The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1905-11-24
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1.-The Wood Fire In No. g." is said to
resemble "outwardly and inwardly,"
his Colonel Carriers Christmas"
Miss Clara Driscoll, who wrote The
Girl from La Gloria" is famous in
the Southwest through her patriotic
purchase of the historic Alamo prop
erty, which she bought to preserve
from demolition and which the State
Of Texas, now alive to the value of the
property as a historical memorial, Ia
repurchasing from her. The sum total
was $65,OOO.
After sherlock Holmes" and Raj
fles," comes "McAllister," the good
tempered but laundering clubman,
whom Arthur Train makes the hero of
some entertaining complications TN
'McAllister and His Doubles" stories
disclosing some Of the ingenious
schemes OF the more intelligent class
Of criminals, and partly, at least,
brought to light in the course of Mr..
Trains career as assistant district
attorney in New York.
e. w. Hornung, creator of Raj
fles," has put the finishing touches to
the history of that distinguished
craftsman, and in the book in which
the final series of "Raf1les" stories 10
shortly to appear disposes Of that ad-
venturous rascal for good and all. It
is alleged that he will not, as Conan
Doyle did with Sherlock Holmes, al
low his hero to rise from his own ash
es, like the tabled phoenix, at the de-
mand Of a clamorous public. Mr..
Hornung's work has, until recently,
attracted more attention in America
than it has in England.
Matt. Stan. Kemp, author Of "Ande
Trembath," is better known in Pitts
burg as Rev. Matthey Stanley Kemp,
Of Turtle Greek, where he has
preached for several years. The plot
of the story is chiefly laid in Corn
wall, England, a region the author
knows well, his father, a miner, hav.
ing been born in that country. At tho
age of 10 the senior Kemp took his son
to England to be educated. The re-
suits Of this early sojourn are seen in
the touches of local color, a broad
Cornish dialect, and liberal sprink-
ling of Cornish legends and folklore.
1t Is said that Henry w. Boynton's
biography Of Bret Harte and his liter
airy career, recently published as a vol
ume in an English biographical series,
does not please certain reviewers be-
cause of its moderate tone. Mr. Boyn-
ton is not much given to panegyrlcs,
but his literary judgment is much re-
spected. 1t is easy to account for the
English appreciation. of Mr. Harte
The American Of the British imagina-
ton is uncouth, crude and extrava-
CANT, and Mr.. Harte's characters
seemed 1.-The real thing" There was
some lack of reason in the English
adulation Of this author, although he
was good literary artist in his linn
tied range.
English reviewers seem to cherish
peculiar ideas regarding American lit
erature-when they are gracious
enough to admit that we have a lit
erature. Now here is Clement Shor-
ter, a London critic of reputation, who
asserts that George w. Cable, in
Madame Delphine" and "Old Creole
Days." has probably made more per-
manent contributions to literature
than any living American man Of
letters. While Howells and Mark
Twain and Henry James, not to speak
of Joel Chandler Harris and James
Whitcomb Riley, are still living there
will be many who will beg leave to
differ" with the distinguished English
critic.