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VITA l1rTl A0nn
G0ns S3Elfl LI!lI EN- q liy!3sb
WAAVI-7DO
FOR RENT

Desirable houses in various parts Of
the city. furnished and unfinished
at $15, SIS, $40. s25, $50, $50, $40 and
up TO slz5 month. See list in our
office. Trent Trust Co, Ltd, Fort
st. between King and Merchant.
5462-tf.
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CARD CASES

Business and. visiting cards, engraved
or printed, in attractive Russia
leather cases, patent detachable
cards. Star-Bulletin office. 554o-tf.
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Bargains in real estate on seashore,
plains and hills. Telephone 1902,
pratt" 101 Stangenwtld Building.
5277
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6. Domingo, teacher of violin. man
dolin, Mandola. Guitar, Cello, uku-
lele and clarinet. Also furnishes
Hawaiian music In any occasion.
Cor. Beretania and Union streets.
Phone 3643.
5356-6m.
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CANDY MAKER.

Wholesale and retail dealer in Amer
{ lean and Japanese candy. Yasuda,
No. 426 King, near Liliha street.
5561-Sm.
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HONOLULU Arr STUDIO.

High-class art work. Developing films;
plates; oil paintings; water colors.
Pastel coloring photograph. We APP
preciate a call. Masonic Building.
5607-1y
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-03-08

about this sto of the days when the
officers of vessel from home were
made much of by the colonists IN the
ports of Australia. New Zealand ana
Cape Colony. when life was more ieis-
urelv. and the absence OF steam anu
the cable lent many entertainments 10
life at the ends of the earth.
II is when he begins TO talk ABOUT
discipline aboard and the ways ol Sail
.rmen that the author is at MS pest
however. Authority was maintained
with strong hand-if necessary WIFI
weapons as well as fists. crews hau
habit OF finding out at the start now
far they could 60, the first lhoica'ioi'
of = strenuous trip being usually an at
tcmpt to come aft on the weather SIDE
when relieving the wheel It CLOCK III
the morning. The officer OF the "a''i'
would Immediately growl an ORDER anu
if challenged. go into action. Curi-
Gus ways sailors have" Commahue'
Crutchlev exclaims. but tiey certainty
furnish entertaining reading. Don I
blow on the coffee" steward toiu 'ie
cook on one occasion. whereupon the
cook poured tie coffee over him, hit
him with the pan. and got ready LOT HI
corners with "A carving knife.
1t seems % far away this lie WIN
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-03-08

YOU may be sure that the ChInaman is
not far away . . His tenacity is great.
and this. allied with his industry and his
superior physique. viii probably leave
him the victor in any economic or racial
struggle which he may be compelled by
fate to embark upon.
The Lieutenant Governor of Papua
begins 10y declaring that he is not an
ethnoogist, geologist or botanist, and
that he has nothing to say on the sub
ject Of Papuan missions, because he is
not sufficiently well acquainted with
their work. but that what he has seen
Of it as a civilizing, beneficial infiu-
hold them in high esteem. This, he OBJ
serves dryly, lat the risk of appearing
eccentric" for the white community In
Papua has a far different opinion. His
words, though few, will have weight.
Besides the administrative and econom-
ic chapters, there are here studies OF
the natives that have charm and nov
city just because they are not from
the pen Of trained chronological stu
dent. The people Of the interior are as
yet but little known; some are canni-
balls, and some are not, and those That
are appear to regard human flesh
merely as an article Of diet without
attaching to its consumption tribal or
religious significance. There is a touch
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-03-08
LOVE AND PATRIOTISM.

THE FRONTIERS OF THE HEAfl.
BY Victor Marguerite. translates iiol'i
the French by Frederic Lees. Emo, pp'
345. The Frederick A. Stokes Company
Let us never speak Of it, but always
think Of it," said Gambetta or Ia
Revanche," Of the determination OF the
French to wipe out the humiliations OF
the Franco-German War and the loss
of Alsace- Lorraine. But the French
noveIists are Of a different opinion.
They speak out aloud, with, it would
appear. increasing insistence OF late.
Rene Bazin has dealt with the rela-
tions of French and Germans in the
CONQUERED provinces a generation after
their annexation; Victor Marguerite
deals i'm this book with the birth OF
hatred during the Terrible Year itself.
He starts in 1867, with the great exhi-
bition in Paris. and with the marriage
of a French girl, the granddaughter OF
one of the first NapOleon's officers, to
German physician. She accompanies
him to his native city, into the Ger
many that, Notwithstanding Leipsic
and Waterloo, still bears the scars or
French invasion and havoc from Louis
XIV to the period Of Napoleonic su-
premacy. Love and environment Ger
MAMIE her to some extent, but In Sep
TENDER, 1870, she Is on q visit TO her
parents in France, and Thereafter
watches with them the ravages OF tho
war on the soil of her birth. Patriotism
is reborn. love dies. The chasm thus
opened cannot be closed by peace and
reunion. Written undoubtedly with a
patriotic purpose, the novel has for for
eign readers chiefly a psychological in
terest.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-03-08
LITERARY NEWS
d mo &
d. CRITICISM 20

