The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-12-20
THE LITERARY FIELD.

"a charles Scrbbner'S Sons, New
.r.hor OF this little work Is true
,.arner. and he has endeavorcd therein
..,w the real life of the South in old
In his introduction. Mr. Page says.
,,d life at the South passed away
ne fame of war and in the yet more
ordeal of reconstruction. So com
n-os the devastation that now unless
,rovs where to go he may search in
for its realty. It's remnants lie scat
4, far-off neighborhoods. its frag-
:. almost overgrow Il with the tanglcs
Jaw ufe. The picture of ii which at
-, &c mainly presented Is wholly un-
quite a large crop of So
:, Southern pays, or at least plays in
:. c,s,therners have figured. has of
,u,en introduced on the stage, and
,,,nnositious Southerner Is as absurd
ton as the wit OF ignorance ever de-
The Southern girl Is usually an
srbred little provincial, whose chief
r,c,erlstic is to say reckon and real
s.rong emphasis, in every other SEN
And the Southern gentleman Is Il
.n whose linen has never known
r,b who clips tho cndings of his
Az. SAWS "sah' at the end of every
,orca and never uses an r. except in
last syllable of niger With a
,,hs4 hat. slovenly dress. a plentiful
.,v If sahs' and slurrel speech eX-
slyelv applied to 'nggers, he IS
,n,ea for the stage And yet It is not
Indy meant: only patronizingly, which
worse That Thackeray. Matthew Ar
A Lawrence and other visitors whose
ssh masses current, declared after a
to Ame.3ct that they found the
rsst English speech spoken in Virginia,
IS for nothing"
was 10 correct these erroneous ideas
tho old South that this little work was
empted. and Mr. Page has certainly
Sde a notable additlon 10 the literature
aring upon the social life in old Virginia
other Southern States before the war,
tbe Century Magazine, volume OF Inc
kntury company, publishers, New orh'
|bth and gold, Irice 50.
Fhe rilst year has been successful one
the history of this periodical, and the
sent volume contains many articles Of
|dnrlny value aud interest, Fiction is
presented IN the line of serials by DIR,
stchcTs great novel of the American
Notation, "ttugh Wvnne. Free QUAKER
h, Mary Hartwen Catkerwood's histor-
Ii romance. "Nhe Days of Jeanne
Irc," and Mrs Marion ManviIle Pope's
ktravaganza. up the Matterhorn in n
Bat" There are short stories by Will
In Henry Bishop, Maurice Thompson.
hey S. FurmA,u. Margaret Sutton Bris-
d and many others. The serial features
serious moment are General Horace
krter's Campo gninS with Grant, eX-
bets from the Journals of the late AZ
bar explorer, +. j. Glave; papers on
hhc Cathedras of France" by Mrs. NJ.
Var Rensselaer, "reminiscences by
kneral John NJ, Schofeld, and the series
papers ON Heroes of Peace" whereln
y herosm Of the lighthouse service Is
eated by Gustav kobhe and of the New
otk police by Theodore Roosevelt. In
,e way Of travel there are articles on
leska, by John Muir; bicycling Through
10 Dolomites," by Colonel George u.
Fming. Jr; Crete and Greece, by Dome
ias Kalopothakes and Benjamin lde
'heeier Thessaly, by Thomas Dwight
eodelii Norway, hv II. If. Royesen ana
GRACE Scudder and Java ard Singapore.
! Miss Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore.
St Nicholas for 1897: volume "a. Bound
rel ana gold. In two parts: price 81 90
Ne century Co, publishers, New York
The volume Of ST. Nicholas gust ended
ID many features that were received
IN unusual favor. In the two parts sew
al complete serial stories will be found.
'ere Is John Benefits story of the time
Shakespeare, Master Ss1ylark," full of
romance OF the Elizabethan age. w.
Shelton's war story. "The Last Three
salers'" introduces an entirely new va
Iuoh or the Robinson Crusoe idea. Fran
'C0lntenaN Baylor has an international
'ry for girls in Miss Nina Barrow"
ahk NJ Bicianell takes his young and
TENT readers to "The City of Stories,"
MO Moan Brooks tells of adventures al
vi as strange in The True Story of
"co Foio. Laurence Hutton gives in
es'ing glimpses of boy-life in New York
'ne middle of the century in his remin-
ehees OF "A Boy | knew" pleasant
NY oi girl-life In the West fictitious but
ne the less desirable on that account.
'une's Garden" by Marion Hin. BE
Is the serials there are hundreds of
III stories, sketches. poems and jlnglos.
81 OF them Illustrated by favortte art
The Protestant Faith. or salvation ny
MI by Dwight II. Oimstead. q. l..
uan's Sons. publishers. New York.
M oinstead dealt most extensively
N lhis subject nearly half Il century
o. and he has just repup.ishei the
I'VE entertaining monograph. In this ne
'WS The imrossibility of compelling be-
and attempts to demonstrate that
sonar salvation is The poorest sort of
incentive 10 duty, since 1t Is at least
an artificial scheme OF morality. He !
. discusses the fundamental question |
we certainty ana consequent RELIABLE |
o' habits and opinions. and declares
we same time that a particular belief |
''V' essential TO a religious life. He
aus on Platform which holds sec
.aiiSm' in its exclusive form, 10 be
- Treligious and unph,losophical. and
wars of sects unholy: which throws
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