The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-02-09
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All competitors. however Intelligent arc not gifted with
Of humor and professional huuorists sometimes
suffer severely their hands Mark Twain once had try
ing experience with eomposoroue those conscientious
competitors who only know but know that they know
Mr. Clemens had received from his publishers the nroofs
story which he considered funny anything he had
ever written reading the proofs he dismaly discov
cred that the had been carefully eliminated Mr. Glenn
returned the proofs congatuang the eomposor upon
having consumed only week in making sense Of story
which he himself had required weeks
OIL"
Mr. Arthur E. BOswek has compiled soma library sta
tstics which contain awful warnings army OF
hors The figures prove that hundreds OF the patrons Of
OF fiction this is and Of science most true as might
expected Between these extremes history found
finish all volumes OF Justin McCarthys highly
tanning History OF Our Own Times" than read the
Mr.. Bostwicks DO readers read r. would
be- 1T depends upon the entertaining qualities Of
the book"
Harper & Brothers will publish on February T. new
novel by Harris Dickson. author OF The Black VOLTS
Breed" 1t is entitled "Ihe Siege of Lady Resoute and
is delightful story of the genuinely romantic type The
time is the early Eighteenth century when Louis XIV was
on the OF France Julie dc Sevcrac the heroine
girl Of beauty and spirit whom the Marquis de SainAau-
rice has deeply offended and TO whose heart he lays de-
termncd siege The story is said full OF charm and
adventure of the "swashbuns kind but OF the sort
that carries the reader INCREASINGLY from page
tI.r & Bro,bers pulished on February , a biooraphv
a. one Of be most ncresae and interesting characters OF
our time Cecil Rhodes founder oil the British South Airi-
company and eN-premier of Cape Colony The bogo-
ply entitled Cecil Rhodes A Study Of Career was
written by Mr. Howard Hensman rersonal FRIEND of M
Rhodes. and authority upoa the history and a"aa az
Rhodesia Mr.. Hensmans book leaves the reader 800 DOUBT
to which is more interesting the MAN a'n'e wih an
his subtle contradictions OF charaeet or he career which
in its meteorc development shows the remarkable posi-
blities Of the modern citizen
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