The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-12-21
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Christmas GIFTS.

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III 'aa I" ~ still tickle. him with some
b. you .;,jns story, handsome picture
30 ..;.I edition of elassie--mueh
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.,f Of slippers, or even WIN al 4''0
..uous quantities of books arc
.riN 4. ~ winter holidays, and of them
srnns y. seem to be written, or at any
f''p0'1 ..d cot out, with an eye single 70
n Up an tsstivity. The trade of the book
si;'ns , 4; is an ancient and not an un-
70 Pp'.'ib ,,t il is only OF late years that 1t
1As 0aI' ~ present extraordinary business
ks%y.v,, ., AID in many cases, genius.
~ i'."' .dvertised like patent medicines
~ us =, or what passes for it, has got
l'p s,5inrs, the Illustrations the paper and
" gg.,rwbile the price is kept low not
.,ot good profit on the merchandise
2" AZ L still actually small, compared
4" "a other ouri0sities; and the people
~ 81 learned how little il costs, with
y ...,i,nces to produce a really handsome
q ,,,,r.ohy and history. which are now
~ :. 10 be almost as good as fiction
.,,iolocv, are-you may buy any OF
y. ~, 90 far wrong. If you are built
=, j" ran spend eighty or hundred OF
n dollars for some gorgeous special edi.
4 4 .omshing or you may satisfy yourself
y. i,i.rd with a dollar and a half novel
w.. A general store. II you are well
n a,r NAV chance TO make as good hit
i,,,.r figure as at the former ones.
\ \. toolinS through the output, it seems to
Y, 4. general average of publications is
"A he average this winter. In fiction
a I. ,btbinv very startling or impressive; no
a 4 ,,lisnt and irresistible genius; but there
4 ...,y n GOOD ones, and some excellent In
4 is,tunsnts there are good specimens.
s,ry good novels the most charming is
n, mind Charles Marriot's Love with
~ Marriott wrote The Column" last
\ a. /, different, but on the whole better.
4 ,s-,, Marion Crawford's "Cecilia"-as he
4 ~, his Last OF the Vestals;" he gets
IA nh to his occult phase--the Mr.. Isaaos
"a which he made his reputation and which
t;rs better than the others.
fE,r7 lanes is not liked now by many al
81 iuis,,; he is as good as ever, and is al
IN 4. 4 class BY himself; his new book, The
H. Of Dove" is psychology humanized; il
E,.r,u, to note how, as he grows older, the
&.iy from his father shows forth. Mr.
IN. j. travelling in rut, but a very charming
u md bis Little White Bird" is full of the
h si childhood and the wisdom of age, with
peculiar Barrie favor all through it.
<Ilhth, Of a generation now being forgotten
y ,.p.tseded, in his book called "a Sea Turr
! Ole. Matters" tells stories by insinuatior
Il Implication, in very skillfully manner; bu
hex fibre and force; it is the inanimatior
Boston culture.
2Ehtk Stockton, from the other side of til,
Pr throws back to US pretty nosegay o
Eia "Gaythcr's Garden" A very serious anC
young man, Eden Philpots, sends one o
D,rnoor romances, "The River" which i
n ssdng the time to read carefully; he run
Inscription Of scenery, but they are good. Johi
<E Hobbies has written Love and the Sou
tri, and made a deserved hit with it.
tD'sA darlington who cares for what h
Fia md is not in hurry, has done over al
n'ii (unpublished) tale of his, and produce
N vaafsyels,' an Indiana story, but laid il
ralHs Of romance.
szl, Couch is at his most characteristic i,
IL White Wolf" and other Icelandic saga
n ID match the times. Stevenson is recalle
iWel Illustrated edition of "An Inland Voy
4 Aping appears in his Gust So Stories,
f own admirable illustrations and Mis-
wharton In her Valley of Decision"
w W. w. Astor's magazine, the Pail Mall
aH written the greatest novel of its kin
sieuase has produced" /: is we'll to be as
o. fact 50 striking as this. The book
not half bad.
Y, Van Dyke treats the ideal prettily an
'nsy in his The Blue Flower" and Gil
sISa now mentioned in bated type a
sAOert' gives us bunch of tales wit
~ rasha running through them, whic
le feeling Of the desert in them.
~ y sun something erude and child-lik
NAG M,,. Harding Davis stories. His "CaI
As'khi is good enough stuff, but trivia
sa'on Smith in his Adventures of DIV,
Exhibits his cleverness to advantag
6.;. .S'elh has done two things, "A Christina
Ess ana Temporal Power" They ad
h'ppines. " 'A0 sum - -
= s - stories by new man, J. B. Coz
- Hi9aeester; and by Mark Lee Luth
Ing bosses and other political subject
. Z. w Mason, on a new study
Inn -Four Feathers" very fantastic; ar
-" make an end of what is endless, the
H. sTl style, but not avowedly by he
I'M, .ae Confessions Of Wife" which e
i3 nay be recommended not to read.
n pi Everett Hale is worthy of himsc
Il, !, ~emoFies Of One Hundred Years" vC
u, b.; PERSONAL and viearious "Reminiscences
s. NV proves himself still the champion
IN SH IN his Battle with the Stun"
oss on Japan, which should be re-
Hi i,s, ey Mr.. Menpes and his wonderful
G..adn :, daughter Dorothy, and "Kotto,"
", NeaFn, the ex-offo literary amb:
a 4 me United States to that favor
|. - savage Lander, who will never r.
n Il, Oeen finally erueifed and boiled
b. p.sain tempted providence by a II
Va /. -ssa Beluchistan and Afghanist'
Lss,d eseribes under the title Of "Acrc
fA.r ..nos and in "The Hidden Shens
y gash traveller, Mr.. Nichols has told
lsg. about out-of-the-wav China
's..ri, STeApen has written on George Eli
4 Pc Ai'lson on Ruslin, another Harris