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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-11-09
HOUSTON DAILY POST SUNDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER O. 1902

OF OF English Literature BY Richard Garnett and
EDMUND Gosse, will appear next month fron, nc
pis rs OF inc Macmillan company.
me complete work will be in four volumes
ana l WI be a popular yet scholarly treatment Of
English literature, profusely illustrated with
Whatever can entertain the eye or assist the
memory very large number Of the best ac-
steu portraits Of English authors, many OF
them hitherto unknown to the public. viii he
reproduced together with autographs title
pages caricatures and whatever else can add 10
inc legitimate illustration Of the subject There
Wih be numerous color plates photopravures
MOOD engrayngs and photographic fac smiles.
s She nrs, part from the earliest times to the
Shakespearean age, has been undertaken Inv Dr
barnett, barnett and Mr.. Gosse continues the work 70
tne present time, consecutive history Of the
entire course Of English literature from the An
slo-Sa%on to our own day will be given in one
pe SO that this, If the reader desires, can be read
alone as narrative of the evolution Of tho Fn-
glish style In different type biography ~
Gag. eaIn author will be supplied relating in close de-
,all ana with all necessary dates the facts OF his
iite. From the works Of each leading writer AZ
ieast one characteristic quotation will be made
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Emile ZoLa,a StrnnaLes.

Zola like many another man who has dared and
achieved great things, was a self-made man. His
father died penuiless. Notwithstanding this his
mother was able to send him to school at AK
where he received his early education and
studied without showing any particular aptitude
In 1857 he was matricuated at the Lycee Saint
Louis in Paris, where he remained two years
and eVinced liking for study of French litera-
ture. Leaving this institution without a degree.
without funds, and without prestige, he obtained
elerkship and took up his abode in garnet,
where he lived frugally for a time Here he
learned what poverty and hardships were but
the dawn was destined to break Oh his clouded
horizon Through friend he obtained po-
sition as packer with the publishing firm Of
Hachettc Co., from whom he received the
magnificent sum of S4 a week for his services.
While in this position one of the partners of the
firm asked him TO write a story and he pro-
duced The Sisters Of Mercy" which owing TO
its ultrareyolutonary tendencies, was rejected.
By this time he had found out that he could
write, and so determined to perseyere Years
went by before he succeeded in obtaining a foot
hold IN the journalistic world, and many were
the dreary days and dismal nights he spent serib-
bling by the dim light OF a candle hoping for
that rift in the clouds OF obseurity which might
lead 70 permanent work on an established journal
On one OCCASION during these early days of
struggle, hispoverty compelled him to go for sixty
hours without food The early struggles Of Emile
lola are not unlike those Of his English precur-
scr, Ihackeray, who, shortly before he had given
his Vanity Fair 70 the world, found content
ment in accepting salary OF three pounds (sIs)
Frank Fl. Vizetely in The Pilgrim for November.
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About Some SpeLtfnos.

I should like to know whether any one will
agree with me in liking some ways of spelling
better than others The whole value OF a word
does not lie in its sound, nor yet in its mean
ing, nor in its association even. Though this
last tempts me to pause and reflect how much
association does have to do with the literary
value of words. Purple, now l doubt whether
any other color occurs so often IN literature as
purple, yet it is not only for the rich beauty
of its sylables, but also for its hint of royalty.
And then the heraldie oolors-why do the poets
choose them? Is sable more dark than black, or
more yellow than gold? Nay, but at the sound
OF these words the past shall arise" and the
panoply of the Middle Ages monks and Crusad-
ers and kings march before at the call Of a
magical word like ''gues" And threw warm red
on Madelue's fair breast'-what were that line
thenl
But apart from beauty Of sound or charm Of
suggestion, it also matters a good deal, TO me
at least, how a word looks ! wish / knew how
many persons feel difference between gray"
and grey" for instance. To me they are two
different eolors but ! can get authority for
my fancy. The dictionary does not help out
in the least for after describing gray" in It's
unimaginatiye way as any mixture Of white and
black" it dismisses grey" with saying coldly,
See Gray (the correct photography"
After that rebuff | suppose Il is very obstinate
OF me to continue to see any distinction between
them, anything in either beyond a mixture Of
white and black But If they mean exactly the
same thing, why don't the poets stand by one
Of them alone? Or if, since poets are a winged
race who are not TO be bourd by rules of any
kind they have simply set Iown hit or miss,
whichever they thought OF first, am ! then
the only person whom they have befogged into
thinking there is choice between themi Does
the dictionary mean to imply that Swinburne did
not know what he about when he wrote Bird
Of the bitter, bright gray. golden morn" or sh..
Morris was merely suffering from the great mans
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Errors of Authors.

