The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1903-02-22
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The editor of the New Metropolitan Maya
zinc, Mr., John Kendrick Bangs, like the rest
OF humanity suffers occasionally from the va
carries OF parlor-maids. Not long ago IL was de-
eided that his library shelves should be thor
oughly busted. Accordingly the books we're care |
fully renewed. Now Mr. Bangs had a grand |
father who wrote quite as voluminousiy as him |
SELF though upon rather more religious range !
of subjects. All these pious volumes had been |
carefully and respectfully segregated Mr.
Bangs supposed they always would be But he
had failed to reckon with the agency OF the
parlor-maid When he next entered his library, !
he panied to observe bis grandfather's vol
Tune Of Letters on Sanetifcation' standing
shoulder TO shoulder with his own Household
on the Styx." Mr.. Bangs il said to have muir
INJURED, And the sins Of the children shall be
visited upon tbs fathers
Mrs Huuphry Ward, who is much In the
public eye at present by reason Of the interest
melted by her Lady Roses Daughter" has had
an envabie experience in lite in the respect OF
a continual domestic association with brilliant
men. AS is very we'll known, she Is daughter
, OF Thomas Arnold. editor and author, grand
daughter Of the famous Dr. Arnold Of Rugby
and niece OF Matthew Arnold. Her husband
Thomas Humphry Ward, Is a man Of unusual
mental attachments and culture. He IS an OK
ford man, best known perhaps, for his edition
OF The English Poets" He has for years writ
ten the brilliant art criticism In the London
Times. Furthermore, the son OF MIR. and Mrs.
Ward has been successful as student both at
Eton and Oxford, and Is described as young
nan OF promise
+ c. K. s. Of the London Sphere who is, Ms
every one knows, Clement X. Shorter, is en-
gagged with the other English critics IN eN
aiming into the Significance OF Elmer Glyus
"a I'll 10, R.sNe NJ At1h lie
reaches the conclusion that Mrs. Gyn described
correctly and brilliantly stratum Of English 500
I cicty she Is at this moment" he writes, Our
leading novelist of modern manners, After all
AMI not sure but that the witty Elinor Glyn is
really more effective as antidotc to vice than
the satrist Thackersy No one in the world of
Vanity Fair was made moral 10y hack
eray's satire. Perhaps Mrs. GYMS wit and her
photographic pictures may be more potent, We
know that there is eNaggeration in her stories.
Mr. George w, Z. Russell has shown us, in
deed. in two clever volumes Collections and
Rccolectious' and An Onlooker's Note Book
how very true Mrs, Gyms pictures arc, His
censorious pictures at one with her sym
pathetic note
Anna Alice Chaplin, who wrote Wonder Tales
from Wagner" The Story Of the Rhnegod,'
and "Wotan Siegfried and Brunnhilde," was a
school girl Of seventeen when she wrote her hrst
book the Wonder Tales Despite the youth
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,r,n oI5is,orv NJ the American people" state
hat tbis ,yorl, has broken their records for or
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IS Perhaps the eloquent way IN when Non'eneui
\. Morris calls to mind Edgar Allan Foes love
r hest lyric in his novel Aladdin o brien starte'
is this sudden revival OF interest IN 1t winch u
ID causing it to be reprinted IN many papers ah'
e magazines. The Post is very glad TO tan int
II line with the appreciatcrs OF perfect poem
n Here it is
" TO HELEN.
l. Helen. thy beauty is to me-
$ Like those Nicean baris Of yore,
s. That gently DER perfumed sea
ID The weary, wayworn wanderer bore
IL To his own native shore.
b.
cs On desperate seas long wont 20 roam
e. Thy hyac'nthe hair thy classic race