no doubt 1.-THE intellectual history OF
Paul's four year reign" says Nj. walls
zewski, "is hardly worth recording
His survey Of other aspects OF the SUD-
ject is equally depressing. This Grass
patriarch, always seeking to reorgah-
ize his government, was always over
doing the mechanism at the cost OF the
national vitality which really clamored
for enlightened care. We need not ex-
anime, one by one, the chapters which
treat of his military, political and other
divagations. They lead only too swiftly
and naturally to the March night on
which the conspirators swarmed into
his bedroom, beat him to the ground
and finally strangled him with his own
sash.
The dreadful scene, which. we may
add. is handled with dramatic skill by
NJ. Waliszewski, is ore of those, not IN
frequent in history, which touch the
reader in a dual sense. He loathes the
crime. vet cannot deny to ii something
of the weight of retribution. Russia
could not much longer have endured
Paul /. But was it wholly his fauit!
Was not his madness partly promoted
bv the hurrying of a storm of good IN
tentions through tormented brain
1t is with compassionate thoughts that
we relinouish NJ. Waliszewskis book.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-03-08

getler certain "reminiscences Of the
Transition Period from Sail 10 steam
in the British Mercantile Marine, 1865
1894. By Commander W. Caius
Crutchley, r. D., II. y. r., +. Il. g. >.
a Younger Brother of Trinity House,
late Secretary of the Navy league.
with q preface by Earl Brassey. q. &.
r. With twelve illustrations, Svo, PIP.
32S. Brentano's.
This is as good yarn as an oldtimc
sailorman can spin, or those who are
not entirely ignorant of the ways of the
sea can listen to. Commander Crutch-
ley made his first voyage-to Australia
as an apprentice on a sailing ship.
At the end Of the second trip he de-
serted. went up country. had "a good
time" in a sheep camp. but returned TO
Adelaide to ship before the mast.
Thenceforth he followed the sea. under
canvas and lin steam" rapidly rising
in rank. There is an oldtime flavor
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-03-08
FICTION.
New Novels by Albert Edwards
and Others.
THE TOlLERS.

COMRADE YETTA. BY Albert Edwards.
limo. pp. 44s. The Macmillan Company
In this book. as in "A Mans World"
Mr.. Edwards draws upon his personal
experience among the toilers or New
York with a directness that makes IL
read most Of the way like the lapor
news given In the press during the last
few years. Told thus consecutiVe'y'
that news gains in the strength OF the
impression 1t makes. which is, after all,
the authors only and OvershadowinS
purpose. We have learned so much or
how the other half lives, in the learn
ing we have been made so acuteiy
aware Of our own share Of the respoh-
sibility for it all, that the shocks OF the
first awakening can never be repeated.
nor need they be. Still, book ike
this serves to remind us, most OF all in
Mr.. Edwardss case. Of the intricacy
of the whole problem, OF its ramlfcd-
lions from one socio-economic layer
into the one above, and vice versa. In
"Comrade Yetta" IL is chiefly the prop
lem OF scab versus union labor, WhiIc
beyond that the closest Of human rela-
tionships Is dealt with.
Yetta Is child OF the New YORK
Ghetto who early starts to earn her
own swing "by buttonholes," and then
in a waistcoat sweatshop-"vests.' BE-
ing young and strong, she becomes u
"speeder" until pains in the back warn
her. She drifts into settlement. es-
capes by a narrow margin the white
SLAYER. takes part in a strike, with its
incidents OF assault and arrest is taken
up by yellow journal. graduates from
that TO a sociaistic daily and becomes
"Comrade Yetta' in the sense of the
brotherhood, but also in the narrower
sense Of love. for a man OF her own
class and ideas and aspirations, after
a protracted tender passage with a
man in a higher walk Of life, 'parlor
socialist" The author again traces the
part politics plays in the lives Of he
Door. II is now an oft-tOld story. but
IL is needful TO keep on telling IT.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-03-08

