Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1906-12-14
Books, BOOkish
People and Things
A HUNT ON sNoW.SAoEs

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"A Hunt on Snow.Shoes" is packed
full Of hairraising episodes. Two boys.
Clarence and Sidney Langdon, decide
10 spend the holidays with Pierre. an
old French Canadian trapper. who has
promised to take them on a moose
hunt. At the very start. skating up
the river to Pierre's cabin. they are al
tackled by a bowling. hungry pack of
wolves. In the mad race for life Sid.
neys skate breaks. How they escape
IRON the, es,-elude gigantic
bear-the moose hunt that ends In u
chase by the mOOse--how they are
captured by crazy man-how Sidney
falls down Il ravine with panther
and then shoots wild Indian just
before he shot his brother-how Clar
ence finds the den of gang of des
peradoes under a waterfall and what
comes Of it-how Pierre finally resCues
them from the wild man-are all ad
ventures which no boy should miss.
The book Is remarkably well illus
trated aud issued In elegant form, In
the up and Doing Series" No boy
who loves u good. rip.roaring story
should fail to read A Hunt On Snow
Shoes. Cloth, IL mo, G32 PIP. Price
IS cents. The John G. Winston Co,
Philadelphia, Pa.
Second Report of tho Board of Com.
missioners of Agriculture and
Forestry of the Territory of lia.
wall Illustrated; PIP. 2i0.
There is so much of interest and
value In this report and the treatment
of each subject is 81 full that the pres
ent reviewer would refer readers to
the volume itself.
II the local pests. fires. ana cattle
are working hard to destroy plant life
In Hawaii the Commissioners and
their agents are working equally hard
to neutralze the damage done, and
the result Is most encouraging
IL every resident Of Hawaii would
do something towards helping these
officers, their work would be easier
ullu more tUttllNt IMAM ~ TO-
Somebody said II Is better TO Je
beautiful than To be good. But IL IL
certainly better TO be good than tn he
ugly. II Is better to be charming.
woman cannot charm because sh'
wants TO. 4 man IL not agreeable he
cause he sets out To he. Quite the re-
verse. In effort Is failure. The proper
effect must, like repartcc, be spOn
ianeous and unprecedented. II mus
De radiatcd naturally, like light H1t
love. Books there are that pretend Il
tell how II Is done. They do 50 quiu
as cOmpetently AS grasshOppers tcacl
entomology. The ability to charm. Il
he agreeable. to entertain perfectly
and to be perfectly entertaining. IL al
art apprehensible only through innd
ences generally prenatal but AWAY
prolonged. The mere technique Is 81
volatile that II must be inhaled. Liz
the Mayfair intonatiOn, little by little
Il must be absorbed.
Kings and thugs may abash the am
ateur In the art of pleasing but tn
artist Is at home with them. He put
himself In harmony with them. II
the ability to do that Is the whole sec
ret OF the art Of pleasing.-E Edgar Sal
tus in the Delineator.
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The old Book News Of Philadelphia
enters upon It's twenty-iifth year n
rba Rock News Monthly and CClc
brates its silver anniversary" b.
marked improvements, both In sub
stance aud make-up-including tn
first OF series Of beautiful three-colo
reproductions Of famous paintings.
simpler and more convenient arrange
ment Of its many book reviews VIII b
appreciated by It's wide circle Of read