Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1906-02-21
Books, Bookish People and Things
We get good by being unseneous book.
E. B. Browning

An Alphabet OF History" BY viii
bur Dick Nesbit Pictures by Ellis
worth Young. Set in old art type,
printed with illustrations over
tint, upon hard.pressed manila.
lOx7 l.sin. In Rhinos boards, Sic
postage paid. Paul Elder & Co..
san Francisco.
These publishers seem TO be Argus
eyed when II comes to discovering any
thing that Is taking. They found the
contents of this book in the Chicago
sunday Tribune and at once put them
between covers in a style that few
have learned.
who frets about the mystery
Enshrouding all of history
On reading will, may be, see
We've made II plain as A b c."
Not only will the subject coming I'm.
der each letter interest the children,
but II will serve to teach in an i'm.
rressIye way many useful points in
history.
OF the Persian poet:-
"Yet Khayyam never worried over
lie kept his troubles underneath his
hat
Except such times as when he work.
ed them up
Into an Apt and pleasing Rubaiyat."
columbus packed his little
grip and got upon the train
And went to see that noble man,
King Ferdinand of Spain.
Result: he found America-Oh. do
not idly nod,
For il II hadn't been for this We
couldn't go abroad
= = =
"Deerfoot in the Mountains" is the
third and last volume of the New
Deerfoot Series" by Edward S. Ellies.
the most popular OF all our living writ
crs for boys, and follows the adven.
lures of the matchless Indian guide
and his two boy friends from the Pa.
cifiC Ocean to their home In Ohio. The
party makes the hazardous ascent Of
the Columbia River, and arrive among
the Neg Perces Indians. Here they
learn that Deerfoot's wonderful horse,
WhirlwInd, has been stolen by the As
sinibOines, and the dauntless youth
starts singlehanded on foot to overtake
and recapture him. A thrilling encoun'
ter with FIVE warriors is the result. but
his mission successfully accomplished
DeerfOot rejoins his comrades in win
ter quarters among the Blackfeet Tag
garak, their great war chief, deter
mines to kill the Christian redman and
! terrific encounter ensues. with mos'
stating result. The young adventur
ers finally leave the tribe and. after an
interesting meeting with the great eX
plorers, Lewis and Clark, safely reach
their home with endless stories TO re
late.
We have received from the publish
ers, NJ. NJ. Cornely ct Gle, Paris
France, a series OF three Franch gram
mars. which form very complete
course. They are by A. Bailly, an eX
perienCed teacher In the Norma
Schools of France. The first volume
CCours elementaire) Is quite simpl,
though Il contains most of the essen
tials of the language together with ex
ercises and selections from the hes
authors.
The author says in his preface "Tt
furnish the essentials, and the essen
tails only, to state them clearly anC
simply. to supply for the mind OF thu
beginner adequate examples OF rule
this has been my constant thought II
the preparation OF these books"
The second volume Of the cours'
(Cours Moyen) has 800 exercises will
rules and conjugations, an index o
difficult words and other aids, Thu
third with 500 exercises Is very com
plete grammar that will take the stu
dent as far as he needs to go.
The selections in prose and vers'
are very appropriate.
These books are printed on good pa
per In clear type, bound in boards
with cloth back.
Vol. | 0 fr. Go; Vol. II fr. 90; Vol
III fr. 60. Edouard Cornely ct Gle
lOI, Rue de Vaugibard l0l, Paris
France.
'Gumption." BY Nathaniel c, Fowle
Jr. l2mo. 332 PIP. illustrated