The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-01-17
in THE FIELD or LITERTuRE.

lin THE FIELD OF LITERTURE
| delightful surprise 10 the lovers OF Dick
ems are the papers collected and edited b,
Frederick @. Kitton under the title OF "Olt
Lamps for New Ones 1t had been pre-
sumed that everything relating to Dicken.
and his work was in evidence, but Mr.. Kit
ton has discovered among the gifted author.
literary remains quite a store of material no
hitherto collected In book form. The worl
Is published by the New Amsterdam Bool
company of l5G Fifth avenue. New York
Many Of the fugitive pieces included In this
| volume were apparently unknown to bihlio-
| graphers as the productions of the great nov
| elist, but by careful research Mr. kittor
| was enabled to identify several of the more
| interesting of Dickens occasional contrlbu-
| lions to journalistic literature The admirable
| description of "A Chinese 'uuk was the result
| of visit by Dickens to this curious Oriental
| vessel when anchored In the London docks:
| its strange appearance In English waters so
much impressed him that he was compelled
to give an account of 1t in letter which
afterwards appeared in q London newspaper
The political views of the author are quite
manifest in many of these papers, and a Wig
orous form of liberalism animates his forcible
censures of the tory party. at which it seems
he rather enjoyed pokng fun whenever the
opportunity offered and occasion justified.
Some of the articles in this collection were
written anonymously for Household Words"
and "All the Year Round" and are really
worthy of the pen of "inmitable Boz Dick
ems popularity of style and his marked orig
in,
all these productions
Mr. BaringGould's Forthcoming novel is to
be called "Bladys of the Stewpony" 1t Is n
historical romance of the close of the las,
century. The scene is laid partly near the
famous Stewpony inn, near Stourton castle. at
the time when the country on the road to
Chester was infested with highwaymen. and
partly at Shrewsbury. The story concerns,
the last instance of the burning of a woman
for petty treason |. e. the murder of her
husband, which took place at Shrewsbury IN
1880. The very interesting Red sandstone
country with its Inhabited caves, the refuge
of the highwaymen and their confederates ,s
described
The Copy Maker n novel of journalistic
life In New York, by William Farquhar Paw
r.
dam Book company, New York. II is an es-
cepionally clever novel, depicting life ON
the great dailies In New York. with excur.
sions into literary Bohemia. The hero's year-
and-a-half of newspaper experience is well
worth reading and will furnish much an,rse-
ment.
The next book from the pen OF Robert Barr
is to be entitled Medieval Tales and is
announced for publication in February. IN
MS recent work Mr. Barr has turned towards
the days OF old. ms shown both In "Mcdiaeyal
Taies and in the volume which is to follow
II and which is TO he his most important and
ambitious work. The latter is the romano. |
recently written" by Mr. Barr on a TYNE |
writer In ruined chamber OF an old castle IN |
the Mosele Its title Is Tho Countess
Teckla, and II is said to throw new Ilrht !
upon the powers of its versatile author ana |
make him dangerous rival OF Weyman and |
Doyle at their best.
Sunset is the title of thoroughly GOOD
novel by Beatrice Whitby. which has lust
been published in the Town aud Library.
series OF d, Appleton & Co, New York. It ts
a very charming love story. whose heroine
is drawn with original skill aud beauty. The
author makes her people speak the language
of everyday life. aud vigorous aud attract
i've realism pervades the book. which pro-
yides excellent entertainment. from beginning
to end.
The Widow Lerouge," by Emile Gaborian,
and The Heart OF Virginia." by j. Perkins
Tracy, have been received from Bother
Bros, Houston The first is an excellent
French detective story. while the second is 4
story Of the late war. Both are published by
Street Smith. New York
Mark Twain's new humorous story, which
le is now writing in Vienna, Is 10 go to
Philadelphia magazine, which has also se.
'urea +. Marion Crawford's new story taIc
y tue unreal. with the strihingly uncaniiv
title OF 'Tae Dead SMILE