The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-11-02
DUSTO1 Necus y
n ~ From London.

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fibuted 70 Milton, an illustrated life Of Queen
Victoria by Mr. Sidney Lee, and bunch OF
X beautiful fine art productions are among the
chief features Of the season
"a Since October no fewer than eighty new
"A six-shillng novels have been published. "Thous-
ands of books being launched on the great
sea of publicity says Mr. R. B.. Marston, Of
"A Sampson Low Marston & Co. "a sea, by the
# way, which is by no means Pacific ocean
Not that there are any exceptionally greai
books in view, though there many important
ones. Airships will receive special attention. Mr..
s. Andrew Lang is throwing a light the
old Cowrie mystery of King James /, Mr. Rider
N Haggard Is going to take us back TO his rural
England. work Newgate is to come out as
z the grim old London landmark is about to van
ish No fewer than 10000 copies of recent
book have been sold, and it is still selling
Mr.. Fisher Irwin says there indications
that we are to have good season. Travellers
and booksellers report Improvement all around.
\ OF course, novels still sell and lead the way,
but there signs of interest in perhaps more
serious work One indication of this is that
biographical works are popular. Messrs Jar
rold state that they experiencing decided in
crease in the demand for educational works
Messrs Methuen, Sotheran and many other
well known publishers, tell the same tale, that
the British public, newly free from wars alarms
Is sitting down to read in peace.
M Many well known writer's who contribute to the
first number of King and Country which an
Saturday--the day of King Edwards pageant
through the oity--give the new half-crown month
ly brilliant start They include the duke of
lArgyll, Miss Marie Corel Sir Frederick Young
Mr.. ], Henniker Heaton and Mr. Edward Gar.
nett
Miss Marie Corelli writes on the "Vulgarity OF
Wealth" Mr. Henniker Heaton on The Com.
ing Career of Mr.. Austen Chamberlain as an
Imperial Postmaster General" and brief ex-
pressions Of their opinions of imperialism are
~ wen hv nd Zee -
Edmund Barton and Prof. Beare. In addition
10 these miscellaneous articles there are forty
pages Of romance, making in all two hundred
pages
Though the publisher has his times and sea-
Sons, the author has not but must stick to his
desk independently Of spring and autumn Mr..
~, O. Wells is now engaged two pieces of
hction of very diverse character. One is in
the line of so many OF his previous works. and
deals with a strange, fantastic conception
whereas the other follows more after the mood
Of The Wheels of Chance" or Love and Mr.
Iewisham.' One is the impossible rationalized
IS in The Invisible Man" the other relates to
+ the experience of poor man who becomes sud !
denly rich Neither book will be ready for some
time
Mr.. Andrew Lang the veteran versatile author
whom many consider to be the most graceful and
facile Journalist at present writing, has not ven
tured much into the realms of fiction but a |
bowel by him which has been running in Long
before ]
very long. 1t is about twelve years since his |
previous novel appeared. That was real "shill- |
ing shocker" called "The Mark of Cain"
AZ mentioned M previous letter, many peo-
pls, Considering Miss Marie Corelli's hitherto of
ten expressed horror of the idea of her picture
appearing In any public print, wondered how
her photograph found its way into Pap" other
wise Points About People. Now the murder is
out. 1t is explained by an advertisement which .
has been appearing in the papers in which firm
OF engravers make the most abject apology, for
me publication was evidently quite unauthorized
About the most interesting event recently was
the publication of a letter of Charles Dickens
which recently to light 1t finally dis
poses-if any disposal were necessary-of the
assertion which has been made occasionally that
the author of David Copperfeld" did not draw
his characters from life, and that certain of his
novels were not written with purpose beyond the
STORYTELLING. Evidently this letter was written
to someone who had called Dickens attention
20 case of unkindness to child, and asked
him to roast" the evildoer Replying, Dickens
wrote:
That Is very horrible story you tell me of.
wish to God could get at the parental heart of
-, in which event would so scarfy It that
he should writhe again. But if were to put such
father as he into book all the fathers going
(and especially the bad ones) would hold up
their hands and protest against the monstrous
caricature.
find that great many people (particularly
those who might have sat for the character)
consider Mr.. Pecksniff grotesque impossibility
and Mrs. Nickleby herself, sitting before me in
solid chair once asked me whether I really
believed there ever was such woman.
So -, reviewing his own case could not
believe In Jonas Chuzzlewit I like Oliver
Twist says --, for am fond of children
But the book Is unnatural for who would tbink
of being cruel to poor little Oliver Twst7' Never
theess, will bear the dog in my mind. and
II can hit him between the eyes, so that he
shall stagger more than you or l have done this
Christmas under the combined efforts of punch .
and turkey, I will"
Arthur Quiller-Couch Is the latest of English
novelists 10 succumb TO the attraction politics
seems TO have for men Of letters over here
tp' has not decided to stand for parliament
Ike Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, or to attempt
stump speaking like Jerome K. Jerome, but the
reducation bill" has aroused his ire, In COM
nor with that Of a good many other people, and
PC has written an earnestly worded letter 10
a provincial newspaper apropos of IT, The letter
Is addressed by Mr., Quiller-Couch to his brother
Wesleyans.
The announcement that Emile lola made some
Shing like 100000 out of his writings has led
70 comparison of the amount with that earned
py Anthony Irollope, who, like lola, made it a
Inle TO turn out a certain numbers of words
daily he author of "Dr, Thorn" set il down
thet he had written more than any other living
kpropean Enthusiastically twice as much as
larlyle, and he drew" formal balance sheet
Showing that his earnings from his pen were
S344,o99.35. This he said he considered Salts
taetoTy, but not magnificent" Three of his
poFels brought him in $4,000 each but his
kfeatest financial success was Can You Forgive
Herr which earned SIz62s
NJ, Barrie must have thought particularly