Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1905-04-27
Books, Bookish People and Things
We get no good by being ungenerous to book.
E. B. Browning.

The Secretary of the Sierra Club has
prepared a small pamphlet entitled, "A
Statement Concerning the Proposed
Recession Of Yosemite Valley and Mari.
posa Big Tree Grove by the State OF
California to the United States"
which ought to be read by everybody
who has love for trees. In a special
circular the Secretary says:
The Sierra Club through its Board
Cf Directors and various committees is
now actively engaged In some OF the
most important work that has arisen
since its organization.
The question of the recession OF
Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Big
Tree Grove to the United States Gov.
eminent will be presented to the State
Legislature which meets next month.
The views of the Directors on this sub.
ject are inclosed herewith and every
member of the club is urged to use his
influence with the members of the State
Legislature SO that the bill may re.
ceive their favorable action.
Another important question which
the Club has taken action on Is the pro.
posed change of boundaries of the
Yosemite National Park. The recon.
mendations Of our special committee
on this proposed change will be pub
lished in the January Sierra Club Bull.
letin.
Still another matter of vital impor.
lance to this Club is a proposed act
To provide for the protection and
management Of forest land within the
State Of California" which will also be
presented to the State Legislature next
month. This bill has been prepared by
the United States Bureau OF Forestry
under the supervision of Clifford Pin.
chot. Committees from the Sierra
Club and the Water and Forest Asso.
citation have assisted in suggesting the
detailed form which this bill should
take. The Importance Of having this
bill pass cannot be overestimated, and
1t should receive the hearty support OF
every member of the club.
The contents Of the regular Bulletin
Of the Club to be published next month
will be as follows:
Domes and Dome Structure of High
Sierra, by DR.. G. X. Gilbert.
Some Aspects Of Sierra Club Out.
ing, by Marion Randall.
Address at the LeConte Memorial Eek.
srcises, by Alexander G. Eells.
A beers Bill of Fare, by Alden
Sampson.
The Evolution Group Of Peaks, by ].
n. LeConte.
Mt. Humphreys, by ]. S. Hutchinson.
Report of Committee on Boundary
II Yosemite Park.
Report Of Committee on Recession |
)i Yosemite Valley.
Notes and Correspondence, Forestry
Notes, etc.
The Bulletin Bookman hopes his lit.
lie Spanish paragraph will 20 through
he Composing Room unshorn. He
,egs to apologize for some previous
french he perpetrated. doubt IL they
lend French accents this far, and, as
or the Spanish-well. may we get on
1t. However "eupherism" for
must at least evoke
;rowl.
Then, Just the other day. the writer
II some conceits which had been gath
red while he was trying to clear his
small Farm, saw his effusion entitled
BY Ari 0bsaroiri Cuss." Now that
vas the last straw. This highly omni.
us phrase, looking like some classic
royerb stolen from the treasures of
'ersia, was originally-By An Obsarv.
n Cuss," which is rather plain United
'tates. (All but the handwriting-lt
'omp) II
1t might have made the authors /
equation had be retained the mystic. !
ious name for future observations; /
or, OF late. the titles OF many books {
nd other contributions to literature" J
re all that doesn't 80 through the
Ieve.
But good titllng isn't necessarily (