1t is not given to man to be infalibe and it
is not matter that should excite surprise to
find errors in the works of even the best of the
worlds writers that betoken either ignorance or
carelessness. Thus we find that in Sir Walter
SCOTS "Ivanhoe" a knight of Richard l holds
converse with contemporary of William the
Conqueror, who was Richards great grandfather
In The Newcomes" Give in letter dated
183-- asks "Why have we picture of the SOW
ereign and her august consort from Smees
brush ?" The reason was probably due to the
fact that there was no prince consort before
1870.
The moon seems to be very dangerous planet
for writer's TO triAe with. In King Solomon's
Mines" Rider Haggard makes eclipse of this
satellite take place at the new instead of the
full moon-an astrononic impossibility In the
Children Of Gideon" Walter Besaut has caused
new moon TO rise in the east at ? o'clock in the
morning, The most casual observer has without
doubt noticed that the moon appears in
the western sky and sets from the moment it be-
comes visible,
TroIlope makes Andy Scott come "whstling up
the street with cigar in his mouth
At the close OF Around the World in Eighty
Days" the hero arrives triunphantly at his club
just as the clocks of London strike sol
A Paris journal recently recorded the discovery
in the Seine of the nude corpse Of man with ten
sous in his waistcoat pocket But this was scarce
" more paradoxical than the case of Robinson
Crusoe who before divesting himself of his
clothes to swim TO the shore took precauton to
fill his pockets full of biscuits.
In Don Quixote" Sancho continues to ride
on his ass after having lamented the animals
death.
The anachronisms and errors Of Shakespeare
are too we'll known to require repetition. He
speaks of cannon in the reign Of King john
century and a half before their invention; he
refers to printing in the reign Of Henry II, of
clocks in the time Of Caesar, makes Hector quote
Aristotle and Coriolanus refer to Cato. He in
PRODUCES a billiard table in the house Of Cleo
patra, makes Delphos an island and gives sea
coast 70 Bohemia.
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Publishers and Authors.

The Seribners announce "A Literary History
OF Persia from the Earliest Times Until Fird-
awsi Il is by Edward G. Brown, M. A. M.
- lecturer IN Persian in the University OF
Cambridge
One Of Houghton, Mfain & Co.'S most attrac-
tive holiday books is Grim Tales Made Cav"
by Guy Wetmore carry whose art Of writing
drol and merry verses has already given him
reputation in his earlier books
President William De Witt Hyde OF Bowdcin
college opens the November Atlantic with an
impressive discussion Of THE New Ethios"--the
moral laws and safeguards of our race the
spirit OF which all laws are but the symbolic
impression
The James X. Hacket edition of the Crisis
is to be presented in a new decorative cover and
on larger paper with bordered pages, together
with some eighteen full-page reproductions OF
the best scenes from the stage and the portraits
OF the principal actors and actresses
Doubleday Page Co. will begin the publica-
ton Of Christmas annual with the DecembeF
number Of Country Life in America The
large magazine will be double sized with colored
pages and supplements and opening with new
poem by Rudyard Kiping entitled o17an in Yer
mont"
An interesting and somewhat unique undertake
ing is announced by the Arthur IA Clark COM
pany OF Cleveland. This is series OF moao.
graphs, IN sixteen volumes on the History Of
America as Portrayed in the Evolution Of Its
Highways OF War, Commerce and Social Elk
pansion"
George Cabot Lodge, son Of the junior senator
from Massachusetts, has written volume Of SEN
tmental verses, which was published November
by Cameron, Blake & Co Of New York Mr.
Lodge has also written modern society novel
entitled 'Mediocriy,' which is to be published
shortly
In his volume Of Biographical Sketches"
James Bryce, the author Of The American Com
nonwealth, has made collection Of some very
interesting articles which have from time to time
appeared in the leading English journals Most
of the men Of whom he writes are those with
whom he has been closely associated in public
life and friendship
Sisters Of the Order of the Sacred Heart have
lately come from Rome 10 occupy the old North
End mission of Boston, This district now oc.
eupied by Italians was once the home Of Bos-
tons aristocraey It is here that the scene Of
The Heart Of the Doctor is laid and Mabel C.
Foster writes intimate knowledge OF the new
life in this district
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InnerishabLe.

