The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-08-04
The Latest MaoaSfnes.


opening pages picture the possibilities OF
New York as summer resort. Mrs.
Schuyler Van Rensselaer, writes Of "Mid.
summer In New York. " or seAsonahlc In
tercst are Lee Bacons paper on Venice
Gardens" with decorative drawings by
Henry McCarter; "A Venetian Garden,
by II. G. Dwlght-a graceful poem. with
decorations by Alfred Brennan and TN
City Pent." n characteristic sonnet by
! William Watson. with decorations by Nc
Carter. Mrs Anna Lee Merritt, the ar.
tist. writes amusingly of her experiences
in an old English hamlet with "a Hair.
Time Boy and Goat" The other features
are up TO the standard.
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Henry van Dyke Is never 50 happy AZ
when depicting the rugged life of the wIlds
Of Canada. He has chosen this back
ground for new story, "a Year OF No
bnty." to appear IN McClurc's Magazine for
/ August, In which he lays barc the heart
OF d French Canadian guide, one jean Lam
motto, who has an experience with go
smooth rrospcctor Of unclaimed estates In
France" The pictures are by Charles 5
Chapman.
In the Engineering Magazine for August,
ore Handling Machinery on the Great
Lakes" Is described by Mr.. James N
Hatch HIS clear account Of the VESSELS
apparatus and methods, together with
many Illustrations, give an excellent idea
how large n part these laborsaving meth.
ODDS have played In securing the present
ascendancy Of the United States In steel
making
This midsummer number Of Lcsles
Monthly is one for fiction. Miss Cholmon.
dccy, author of Red Pottage" touches
with grent suggcstiyeness upon the thin
line which divides the natural world from
things not easy to understand, From Mr..
Hornung the magazine has secured a cap
ltnl tale Of the Australian Bush. Its title,
"The Taking Of stingaree," Is very sug
gestIye OF the authors skill.
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In the August number Of Alnslee's Maya.
zine there is good lot Of readable fiction,
balanced by several Characteristic articles.
"The Wonders Of Christian Science" by
Eugene Wood, is much more lively than
any treatise or tract. The photographs
that accompany the text show what beau.
tlfuI churches have been built by the de
voices Of Mrs Eddy. Lawson. of Bos-
ton by Wlndeld Nj, Thompson, is an OK
celient topic handled in graphic style. The
Illustrations are effective.
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scrlbners Magazine for August Is the
annual fiction umber, and Il contains seven
complete short stories, the beginning of a
now serial and special illustrated articles
and poems. The color printing IS shown
mt It's best In the work OF Maxneld Par
rlsh. who has found a very congenlal sub
iect 60 CUTLER Couchs story OF the Cornish
coast. which has to do with a classical
legend These drawings are amoug the
most remarkable In color which have been
vet attempted. There Is also beautiful
cover design by Albert Hcrter. which II has
taken ten prlntings to reproduce.
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No feature Of the Pan-Amcrican exposi.
ton at Bufalo exceeds the Midway In It's
attracting power over visitors. LeslIe's
weekly in its current issue deyotes two
pages Of illustrations. with comprehen.
siye descriptive article, to this aggregation
of world wonders.
The August Atlantic Is strong and at
tractlye fiction number containing six com
rltte stories or sketches. Miss Jewetts
Tor, Lover comes 20 an end and Miss
Johnstons Aubrey increases In Interest Win
the new installment. Brooks Adams opens
thc number with q discussion OF the state
of our foreign relations, commercial aud
national, entitled "Reclproclty or the A.
tetIative;" Henry A. Clapp begins RE
mimscences OF Dramatic Critic" j. y.
Whelploy, under "The Isolation OF Canada"
discusses the national policy of that colony
T.. A. sillard describes James Boswell as
1.-THE Prince OF Blographers
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The North American Review for August
is particularly rich In articles on timely
topics. lex Senator G. r. Edmunds dis
cusses the decisions Of the supreme court
in .,The Insular Cases" George S. Bout
wen writes Of "The supreme Court and
the Dependencies" o. p. Austin, chief Of
the burelu of statistics. gives an account
OF "rhe Worlds National Indebtedness"
These are only a few Of the excellent feat
uTes OF the magazine.
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Entomologist Howard of the United
states department OF agriculture. contrib
yates 10 the Review OF Reviews for Au-
gust valuable article on Mosquitoes as
TrsnsmItters Of Disease" In the course
OF this article Or. Howard describes the
experiments conducted under the direction
of The war department by Or. Reed in
Cuba.
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Three OF the Ave photographs that won
prizes In the rural competition" recently
held by the Ladies' Home journal are re-
produced IN the August Issue OF that maga-
zine. One shows cluster OF slender,
graceful birches on high bank shove a
gassy lake. With hills In the background;
another, spring-tinie geld Of aeug-de-lls
at sunset; and the third. a large dock Of
SHEEP, on a snltry July afternoon, disap-
Dtsrlng with their shepherd into the thick
CLOUD Of dust raised by their passage.