The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-11-23
Literary MeqvS -
~ ~ From London.

The crisis in the bookbinding trade to which
reference has been made during the last two
weeks, has ended for the present -Four OF the
masters and four Of the men met and talked, and
after a long discussion it was decided that the
delegates of the employees should ask their So
cieties to accept the arbitration of the Board Of
Trade.
Some of these publishers spoke as II the
season, which has been rather slowfooted, might
now gather way. Already the bookbindcrs have
begun overtime work as may be shown from
the fact that az least two hundred books have
been piled into the booksellers shops as com
pared with about twenty during the whole Of
last week The publishers now speak hopefully
OF being able to undertake all their Christmas
orders in time il the binders continue to do
their part
In the literary world the event of the most
interest this week has been the advent of Mr.
I. P O'Connor's new weekly which is simply
called I, Ps Weekly That is enough, for II
is questionable If there is any man or woman
who read through the length and breadth OF
the British isles who does not know 1T. r."
II has been said OF writer's that there are fewer
today with following than at almost any time
in recent journalistic history. 1T, p" is one Of
the few. Notwithstanding 1T. P's" great sue
cess, there is not the least trace of jealousy in
any OF the reviews OF his new venture, which
appeared quite irrespective Of party. The jour
nails, whether conservative liberal, all join In
one united paean OF eongratulation and praise
II is considered even brighter for start than
his widely read M. A. F." II is at once
personal and literary journal. He himself tells
anecdotes Of we'll known people In that iuimitable
style of his which everybody knows and enjoys
7. P's Weekly shows, too, that his fund Of
humor is by no means becoming exhausted. It
seems, in fact, " he could not get sufficient
vent for il in m, A. F." Hence one Of the
reasons for T. P,'s Weekly, Then there is
choice of crisp extracts from the most interest
ing books Of the week and serial by Mr.. Rider
Haggard
One knows less personally of Lord Salisbury
than of many men not eminent He has never
cared to crafty curiosity in that respect nor
is he likely to do So There IS however, good
material for a broad personal study Of him. This
is the idea Of a book which Mcssrs Isbister are
about to publish. II is by Mr.. T. d How
whose biography of his own father. Or Walsham
How has won very much favor He tells 81 the
former premier at Eton and oxford. and IN
Australia also of his early literary work, and
wcaves the story Of his career around his per
soualig.
Mr. G. A. Henty through the medium Of an
interviewer has been telling how he writes and
why he writes As 10 why" he says MY
object has been to teach history, and shll more,
to encourage manly, straight living and feeling
among boys"
More appears behind the title Of "'The Monk Of
Llanthony,' the new book by the Baroness De
Bertoueh which Messrs Methuen are TO publish
than may appear TO the eye Of the casual peruser
of the publishers announcements. II is, in fact
the life of Father Ignauus, whose reputation as
a preacher is well known throughout the United
States, as elsewhere
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It is sometimes easier to write book than TO
find a good appealing title for it. The remark is
trite, but it is suggested by Mr.. Phil Rohiuson's
new volume Bubble and Speak" He tells how
II went TO the printers and nearly became book
without a title. The happy thought came not.
bur the printers were making progress and some
thing had to be done He wanted a name for a
series Of light, humorous studies Of annual life
Finally--so he says-there was nothing for IL but
70 write out likely titles, such Fly Papers,"
Geological Crumbs Bubble and Squeak and
so on, and draw lots Bubble and Squeak
had it.