The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-07-20
"The Heart of Darkness. =

Going through life often meet with people who i'm
very strongly giving the assurance Of such
strength OF character mind that we feel sure we will
hear from them again, that they will make their mark
the world But they swallowed up in darkness
the past and give them but occasional thought of
wonder that the world has accepted them vaua
ton So it is with books and in thinking
and books led 10 speculate what particular
OF success they lacked
This train of thought suggested by looking over
story published originally in Baekwoods Magazine
terward in Lell Living Age in 1000 entitled The Heart
of Darkness by Joseph Conrad Both the Journals pub
fishing the story of the highest order looks
good things in their pages and THE Heart Of Darkness
distinct impression of being unusually fine Not
story perhaps but wildly drawn glimpse the
depths Of darkness both of human and phys
ica life II revealed such Infinite depths of darkness of
the human heart and OF the forest the wild life OF
land that could hardly bear read It but for the
flashes of humor and fine thinking that relieved them To
the authors words THE meaning of the episode
inside like pearl but outside envcopns the tale
which brought il out only glow brings haze in
the likeness of OF those misty haos that sometimes
made visible by the spectral illumination of moonshine"
By this misty light made to see strange people
and that flicker and fade and again until
find they have made most vivid impression mas-
nation
at sombre enough too and pful--not very clear
either No not very clear. And yet it seemed throw
kind of light"
These words of the to fit the story better
than of mine do but they say nothing OF the vgo
strokes by which the writer fills in his iv
ing people In fact the whole picture is drawn with such
rare skill that without our realizing it, is there lurd
terrible So have wondered why there has been almost
nothing said of either author story, and tried
discover what element of success IL lacked
Too much in the impressonsts STYLE perhaps but II Is
remarkable specimen of that style and while Henry
James finds reading should be said that the world
entirely rejects impressonstc work
read The Heart OF Darkness in Litters Living Age,
as ! have much that is good. What a stately dgnied
journal it isl Others have up around it, Haunted
themselves before the world in glang eolos and nnuu-
cradle illustrations still others have added here and there
to their usefulness until they known the world over but
the Living Age goes on with its demure become as
familiar the face of old friend paucity adver-
tsemen and its wealth OF good reading gathered from the
best magazines Of the world week after week without
slightest recognition of the changes that going in
the world OF journalism 1t say the others Of
that world This is all well for youhis gaudy
erng these Of pictures and advertisements do
need them Every knows what the Living Age is and
when they want something good they to me" And
certainly not disappointed for its contain
only the highest order Of thought and style and il do
find ttife dull times why the fault lies usjn the
depravy of taste wrought perhaps by the Aarng
cater always to the taste of the hour NJ. IA. T.