Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1904-09-09
Books, Bookish People and Things
We get good by being ungenerous book.
Z. B. Browning.

By ~. IL, montgomery. Ilotl' IL UlO'
BOG NXLlTI PIP. Illustrated. CHM
& Co., Boston and London. 75c net
Postpaid. Sjc.
These publishers are well known
everywhere for their neatly bound.
clearly printed and well illustrated
hooks. and the volume under consid
Grafton Is no exception.
IT Is one of series Of six valuable
books The Leading Facts OF History
Series" including four books on Amer.
lean. one en- French and one on Eng
lish history.
The author has shown unusual care
In the selection of his material. he
writes In simple, interesting way.
and has avoided an unnecessary inclu.
sion OF hard.to.be,remembered dates.
He has adopted what may be called the
biographical method, stating in his
preface that when important events
have been shaped by the action OF
SOME wellknown men, the writer has
endeavored to show the part which
that man contributed. BY this means
history becomes living and real even
to the youngest student of its pages"
The numerous pictures and maps
are happily illustrative of the text, and
appeal To older readers who have
fondness for American history, some
OF them bringing the reader back t.
the locality he hailed from" years ago
On page 500 II, a mention of the an
nexation Of Hawaii with chronolog
ical list of our territorial acquisitions
beginning with the Louisiana country.
An account OF the Spanish war Is
! given. and also Of the laying OF the
! Pacific Gable, July 4, 1903. There are
27l Questions on the work gone over in
the preceding pages, and an index Of
subjects.
Mr.. Geo Cary Eggleston, author Of
the recent novel Running The River"
has a summer home on Lake George
next to the home of his brother, the
late Edward Eggleston.
4 I. =
One of the most striking things
about the old book, Letters from an
American Farmer" reprinted by Fox,
Dufiield 4 Company. New York, Is the
love Of nature with which II Is redolent.
III one quaint passage the Pennsyl-
lvania farmer Of 1889 tells how he seats
his little son on the handle of his
pillow. much as a modern father might
give his boy ride on the fork of his
bicycle, and describes the lads sensa.
tons as follows:
often when ! pillow my low ground.
place my little boy on chair which
screws to the beam of the plUugh--lts
motion and that Of the horses please
him; he is perfectly happy and begins
TO chat. AS lean over the handle,
various are thoughts which crowd into
my mind. ] am now doing for him,
say. what my father formerly did f0I
me. May God enable him to live, that
he may perform the same operations
for the same purposes when ] am worn
out and old. ] relieve his mother OF
come trouble while have him with
me. The. odoriferous furrow exhilar.
atcs his spirits, and seems to do the
child great deal Of good, for he looks
more blooming since have adopted
that practice. Can more pleasure, more
dignity be added to that primary occu
patton? The father thus blowing with
his child. and to feed his family is in.
ferior only to the Emperor OF China
p'owing as an example to his king
DOM"
Another passage contains q snake
story which surpasses many of modern
times:
"A Dutch farmer of the Mimsink
went to moving, with his negroes, in
his boots, precaution used to prevent
being stung. inadvertently he trod
on a snake. which Immediately flew at
his legs; and as II drew back in order
| to renew its blow, one of his negroes
cut II in two with his scythe. They
prosecuted their work, and returned
home; at night the farmer pulled of
his boots and went to bed and was
soon after attacked with a strange sick
ness at his stomach; he swelled, and
before a physician could be sent for,
died. The sudden death of this man
did not cause much inquiry; the neigh
borhood wondered. as is usual In such
cases, and without any further examin.
alton the corpse was buried. A few
days after, the son put on his fathers
lhoots, and went to the meadow; at
night he pulled them off, went to bed,
and was attacked with the same symp.
toms about the same time, and died in
the morning. A little before he expired
q doctor came, but was not able to as.
sign what could be the cause of SO
singular disorder; however, rather
than appear wholly at loss before the
country people. he pronounced both
father and son to have been bewitched.
Some weeks after. the widow sold all
the moveables for the benefit Of the