Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1905-06-07
Books, Bookish People and Kings
We get no good by being unsenerous even 10 book
e. B. Browning.

when he makes a Joke himself, in
other folks going" says our author in
! the chapter called THE Duty Of Being
Pleasant"
There is a kindly humor throughout
which makes the book extremely reada-
BILE, and when the author tells Of three
1 men he knew all Of them "snappish,'
he does 1t with such kindness that
even the men themselves could not be
offended:
For the sake Of familiar speech let
me call them Peter, James and John.
! Should a copy of this book ever fall
into their hands, and two of them dis.
cover this chapter they need not feel
badly about It; perhaps IL will do them
good-if old men can learn lessons in
that direction"
'There is no dignity in GOODNESS, no
strength in being gruff, no sense in
being snappish; but there is every ele-
ment of nobility to be manifested in
Christian courtest and pleasantness."
Speaking of Official service" or or
ganized pleasantness, Mr.. Geistweit
says: "'You do not seem to shake
hands as often as you did, was the
I remark of one Christian to another.
not long ago. Well was the aston
ishipg reply 4 am not on the recep.
ton committee this year. On one
occasion lady arose in a meeting and
said, 4 do not want to be visited by
persons simply for the reason that they
are officially appointed to do that work;
l do not care to see them That was
blunt; but every syllable OF 1t was over
whelmingly just and right"
! One book which acknowledges such
imperfections and suggests remedies
will 10 more to help along Faith than
a thousand books like that of DR..
Johnston.
The Macmillan Co. announce the pub.
lication of the following books: His.
tory Of the United States" by Edward
Claiming; Another Hardy Garden
Book" by Mrs. Alfred Ely; "Remin.
iscences Of Peace and War" by Mrs.
Pryor; Mast" by A. B. Paine; Path.
finders Of the West" by Miss Laut;
"The Art OF the Musician" by Mr.. Han.
cheet; "The War of the Glasses" by
Jack London; international Civil and
Commercial Law" by Mr.. Kuhn; BE.
yond Chance Of Change" by Sara An.
drew Safer; "The Master Word" by
Mrs. J. d. Hammond; 1.-THE Secret Wo.
man." by Eden Phillpotts; "The Com.
mon Lot" by Robert Herrick; Tho
Celibates' Club" by Israel Zangwell,
and "The Two Captains" by Cyrus
Townsend Brady.
| The following books are late publica-
lions relating to legends, myths and
fables: Wood, Myth and Fable..'
] Ernest Thompson Seton (The Century
Co..; Legends and Tales" Isabel z.
Cohen (Jewish Pub. Society, New
York;; "The Legends OF the Iriquois,"
VIM. w. Garfield "a. Vessels Coz;
Yosemite Legends" Bertha NJ. Smith
paul Elder & Co., San Francisco).
Paul Elder & Co.'s recent publica.
tons are: Blue Monday Quotations."
by Jennie Day Haines; Good Things
and Graces," by Isabel Goodhue, and
"Love-A Mosaic Essay"
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Sara A. Tooley has written life Of
Florence Nightingale published by the
Macmillan Co. at $1.75 net. 1t has been
well received in England.
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Paul Elder & Co. announce the pub
lication Of several series of leaflets, one
series consisting of IL Nature lyrics
by California poets.
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To "W."-"The Island of Tranquil
Delights" by Stoddard, is published
by the Herbert B. Turner Co., Boston.
800 net.
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"Cassia and Other Verse;" is a new
volume of poems by Edith NJ. Thomas
issued by Richard G. Badger.