The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1903-02-01


"Then Girls from Dickens BY Kate Dieisin-
son Sweetser. viii be issued again Ia new form
for the spring The popularity Of this book has
neeessitated several new editions. q. F. Tsy-
Tor & Coz
The author Of "The Needles Eye was re-
Gently called upon TO fill out a human doeu-
ment," describing herself and enumerating III.
terary achievements and social accomplishments
In the blank opposite the last query she wrote
that she takes an honest pride and satisfaction
that she is an excellent plain cook and Il
called good housekeeper by some people," and
adds that she does not In the least believe in
literary women who neglect their own families
These tastes and views were TO be expected in
the practical sociologist who writes in her latest
moved of the regeneration Of the homes Of the
poor.
Or, Louis Albert Banks, whose latest work.
The Unexpected Christ" Is the seventeenth Of
his books TO be published BY Funk & Wagnaifs
company, is probably the most prolific author Of
religious literature In this country Instead Of
preserving bis sermon in the proverbial bar
rel he adapts them TO special purposes such
as revival and reform work, and puts them into
books of attractive appearance and titles To
use his own words, he Is always preparing vol
umes of sermons. prayer meeting talk illustra-
tons etc, and expects TO keep at II all his life,
and die with lots of such material hand"
Mr. Jack London. the author Of the Chill
dren of the Frost" is ardent student Of
sociology and has lately been spending some time
in the east end Of London busy in observing life
there, He dressed as an American sailor look
ing for employment and carried little or no
money Just now he is living In bungalow near
San Francisco with outlook over the Golden
! Gate.
From an entertaining sketch OF the author Of
] The Virginian," published 10 The Saturday
| Evening Post Of Philadelphia, learn that
/ Mr.. Wister is contemplating the production OF
another novel Of the Far West. but FIRST, be
| said Il shall write story round New En-
/ gland superstition Would you believe that with
| IN sound Of the whistle OF the New York, New
! Haven and Hartford locomotives there are peo-
! ME, many people, who believe in vsmpresf
N"Not really vsmpires--persons in human form
| who suck the blood of their fellow beingsf"
YES the real old fashioned Arabian Nights
vampires. ! think it should mall ~ interesting
novel"
and then you will write the Western storyf"
"Yes-of somewhat earlier day than The
| Virgiuian Il viii be broader story, too---tak-
ing IN tho whole OF pioneer life-lndians. hunt
crs FIRST settlers, cowboys, desperadoes and all
Az for bis admirable hero, the Nirsinian MI.
Wister says He wasn't ANYBODY in particular.
He was development from the life out there as
saw it He has oharaeterstrcs Of half dozen
men-nothing from any one definite enough 20
he idenu6sbe, I'm getting many letters from nc.
quaintanees saying Didn't you mean so an-so
or Wasn't he the man who was foreman OF this
ranch or that In a certain year
y y
Before Miss Eleanor Hoyt author Of The Mis-
demeanor of Nancy, became writer, she had
position IN one Of the fashionable girls schools
In Fifth avenue, the year she graduated from
similar school One night she chaperoned
theatsr party and sorely strained the dignity OF
the Office by leaving the girls quite In the lureh
when she saw an old friend boy from Iowa
across the lobby, and ony remembered her
charges when she was escorted to the carriage
where they we're waiting.
Rudyard Kipings new poem, Pan IN Yer
mont" originally published in Country Life IN
America, this month Is printed for private cir
l. eulstion IN London and probably will be ineor-
porsted in new volume OF poems that may DC
published next year. Several stanzas are directly
devoted to the vagsries Of the florists man Tbs
graphic touch Of the first will strike every
body who knows spring in England
E TITS forty in the shade today the spFOutns
c caves declare
y The boulders rise shove tho drift the southern
slopes bare
t Tiub-dsep IN slush Apollo's car swings north
r. along the Zod-
y lac. Good lack, the Spring Is back, and Pan il
70 on the road
5
The publication OF Kipling's political sllegory,
'"rhe Rowers" renders timely summary in this
. weeks Literary Digest OF critical estimates OF
s the stage OF development reached in his latest
+ verse by the author of Department Ballads and
= "Reoessional" As a rule, these are unfavorabe,
though one by Edwin Markham Is notable ex-
/ ception Mr. Markham concludes his very dis
: eliminating eritquo by the following comparison
q OF the three stages Of Kiplings poetic career;
k 1--WE hear IN all OF Kplinss poems the shrill
- note of individuality; and there 10 a marked in
+ crease OF power in his poetry as the years go by
- The dtties OF his earlier period are the mere
strtmmings on the banjo the ballads of his mid
die period are the melodious chords Of the street
harp mixed with the noises Of the crowd while
, the poems Of his third period rise into the
r splendid reaches of orchestral brass and si-
YER"
IAN the readers Of "KuloskRp, the Wastes,
= the book of Algonkn legends collected and trans
= lated by Charles Godfrey Leland and John
Dyneley Prince, note at once the remarkable re
. semblanoe In artistic motive and form as well
n as In ethical spirit to Longfellow's "Hiawaths.
2 But students Of Indian lore remark upon more
y than the likeness. They In the Agonkin
= demigod the identical being known 10 the orb
G. ways as "Nanabozho" from the legends about
a. whom Longfeilow built his poem.
" Frederick r. Burton, composer OF the eanata
" sHiawafha" and manager Of the play OF that
~ name 70 be produced this winter by Ojihwey per
formers at Madison Square garden, has read tbs
Algonkin epic and comment upon II IS fol
NJ lows;
81. Il A.