Excerpt from Sounds From Home and Echoes of a Kingdom Only once does the music grow frivolous and gay; then quickly lapses into the sedate measure and resumes its wonted dignity; nothing to be jolly about after all. We are to listen to the echoes from Hawaii, and cannot linger over home matters; there are goodbyes to say, a trunk to pack. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.