Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1904-10-13
Books, Bookish People and Things
We get no sood by being unseneous even to book.
E. B. Browning

We have no doubt the children will be
satisfied with the answer.
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Mr.. Charles Warren Stoddard, well
known in Hawaii, has written a new
book entitled THE Island of Tranquil
Delights" a book after the style OF
South Sea Idyls." Messrs. II. p.
Turner & Co. will issue the work. Mr..
Stoddard has been very Ill but is now
convalescent. He has given up his
professorship. and will devote himself
to literary work, which is his natural
calling.
Francis Lynde, author of THE Graf
ters." takes his exercise by building
n stone wall. He works stripped 10
an undershirt, mortared trousers, lime
eaten shoes, a battered old hat, an
Irishman's clay pipe with the stem
broken or" In this attire he was
caught the other day by some enthu.
siastic girls who came to worship the
Writer They were disappointed. In
going they were heard to say: "My
goodness! How positively dreadful!
And he wrote that lovely book"
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Even +. Marion Crawford has been
on his Sorrento farm for several
months. But he did something else
besides rusticate-he wrote Whose.
ever Shall Offend" a story with the
scene laid in Rome and Sicily. 8.
could go on telling of men and
women who spend their summer days
in this way. But while the practice is
of the best, the fact that men will do
II now is no longer new. The thing
has become fad. Everybody who
has a place goes to tiff he can:
writers, lawyers, storekeepers. clerks.
anybody. And those who follow the
fad because 1t is fad, will soon give
1t up for another, while the sincere
lover of nature will never change for
any fashion whatsoever.
Those who followed a mere inclina-
ton, and were leaders, like Tolstoi,
Burroughs, Lummis and others, are
no doubt pleased to see the crowd be.
ing so sensibly fashionable.
The Bulletin Bookman las well pro-
badly as hundreds of other mere every
day workers who have no chance to
tell I'D feel rather glad that he has
always wanted to get away into the
woods; that he began hoeing potatoes,
building walls and chopplng wood
long before It was The Thing; and
that he likes 1t better now than when
he began 1t twenty years ago.
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Christian Science Is II Christian?
Is 1t scientific? This Is the subject
of Mary Plat Parmelc's clever book,
which will be issued by J. F. Taylor Il
Co. early in September.
The claims and benefits of Christian
Science, as well as the limitations
and errors, are examined carefully
and discussed dispassiOnately in this
admirable book. II is a small volume,
and 1t will not take long to grasp Mrs.
Parmele's argument, for her style Is
matter so full of interest that the book
will be found delightful to read.
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The new and cheaper edition Of Mr..
Riis' autobiography, THE Making of
an American" will appear next month.
The volume will contain all the pic.
lures, as well as all the good stories,
In the original edition.
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Curriculum of the College,of Physi.
clans and Surgeons Of San Francisco.
Ninth Session, 1904.1yU5. DIR. Wins.
low Anderson, president; DIR. d. A.
Hodghead, Dean; Market and Seventh
SITS, San Francisco.
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All communications, books and perI.
odicals for this department should be
sent to the Bulletin Bookman." Ho.
lualoa, North Kona, T. H.