The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-11-16

Literary Chat.
:. Weir Mitchell, in spite Of nj. :, 49,, J..
still actively at work along many inss
pear next month. e' WIN APP
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps latest novel aAv.r,, -,
puohshed November 20, recently annesred I,
. s.i,a' FORM IN Harpers Magazine under the
Miss Alice Woods IL r., r.a,
whose FIRST book, Edges" will apnesr tbs ias.
OF the month from the Bowen Merrill comn.n,.
MISS Woods story is OF American and pa+is;s,,
painters life and includes a delicate romance
The international Studio, John Lanes mao.
Iile OF arts and crafts, has in preparation ss
special winter number for the coming season
volume devoted to the consideration ~ 81.
let ~0'o' anu NIL
since the first number Of St Nicholas yv,s
puphshed, nearly thirty years ago. many weekIy
and monthly publications for children have cor,e
and gone, but St Nicholas still holds Ne Mace
folks" 'o' young
L. c. Page Co. will publish this ,ror,h ooo.
Noblest Friend, the Horse by Francis NJ Ware
The book is to be illustrated with more ,b,n
hity Illustrations of noted horses horses Of noted
people, and scenes illustrating special points in
the management, etc, of horses.
), M. Dent 20. are about to publish fac
Sihile edition OF Blake's Illustrations of the
Book OF job" DIR. Garnett has said: 'Wcre
IL necessary to rest his fame upon one set OF
works, this would probably be selected and
indeed, all his biographers and commentators
arc united in their praises Of the series.
Messrs. Little, Brown & Co. publish new
library edition in six volumes Of the works Of
Samuel Lover. Rory oMore," Handy Andy"
and Treasure Trove" occupy three volumes of
HffNna tst.
speehyely the poems, the dramatic works and the
legends and stories of Ireland. Each volume
has an etched frontispieoe
Guy Wetmore Carryl has finished building his
little home at Swampscott Mass, which he hap
PLY designated "Shingle Blessedness" His new
book of fanoful verses, Grimm Tales Made
Gay" a merry setting of the old stories is inst
issued by Houghton, Mifhn Co., with grotesoue
marginals and number of full-page illustrations
by Albert Levering
new Dickens Fellowship, club to promote
social and philanthropic interest among the adj
mirers Of Charles Dickens, has Just been founded
in London by G. R. Hall Game, a young son OF
the novelist, who is the new editor of House
hold Words, the English weekly founded and
edited by Charles Dickens himself The Eel
lowship already numbers GOO members
Although James Russell Lowelrs active con
nection with the anti-slavery movement lasted
only three years, the amount OF his writings on
that subject is especially noteworthy Houghton
Mifhin Co. have brought together no fewer
than sixty of his anti-savery papers in two
handsome volumes, the edition being limited to
5s5 copies, and they will be published Novem-
Der 10
Thomas Wentworth Higginson's life Of Long
fellow which has Just been added to the
American Men of Letters Series" (Houghton
Miffiin Coz, will be particularly welcome to all
lovers of American literature Both biographer
aT,l of ~
history; both approached literature with much
OF the patriotic impulse; both we're members
of that fine company of old Cambridge authors
Miss Dorothy Menpes has won fame as the
youngest author in England. She is daughter
of Mortimer Menpes, the we'll known artist Mr.
Menpes has distinguished himself in many ways,
as a painter, as an etcher and as a war cor
his paintings in Bond street and has published
number OF books. To a recent volume by Mr..
Menpes, beautifully illustrated in colors, Miss
Dorothy Menpes, who is only I6 years of age
has contributed the letter press
The Literary Digest for November 8 contains,
among other timely articles. symposiums upon
the following subjects: Panama Canal Develop
ments. The Election" "Valedctory Articles" by
Mrs. Stanton Labor Unions and the Militia, "A
Labor Partnership in Industry" Self Govern
ment in the Orient" Visit of the Irish En-
voys'," "a Cabinet Crisis in Canada" Limit of
Human Nature in Ireland The Italian Prem
iers (Zanardelli's) Political Tour" The Subtle
Magic of Mr.. Yeats Poetry IAN Unfinished Lit
erary Career" Crank Norris), Educational
Ideals of Two New College Presidents" Wood
row Wilson and Edmund J. James). "Mr Win
ters Eulogy of Richard Mansfield" Plagiarism
in Music" The Young Mems Buddhist Asso-
ciation," "The Religious Crisis in England"
Growth Of the Christian Endeavor Movement in
Europe" Paul, not Jesus, as the Founder of
Christianity" THE Unexplored Universe" "Ol
as Substitute for Coal" why Carpets are IN
sanitary" "And Electricity Proof Garment" Pre-
Columbian Civilization in America" Notable
Books OF the Day"