The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-11-02
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i"S Last Nofu rs Miss MacGowans FIRST
real full-bown book though she began her
literary career about fifteen Years ago and has
been uniformly successful as a newspaper and
magazine writer She was born in Ohio. brouoh,
up in Tennessee, has lived great portion Of her
life in the East and got her literary impetus IN
Texas, where as she crisply puts it, she chased
material for stories mounted on Texas broncho
The writer Of "rhe Last Word" is deep
thinker, but her conclusions are put before us in
events, never in lengthy philosophiznes The
tone is always buoyant, optimistic, despite the
hard truths told
The book IS warmly human, II Is markedly
spontaneous in tone, and the exquisite purity and
hnish of its dction makes il unique among books
OF its type There is on every page evidence Of
the authors patient search for Just the feicitous
word or turn Of expression which. when found.
appears 70 the uninitiated quite accidental and
fortutous
The Last Word is frankly love story.
tremhingly alive with the deepest and tenderest
emotions Of woman's heart romantic. enthu-
siasie yet saved always from pathos by that ever
present drollery, that waggishness which never
quite deserts the author nor her creatures The
most strenuous scenes are iightened by touches
of this humor and chapters OF pure fun are
set side by side with the most touching and
tragic passages
The heroine of the story, Darlington West,
went from Texas 10 New York ito succeed in |
journalism In a very short time after taxi |
ing her place in a big publishing concern there |
she was known TO her ntimates and finally |
through the whole office, by the soubriquet OF
Texas" Every Texans heart must glow with |
love and sympathy toward her. for she is surely |
OF the most highly evolved Texan type.
One who thinks and feels must echo the opinion /
expressed in the book by the editor, De Witt
who after some unsuccessful efforts TO discourage
her. was fain 60 say he tapped a little pile OF |
copy she had just brought in Il ike the way
you have seen New York with Texas eyes; it's
piquant' The editor further felicitates himself
on the fact that he sent her out free-lance,
no assignment and routine. you can't go
about in that triumphant choral hallelujah spirit,
with that patent. life-preserving Texas trust and
enthusiasm OF yours without meeting expert
cnces"
And the experiences Of Darlington West as
set forth in The Last Word must brighten the
eyes and quicken the pulse Of any real live
reader.
In his "Recollections of Long Life" the
and eminent divine, Dr. Theodore
Cuyler has so condensed the story of his busy
and remarkable career that he gives his readers
Just the cream of his most wholesome expert
ances
Among the rare personages met in this books
pages may be mentioned Washington Irving, the
gentle and much loved American poet, Whittier,
Horace Greeley and many others OF the loved
and illustrious among DR.. Cuyers accounts
IF his associations with distinguished Anglo
Saxons the other side OF the Atlantic also
hold very special charm,
Three American authors have already been
selected for the proposed American Extension
VI the Macmillans' English Men Of Letters series
They are Lowell, Franklin and Emerson and the
biographies TO be written by DR. Henry Van
Dyke, Mr. Owen Wister and Prof George Ed
ward Woodberry.
An amusing and profitable little book is Mr..
con Mead's volume on Word Coinage" which
Thomas Y Crowell & Co. publish amusing cs-
,ecialy in It's chapters on "Ncologisms by Liv-
ug American Authors" the material for which
s largely contributed in personal notes to Mr..
Mead by the authors themselves and profitable,
rom the light which it throws upon the hun
lreds OF hidden sources from which a really liv-
ng language derives synonyms and shades
+ meaning, II Is interesting 20 observe how
arge proportion Of the authors from whom
lr Mead sought confessions were jealous TO
scaim responsibility for new words.
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No sweeter, pretter love story has been written Z
han the story of Tom Moore" an unhistorieal (
omance founded certain happenings in the
lie OF this famous Irish poet The story is /
,rttcn by Theodore Burt Sayre and tells of the
oets eourtship OF sweet Bessie Dyke the maiden
Who eventually became the poets wife His
truggle with poverty, his tricks TO get more ;
redit, his final rise 10 fame and court favor and i
is sudden fall from grace all well and en-
told Through all these troubles the
harm Of Moore never flags, his CHEEKY good Il
ure and half humorous acceptance of life win :
ing for him many friends. The poets ex- /
uiste wit sparkies and flashes all through the /,
ook and his pranks are many and laughabe, +
When at last Moore is restored to royal favor T.
nd Bessie becomes his wife one lays down the \
ook with regret that the pretty story is ended. \
Frederick A. Stokes company, New York; &"
The following books have been received from
harles Soribners' Sons of New York and are TO
e reviewed: in the Wasps Nest" by Cyrus
owusend Brady with the British Legion" =
= G. A. Henty THE Book Of Joyous Children" =
y James Whitcomb Riley; The White Wolf anS u
Their Fireside Tales by A. T CUTLER Couch y
Doctor Bryson," by Frank H. Spearman; "The ?,
reasure OF the Iueas,' by G. A. Henty; "sea =
lighters From Drake 20 Farragut" by Jessie y
eabody rockingham; Captain Maeklin' by
ichard Harding Davis; with Kitchener in the =
oudan," by G. A. Henty; "out Of Gloucester" =
, James B. Connolly.
From the publishers, L. c. Page & Co. of Bos- . 3
n, the following have Gomez THE Last Word" 2
, Alice MaeGowan; Hope Loring" by Lillian y
ell; TN Fur'hest Ind" by Sydney C. I
rier; Beautiful Joes Paradise" by Marshall =
lunders; "Our Little African Cousin" by Mary %
azelton Wade. and 'Jerrys Reward" by Evelyn
mead Barnett.
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