure,
pure sentiment and humor. H. Rider
Haggard's story, Lysbeth, and Seamus
McManus's, The Resurrection of Dinny
Muldoon being the most notable. Cut
cliffe Hyne has a good story in this
number.Th articles of general interest
include one on mud baths, The Art Of
the Age, and Self Defence with a Walk
ing Stick.
Fighting Sand With Grass will have
some local interest here where every
householder who desires a stretch Of
lawn in front of his door has to fight
the sand more or less. The govern
ment has been making experiments
with grasses that bind sand and keep
it from drifting for the benefit of the
coast lands and the sand dune regions
of Florida but it's experiments are fur
nishing valuable material for the peo-
pie interested in the sandy wastes of
the interior and Ell Paso will find the
information and photographs profitable
study.
The most important article in the
Worlds Work for January is one on
Lord Roberts by Winston Churchill.
accompanied by fine photograph of
the famous Britisher; the most pic
turesque article in the number is Go
ing Back to the Soil by J. p. Now
bray, an account of the prosperity OF
drummerS and mechanics who have
left the cities and gone to farming
and illustrated with exquisite photo
graphs of the farm work. The pic
ture of the farmer and his horses
starting out at dawn is beautiful.
Second in picturesqueness is the arti-
on parl- 10 Ii n-t
an article which Ell Paso would do well
to take to heart to inspire her to park
building. Ell Paso'S parks would neT-
err be like the Central park in New
York. Lincoln park in Chicago or any
of the beautiful fresh air spaces o.
wooded countries, but parks every
worthy city must have these days and
Ell Paso will have to devise beauty of
her own. The glimpSeS of the beauti-
full parks in our country are fine.
Great Irrigation Enterprises is the title
of another article of interest to FL
Paso. containing as it does short ac-
count of the proposed dam in the ella
river in Arizona, as well as of the
turning of the waters of the ST. Mary
river in Montana. Present and Future
Polar Work, The Destruction of the
Dewey Arch. Another Trunk Line to
the Pacific, and an account of the ad-
venture of young man who crossed
Africa from the extreme north to the
extreme south, go to make up an in
teresting number.
The most interesting feature of the
Saturday Evening Post for January
fifth. is an account of American Diplo-
mats and Court Costumes, by Hon.
John w. Foster, himself a well known
and able diplomat. The American SIM
plicity of costume in European courts
has long been subject of surprise TO
foreigners. of secret or exulting pride
to Americans. of humiliation to peo-
pie who were only born in America buc
are not patriotic, and of discussion TO
everybody who chances upon the topic.
Another article of current value, is
Frank Carpenters EnglishChina we'll
illustrated and written in the we'll
known easy style of that traveller Stor-
les. poems. bright and witty paragraphs
and good pictures complete the num-
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