Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1903-06-20
Books, Bookish People and Things
We get no good by being ungeneous a book
Z. B. Browning.

plicity" | shall speak OF later in con-
nection with Penalties OF Taste" by
Dr. Bridge.
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Real People in Fiction"
A very interesting article by Will NJ.
Clemens in late number Of The Book.
man. entitled Some Real People in
Fiction" shows how many egotistical,
self.conscious. representative, indfs-
eliminating persons there are who
know how to read.
Evidently they read In order to have
some invisible Thing rise up out Of
the poem or the story and knock the
proyerbial chip of their shoulder.
Mr.. Clemens says rightly: The nov.
e!ist. like the painter. must have mod.
els. but the writer's characters and
the painters models alike generally
attract little share of public opinion. 3"
The man who sees his face in the
story is huInorously touched on.
In fact, so little knowledge have
most men of themselves that without
assistance, they would commonly not
be able to recognize their own features
H. the novelist's picture; but, lest the
likeness should go undetected. the as.
sistance of friends is always cheerfully
rendered.
II Is only eight or nine years agL
that Whistler sought TO establish q
precedent by Directing to the carica.
ture in "Trilby." He failed utterly in
his endeavor. Most people will re.
member the publication of Cape Cod
Folks, which brought on lawsuit.
Maurus Jokai, the Hungarian novelist,
has been repeatedly threatened by
vain persons who thought they recog.
nized themselves in his portrait gal
lery AYphose Daudet was more than
cnce in similar plight. Alter the
appearance OF lie Petit Chose" he
was called to account by at least ono
school teacher for caricaturing his ed.
ucational methods
This often is done by persons who
like notoriety and could get talked
about in no other way.
"After the appearance OF Robert
Helmet Daudet was challenged to
fight duel by a gentleman who fan.
c:ed that the heavy villain bore little
too strong resemblance to himself, and
1t was with some difficulty that Dau
Diet and his friends persuaded the irate
| French gentleman that there was no
II tentlon In the matter
To what extent novelists and drama.
lists have utilized their acquaintance
in their books and plays, is largely o
matter of conjecture. Nobody but the
writer can tell where he obtains his
Bacterial.
Balzac was more than once In a sc.
rtous danger from the men who con-
cGived themselves wronged by his rep.
resentation OF their mental and moral
qualities. Blauvet, a Spectator on the
Bourse. gave him the most trouble.
He was not reading man and had a
sneering contempt for those who could
do nothing but write, but one of his
friends thoughtfully called his atten'
ton to the resemblance.
After the appearance of Nicholas
Nickleby" no less than six Yorkshire
school teachers who believed them.
selves lampooned by Dickens, went up
10 London for the purpose OF thrashing
the author.
Nathaniel Hawthorne had no end of
trouble to convince constantly in
cling of il1ifaratn DunnhAnna
that the judge Of that name in The
House OF Seven Gables was not drawn
from living person."
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I In Bird Lore, magazine edited by
the well known naturalist, Frank NJ.
Chapman, there is an appreciative
notice OF a book by our fellow islander,
II, w. Henshaw. This book is pub
lished by Thos. G. Thrum and is
called Birds OF the Hawaiian Islands"
( Following is the notice:
Readers OF Bird Lore will recall Mr..
Henshaw's interesting papers on Ha-
waiian birds published in this mag
azine in 1901, and will be glad to learn
that this author has placed in access
sible form the results OF his wide ex-
perience with Hawaiian birds, includ-
ing, also, the better part OF that which
has been recorded by other workers
among these islands.
"In an admirable introduction OF 2s
pages the peculiar conditions affecting
Hawaiian bird-life, its origin. the
faunal zones of the island, etc, are
discussed, and the 1875 birds native to
the islands are then described, under
each species being given the known