Of common human nature in the way IN
which the islanders of Kiriwina respect
q taboo-two of them. in fact-and set
have their own gastronomlc way:
In one part OF the island the pig Is
eaten. but the wallaby is not whle IN IN,
other part the reverse is the case y
native Of the forbidden WaliaOy S"ctoi
once tearfully demonstrated with me t"I
not killing one of these aninais Wheh
had the opportunity. sald hat W".'lI
he the use Of killing IT. You could MOI
cat it," No" he said. II could not 'd'
II hut I could exchange II with the oth'i
ncopIe for a mig" lie told me that II h."
ate the wallaby his bones would ran out
Exploration OF the interior OF New
Guinea is extra haZardous, as Is "e"
known 1t is also extra strenuous. Inc
difficulties Of transport are great ~
owing To the roughness OF the country
no pack animals can he taken aI"hE
and supplies must be carried on men
backs. The population IS scant' anu
native supplies are. therefore, not 10
be relied upon. What rs more thoHS
here. no doubt. the experts VIII MS
sent the reward has not been com
mcnsurate with the toll cXpended' inc
paucity of the inhabitants makes raw
81 less interesting; the natives thdl one
docs meet are more or less At the sane
stage of civilization, 80 mat ~ any
given district when YOU have seen one
village YOU have practically seen ll'"h
all. the scenery. it is true. IS n"Sn'h-
cont but then YOU very rarely see IT,
AS YOU ar, tramping most OF the 'lh'e
through a gloomy forest or th'ck uh-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-03-08
The
Combined
Maze
By May Sinclair

Suppose someone could de-
scribe you just as you really are,
the you" with all its wonderful
possibilities unknown even to
yourself The world would read
your story eagerly, greedily-so
marvellous is life-without asking
what great deed you had per-
formed.
Well, in just this intimate way
has May Sinclair told the story Of
this man and these two women.
their passionate hate and love,
their joys and sorrows. She has
told how they crossed, parted, and
recrossed again in life, just as
they did hrst in the gymnasium's
maze.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-03-08
JUSTIN MCCARTHY
Familiar Letters of a Busy
Man.

OUR BOOK or MEMORIES. Letters
of Justin Mccarthy To Mrs. Cempbell-
Pracd. illustrated. $40. pp. E3. Small,
May ndrd q co.
Justin McCarthy's laborious life AS
politician, Journalist and novelist is eff
fectively set forth in these letters writ
ten TO his friend and collaboration in fic-
tion. Mrs. Campbell raed. Many of
them deal with the fight for Irish Home
Rule, his share as leader in the strug-
gle and his relations with Parnell.
Some of them describe his travels in
/ this country and others his encounters
with celebrities. Through large part
enough. this. for he earned his modest
| living and his honorable place with in
ccssant strain of brain and hand. 1t is
| to that fatigue, no doubt, that this big
book owes its undeniable heavness. II
the wit and Vivacity we always look for
in an Irlshman did actually belong to
Mccarthy they were weighed down by
pressure of circumstance there Il
pages.
OF Mccarthy as an author there are
some agreeable glimpses. He had APP
parcntly no vanity at all in connection
with his work. rs il lucky or un-
lucky thing for you and me-" he writes
| To his friend, that we neither Of us fall
in love with our own books. but COM
posedly look them in the face and find
out all their defects and comment on
them? | know so many authors who
do really admire their own books and
can't see any faults in them, and sup
pose they are very happy thereby
He undertakes sensation story" and
avows that it is deadly dull-wooden-
lcaden-and that he detests 1t. He de-
spondently speaks OF literary career
as that course which is strewn with
the bones of so many failures, and in
which success is. after all, not SO
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-03-08
MALAYA AND PAPUA
CHAPTERS of Colonization and
Administration.

