The San Angelo press. (San Angelo, Tex.) 1897-1907, 1902-06-25
LITERARY.

Received the "Penman, Artist
and business educator" u month
| ly devoted to business college af-
fairs. "The Photo Beacon" with
matters pertaining to photogra-
ply, but containing an excellent
article by +. Dundas Todd.
"Mlle Fouchette," a novel of
French life by Chas. Theodore
Murray. Cloth, p p. 898, $3.50,
Philadelphia and London, J B
Lippincott Co. A most excellent
book for the society girl with a
desire to avoid brain fatigue, and
the summer man who wants
something light you know"
Love, murder, sudden death, Wit
riol throwing, absinthe drinking,
high kicking, stocking display,
an anarchist, an artist, a model,
a few Partisan street riots, some
medical students, q nun or two, a
sprinkling of spies, prisoners,
dancers, young ladies who keep
constantly Slipping out of their
skirts, and men without an OBJ
ject in life, pass and repass like a
phantas magoria. The book
strongly suggests Henri Murger,
dashed with lola.
These are days, when, as
Shakespeare says, crooks and
davis and maidens bleach their
summer frocks." The summer
frock is a concomitant of warm
weather that we would not will
lingly do without. However
much they may delight in young
leaves on the elm, the perfume of
the lilac blossoms, the morning
notes of the birds and other out
door matters that poets like to
sing of, mankind in general, if
they are honest, will tell you that
the chief Joy of the season is in
the privilege of looking at, and
being with carefully gowned
women. Here is one note of
spring that the city man has Oft
ener than his country cousin,
says Woman's Home Companion.
The latter may sec green fields
and running brooks, but the far
mer sees more marvellous frocks
and frills. This habit of spring
gowning is a good thing. Dainti-
ly dressed women, whether their
frocks be of silk or of muslin,
help to make the world brighter.
They add a great deal to the sum
of life's cheerfulness. There are
very few women who need any en-
couragement to make themselves
attractive; but, if they do, they
should realize that gowning is not
merely to be INDUCED in for their
own pleasure. 1t is positive
duty.
According to one book-lover, a
vestryman, whose library of sever
al thousad volumes was sold at
auction in New York book-shop,
the quintessence of philanthropy
is, indirectly at least, to refuse to
lend book. This sentiment was
duly set forth in this neatly print
ed motto of his own making, past
ed inside each book: sit is hard
to refuse but more to lend. |
never borrow and dislike to loan.
Buying books is profitable and
pleasant; and to incite friend to
the fixed idea of accommodating a
select library is to do the greatest
good in the world. In 1t you are
u companion of the great and
good of all ages thorc fore, l adj
wise others as / act myself. viz, |:
Buy but never borrow" The COL
lection itself, according to the
New York Post, was an inditfer-
ent one in many ways. There
were very few rare volumes or first
editions, and no books in any
but commonplace binding. With
Il few exceptions, any one of them
could be duplicated at cost of n
dollar or two, and most of them
at the sale went for far less. Yet
in each one was placed the motto
which spoke volumes of the spirit
of the man and the spirit in which
the collection was made. The
mans boast that in all his life he
never lost a book is not difficult
to believe Elk.
In this life we pass through all