The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-11-22
~ LITERARY FIELD.

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i0 a,so- CT THE Red Badge of coar'
10 80. maggie" has already made MS
nv "a writer, and now anything
Pu'.aoD ,a, /: eagerly sought by pub
a.. - and the reading public n,s la $,
/, a collection oil shor. slo'!es "
.,.r,oan civil war. many OF whicl'
,s,,aents with the same power OF
~ ... . that distinguished the au'
a., treat effort in that direction
Nh. terse sentences do not sho"
-" much color madness as was no.
:, ..The Red Badge of Courage"
i 49,. /. both color and graphic beauty
paragraph as this: ultimately
.,sbt deepened to the tone of black
rba outlines OF the iireless camp
| ~. the faint drawings upon ancient
~ The CLINT of rifle, the shine of
ZSron might have been of threads of
|. ma gold sewn upon the fabric Of
IA, There was little presented to
rs,on. but to a sense more subtle
-. d,scernible in the atmosphere
r,hlne like a pulse; a mystic beating
~ would have told stranger of the
|.,oee Of giant thIng-the slumbering
4 NJ regiments and batteries"
1, crane is striklngly realistic in every
|, No writes and these episodes of the
\ var are warm and rulsating. and
|, tremble with excitement. The ad-
Itrs themselves would not be OF ex-
sual interes. Ii tod by an ordinary
|, writer, bu, the war pictures OF this
NJ are of such Vividness ana biting
r,sy that they make the blood Jingle
quicken the hearts beating.
! prrItan's Wife" by Max Pemberton.
d, cloth, sl.25. Dodd, Mead d Co.,
Rners, New York.
y story OF "A Puritan's Wife" deals
) tie history Of Puritan who returns
hghnd at the time of the Restora ton,
h 90. Included in the amnesty granted
tasrles the Second to many prominent
badhesds. 1t is love story of which
ldvihc is u HOoIcNpIudn WHO tpDk
Ia With the hero's family during the
Hlunon, burt came TO riches at the
koation The scene of the story is in
""usoi aH''e anu at Hampstead,
Aer on at oSiond' where the court
sanhs Tue ias' months OF the plague.
author has made a careful study OF
qam' style which distinguishes the
azure OF me restoration, and this
mas been written as a result of a
y oesire TO produce some work char
'su' Oh so fascinating period. The
Fhams chapters of the book touch
he plague III London. and include
powerful scenes and descriptions of
pu.wha, IN the ya,r 90 ,r. So 80
~sa ~ '"v ven vi MI Pember-
'ne L'''ie Husuenot,' but is built
Of changing pictures and dramatic
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authors who have so succossfn %
: and stirring story and of don1S ss a
lsn and bringing ~ 49, - . .,'s
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I mt IN which era this story is laID |
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slsa add not a little to the valne
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\ <, Chicago. From from, BBa a,,i rMcSSally
NJ. Nros"
,. VI adventure in Upper Canada
!, ,,n'Ads one of Fen.more coopar's
= ~ stores of early days in America,
n va No.. o. exciting interest. the main
nan-tbo h.s seafch for a supposed
French AMI I Ir'lh of the Nonquin.
and all are , ", ' characters are true
49,. strongly sketched.
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