Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1904-09-19
Books, Bookish People and Things
We get no good by being unsenerous even to book.
E. B. Browning

There" by II. T. Peck, is too good to
enjoy alone. so the Bulletin Bookman
copies II for the pleasure Of our read.
ers:
I'VE have always recognized and
admired the devotion of the English 10
fair play. II Is indeed a commodity
of which they are so fond as to kecS
II mainly for home consumption. For
eigners, including Americans, seldom
have a chance to see 1t. Englishmeh
are good losers--to other Engllshmen.
ponents of a different nationality. then
instead OF yielding gracefully and ad
hitting that they have been fairly beat
en-, they are very apt to raise the cry
Of FOUL just as French army, when
defeated by superior numbers and
ADLER strategy, breaks into the sinister
shrek Of Treason!
AS Englishmen In their own eyes
are the perfect flower of the human
race. IL is inconceivable by them thai
In a fair field and with no favor they
can ever be surpassed. II they are
surpassed. then the field was not fair
and the adversary enjoyed Illicit favor
Thus when the schooner yaclS
America went over to England in
1851, and costly outsailed all the Eng.
lish boats and won the famous cup, the
first thought that entered the English
mind was that the whole thing was q
Yankee trick.
ut was asserted and believed thu,
the America had some kind OF engine
concealed In her stern, and this belief
became so general that the owners Of
the America allowed their vessel to be
searched. II never occurred to the
Englishmen that searched II that their
action was an insult and the grossesr
violation of the most elementary rules
Of courtesy and hospitality. They dbl
II just because their rivals we're Amer.
leans and not Observation-Disclosures.
The fact that no British boat has
yet succeeded in bringing back the cua
Is evidence TO many Englishm0 that
the conditions here for racing are so
craltiiy arranged as to favor the de
fender and defeat the challenger.
THE English papers used to be fun
Of complaints that the excursion boats
got in the way of the British skipper
and tried to make him lose the race.
or course. It was obvious enough tina.
II was only the losing yacht which
could possibly be hampered by the ex
cursion feet, but this made no differ
1 ence.
| when Lord Dunraven made his
most unmannerly and humanity exit
several years ago, he did so after i'm.
plying that the American yachtsmen
had secretly and by night shifted the
ballast Of the defender. Lord Dun
raven would never have thought Of
making such charge against any kind
OF Englishman. He would not have
believed them capable OF fraud, and
had he expressed suspicion of the
sort he would have been ostracised as
q cad.
But here II was different. His at.
titude was extremely significant IF
that which makes his countrymen SO
impossible. No Englishman in his
heart Of hearts thinks that any ono
save an Englishman can be a gentle.
msh III .he iuii Enshsh sense Oh 'ha'
nne Woiu. AS iacon ue psrier ne wiz
SPEAK Vi an American gentleman or q
rrench sen''ehan, or spanish gen
ean, pu' ne WIZ always hen'ai'y
eass mem % uineren' category ana
90 eousu.u.'ns oinereht species
on tna' wn,en 10 ,epresentea ny
een''ei'ah VI rnsiahu. ne WIN never
asepe ~ ar' 'ors'sher .he same hsn
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. me -, H",r'oan r'"e teah Wn,ei
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to ",.s 'Ss ,"o nae'o' sensen