The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1894-03-04
BOOKS AND MAGAZINES.

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gree Merrill i'aNeH % RlEth avenue
New York
This story Is something OF a paradox in
modern literature oe,ns western novel
which attempts TO deal with cultivated
people. Instead Of introducing its read
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ers 10 the meioura'ne'o west OF b.et
Harte or TO the hard condition OF HOmlin
Garlaud's west i pictures vigorous, IN
tclligent people, who i've IN the West, but
hold cosmopolitan ideas, aud are the nat
ural inheritorS OF the New England con,
soionce and culture. OF course the novel
has love story running through II, hut II
Is somewhat diuorent from the usual run
OF romantic confectionery dshed mp by
modern authors. Miss Longs heroes and
heroiues may lose their hearts beyond re-
coNcry bat they never lose their heads
anu their history ~ much more than q
story OF nirtations. The novel shows with
great efforts at fidelity the peculiarly ac-
dive spirit that characterl9es the aggrea-
siVc Western part OF the country, which
Is now quite different from what II was
IN the pioneer days 80 wildly described
New Guide To the Pacific Coast, santa
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~ Co. Chicasp aud New York.
This guide book embraces Journey from
CHICAGO to the Pacific crast by way OF the
Santa Zee route, and covers u similar
much valuable general Information regard
ing the regions traverscd and specific data
tsFfIsttfur az intRfpgt
by The way. The Guide is well Illustrated
and the descriptions are written IN a
most entertaning style.
articles l'bN third part OF Mary 4.
i,lvermore's serial. "One OF the Forty
feit in this story, which viii be concluded
In tho next issue OF the magazine Are
Intellectual Women LoVable2" is cues
fTbr writer ettenints 10 upro0t the old
idcn nbput c,cvcr and cultivated people
not being aluring to men lie says truly
that at present Il h not easy to SO into
soccty at an, IN any settled or slzeable
tally sif iSdu' or Widely read noted authors
tmgulshcd for intellectual attachments OF
some sort. "Literature has grown TO be
the fashion with both sexes every where,
distinctly in the Rcnublic. where LSmin-
line authors, ana often fully uH chphhie'
These have none OF the peculnritles las
tend on them Two or three genermtlons
since; but they are, on the contrary as
attractive IN person, manners ana urehs ~
anyone would Wish; Ihey are GShruulg
surronnded ny nulhlrihR ncIl, WY no''uS
10 ran "a love win thvIn ~ Ilv lelst r ~.
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brGht stories ana ln'eIt,HnE, Shc 80, ~
lnc M"tyh ilu'pVs' atu VII, JorrvSis
mnghE the bvA' OF our tni,,hF !o"'i'"'''
,rh.. ,t,r,,, A1,nttc c,Dt,i,. another in
.,ai,,a M ~ Ms D,iond'a serini "Philip
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fnri q,oncy. ~ tho Musical idea Mnecu-
Inc" by Edith Brewer. ''At The Concert;
SmitbS.5 %rhe civ civ or the End OF Two
by Archibald Lnmpman. "'rhe
snpphic Secret" by Maurice Thompson
li,s Inn N
the United States" by Nicholas Murray
are among the contributions devoted to
literature, science art ana politics ~ thls
Issue OF the Atlantic Monthly,
The names OF the contributors IN NC
ling. Herbert spencer Roperl lLoula
Stevenson, Conan Doyle ana OclaNe
Thnnct. CONAN Doyie.s contribution ne
Glamour Of me Areuc, Is not 4" s'orS'
for II rs an account OF Arctic Whhlhg,
written with Dr, Doylc's best grace, from
bis own personal experience VI tle
SteVcnson-OsbDurne serial, 'Ihe DOp
fully IN the February number, II W mueh
10 say that II grows IN interest ms II pro
present lnstnllment ia most absorbing'
Norbert Spencer writes OF hls ihtlnate
friend OF forty years the late Proteh-
sor Tyudall llis own eminence az
Fonal relation, gives his article n hpcclhi
interest u l1 In part reminiscent; IN part |
critical Closcness ana sympn my OF per
TO a biographical ana character STUDY OF
ltuskm ny NJ ~. Hplelmtnn, cultot or inc |
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published IN New YORK ana London
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