The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1885-09-14
NEW EQUIPMENTS or OAHU COLLEGE.

drive to and from Oahu College at
Punahou, in Principal Merritt's
family carriage. 1t was a few
months since the writer had pre-
viously visited the spot, and several
changes were noticeable even about
the exterior of the institution. The
lawn was remarked on the former
occasion to be very thickly wooded.
That great gale of month or two
ago, however, did some landscape
gardening without regard to the
rules of the books. Its operations
are now apparent in more light fill
tered through the foliage, and in
several cords of wood-the proceeds
of the winds culling-neatly piled
up against the town side stone wall.
A change made by the manage
ment, which greatly enhances the
appearance of the scholastic group
of buildings, is the removal of an
old wooden wing that ran out from
the southwest corner of the building.
This has enabled the terrace on
which the latter block stands to be
extended the whole breadth of the
lawn. All the buildings on that side
are thus given an unbroken frontage
on common plane: on the left the
main building and its older adjuncts,
on the right the new Bishop Hall of
Science. Considerable improve
ments are being made on the Wal
kiki side. The ground in rear of
the. Library building, flanlling the
group in that direction, has been
graded. A corner of land mentioned
IN our former description has been
obtained from a neighboring estate,
and the college plot is being squared
up with a substantial stone boundary
fence in that quarter.
So much for the grounds. En-
tering the Library, it is not neces-
sary to be told that its intellectual
stores are being replenished. A
large section of the shelves are gor-
geous in the gold and color of mo-
dern binding. Of the six hundred
volumes additional provided for,
$50 have been received. They COM
prise wide range of literature, and
include many of the most recent
standard productions. There is a
wealth of history, a rapid glance
taking in Rawlinson, Wilkinson,
Curtius, Freeman, Motley Gall of
his works., Bancroft-the revised
edition of his History of the United
States,-Masson, White, Mccarthy,
Hildreth Omitted States up to 1920,
G. vols.), Tyler's America, Green
(English People completely, DR..
John Lord deacon Lights of His
tory, 5 voAs.) There are SANKEY'S
Dark Continent and his latest work,
The Congo and Founding of its
Free State; the revised edition of
the Middle Kingdom (China), by S.
Wells Williams; Sir Saml. Bakers
travels; different records of the II.
B. MS Challenger's cruise, and
other works of travel and eXplora-
ton in many lands. In English
Literature are seen Morley's Men of
Letters, 'Taine's great history and
Rolfe's Shakespeare. Fiction makes
radiant exhibition = Cooper, r.
wing, Kingsley, Mrs. Stowe, Thack-
cray, Charlotte Bronte, Miss Mulock,
Hugo, Lord Lytton, Dickens COM
plete in sc vols, and others. Science
makes an imposing array OF its
latest lights : Dana, Settlements
Troja, Newcomb, Woolsey, Walker,
Bowen, Mill, Spencer principles of
Sociality), II volumes of Apple
toms Scientific Series, Prof. Geo.
p. Marsh earth as Modified by
Human Action, and Origin and His
tory of the English Language
comprising archaeology, astronomy,
cosmogomy, chemistry, philology,
political economy, etc. Carlyle's
translation of Meister's Apprentice
by Goethe is another standard work
received. There is an extensive line
of the poets, including Faust, Bay
ard Taylor's Goethe, Bryant,
Fosters Cyclopedia LIST and End
series, Whittier, Library of Re-
ligious Poetry, Dana, Emerson's
Parnassus, Steadman and Lowell.
An ineXhaustible mine of leXico-
graphy is opened out to the student,
in the new stock: Stormonth's die
tionary, got up on the plan of fol-
lowing a primary word throughout
its derivatives Webster's IN
abridged, 1885 edition, with new
features Worcester's Unabridged,
Crabbe's Synonymes, Lippincott' $
Pronouncing Gazetteer of the World.
The additions to the Library are
being made through the medium of
A. l.. Bancroft q Co., San Fran
cisco, whose execution of the con-
tract so far leaves nothing to be de-
sired. The remaining $50 volumes
will likely arrive by next steamer.
The Rishon Hall of Science-o