The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1903-01-04
The Magazines ~ ~
- y for January.


Magazine that it is are industrial story by
Joseph Blethen, entitled "Peadee's Toothpieks,"
Ind an article by William Stead, Jr., giving
John Rulcin's Selected List of Books" The
lower of Twelve Senator'S" by Walter Well
han gives an interesting insight into the char
bcters of some of the most conspicuous and in
buentid members of the United States senate
Ind Josiah Strong, in the first of ~Unee Sans
aiks on Our Country tells OF Americas place
mong the nations and leads us to fuller realza-
ion of the greatness of our land Poems by Al
he'd J. Waterhouse and Mildred T. McNeal, and
be third installment of Henry Wallace Phil
Fps serial story. Hiram Bennets Gold Mine"
contribute to the attraetiveness of this number,
hn interesting table OF contents surely.
The January number of Everybody's Maya
line features a new Arabian Nights" story
bound recently by Dr. Seybold Of the University
b Tubingen among the Arabic manuscripts of
he late Consul Wetzstein Of Damascus. In adj
dition to DR. Seybolds story Mrs. Bessie Van
Worst describes her experience in factories in
Chicago, being the last article Of the series of
sThe Woman that Tolls" Juliet Wilbor Temp
bins contributes most interesting study of "The
Personality of Helen Could There is a vivid
Recount of the personality of Andrew Jackson
and the scene at -Calhouns supper party at The
indian Queen" In Washington, in Great Days
h Great Careers" by Alfred Henry Lewis. David
Graham Phillips describes How Roosevelt Be
Game President" There are number of good
vital short stories of real interest
The January Atlantic greets It's New Year read
ers with a cheerful editorial welcome as from
No. Park street, which sums up past achieve
ments OF the magazine, and promises happily
for the future.
Two prominent features of the number are the
initial i1stallnents of Arthur Sherburne Hardys
Brilliant serial, His Daughter First" the only
novel he has written for many years; and of ].
m Trowbridee's my Own Story'-his remini-
scences of long and varied career, during which
he has many men, many cities and many
Orange events, all OF which he writes about in a
Bright and entertaining manner.
Literary reviews and essays in the number are
Dickens as Man of Letters" by Alice Mey-
hell papers on "Howells and James" Books
New and Old" on The Last Years of Old
France" (etters and memoirs of the time OF
Marie Antoinette) about 1.-TWO English Men OF
letters" Richardson and Tennyson); on the
cpoch-rnaking expedition of Lewis and Clark
and review of two recent editions OF the works
OF Edgar Allan Poe
Following the articles on the Beef and Steel
Trusts" already published, the Century gives
place in the January number to a paper on The
So-called Sugar Trust" by Franklin Clarkin
which, in part, Is an authentic report of the
origin and workings of the trust from the point
OF view of Mr.. H. o, Havemeyer, the head OF the
american Sugar Refining company. Its relation:
to the sugar margin, TO the labor element, and tc
Question Of capitalization receive special
1s2es.tion. 4 paper by DR.. Albert Shaw on "Ihe
President and the Trusts presents what seem:
10 be an authoritative statement Of Mr. Roose-
velt's positon--his record, and the platform or
which he elects to stand.
The Century has made find in the dis
covery of The Poe-Chivers Papers" generous
instalment OF which appears in this number
They consist of imprinted letters of Poe, with
personal sketch Of him by his friend Dr.. Chivery
of Georgia besides interesting conversations II
which Poe gives his opinions of Shelley Tenpy
son Keats and others. These papers, which are
perhaps, among the last material of the sort tc
be published concerning Poe, are edited by Prof
WoodberTy and accompanied by portraits Of Poo
and Chiyers.
A variant of recent articles in The Century
on woman and marriage is found in Lille Hamil
the first of which, treating Of Some Very Par
sieular Old Maids" appears in this number. II
hsr defense OF spiusterhood Miss French touohe
of the foibles Of married people with ulucl
gsniality.
The number has the distinction of fronts
piece by Cole in his Old Spanish Master series
q cut OF the superb portrait of FL Greco by him
self. and the number is illustrated by Castaigne
Lnngren. Fem, Adamson, Marohand, Sterner
Steele, Granville Smith and others
In Topics of the Time" there is a single edit
orial on The Better Way as to Labor" the tex
being an employers saying, 1--WE beat them wit
Kindness" There is an open letter on 9TH
american Invasion of Canada's Wheat Belt" b.
Agnes Laut, and miscellaneous humor.
The Popular Science Monthly for January open
Will an article on the Missouri Botanical Gar
den," by Prof William Trelease director of III
garden, It will be surprise 10 many that on
OF the greatest botanical gardens in the worl
should be found at St. Louis; but this is mad
evident by this article and the thirty or NOR
Illustrations that accompany il Prof, A. c. Had
don lays stress on the importance 10 science c
pfeserving vanishing data OF men, plants an
animals. Mr. Haveloek Ellis editor of the 'fCor
temporary Science Series" contributes an If
Wrestling article discussing the relative varia
billy OF man and woman. Mr.. A. J. McLaughli
describes the kind of immigrants arriving in thi
country and explains the relative advantages an
dfawbacks of these accessions to our population
There are articles by J. c. Sutherland on the Ell
sineering mind and by Dr. A. L. Benedict o
postgraduate degrees in absentia. Lastly Ii
nrnber contains two important articles on herec
3h-one a discussion of mental and NOR
heredity In royalty by DIR. F. A Woods of Hal
vsrd university, and the other description
sRlenders Law" which has recently opened a
Hntrey new field for biological experiment
Arnong tho subjects discussed editorially are "Tt
Ccnvoeation Of Scientific Societies; :" The Ca
negie Institution" "The British Edueato
Bill" Ogden N. Rood" "rhe Proposed Fl
kTgement of the Naples Station" The Ne
Work Aquarium" and Are Solutions Mechanics
Mixtures New Substances"