Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-07-01

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From year to year the number 81
different books mentioned in the lists
i varies but little, In 1916 it was 80
| Nine books were written by women
/ one was published anonymously and
4 20 were the work Of men. Joseph G.
Lincoln and Zane Grey were repre-
sented by two books each The most
successful book of the year was
Booth Tarkington's The Turmoil
| with Winston Churchills A Fal
Country second. In the subjoined
table every point scored by these two
novels Is included The point totals
OF the other four books represent
simply the addition Of the points Of
| the months IN which they were among
the six best.
Six best sellers Of the year:
First The Turmoil
Second a Far Country.
Third Pollyanna Grows Up.
Fourth NIichael O'Halloran.
Fifth--The Eyes Of the World.
SixthK.
Six times mentioned:
The Turmoil. The Harbour, Polly.
anna Grows Up.
-Four times mentioned:
The Eyes of the World, The Patrol
of the Sun Dance Trail, A Far Coun'
| try.
Three times mentioned:
The Lone Star Ranger. Ruggles OF
Red Gap. Jaffery, Michael o'Hal.
loran, X.
s,T,,ico n,ortion "a.
Kent Knowles, Quahaug, The Wall
of Partition. The Prince of Graustark.
Bambi, The Porter's Wife, The Val.
ley Of Fear. The Grex of Monte Carlo.
Angeles Business. The Money Master.
Once mentioned:
The Clarion, Who Goes There? Con
trary Mary. Still Jim. Thankfurs In
heritance, The Lovable Meddler, The
Rainbow Trail, Felix O'Day, The
Story Of Juiia Page. The Heart of the
Sunset
Instead of being any longer "a jour.
nal of civilization Harpers' Weekly
has become q journal for Democrats.
George Sterling Of California is a
poet No discriminating person can
deny him this title, whatever it may
be worth.
But he is poet of the SHOWS,
chaste, clear, cold, white.
With all his thought, suggestion
and beauty of words he rarely comes
to earth and is never earthly.
The planets, the nebulosities Of
space, earth's grayitational plunges,
a cosmic ideation, are the subjects OF
his emotion. ..-...--.... ..:....E i II.
In a recent reference to mis- "Ode
to the Exposition" a critic says:
1T is the sort of poem only two
living poets might be expected to
write-G George Sterling and William
Watson. It is done in the grand
manner as BELTS its theme; it is
sonorous, dignified, splendid. Cali
foTnia has inspired Sterling to poety
of formal and statuesque kind"
1t never warns With human feeling
or bursts its literary she'll for emo
tional ecstacy or mere human indigna-
ton. Mr. Sterling is not a poet who
INDUCES in the love of love, the
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is studied, even reserved, always
within the bounds of restraint In
other words, he is not the peoples
poet
But. as said at the beginning, he
is true poet.
Scientific and technical books will
not fail to hold their devoted and spe-
cially trained class of readers.
AS rule, these persons are not toll
Grant of light reading" Their minds
are used to being receivers of matter
which requires reflective eonsidera-
ton, and in this process they derive
their peculiar intellectual rewards.
So-called popular works-scientific
triturates-and accounts of travel, in
terest another class, and more are be-
ginning to read and enjoy poetry.
These last are perhaps our most dis
eliminating readers who, with those
that enjoy q good essay. are possessed