The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-07-07
literary Notes.

"Joscelyn Cheshire" has gone into q
fourth edition aud bids fair 10 go into sew.
cral more before It Is many months old.
sara beaumont Kennedy, the author. has
written two other successful novels and
snort stories which have appeared In Har.
per's Monthly Ladies' Home Journal, Me,
lures and other periodicals. She was
for a time literary editor OF the Memphis
Appeal on which paper her husband. MIR.
Walker Kennedy, now Yields well known
pen.
Terror OF the unnatural and unknown, as
universal now as In the days Of the Masi,
Is Illustrated with Ecst by Captain Archi-
bald the experienced American war cor.
pendent. In his new hook, "Blue Shirt and
Khak,' he tells of the agitation aroused
In the Boer camp near Pretoria by the ap.
pearance OF British war balloon sailing
over the enemy aud spying their intrcnch-
ments, The incident Is well narrated.
Mr.. stephen Phillips is hard at work on
his new drama, ulysses" bnt, contrary
60 expectation, the work viii not appear
ths year A volume Of shorter poems
w. however. he issued this fall The
title has not yet been announced
The Lawrence system OF vocal and pnysi.
cal expression viii he issued this month,
II Is practical and comprehensive work
on elocutlon and dramatic art contaiuins
explicit Instructions for the cultivation of
tho speaking voice and gesture; directions
for the production and control Of breath.
sound and speech, rules FOR articulation,
incubation, emphasis ana delivery the
work IS by Prof Edwin Gordon Lawrence,
teacher of eiocutlou and director Of "the
Lawrence school Of Expression" OF New
York.
During tho remainder of the present year
auo the early part Of 1902. Frederick A.
stokes company win publish important
works ~ fiction by the following well
known novelists Robert Barr, Frances
TIodgson Burnett Edgerton Castle ste.
pEen Crane. Samuel II Church tbiS drst
long novel since the publication az John
Mnrmadukc'0, Hamilton Drummond OF
Kings Pawn" fame, John oliver Hobbies,
y. W. Hornung, $ leovett.Neats Alfred
Hcnrt Lewis, A. w Marchmont, A. r. w.
Mason. Max pcmbcrton and Eden Phill.
potts.
Concerning the Conversation found In the
modern novel an English critic makes the
following pertinent comments: The mos
remarkable trait Of the dialogue made fash
ionnblc by such WORKS as "Dodo" or "rn,
Green earn lion" Is the entire absence OF
any social feeling whatever, Of any glow
Of tnut great atmosphere Of friendship
which makes a silence almost richer thar
speech The aim Of the "nodo" CONVEX
satlcnalist Is Ia cpt short another man.
idca, not. as IN the great conversations
"a extend and perfect IT, Proverbtailyi u
fact, II was the aim Of the wit to cap
toe last sayIne the new comment is no
meant as q zap, hut as an extlnguisher
It's Inspiration is hippancy. the blackes
Of all the enemies of Joy. And ~ there Il
another supreme trait OF "Dodoesque'
pleasantly, It Is this appalling absence Of
JOY. II we compare such conversation FOL
n moment with conversations really based
upor friendship and on ancient happiness
such as those IN 'Tristram Shandy' OF
tide "Noctcs Amhroslanae," we shall feel
the desert Of brilliant ice into which we
nave wandered.