THE MALAY PENINSULA. A Record
of British Progress in the Middle West.
BY Arnold Wright and Thomas II. Reid.
With a map and 81 illustrations. eVo'
PIP. $50. Charles Scribner's Sons.
PAPUA; OR. BRITISH NEW GUINEA.
BY j. H. 2. Murray, Lieutenant Cover
nor and Chief Judicial Officer of Papua.
With an introduction by Sir William
MacGregor. G.. c. NJ. G.. c. b., d. Sc
LII. D.. and IS illustrations. sVo' pp'
3sS Charles Scribner's Sons
The two volumes before us are not
records of travel and observation, but
rather handbooks of practical informa-
ton concerning the British Dependent
cies they deal with, together with MS
tories of their acquisition, early tort-
unes and development. The book on
Papua. indeed. is the work of one of its
chief administrative officers. and is in
troduced Furthermore. by the man who
was prominently connected with the
annexation of British New Guinea. at
the instigation of New Queensland, for
the purpose, as was declared AT the
time. of securing a territory fit TO re-
ceivc the overflow of population OF a
filled-up Australia" The control of the
colony was transferred by the Crown to
the Australian commonwealth in 1906.
since which time il has made rapid
: progress in trade.
What, from the colonial point of view,
may be called the pre-history of the
Malay peninsula is short and scant.
The country has no ancient ruins, IKE
those of Java: its population has but
few records of its own past, and these
legendary rather than reliable. where
fore the authors conclude that there
vas very little past to chronicle. All
this changed radically when Portu-
guese and Dutchman and Englishman
began TO exploit the Far East, and TO
establ themselves there. In its his
torical chapters the book of Messrs.
Wright and Reed is chapter taken
from the story of the English East
India Company. in which many fami-
lar names Of empire builders recur. and
to which some new ones are added, that
of CAPTAIN Francis Light, for instance.
the founder Of Penang, which. we learn
from these pages. is, as An Oriental
city, rather disappointment to the
tourist. because il is SO thoroughly
modern in appearance. Light, indeed
receives tardy justice here-his due
share Of the glory that hitherto has
been given 10 Rafflcs alone in the story
of the conquest of the peninsula.
Direct British control extends as yet
only over the minor part Of Malaga.
There are four native states in its
northern portion. which acknowledge
British suzcrainty. while in the south
Johore still keeps its condition of semi
independence. The northern terri
tories. of vast expanse, are OF small i'm
portance commercially or politically;
in fact. they are as yet mostly terra
iacoGnitd to the white man. The
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-03-08

greater part Of the book is given over
TO matters of administration, systems
of communication, mineral and agr-
cultural products, commerce and snip
ping There is a chapter on the people
their customs, manners and occupa-
tions, while. finally. on the subject OF
the peacefully penetrating and always
successful Chinaman, a topic of stead
ily growing interest to the colonial
powers in the Far East. the authors
declare:
One great thing in his favor is the
strongly entrenched monetary position OF
his countrymen in the Straits. The
wealth of the Chinese community there
is enormous. They have a finger i'm every
promising new pie; they are the chief
private mine owners, the principal prop
erty owners In the towns. the leading
tradesmen, the most prosperous adven-
turers in private planting-in short,
wherever there Is money to be made,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-03-08

a stage fever that never gains al en-
gagement. even when the ambition mas
hoen reducea IN a chance to walk on; ;
of the disillusion Of marriage Witt
out love. and Of brief trial OF love
without marriage, which is the great
est dsillusion of all. zone Man
View" is that of the deserted HUSBAND
who. counting the world and his pup
lie career well lost, takes back inc
ey-inp wife for that most primitive OF
ALL. reasons. that he cannot live WITH
out her. In nothing is this story 50
timely : in its brie- but telling picture
of the cruel defeat Of the girl seeking
her first theatrical engagement in the
dramatic agencies Of London, and az
its stage doors.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-03-08

it's strenuousness and it's palpable
charm. when during the long days
anoat lasting friendships were formed
with passengers. when consular justice
WAS far more important in maritime
affairs than il H. now. when the British
master and his staff felt, individually.
that they. too. were builders of the en-
pirc. The old conditions Of life under
canvas persisted 10 some extent on the
early steamers 10 the further corners of
the earth. Indeed, sailors had curious
ways So had the waterfront.
In those days 1850 New York had a
iawlcss afro phcrc. and revolver shots
could be heard on tn river pretty ire
qucutly throughout the hours OF dark
ness. for thieves We're daring IN tho pur-
suit Of plumber and night Waterman.
Dr. Doe did bis duty on board sup mao
need Lc q very determined ANA rlucky
man to hold MIS- own.
Apparently without effort 10 produce
literature. and probably on account OF
the very simplicity of his yarn" Com
mandcr Crutchley has got the atmos-
uhorc of the times and the life into his
pages. He refers with reminiscent
pride 10 fast voyages under his COM
maud. both under sail and lin steam
he was norably successful in combine
ing the driving power of both-he de-
sciibcs storms. deals with examina-
tons for certificates. and the scandal
Gus overlooking To which Plimsoll put
an end but these are details which the
landlubber can easily grasp. and not
too much space is given TO them. Ia the
literature of the sea this expert judge
gives first place to Dana's 1.-TWO Years
Before the Mast" and Clark Russell's
"ShipwrcCk of the Chancellor"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-03-08

