The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-01-12

!
Krout, 1898. Published by Dodd
Mead & Co, of New York For sale
by Wall, Nichols Co, Honolulu, at
| 81 net.
| There are $50 pages of this book 1t
| is beautifully bound, clearly printed on
good paper and has a number of ex-
cellent illustrations. The name of the
author will be recognized by good
many people of this town, and there
are numbers who will purchase the
book without any further inquiry. Miss
Krout was here in 1898 and in 1894
She is a cultivated woman, and one
with a strong grasp of affairs. She is
an observer and a thinker. While here
Miss Krout enjoyed to the highest de-
gree the confidence of all with whom
she came in contact. She was sent to
study the situation and she had the
rare faculty of getting facts that stood
out and then presenting them effective
ly. Miss KrOut'S personal sympathies
went out to the revOlutioniSts, though
she had a great aloha for the natives
and during her stay here was granted
audiences by Liliuokalani and Kapio-
lani. Miss KrOut is a cousin of Ad-
miral Brown, who endeared himself to
the whole of the Hawaiian race.
The writer of Hawaii and a Revo-
luton was afforded, by her letters
and her personal efforts, opportunity
TO see about all there was to be noted
in connection with the overthrow and
the political relations and conditions.
I.ar full ,It Of hi oLa
and the result is a volume worth hav-
ing in a library. 1t is utterly unlike
a humber of the f1imsy chapter books"
that have been fioated and that are be-
ing offered. Before coming to the
Islands and while on the scene, and
afterwards while preparing her manu-
script, Miss Krout was student of
Fernandez, Jarves and Alexander and
her pages are singularly free from
error. One funny little mistake is
made in reporting a trifiing affair Miss
KrOut says performance at the opera
house was announced unexpectedly one
evening on the arrival of a boat from
the Colonies and that the ladies dressed
so hurriedly for the occasion that they
left their hats at home. Miss Krout
must know now that Honolulu is the
only city in the world where the ladies
go to the theater without hats all the
time.
AS whole Hawaii and a Revolu-
ton is a strong book. Wherever in
its lines Miss Krout takes up a set of
facts and reasons for herself the result
is a tribute to her brain power She is
merciless in commenting on Commits
siOner BlOunt and Mr.. Cleveland. Miss
Krout visited the volcano but did not
oar To n Ac in
gator she was extremely careful in
studying the character of the native
Hawaiians and cites with regret the
inability of the abOrigine to meet the
phases of the great and sudden changes
that had taken place in his domain.
Miss krOut gives a number of pages
OF most interesting personal expert
enceS. Through some means not told
she learned in the States many months
prior to January, 1893, that there was
likely TO be serious trouble in Govern
mental circles here 1t was more than
limited to her that there would in all
prObd bility, in view of the conduct of
the Queen and the Legislature, be an
upheaval of some sort. Miss Krout
secured from the paper to which she
was attached, permission to come TO
the Islands, her purpose being TO be
ION the spot" In making her last call
in Chicago she had the misfortune to
have a fall that severely Sprained an
ankle. This delayed her till after the
overthrow, and she came here on
crutcheS.
Hawaii and a Revolution, is enter
tanning from first page to last Some
OF the descriptive writing is pictur-
vivid and well of preservation
value. In the book besides Hawaii. |
there is something of two calls at Apia. |
Samoa and a visit to New Zealand. In
describing the taking down OF the
American flag here by Blount, Miss
krOut gives an account that is faith
full word reproduction of the event.