No good thing perishes. The smallest seed,
Born on the winds wings to an alien soil,
May burst to blossom on some distant mead
And cheer a Flooding plowmau at his toll
No good thing perishes Garnet and gold
The spent leaves scatter az the frosts keen
stroke
But each gives promise, mingling with the mold,
OF spring-time verdure on the parent oak.
No good thing perishes. One pilgrim thought
Pregnant with power, penetrant with truth,
In wears TO come with burning message fraught,
May shape the purpose Of our nations youth
No good thing perishes. The gives Of Might
Nav bind our little Present limb and limb,
But Truth shall triumph and the ranks Of Right
him
Huron R. GREER, in National Magazine.
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Ksinpolii was published in 1907 his literary
activity thus covering a period 81 fortv vears
M Macdonald Is now living at Hasiemerc, along
with son.
In the Hamshire edition Of her novels, where
the scenes are laid in that interesting country.
ar Bromley Johnson, himself in fofmsr years
inc editor Of Jane Austen, is making new cx-
of each novel will be found a man Of The eountrv
or town in which the scenes Of the story occur.
while at the back Of the book the particular
neighborhood, whether it be imaginary or not. Is
pictured IN similar style, giving the relative
sizes distances, positions Of houses and walks,
according to the authors descriptions.
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Manly Panty, Jack Dandy
Stole a piece Of sugar candy
From the groeer's SLOPPY shop,
And away did hoppy hop |"


And away did hoppy hop ~
In the following ridiculous, impossible couplet--
Money want, money ! crave,
If you don't give re money I'll sweep you to
the grave -
highway robbery is suggested striidngly and in
most impudent manner, Likewise, there seems
to be no satisfactory reason for the Little man,
who had little gun, TO shoot the duck through
the head head, head" unless he was on
poaohing expedition.
A tangent of inoendiarism is seen in this adj
vice given to the pretty ladyhird that nadvertent
" lights on ones hand
"Lady-bird, lady-bird, fly away home,
Your house is on fire, your children alonel
They are all burnt but one I"
Had the insect enough understanding, il would
undoubtedly hasten homeward without waiting to
be blown away An effective moral is certainly
reached i'm
Bye. Baby pumpkin Whoses Tony LumpkinS
Ny ladys on her death bed
From eating half pumpkin"
A lack of sequence is to be noted, but it is quite
natural for the lady in question TO be very i'll after
such gastronouiie feat.
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ARayer.

1t is my JOY in life TO find
Al every turning OF the road,
The strong arm OF comrade kind
To help me onward with my load
And since have no gold 70 give,
And love alone must make amends,
My only prayer Is, while live
God make ms uoyfky Of MY fYieHdN
--FRANK DEMgsTER sHERALAAs IN PssrSeSs-
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AIRS Wen.

Fittsburg Gazette
The Chinese rice crop has been reported total
failure But the United States nesdn't suffer.
Texas hsS few sxua bags she can furnish on
demand,
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London literary Notes.

