Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1904-10-19

Santa Claus Wonderful Candy Cir
Gus" Verses and sketches by
Olive Aye; pictures by A. T. Will
hanson; 9la 10Min.; bound In
boards; illuminated and decorated
front and back cover in Ave colors
Laird & Lee, Chicago, so cents.
Already the Christmas books are
coming In and I'm sure there isn't n
boy or girl tnIs year who will fail to
get one or more OF them. This book
Is unusually bright and entertaining.
II tells how Freddie, mere boy, takes
trip to Santa Claus Land, see old
Santa's Palace made OF candy, and a
thousand other sweet things.
According to this book Santa has a
new scheme for getting down the
chimney ESPECIALLY where there are
none, as in HawaiD next Christmas.
He probably modified his old plan be-
cause Uncle Sam has annexed so much
tropical territory. However 1t may be,
the book tells all about It, There are
thirty.two pages OF II, and they must
be lifelike for they set our 15.month'
old girl to exclaimlng, "Pu.sie, pu-sio
---hoh-sie hoh-sie bah-man,~ thing
she cannot be induced to do upon In
adequate occasions.
/ "The Heart of Boy" by de Amicis
"Air Castledom." "Dlck and Jacks Ad
venture" 1.-TWO Chums." childhood
/ Classics" and Baby Goose" are other
books which 1t will pay you TO sene
, for a list Of.
Impressions Quarterly for Septem
Der. Paul Elder & Co., San Francisco
Fifty cents yearly.
) Contents: Nature and the Human
Spirit, by Adeline Knapp; An Auto
biography Of Herbert Spencer, by III
nest Carroll Moore; The Ideal and the
Real sonneD, by II. A. r.; My Hill
by Dorothea Moore; Peace and the
Wives, by Dora Amsden; VIM. Keith
by Geo. Wharton james; Tho Ideal
Future, by II. A. r.
! An artistic frontispiece entitled up
land Pastures" is from painting by
William Keith.
9 Adeline Knapp continues her sug
gestive papers, the third one being on
Mature the Teacher"
Charles Keeler's Society" Is worth
the price OF years subscription. Like
all that comes from his pen 1t has o
purpose. and is eminently practical.
= 4 4
c. +. Lummis of "Out West" writes
The Bulletin Bookman:
Reviews generally 20 the easy way,
They do not even aim to tell the truth,
and that Is one large reason why this
little Western magazine Is run - to
give honest reviews. BY the time you
have published even ten books, you
will know how worthless newspaper
reviews are. | have had don't know
how many thousand-my wife has
1000 in her scrap.book and believe
two Of them are hostile While they
are useful in the market. they mean
no more than a toenall tells of the col
or of the hair. The Law Is the thing
10 follow, not the shyster pleadings OF
the Press. | would like to see YOU
Islands with you Into it, | haven't
rested for twenty years, except by
changing work. hope never to have
to. When tire of my desk go down
and play carpenter, mason, plasterer
or whatever else needs to build 9
house. And as my play In the last
twenty-seven months has made oyel
/ 600 tons Of masonry, with the accom-
panying carpentry, you can see that
do not need rest. And as life is short
] shall probably stick to the countries
have a chance to know something
: thorough about"
Mr.. Lummis is quite entitled to his
own opinions, which are vigorous 4
not correct. Yet whatever reputation
he has he owes largely to newspapers
directly or indirectly. He edited &
daily in Los Angeles years ago. Il
was as good as but no better than tn,