Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1905-01-02
Books, Bookish
People and Things

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1hr "a Louis Glohe demo- raj says
that Niles Viola lios,boros Stories %
ihr uHHe. "I1ayera and Naralpnds,
~" 30 clever NJ IN seem lik, real -.
lsrisncos, ~ al least po.tlrally &C.
minlsccnt IT the stroli"rA hafd wander
inF irrcspmsiblc life. tn. storlos ats
Nohd.riuiy We'll written. each with
a. own touch ~ Individuality and
each sracod with the gitt OF having
heart In a. II H. no glossing Of poor
characters with Heutimcntaiity. no liit.
inr Of unworthy types 10 n pln they
ore unified 10 nj. but the dep.i ion ol
real character beneath IN. paint and
powpaws OF this artificial but arduous
calling There Is laughter at their
grotealueness. ana there are tears be-.
meath the laughter. All give us inside
lisht ON That little.known real world
OF the actor, and one OF the stories,
a Glimpse OF an Artist IL a gem In
its perfect delinoation Of a great actor
In a poor setting OF moral ueiormity
ending In utter fall and oblivion. Il
sounds more IKE portrait la worus
OF some actual parsonage than simply
piece Of clever fiction"
y
The system. That Is the cry Of
Count PM .Pizzatelli all through
"Dorotheo,' the new novel by Maartep
Martens. In no publication OF re-
cent years has Monte Carlo = mad gam
bling fever been 40 realistically and
impressiyeIy portrayed. Martens hos
the gift of si,ctching place, convey.
ing lis atmosphere by the things peo.
pie do there Pages of description
would convey less than Count PM s
ceaseiess bsrgainings and cbaffarlngs
with the Holy Virgin. The fever of his
love for gambling carries him on TO
every pambIer's ultimate fate, A is
an artistic touch that the last We hear
ling. His wife has become infected
with the fever, and Il is she who has
made the most recent bargain with the
Virgin. ID. Appleton L. Company, of
New York, publish the book. which IL
said to be one OF the best selling Of
the summer.
.
AT noon ON that day We were I'm
the blackness nj desnair-tbe whole
village I'm the mower of the demon Of
waters-hemmed I'm by sle.t and ice.
without FIRE enough 10 cook its littIc
food. When the bell struck nine that
night. there were seyenty.fiye families
ON their knees before their blazing
CRATES, thanking God for fire and ligbt
and praying blessings on the pnantom
had come silently as the snow. they
knew not whence, and gone, they
knew not whittier. ;"
STORY of the Red Cross winch Miss
Barton has Just published through Ap.
pleton a. Company-a STORY" of such
a work in the midst of food and fire
anu war as mas never been told before
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"The Distribution of Wealth" Inv
Thomas Nixon Carver, Professor OF
Political Economy in Harvard lIniyer.
sity. will soon be added 10 the long
list of important economic works pub
lished by The Macmillan COMPANY
The authors direct uim is TO find
Out how men determine or ASCERTAIN
upon things in communities with
which he is acquainted, in n ciyiliza
ton of which he is a part, IL is clear
that such a record of, and accounting
for, existing facts will be far more
seryiceable foundation Tor remedial
suggestions In the future, than an,
theoriZing. or long historical discus