Volume 3 — C (continued 2)

“She had in fact, assimilated the period as few novelists of to-day have done. Her tale is somewhat disjointed and episodic, but its vitality keeps interest for it. It is very learned in the times, but its learning is never an obsession.”

+ + − Ath. 1906, 2: 796. D. 22. 210w.

“It may well be said that the introduction to this remarkable story will create antagonism. Nevertheless, in spite of this serious handicap, the book itself shows ability of so rare an order as to point an instructive difference between a real creation and the flimsy stuff passing current as historical fiction.”

+ + − Nation. 85: 102. Ag. 1, ’07. 640w.

+ N. Y. Times. 12: 503. Ag. 17, ’07. 100w.

N. Y. Times. 12: 653. O. 19, ’07. 30w.

“The volume is well worth reading for the vivid picture which it leaves upon the mind, of life at the beginning of the fifteenth century.”

+ Spec. 98: 60. Ja. 12, ’07. 140w.

Chesterton, Gilbert Keith. Charles Dickens. **$1.50. Dodd.

6–34069.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“Not a systematic, exhaustive biography, but a suggestive, appreciative, and at times brilliant tribute to the great author; not free from paradox or exaggeration, but illuminating and always entertaining.”

+ + − A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 95. Ap. ’07.

“It is more characteristically frolicsome, less restrained and direct, than the same author’s study of Browning.” Olivia Howard Dunbar.

+ + − No. Am. 183: 1047. N. 16, ’06. 1530w.

“It has the real Dickens’ merit of leaving the reader exhilarated and on better terms with all the world.”

+ Putnam’s. 1: 509. Ja. ’07. 620w.

“Mr. Chesterton’s ‘Dickens’ is the best thing he has done in criticism.” H. W. Boynton.

+ + Putnam’s. 1: 634. F. ’07. 620w.

Childe, Charles P. Control of a scourge; or, How cancer is curable. (New lib. of medicine.) *$2.50. Dutton.

7–29144.

“The purpose of the book is to teach that the dread disease of cancer is curable by operation if taken in time. According to the diagnosis of Dr. Childe, cancer is, in its earliest stages, entirely a local disease, at least in many cases the result of local irritation.”

“The most optimistic book on cancer that has perhaps ever come from a physician of experience without any ulterior motive.”

+ Ind. 62: 857. Ap. 11, ’07. 230w.

“Mr. Childe deserves the thanks of the public for his very lucid explanation of the practical importance of the latest conclusions of surgery.”

+ + Lond. Times. 6: 67. Mr. 1, ’07. 680w.

+ Nation. 85: 83. Jl. 25, ’07. 350w.

“Whether the subject could not have been dealt with in a quarter of the space with equally satisfactory results as regards the general public is a question, many of the details introduced being quite unnecessary for the average man or woman to know.” R. T. H.

− + Nature. 76: 171. Je. 20, ’07. 220w.

“These two hundred pages are the more interesting in that they are devoid of quackery and are composed in the most simple language, for the encouragement and enlightenment of the general public.”

+ N. Y. Times. 12: 149. Mr. 9, ’07. 460w.

“His book is clearly written and neither technical nor sensational.”

+ Sat. R. 104: 22. Jl. 6, ’07. 250w.

“His book is extremely valuable.”

+ + Spec. 98: 1012. Je. 29, ’07. 410w.

Chisholm, Louey. Enchanted land. Pictures by Katharine Cameron. †$3. Putnam.

Sixteen fairy tales retold and pictured in color.

“Many of the colour pictures are insipid and leave a great deal to be desired.”

− Acad. 71: 608. D. 15, ’06. 30w.

+ − Ath. 1906, 2: 653. N. 24. 140w.

“Many of the stories will not be familiar, so that the ‘retelling’ is welcome.”

+ Bookm. 24: 527. Ja. ’07. 70w.

+ Ind. 61: 1407. D. 13, ’06. 20w.

“Special praise is due Miss Katharine Cameron for the coloured illustrations which reach a high standard of excellence.”

+ + Int. Studio. 30: 280. Ja. ’07. 40w.

+ N. Y. Times. 11: 895. D. 22, ’06. 70w.

80“Miss Katharine Cameron delights in colour and indulges recklessly in paint, her drawing is feeble, but she occasionally gets some very pretty and Conderesque effects of colour and decoration.”

+ − Sat. R. 102: sup. 8. D. 8, ’06. 70w.

“Among the books of old fairy-tales retold, we wish particularly to call attention to Miss Chisholm’s ‘Enchanted land.’”

+ Spec. 97: 939. D. 8, ’06. 70w.

Chisholm, Louey, comp. Golden staircase: poems for children. il. **$2.50. Putnam.

