The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-08-11
Books and " j.
- Their Writers.

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About two yenrs ago Robert Buchanan
addressed an open letter to Sir waiter
Resant which Is not without pathetic in
terest today: | say 70 you now, ont OF the
fnlncss OF my experience, that had a son
who thought Of turning to literature as
means Of livelihood and whom could not
dover with Independent means OF keeping
Barahhas and the markets at bay, would
elect, were the choice mine, 10 save that
son from future misery by striking him
dead with my own hand! "whom the gods
love die young" would say to myself:
Whom the gods and Barabbas preserve
survive on for dependency. sadness. mad
ness and despair: and my son should
surely die, For what have seen have
seen and what have suffered | have sur.
fered. The very stones OF the street cry
out and rebuke you, sir when you Invite
The young and unwary. and above all the
honestly inspired to enter the blood stained
gates Of this Inferno.
Among Dodd Mead & Co.'S announce
ments for the TAIL are In fiction. Sir Walter
Besant's last novel. "rhe Lady or Lynn"
story of Cromwells time, by Amelia H.
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-. 80 y, w MODS hy Jonn uri Lloyd;
-. "sNe, sr huenard Calmady
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puS' eu'nor OF rue Nins messenger
gus TWO DOCKS Erhouuleh Tor early puphep
non pS u - Pn'nHm sons mas also
peeu wrongly slated thht her work mas re-
ceiyeo uigh praise VA hnsnihu' rms Nh
fusion arose OWING TO inc iact that announcer
author OF the same maine MISS G L. M
tropus-h mas TWO books IN course or pun.
cation spy me Messrs' Fninam. me oooA
~ suzanne Ahuroons ent,Vlen me hlnR
Messenger Is hrst mover OF ne" wIl'V''
ana WIN he pupnshed IN the carry lali ny
harper " BIOS inc hu'nor Is the N''e
oil Aioert A. hoDihSoh oI petrol' anu tne
daughter OF John Anlroous' wen SHOWN
artist OF that elty' she was norm IN N'W
Orleans ana spent most oil hef nie mere,
and u Is there that the scene OF Aer mover
Is laid.
~ - hesi'e' e'',er pro.neI w wy 10
ue ,ll "hose ueutu o'euireu ieven'ts'
tells some interesting stories OF 4urhet'
one OF me pest concerns INC sfeet pulns-
ers queer mehase IN queen anne strees.
Turner was showing some celepritS rouna
ms gallery when tne inner door was nale
opened ana an old man said IN low
voice, lhAt 'ere's uone' turner up
peared to take no notice. ana few min
utes later the ola mans nead appeared
again, aud said In louder voice. That
ere will be spilled" II was Turner'S
father. anxious for the fate OF his sonh
chop. The old man used TO serve as rae
totum to his son. Among other things, he
stained the canvases and vanished the
on account ot which Turner was
wont to say that his father began and
DnIshed his pictures for him"
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viii N. Harden, whose ''westerfs.t' was