The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-09-01
Some ViezuS - ~
~ ~ and ReUtezuS.


y vi for II is ever the case that present joys
arc inadequate when contrasted with what
thf future holds. while we are usually
quito willing TO leave the ills we have to
NJ to those we know not or
q Ihc great labor agitation which has
resi- hed Its contamination Of late may wen
I'LL the nation with foreboding, and might
lend us 20 fear the worst. hut that we are
th9eatened with more vital issue much
aenrcr home. The serried ranks Of do
nestle service are organizing, and when
This consolidation Is accomplished then
truly we shall be engulfed by "a sea Of
trqnblcs" that all the Shakespcareln com
mcntntors who ever lived can not SGT at
resi-. When the cook ladies any time he
tween the soup and the sorbet call out the
Amalgamated Maids and the laundress and
the waitress fall In line then shall We
NOV poignant grief for which there is
40 balm. 1t Is all very well for Arctic OK
ploiers and other volunteers for forlorn
hope to live on capsules and lozenges and
quadruple extracts administered by the tea
spponful, but for the rest of VS. the poet
vas truthful expositor, for verify
eve may live without poetry. music and
We may live without conscience ami live
s without heart
We may live without friends. we may i've
H without books.
sut civilized man can not live without
at cooks"
Readers Of Miss Edgeworth will recall
tho enthusiastic heroine of one of her
stole who sets out to make the personal
lcqllaintance of a popular author. a lady
Whose high and noble sentiments have
beer an inspiration and a moral tonic to
d hide circle of admirng and appreriatve
leaders,. After various vicissltudes and
uufh wear and tear of mind the pilgrim
,eaches her destination and meets her lit
Tafy idol, only to have her expectations
IND Ideals rudely shattered. The writer
whose compositions have been so elevated
and sprIng takes brandy In her tea and
lndnees In other reprehenslble and unbc-
coming practices so at variance with her
printed sentiments that her disciple re-
iurns home saddcr and wiser than when
she came
Some years ago a clever Texas woman
met Mr.. james Lane Allen at house
party nj the country home of mutual
friend near New York. She found him most
agreeable. cultivated and refined ana when. |
on parting. he Informed her he would soon
pave new book out which he hoped she |
would like. she looked forward to It's an
pearance with much interest The new
nook proved to be "A Summer In Already, "
Ind the Texas woman thanked her lucky
star she had met the author before she
sad his Objectionable story and not after.
wards while, like Miss Edgcworth's hero.
ne. she feels painfully Disseminated.
Those who know Mr.. Gilbert Parker per.
'onnlly are quite unable to explain an
equally apparent discrepancy between the
nan and his work. stockton has truly
'royed himself wise and farsceinc stu.
lent of human nature. for after all no
me may truthfully and absolutely pre-.
lict which win come out-the lady or the
iger.
5in Mr. william Archer's "Real Conversa.
ions VITA Mr.. Thomas Hardy" the latter
ayf he used to write love letters for the
WI &c girls to their soldier sweetheayts In
naa' he was chosen on account Of his
enpT years because he could write and
ehq The replies and yet couldn't under.
ls1d. Had he said 'on account of his
enoer heart we would have risen In n
cdS to take Issue with him in scrrowfnl
nd loyal remembrance of poor Tess.
In writing n few months since of Mr..
'apl Hamilton Hayne as The Last Lit
raw Cavalier, Mr. Maurice THOMPSON
avs ''Ife stood for the best aud farthest
sam Of art permissible under the regime
slavery" while later on he alludes =,
heF genius Of Timrod and LanIer's IS ar
IeH above the horizon"
One wishes that Mr.. Thompson had bee,
lore explicit for his meaning. while doubt
'ss clear to himself, Is not so to his read !
rs, Is not genius inseparable WITH the
lghest art? Are they not co-existrnt? Mr. !
thompson says Haynes voice was that
Est moduated 10 the ear of his people
~ this would seem mistake. The south ,
as never counted nor crowned him her +
pet laureate. Had his popularity been as :
reat the estimation of him as high as Mr.. t
hompson believes, the circumstances Of {
Is life would have been very different. i
owrty is the most relentless enemy to /
spiratton unless Is wounds be healed nv h
100 health and by temperament: that tenn {
srnment which was Burns hlrthrlght ana Q
hifh was among the gifts his fairy COL q
other did not bestow upon Paul Hamii O
% Hayne.
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Mt Andrew Lang In recent review Of
e biographies Of Sir Walter Scott. men
pns incidentally his \own close study Of I
e man and the author, adding Perhaps
go further for apart from Scott's poetry Q
a fiction the antiquarianIsm of his notes Z
"a when a child, were the making OF r.
nat there Is In me-" Mr.. Lang adds some L
fefesing testimony regarding the acquisl q
7n OF Abotsforl. cit was not the build q
2 of Ahotsford that need have harmed y
r Walter; it was the purchase OF an es u
te OF no great extent but sold to him !
fancy prices bit by bit. He wanted !.
" acres here or there. with a fairy glen :,
IN stone at which the stream Of some =
VI battle turned again. This sets at rest
caFping criticism which pictures Scott
essentially land grabber possessed o.
Wy by the paltry ambition to found !"
Estate - -,
VI. Lang relates an anecdote, not hlthcr. r.
published. Of him when as n small hoy al
"a ing over huge tome, he was asked d,
>Pttr, why don't you go out and play h,
~ the other hoys?" "Oh. you can't think re
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