Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1904-10-26
Books, Bookish People and Things
We get no good by being ungenerous even to look.
E. B. Browning

field would inspire the Muse! Yet
here we have in late Bulletin poet.
ical effusion entitled "Wikiwiki Jap
anee,' written evidently by luna who
sees the humorous side of plantation
things. The Lord bless him and in.
crease his tribe!
There is a very funny side to plan.
tation life, which, II discovered, might
help to balance the heavy side, and
, make life more endurable to a think.
ing man who is a partaker thereof.
| Why can't we have more STRIPPING
poets; more interpreters Of the grow.
ing cane? There is ability, too, among
the varied workers. and with all the
sweetness Of the matter, with the pic.
turesque laborers planting, hoeing,
stripping and trashing, why can't some
one who is there to get the inspiration
let us have some OF 1t in less concen.
trated form than we have 1t on our
tables?
When the cane rustles In the gentle
Hawaiian breeze. glistens In the sun
and rain, or gladdens the eye with its
rich bloom, 1t is potential poetry. 81.
lent artistry haunts the burning fields.
too; the right spirit is not dampened
by the clouds OF mauvy smoke. or the
stubble that lies after the laborers are
done.
| am sure that our editor will gladly
give space to "Rustllng Rhymes"
Straight Run the Burrows O." THE
Wahine Gang" or when the Cane
Tops or any other poems of place.
Let us not be ashamed of our best
moods--of the highest tendencies OF
our nature, and II our expression is not
adequate at first, II we limp among
the dactyls, we shall improve, do not
doubt 1t. And the simplest rhymster
finds himself in good company.
One OF the shrewdest bankers in
New York is poet. A Wall street
broker has department In New
York paper. One of the former Gov.
errors sends his occasional poem to
his local publication.
The greatest physician now living
read instead Of scientific paper at
his medical meeting a long poem
which was published at length in the
transactions OF the society. And who
is there with soul so dead" that he
hasn't indited verses to his lady's
eyebrow!
There is man on Kauai who has
written some unusually good dialectlc
pieces. They are of the soil and ought
to see larger publicity. Isn't there
some one to sing Hawaiian as the "Ca.
muck" songs were sung?
Or Portuguese English, or that
strange tongue which Is a mixture or
half dozen languages as they are
spoken here, which we recognize and
would all appreciate If put in good
form?
1t would be as genuine, too. as any
by Kipling. Riley, Day, or Bell.
In connection with original verse.
the Bulletin Bookman would be glad
to have readers furnish copies of the
rarer bits of fugitive verse which he
viii reproduce, and then return the
original II desired. Such gems as
Caprice at Home" "HaFrie," "He
Giyeth His Beloved Sleep" cannot be
found under covers. and are not com.
mon property. Yet, having once been
read, they linger In ones memory
like pleasing faces, and haunt one for
complete and fresh outlining.
J. + :.
"A Sierra Summer" by Camilla l..
Kenyon, and "Out of Doors in Cal
fornia," by John G. Brayton in the
Out West Magazine for September.
will cheer the home.stayers who read
them.
4 4. +
Bradford Torrey, John Burroughs.
and Olive Thorne Miller will have
books for early publication.