The record-union., 1899-04-08
new PUBLICATIONS.

new PUBLICATIONS.
The Engineering Magazine" the
foremost or it's order in the world, is
at hand for April (New York and
London) Besides the twelve depart
| ments there are these papers, freely il
lustrated: "The Monitor, the Battleship,
the Cruiser, and the Destroyer" G. w.
Dickie; Machine Shop Management in
Europe and America H. F. l.. Orcutt;
1.-THE Merits and Permanency of the
Masonry Arch Bridge Albert w.
Buel; Commercial Aspects of Electric
Traction in Great Britain" Emile
Garcke; "Tfle New Terminal of the Or
leans Railway at the Quai DOrsay,"
Jacques Boyer; Depreciation as an FL
ement of Machine Shop Cost-Keeping,
H. M. Norris; THE Development of
Wood Working Machinery" John Rick
ards; 1.-The Prospective Expansion OF
American Shipbuilding," G. R. Dunell;
America and Germany as Export
Competitors and Customers Louis j..
Magee; THE International Association
for Testing Materials" Gus c. Hen
ming.
ssThe Critic (New York; for April,
freely illustrated and very handsomely
printed in large, clear text, has these
leading features; Henry James, por-
trait as a frontispiece; From Plotzk
to Boston," Josephine Lazarus; ITO the
Use of Edifying," Ella Burns Sherman;
1.-THE Hapless Hapsburgs," J. L. G.;
England in the Nineteenth Century,
A. /. du p Coleman; THE Drama
Lord and Lady Algy, Magda, The
Kings Musketeer,'' ]. Rankin Towse; !;
m. Edouard Rod TIL. Benton; THE
Evolution of Henry James," Cornelia
Atwood Pratt; Some New York Book
Plates" w. H. Shelton; THE Emigra-
ton From Zenda,'' Kenneth Brown
Lucy" (poem), S. R. Elliott; 'Patmos
(poem), Samuel V. Cole; "Deep-Sea
Wonder and Mystery" A. Schade Van
Westrum; Book Reviews"
"Hawaii Nei'' is a volume by Mabel
Craft from Doxey's press, San Fran
cisco. 1t is freely and prettily illustrat-
ed through fifteen chapters, comprising
nearly two hundred pages. The author
is we'll known as a side article press
spent some time in the Hawaiian
Islands, and was there at the time OIL
the return of the ex-Queen and the
arrival of the American Commissioners.
Her descriptions may be passed over as
presumably accurate; they are certainly
graceful. charmingly bright and photo
graphic, and in all respects readaole
and enjoyable. There is, however, moth
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graced now by the style of the author,
ard it is a pleasant and commendabie
style poetic in degree and indicative OF
cultivated powers of observation. Some
one has said that all books of travel are
alike in a sense, yes, but the points or
view of the travellers being different,
and largely the choosing of their prede-
lictions education and their ideas of
life, society and politics. not to say OF
right and wrong and their personal con-
ceptions of meum ct tuum, each record
has a value peculiarly its own Miss
Crafts ideas about the Hawaiians and
the delightful Islands they inhabit are
profitable therefore to the reader who
wishes information upon that people
and their territory.
When it comes to forms of expression
there are some things about Miss
Crafts work which are not to be classed
among the lovely. 1t is certainly in
elegant, surely not humor, to speak OF
a volcano having blown it's head off,
though it may be confessed that it is
expressive "Hulas in the altogether
conveys clear idea of meaning, but it
is the employment of phrase by no
means original or chaste. But these
are triviaiities. and happily few, and
are eclipsed by poetic graces which are
worthy enshrinement among the strong,
beautiful and admirable descriptions of
strange peoples. In short, we are given
quite graphically very interesting ac-
count of Hawaiians and Hawaii, the
social state of the people the business
and political conditions, manners, Gus
toms and peculiarities of the classes,
and the lines of demarkation between
the aborigines, the half-caste, the for
eign population and the adopted peo-
PIES as drawn under present conditions.
But when it comes to considerati ations
of political questions the sympathies of
the author as a woman come strongly,
and to our thinking, unjustifiably into
view. Indeed, she is conscious of her
openness to this criticism from the
standpoint of Hawaiian Republican and
the annexationist, since she calls up the
matter in her introduction or preface by
saying that she is aware that her views
Will not be received with favor in 'eHon-
olulu's narrow governmental circles"
They will net be received with favor in
very much broader circles. Like many
another impulsfve person she views po-
litical questions from the standpoint of
the sentimentalist, whose interpreta-
ton of the phrase, .the consent of the
governed is a tortured and most gen.
orally misapplied one.
If it is granted that her views and in
formation concerning missionary meth
DDS are correct, and that her criticism
of the attempt to force Anglo-Saxon
ideas and customs upon the Hawaiians
without waiting for growth of the abo-
rigines up to the Anglo-Saxon stand
ard; an attempt to transplant a full
grown tree to soil unprepared for it: if
all this is freely granted. and we are
not diSp0snd TO diSpIlte if we cannot