Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1904-12-24

net; postage, 10 cents. Six copies
will be bound in full levant and
paneled calf with original covers
bound in. Price. probably Sl5 to
500 each. Paul kider & Co., San
Francisco. Cal.
There are legends and legends. The
rude fancies and superstitions of a
primitive people may be literally re.
corded for the use OF the photographer,
ethnographer or dilettante, or they
may serve the real literary artist as
basis for his work; in such form they
are dry.as.dust and make a volume for
the reference library. But If these self
same legends be rendered in an ade.
uuate way, dressed properly. trimmed
here, elaborated there, by a recorder
who has a knowledg of the country
and the people as well as their legends,
who has enough sentiment, sense Of
beauty, full literary expression and
enough humOr to save him from in.
Guiding tedious detail. he will give us
a book worth having. It may very Of
fcctually serve TO mark or even render
notable some mountain. hill, river, val
ley. lake. cave. or rock about which the
fancy Is woven like a mist. and so
prove a sort Of guidebCok to the lover
Of beauty and traditions: end It will
be a literary contribution OF value. For.
since civilization with its penetrating
edge has reached more or less every
tribe and nation, the folk and legen.
Diary lore orally transmitted from
generation to generation is liable to
be lost even If the tribe persists. The
author OF these six charming "Yo.
semitic Legends seems to have all Of
the qualifications for her work
"Hum.mOo The Lost Arrow" Is one
NJ the best stories in the book and IL
is told with a fine appreciation Of the
Indian spirit. The first sketch tells
now Yosemite came to be named,
while the last possesses a semi.hs.
toriCal value.
Miss Londborg has done her work
we'll; thirteen lull.page wash drawings
in color reproduced in half tones. in
substance portraying certain Charac-
teristiC features Of Yosemite. yet hold
ing in reserve an imaginative pictorial
Interpretation.
The Bulletin Bookman has quite a
collection Of legends" in his library,
but this latest is the best.
+ = 4.
Upland Pastures" BY Adellne Knapp,
with photogravure frontispiece.
Limited autograph edition on Ruis
dael handmade paper. printed
from type. Bound in half leather
Postage s cents; boxed; price, SO
net. Copies number one to ten
bound in paneled calf or full lie.
want by Root, each 50 net. Paul
Elder & Co., San Francisco.
The mere handling of this book Is a
refreshment. Clean, fresh, green like
n new leaf, II comes charged with lit.
erary chlorophyll. The author has
numbered and signed each volume CIV
ing It a personal significance. The
frontispiece is a reproduction on Jap
anese yellum of one of VIM. Keith's
paintings, an upland valley, where
sheep are quietly grazing, quite in the
spirit Of the text.
The paper, which feels handmade,
has the clear impression in two colors
of type afterwards distributed;
there are decorative borders on each
page, several blank leaves, and tas-
ty gray wrapper, while the volume
rests in n neat pasteboard box.
Miss Knapp has divided her book
INTO eight parts: The Beginning OF
Things, Springtime Showers, Where
the Bee Sucks, Floral Socialists,
Securing Weed, Wings OF the Morn
ing, An Idyl of the Hills, At the
Smithy Door.
The observations and reflections
made in California are not confined to
any locality, but include universal in.
terests. They are true, unaffected.
and show a restraint that in no way
spells an ardent appreciation of ma.
ture. The walks and talks are quiet,
unobtrusive:-
1T is raining now.' Up above me,
on the road, several piCnickers who
have been caught in this April show.
or are hurrying to shelter. They look
down curiously at me, here under the
willow, and | have some misgiving as
TO whether they are not setting an ex-
ample that | should follow. But | am
sure that II is a great mistake always
TO know enough to go in when ii
rains. One may keep snug and dry
by such knowledge, but one misses
world Of loveliness. There is, after
all, certain selective wisdom in rec.
ognizing how desirable 1t is to take the
showers as they come.
This is the sort of writing a true
nature lover likes, and, in contrast
strikes the reader of some other writ.
ers OF the nature school. Take Mrs.
Elizabeth Grinnell, for instance. She
Is a Californian who knows great
deal about birds, and. no doubt, has a
real love for them. But, instead of let
ting her personality shine through her
work as Miss Knapp's does, she poses