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Newspaper
Houston Daily Post
Location
Houston, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1902
Page
15
A collage of reader letters discusses personal reading habits from Bible to Dickens to history. Contributors cite reading for information and diversion, naming authors and works and explaining how books shape knowledge, culture, and values across eras.
The Philadelphia Times notes an item in Robson's Coventry Street catalogue containing Tennyson's Sonnets and Fugitive Pieces 1840 with Thackeray’s name and an unpublished poem signed T. The verse, in solitude and nature, echoes a Blanche Amory style, but the paper doubts it reflects the famed Foker bride’s work.
The deuce is a little card but it often fills a straight and takes the pot. Every tone reader is possessed of Aladdin's lamp. Where marriage is a failure divorce is a success. Fortune sometimes plays with loaded dice. The uses of adversity are sweet but too much spoils the stew. Lovers have an experience as high as scrowsuts as deep as miners and as variable as sailors. Life is a pay but where 2 wasted of a comedy we can not tel final curtain ah F.
The July issues feature Frank Leslie's Monthly with Scott on Martinique aboard the Roraima, Crumpacker on Southern delegates, Raine's A Daughter of Raasay, and other stories. The World's Work highlights Gen. Leonard Wood, Martinique, the naval academy, Wainwright's illustrated piece, and broader current affairs. The Outlook and other magazines offer portraits, West Point, Pirie, Our Ship of the Sea, and art reproductions for collectors.
A 17th century Montaigne edition newly acquired by Boston Public Library via Augustus Hemenway features the king James I poem. The volume, printed in London, is noted as Montaigne's first English translation and a possible Shakespearean inspiration source. The Boston copy bears James I’s autograph poem and its two-page title with Elizabethan dedication and portraits.
A reader reflects on Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness as published in Blackwood's Magazine and Littell's Living Age. He praises its vivid darkness and occasional humor, questions its critical reception, and lauds the Living Age's steady, high minded presentation despite a dulling of sensationalism.
New York Times tabulates four top selling titles from book dealers in New York Philadelphia Chicago Baltimore Boston and San Francisco. Dealers ranked local favorites led by titles such as Ottan Jatosyne and other works reflecting demand, price, and popularity trends across multiple markets.
Fragmentary report says President Castro supports a plan involving land and water actions against rebels. It notes a visit to a coastal area, discussions of reinforcements, and possible Soviet support, with unclear outcomes and shifting promises.
Catalog items note EM Len Velvin and Henry Artemus Company publish Rataplan the Rogue Elephant with color illustrations, alongside Thomas Jefferson’s Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth. The Jefferson Bible presents Jefferson’s gospel narrative withRush letter intro and doctrinal contrasts. Another volume, The History of Christian Religion to the Year 1000, by Charles B. Waite, challenges church histories with unique early authorities cited.
The article surveys authors as sages and types such as tramp life writers like Gorky and Whitman, moody misfits like Hawthorne Poe and Baudelaire, great lovers Byron and De Musset, and sociable figures Shakespeare Dickens and Scott. It proposes a new plan for a book classifying authors by these personal categories with tentative scope.
Reviewers hail Abner Daniel as a David Harm of the Soul in Will N Harben’s new novel. The text presents a string of dialect laden reflections on courts, faith, forgiveness, land, goats and human folly through Abner’s worn wisdom and social commentary.
The item notes Kipling and Mr. Rady wrote a short poem for the Navy League Guide to the Naval Review. It covers colonial representation at the coronation and ends with a verse comparing houses and friendship. It references Professor Owen and cryptic verse.
A Century Magazine serialization offers The Biography of a Prairie Girl by Eleanor Gates. The work draws on Gates’s Dakota childhood as a personal narrative of prairie life twenty five years ago detailing blizzards breaking horses horse stealing and frontier hardships with recurring characters.
A garbled item discusses Mr Bangs as author, Mark Hanna writing cheval romance, Senator Quay not the Aas of something, and General Miles with Senator Burton presenting a book on Etiquette. It mentions Mrs Cotes’ new arrivals and a sale at a shop with unclear details and stray phrases.
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