Mrs Arthur Jacob, whose first novel, "The
Sheepsteaiers," has made real hit, is so en-
Outraged that she means to continue in author
ship, though it may be little while before she
publishes another novel At present she is going
out to South Africa to join her husband, who 10
an officer in the army there He belongs to an
old military family Mrs. Jacob is Scotswoman
by birth, her maiden name being Erskine. She
however, lived long on the borders of Wales, and
so it came 90 pass that she wrote "The Sheap-
s.ealers" which deals with that region.
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inability 70 SPELL when he sent an old grey man
TO inhahi his Dream To my mind, that dawr
loi Swinburne's could no, be half so cold, nor SC
carly nor so long ago, II grey had been spelled
with an "a" II would have become at once an
ordinary cloudy morning. good for hunting per
haps, bat certainly without any suggestion Of
gold IN it. Gray and gold do not mix they arc
Tor contrasts. like youth and grabbed age. But
srey-that may have brown in it, and green, anc
why not gold
Gray is quiet color for daylight things bu,
there IS touch of difference. Of romance, even
about things that are grey, Gray is color for
iuf and Quaker gowns, and breasts of doves
and gray day and a gentlewomans hair and
horses must be gray
Woe worth the day
That cost thy life my gallant gray"
Laments one OF Sir Walters cavaliers. and
know that is right. But can not say why, Can
no ono tell me-
Now grey is for eyes, the eyes OF witch, with
green lights in them, and much wiekedness. But
the author OF "Wishmakers Town has not dis
covered this. In that charming little volume a
group OF girls found chatterng fondly OF the
future and the coming lover, when ono among
them siren Of maiden cries mockngly-
Though the king himself implore me,
shall live unwedded STILL
And your husbands shall adore me-"
And a student near by, nudging his fellow says
"Heardst thou what the Gray Eyes saidi"
Which goes to show that she could never really
have said 1t at all. Gray eyes would be as tender
and yielding and true as blue ones; coquette
must have eyes of grey
Mrs Alice Meynell has written one of her sub
tie little essays about a Woman in Grey" whom
she makes the type of the modern woman who
can 60 her own way and take no odds of man
But had she gowned her in gray, do you not see
what added simplicity tenderness and femininity
II would endow her with at oncea Such a woman
would have to be protected
DR., Van Dyke, again, invented the pretty title
of My Lady Greygown for the charming wife who
glides across the pages of "Fishermans Luck"
But if that gown had been OF gray, would she
not have to be gentle, Quaker-ike lady who
sat at home reading quiet book while he beat
the streams? My Lady Greygown," however, /
am sure is a graudc dame.
Are these all accdents2 shall never believe
it no matter what the dictionary says Why,
the dictionary does not even recognize "faery"
without calling Spenser in to take the response
bility. Yet who does not feel that "faeryland for
lorn' is thousand times more distant and en-
chanting than any fairyand" could be? How
that little change conventiouaizes it at once
tairyland we may sec upon the stage, but the
land of faery--ah, mol
Verify the letter "e' is sorcerers letter We
hear a great deal about the lost c. in the Ro-
nance languages but l can not help thinking that
perhaps it has only strayed across the channel to
cast haunting CLEAN OF romance upon some
English words. VIII any one, perchance, agree
with me ?--4HdHtic Monthly
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noticed the other day that Lord Halsbury, the
lord chancellor and speaker of the house of lords
had entered the ranks Of reviewers In the public
press His name Is signed under review in the
Times OF one of the volumes of the new Eneycio-
peda Britannica. Yet, after all, there is moth
ing so very remarkable In that, for inquiry
] find that not a few of his predecessors on the
woolsack were copious contributors to letters
Lord Campbell, for instance who added new
terror to death" by his Biographies of the Chan
cellors and Broughani whose connection with the
Edinburgh Reyiew--which by the way celebrated
its centenary this weeks pretty we'll known.
The present lord chancellors judgments in the
house Of lords are occasionally enlivened BY
some literary quotation alluson, but II not
be said that his appearance in the role of re-
viewer was expected.
There are few men who have had better OPP
portunities of observing the varieties of European
society than Sir Horace Rrmbold. His remi-
niseences, which being looked forward to
with no little interest will be published under
the title Of "Reeolleetions OF Diplomat" and
will Mr.. Edward Arnold tells me, be issued by
him early this month, though the date is not yet
quite fixed To show what facilities he has had
for gathering interesting "reminiscences It may
be mentioned that he passed much OF his early
youth in Paris and received his FIRST appointment
from Lord Palmerston In I84o,as attache of the
British ministry at Turin. He was subsequently
promoted to posts Of increasing Importance at
Frankfort, Stuttgart, Vienna, Rome St, Peters
burg and lastly 70 Constanhnople. There In 1873,
the present volume leaves him, but It Is his hope
and intention TO carry his "reminiscences to the
completion OF his diplomatic career, in 1900.
when retired from the post Of British ambassador
at Vienna.
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The friends Of DR.. George Macdonald, the poe.
and novelist, have learned with regret though.
not surprise that he is now Ia very feeble health
This veteran writer Il nearing his ssvsnty~sighth
birthday, His AFN volume, within and With.
OUT" vas issued n ssS6. Snd his lat work,
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The Villain in the Nurserv.