much" Well, there are successes ana
successes and some are worth while
and some are not. Mccarthy HIS
tory Of Our Own -.-1es" remains use
full work-Lord Acton, whom Gladstone
pronounced the best educated man III
England. declared that he brought up
his family on the book-but the IRISH
mans novels are now little READ. IL
must, indeed. have been hard to draw
upon the imagination in the MIDST OF
the WEAKNESS and sadness OF when so
many Of these letters are eloquent.
Mrs. Campbell Praed has edited this
volume carefully-rather too careiuiiy'
perhaps, for she has included many
passages Of no Importance.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-03-08
SCOTCH FREE TRADERS.

PATSY by :. Il. Crockett. Emo. pp. Bill
The Macmillan Company.
Mr.. Crockett, when one comes 10
think of il, is the only survivor of tie
Kailyard school, although in order to
survive. he early deviated from its orig
inal scope and purpose. the study of
contemporary Scotch life and char
acter. to become IN historical novelist
Of his own people. Still. survived he
has. and with a markedly undiminlshcd
supply .of Zest and conviction, when one
considers the number of his books.
which now liz fifty-one, and the twenty
years in which he has written them. A
record of literary industry. indeed, So
here is the coast Of Galloway in the be-
ginning of the nineteenth century
when Scotch smugglers traded freely
with Englands foe across the Channel;
and here are conditions in the wide do
main of Ea"l Clancy that still smack
Of feudal days, and his granddaugh-
ter Patsy" proud and free. the queen
of these lawless men. A Pict she is, of
an older race than any Scot There is
rivalry for her love between high born,
at feud with her house. and low-born.
younger brother of the Regent seeks
TO abduct her; pursuit and rescue. She
visits London and TIA court in state,
returns to her wild home country To be-
stow freely her hand and heart, and
gangs. strenuous doings, battle and
sudden death.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-03-08
IN MINOR KEY.

ONE MANS VIEW. BY Leonard Mer-
rick. l2mo. PIP. 25S. Mitchell Kennerley.
Mr.. Merrick Is generally worth read.
ing. His present vogue may lead 10
the occasional republication of early
works of his that were better left to
oblivion but story like this one. fif-
teen years old though ii be. offers sufii-
cient excuse for its reissue Its time
many disillusions; Of the disillusion of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-03-08

London journals. Old and poor anu
crippled by fall, she has just died y"
workhouse hospital. She marrieu
clergyman and had long been wioo"'
More Shakespeare Bacon.
Anothe' member of Parliament mas
succeeded Mr.. Greenwood IN The u''
cussion of the authorship OF Shake
speare's plays. This is Mr.. j. NJ hoo-
ertson. a practical man, who has en-
gagged in a systematic study ana reiu'a
ton OF the theory that the plays were
written by a lawyer and a classical
scholar. He calls his book THE ba'
CONAN Heresy: A Combination"
A Literary Wife.
The wife of Mr.. j. G.. Fraser, the en'''
nent author of 1.-The Golden Bous"'
has herself developed literary apii'''''
gifts which she has applied to the "
lief of distressed housewives. Sns
bringing out a book entitled First ~
to the Servantless.'
Interesting to Americans.
Mr.. Beckles Wilson is about TO orihs
out a new book which Is partly CO"
tribution to American history. IL 10
entitled Nova Scotian Blockade Kun.
ners During the American Civil war
Its author Is now engaged In collectnS
in Nova Scotia materials relating to tne
early Arcadian and Gaelic commum'
ties.
Louis 6ecke Departs.
Mr.. George Louis Becke, chronicier VI
the South Seas. whose work is nea1i'
as well known In this country az ~