Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1905-12-21
Books, BoOkish
People and Things

The Haunted Temple and other
Poems" BY Edward Doyle. Cloth
4%x7h inches. 92 PIP. Edward |,
Doyle, 2I7 West 125th St., New
York. 81.
MIR. Doyle who, as the author of
Moody Moments" received such
praise from T. B. Aldrich. Ella wheel.
err Wilcox, Thos. Wentworth Higgin.
son and others, comes with favorable
notices of his Haunted Temple" from
the Atlantic" N. Y. Herald" Bos-
ton Advertiser" etc.
He was born about 80 years ago and
has been blind for SO years, yet he re-
ceives inspiration from the beauties
OF nature about him (Which many of us
do not with Two open eyes), and re.
Dukes us all with his cheering phil
osophy.
There is originality as well as
beauty in many of his poems, and
they all breathe a kindly, healthful
spirit.
"To My Wife" loft My Babe
Fancy So" by the Door" Beatrice"
ITO a Child Reading" ITO a Child in
Heaven" ITO My Sister" show the af-
fectional side of the poet and will ap.
peal to all who have near and dear
ones. A lambent charity lights up
such poems as the one entitled
| Grace:
"Who that knows Life-the weak.
ness OF our VIII
And fury of temptation--will eXalt
Himself above his brother, sunk in
fault?
Loose in the soil we grasp and steep
the hill.
Oft when most confident of strength
and skill
We fall and reach the frog.pond ere
we halt"
Chime Dark Bell Is indicative of
the authors fine soul:
My life is in deep darkness: still, |
| cry
With Joy to my Creator: 1T Is well!'
Were world my words, that ornaments
would tell
My transport at the consciousness
Who was not, Am! To Be-oh, that
is why
The awful convex dark in which |
dwell
Is tongued with joy and chimes TEN.
pie bell
Antiphonally to the choirs on high. "
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The japanese Spirit" BY OkalSNra
Yoshisaburo. Cloth 5x71a in 1877
PIP. James Pott & Co., New York !;
81 net.
A very impartial and lucid discus.
sion of the subject with an introduction
by George Meredith.
Mr.. Yoshisaburo has given us the
substance of course of lectures he
delivered at the University of London
in connection with tie study of com
parative sociology. or this course Mr..
Meredith says:
These lectures by son of the land
are compendious and explicit in a
degree that enables us to form a sum-
mary of much that has been otherwise
partially obscure.-Concerning the fool
ish talk OF the Yellow Peril, a studious
perusal of this book will show 1t to be
fatuous."
The author traces the history OF
Confuciansm, Laoism and Shintoism
very clearly, and his explanation Of
the difference between I.aoism and Tao.
ism will be welcome to all who have
not made n special study of the Orient.
al PHILOSOPHERS.
Such books as these, written with
moderation and a modesty that is com.
mendable, will go far to remove a
prejudice that is apt to arise just now
in the minds of those who have been
watching the Japanese victories.
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"A Maid of Japan" BY Mrs. Hugh
Fraser. Cloth 5bx7h in 222 PIP.
Henry Holt & Co., New York. $l.25.
This is the second printing of Mrs,
Fraser's charmlngly written story OF
Japan. 1t shows a woman's keen in
sight into the life and motives of at
least one japanese family.
The reader. whatever may be his rae
ial likes or dislilSes, will become inter
ested in Hime las she lay there" and
the tide sent in long streamer OF
honey-colored sea-weed, and she caught
II in her hand and threw it far out on
the water. laughing AT the are of dia
monds it scattered before 1t fell"
The story terminates happily anC
leads one to consider the poor Japan
ese wives Of foreigners who were moi
faithful like Charlie harrington.
We are inclined to think that he wa'
an exception, with his respect, tender
ness, and fealty; for too many confd
ing maids of many other countries be
sides Japan have found that White
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