Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1904-11-19
Books, Bookish People and Things
We get no good by being ungenerous to book.
E. B. Browning
prue and I. Curtis; clio. SC; Pap,

Prue and I, Curtis; clio. 46c.; paper
Ice.
Domestic Manners Of the AmeI.
cans; clio. 64c.; paper 3ic.
Study of Words, Trench; clio. Sec;
paper &c.
National Documents; clio. re; pa.
per 42c.
Intellectual Life, Hamerton.
Nonsense Books, Lear.
The Journals of Lewis and Clark.
De Quincey's Essays.
Familiar Letters of James Howell.
Life of Benvenuto Cellini.
Pater's Marius the Epicureap.
How to Live Forever" BY Harry
Gaze, author of THE Science Of
Physical Immortality" Cloth,
ga x7hin.. 205pp. stockham
Pub. Co., Chicago; s1.25 prepaid.
The inconsistency Of the human
mind Is made painfully evident by this
book. While II praises physical beau.
ty and perfectness, and scarcely ex.
cuses any man or woman for not be-
ing physically pleasing, the book 1t.
self Is poorly printed on execrable pa
per, and badly bound together. re.
minding ose of those individuals
whose personal appearance is an in.
suit to the human institution.
The author seems TO have done his
part very wei. and. as the Bulletin
Bookman knows by sad experience,
may not be to blame for his publish.
er's delnquences.
SO long as the author discusses the
physiology of life he Is safe. being
bound down by certain well known
laws, but his psychological specula.
tions go far afield.
The chapters ON Training the
Child" Health and Beauty" Body
Culture" Bathing" "Thc Act of
Breathing" Relaxation and Rest"
Nutrition" and Natural Purifiers"
are good. and the advice they contain
oubnt W ne needed.
Such thoughts as the following de.
serve careful reading:
Even the most attractive person
looks more beautiful at some times
than at others, because his latent
beauty Is temporarily expressed. All
possess latent beauty which may be
awakened when the right chord is
touched. There are thousands of
ways In which beauty can be devel.
oped. Every tender sentiment har,
monious word, loving glance or pure
thought held in mind brings beauty
forth, and stamps 1t upon face and
form. To look beautiful one must be
beautiful, for beauty cannot unfold
whiie wrong modes Of thought remain
The merry spirit of play gives
beauty to face and form. Grown up
people should learn this lesson from
the child, as they miss much Joy b,
adopting the stiff and deadly dignity
OF maturity. BE child In play
thought and action; these are natures
great beautifers.
Although many claim that thcil
daily work is sufficient exercise, We,
this Is not often the case. Pla,
Is the ideal form OF exercise. as Their,
mind and body harmoniously co oper
ate. Each cell. nerve and muscl,
should thrill with merry thought.
and impulses. Men and women little
realize how much of their sufferins
and weakness Is due to a gradua
crushing out Of the spirit of play. Lif,
IL taken far too seriously by mos
people. The value OF exercise de
ponds chiefly on the quality of thought
with which each movement Is imbued
! The more pleasurable the exercise
the more perfect will be the develop
ment."
The chapter on Sexual Law" had
better been left out. The tendenc,
Of the author Is to overreach - tc
swing too far away from accepted
truths, Just because he Is swinging and
wants to get up In the air. The "Nev
Thought" mania has got into his
blood. Yet 1t is surprising how mucl
can be said in favor OF perpetuatins
physical life. II would appear man,
times as II ending by death at tn,
age OF three-score and ten is an abor
ton Of natural forces; that the mar
should have gone on renewing his cell.
indefinitely, doing the good he coult
SO well accomplish. But even SO, tn,
author ignores the fact of growth ant
change In the body-a not standinl
stiil-but constant departure from tn,
point OF youth and immaturity IN ful