The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-03-30
Authors, Publishers ~
= and Their Books.

nat Cecil Rhodes Is In dying condition adds
ne n,.-., TO the biography of this remarkable man.
FaiH ,rd Howard Hensman. recently published by the
~ M Rhodes was born on July s. 1858, and is there
RtTesn comnarstively young whose career not
be y" h.ight II was ll-health that originally sent Mr.
Il ~, South Africa Suffering early 1870 from an
49,, Of the lungs he was sent to Southern Natal to
.i h,oher Herbert who was engaged there in cotton
fn ms u, was then described paie-faced delicate
IA "a one could have foretold the brilliant career for
~ Gas destined The following year Herbert Rhodes
ha his cotton plantation and set for the diamond
w, rhthef Cecil followed and thus took the first
go, ,s,ds his future wealth and power.
a r,r, Year" novel by z H. Cooper is the title of
- a Apoleton's Town and Country Library This sto-
r.ih social and racing life introduces among other
';s IN the turf involve peculiar complications
* oossbe that attempt at quasi identification may
made by American readers but for this the writer affords
t.seston The plot turns largely on curious intrigue
lsh The American takes leading part The story is
~ a incident and odd complications and its interest is
,gips Cloth 81 paper, so cents
n. new book by the late Maltbie D. Babcock DID,
, thoughts for Everyday Living" through seven
@ ,dions last winter, into its second edition be-
~ oeblcaton The book is entitled Letters from Egypt
"A Palestine" and published March IS, the FIRST edi-
~ hing exhausted the 14th When Mr.. Bahcock sailed
- New York in February 1901, trip 10 the Holy
Ind the hope expressed to him thai he might find
q, 10 send letters be read at the meetings of the Mems
n A,enee To this wish he cordially responded and
Interesting the letters he in compliance there
IN that there has been generally expressed wish for
A,n IN permanent form In response to this they arc
h,hed BY the Scrbners by arrangement with Mrs Bah
ok the price Of the book containing them being 81
x
Richard Harding Davis Soldiers Of Fortune" Is now
have playgoers' edition Its successful production on
n stage made this necessity by creating demand for the
r,v. with illustrations from the play. The edition
vii be very handsome The illustrations coors
nd the cover behts its character souvenir.
y X r
A new volume by Andrew Carnegie entitled The EN-
se Of Business will be published by Doubleday Page and
Company April 1t will comprise dozen chapters giving
said Mr. Carnegies direct opinions on fortune
Winning and the of wealth together with discussions
principles of industrial enterprise tariff and many
that interest the of affairs
Possibly every one may not remember that Louis XIV
lad young cousna less scapegrace prince but
, fascinating characer-called Rinaldo DEste. This
young adyenure had particular romantic career but up
the present time has not appeared in fiction However,
that excellent historian Mrs Latimer, knows her France
well to leave such promising material neglected and
Der the title Of "Ihe Prince Incognto" is give
based upon his adventures to be published by A C. Nc
curg Co.. Chicago This is Mrs Latmers first book of
felton, but the readers of her Nineteenth Century Series
need Of her ability write in inter-
e,tng
with his remarkable mother and the peculiar cir
esnssnces Of Hamiltons birth that Gertrude Aherton
opens her book The Conqueror" which the Macuil
lan company will issue week The other three
whose influence is felt throughout the book his wife,
Elizabeth Schuyler of the most notable girls and famous
bellies Of revolutionary days his daughter Angelica and
Mn Croix, Nine. Jumel she afterwards became Nine.
lna may be said to have almost dominated Hamiton's
lii.
The scribners announce new novel by Benjamin Swift
rrder the title The Game of Love- 1t is story of in
s'nousy constructed plot and remarkable range of dra
mats personae. The adventures of Mr.. Vincent Wood
odse will keep the inveterate novel reader fully alb
d to the last page and less diverng the curious
uHliary characters and circumstances through whose
means his story works itself happy climax Mr. Swift
Noon"
Never before in the history of boomaking in America
~ me compilation of volume like "The Book Of Sport
n attempted Men of multiplied affairs Colonel John
aoo Astor, Oliver Belmont, Foxhall Keene, John Cowdn,
w. nave little time to write their opinion upon American
ports The Book of Sport however, contains articles by
nose and many other prominent in American athet-
: and general sport and also many of the best known
gnen hunters riders and golf players Casper Whitney
outing has summed up this book in the words Unique
NC badly needed" J. F. Taylor & Co., New York.
Shaes Livingston Bull who made his artistic debut in
he' Monthly and whose large drawings of animals are
noticeable feature of the Century Magazine pub
s portfolio of eight of his fupage drawings in the
'piH number Of Lesle's Monthly.