In the November Success, La Touche Hancock
contributes a severe criticism against Mother
Goose" proper person to furnish amusement
for the minds OF children Mr.. Hancock says that
this mythical authoress "had a mind teeming with
dishonesty, cruelty, vulgarity, murder, and most
kinds Of villainy,' and declares that she should
be abolished from every home In giving some
examples Mr.. Hancock says:
AS a really cheerful lullaby, none other can
equal
Here comes a candle, to light you to bed
Here comes a chopper to chop of your head p
And, when child is thoroughly frightened by
this vivid picture, what can better beft the oc-
casion than recital of the nquisitorial story Of
"Old daddy ong-legs wouldn't say his prayers
Take him by the right leg
axe him by the left leg
Take him by both legslll
And throw him down stairs -
before the child kneels down to its devotions ?
As epitome OF religious persecution, this can
not be surpassed
The example Of Manly Panty" has, no doubt
been followed by scores of children. The words
have a merry jingle. One can almost see a
youngster jogging TO the grocer's and hlching the
first thing on which he can lay his baby hands /
Listen
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sn9ra, Child of the Opera House." by
.sV Noooe' is story of great interest and
~ woven about the adventures of a little
~ao became the pet and protege of great
I'M IN the operate wo4ld II is a very deft
rS,,ns OF fact aad fiction A child, abandoned
Ese steps OF the stage door of an opera house
IA, SeH.y the Metropolitan opera house, New
sl rs taken in by the stage doorkeeper and
a.r ,s1Ny adopted by the entire company. The
II environments among which the chid
IA. up are so viyldly and realistically described
4 I'm. Noeoe, that, while the story was running
~. Aea rEfeived many letters asking ii he
NJ nv oeeh transeribing actual facts instead of
sTs piece of fiction. Some of the originals
Noboe's characters, such as Madame
Jean and Edouard De Rezske may be
IA '.Sognized from the story itself, while the
ss = aided in the fascinating task OF identi-
a .. .A by many portraits and illustrations
) ,s knows his scenes and personages SO
III, . ne succeeds in giving the reader the
4 .;. sense Of Illusion. The book Is published
.Saiiy BY R. H. Russell. New York.
~" volume Of "An Illustrated History
The Leon reporter., 1902-02-13
Woodland.

Mrs. n. S. Beavers returned from
Humeston Sunday where she has been
visiting relatives the past week.
Rev. Trotter filled his regular ap
pointment at the M. +. church Sunday
at IL O'Clock.
Quite crowd of young people were
out sleigh riding Saturday night and
attended singing school at Q. A. Mas
sey's.
! Mr.. and Mrs. Mance Sears, of Line
vile, attended Yeomen Lodge here Fri.
day evening.
Tom Lane made business trip to
Garden Grove Friday.
Sam Leachman, of Lineville, was here
Thursday night and hired to the Band
of Woodland to give them instruction
1.-THE balance of the winter and spring.
4 w. H. Wilson and wife visited John
I'D. Bethard's of High Point Sunday.
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Crown.

Mr.. Davis has moved on the farm he
purchased of j. w. Moore.
Mr.. Lewis has moved on the farm he
purchased of Henry Miller near Crown.
Mrs. Carrithers is quite poorly with
heart trouble.
We are sad to learn of Clarence Frosts
sudden death, and extend our sympathy
to the bereaved parents.
Frank Lewis met with quite an un-
pleasant accident Tuesday morning
while building fire iu the stove. He
opened the stove to put coal in when it
exploded, flashing up and burning his
face badly.
Messls Garher's and Painters families
Sundayed at J. X. Pease's.
Several from these parts attended the
Deikman public sale.
Mrs. Will Davis received word Of her
step-father's death Monday near Line.
ville.s 'E
Eugene Curry has sold his farm 10 Nj