An anthology of child verse whose aim is wholly educative. The best writers, English and American, who have written poems for children are included.

“Should have a word of especially appreciative praise, because it assumes on the part of the child a natural taste for that which is beautiful, and a natural love for the imaginative.”

+ Outlook. 87: 358. O. 19, ’07. 250w.

“Admirable anthology.”

+ Spec. 98: 627. Ap. 20, ’07. 140w.

Chittenden, Russell Henry. Nutrition of man: a course of lectures delivered before the Lowell institute of Boston. **$3. Stokes.

7–21556.

Professional men, volunteers from the hospital corps of the United States army, recruits from the ranks of university athletic students form what has been termed “Professor Chittenden’s starvation squad.” These lectures give the result of his experiments in putting willing subjects on half rations and less.

A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 193. N. ’07.

“This book is one of first-rate importance, not only to the physiologist and physician as a guide to scientific truth, but also to the individual, and even to the state.”

+ + Ath. 1907, 2: 45. Jl. 13. 1220w.

“It seems safe to say that this thoroughly revolutionary work will attract more general popular attention than any other scientific book has attracted in many years.” Michael Williams.

+ N. Y. Times. 12: 329. My. 25, ’07. 2370w.

“It is interesting also to the economist, because for the first time it bridges in part the gap between human energy and social wealth.”

+ Pol. Sci. Q. 22: 568. S. ’07. 200w.

Cholmondeley, Mary. Prisoners. †$1.50. Dodd.

6–34683.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“Concocts a melodrama rivaling Ouida at her most inventive, but proceeds to recount it in a manner not unworthy the chronicler of ‘Cranford,’ or ‘The perpetual curate.’” Mary Moss.

+ − Atlan. 99: 118. Ja. ’07. 360w.

Current Literature. 42: 110. Ja. ’07. 760w.

“We can only characterize the new book as a disappointment.” Wm. M. Payne.

− Dial. 42: 15. Ja. 1, ’07. 250w.

+ R. of Rs. 35: 123. Ja. ’07. 120w.

Christ that is to be, by the author of Pro Christo et ecclesia. **$1.50. Macmillan.

7–30464.

“A series of successive efforts to think what the gospel of Jesus really is.” Some of the suggestive channels in which effort is directed are the following: Our need of reformation, The actions of Jesus, The doctrine of prayer, Salvation of joy, The use of sin, The use of pain, Fatalism and asceticism, The devil and his angels, The scorn of superstition; Mind and disease, Fasting and temptation, and The sword and the muck-rake.

“This book is full of interest and ideas; it is well, if not too copiously written; and with many of its main arguments we are in agreement.”

+ + − Ath. 1907, 2: 646. N. 23. 1320w.

“What has been said affords but a very partial glimpse of a laborious and fascinating discussion of many things—prayers, the ascetic life, inspiration, demonology, war and the like. Its effect is not only to stimulate thought but to excite obedience and to spread sincerity.”

+ + Lond. Times. 6: 306. O. 11, ’07. 1000w.

“Fulfils in a great measure the promise of the earlier work; or perhaps it would be more accurate to say that some chapters more than fulfil that promise, while in the others the shadow of modern superstition darkens the lucidity of the thought.”

+ − Spec. 99: sup. 751. N. 16, ’07. 500w.

Christie, Grace (Mrs. Archibald H. Christie). Embroidery and tapestry weaving: a practical text-book of design and workmanship; with drawings by the author and other. il. $2. Macmillan.

7–35144.

A practical rather than historical handbook. “Of stitches alone, some forty kinds are here explained and illustrated by clearly drawn diagrams; methods of work, also amply illustrated, occupy several chapters; while others are devoted to tools, appliances, materials, garniture, etc.” (Int. Studio.)

“Practical, clearly written, and well illustrated.”

+ A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 66. Mr. ’07.

+ Int. Studio. 30: 279. Ja. ’07. 130w.

N. Y. Times. 11: 840. D. 1, ’06. 60w.

Christie, William Wallace. Boiler-waters, scale, corrosion, foaming. *$3. Van Nostrand.

6–45054.

This work has for its object to furnish steam-users with information regarding water, its use, and troubles arising from the use of water, and remedies that may be used or applied; the gain being more efficient generation of steam. Numerous illustrations accompany the text.

“Emphasis is given to the injurious properties of hard waters, and the illustrations of corrosion, boiler scale, etc., are particularly well set forth. This is by far the most interesting and valuable portion of the book. The discussion of the chemistry of boiler-waters is elementary and superficial. The attempt to furnish simple tests for the use of engineers is far from satisfactory. Some of the best methods of analysis are not given, while other descriptions are incomplete. Furthermore, confusion is introduced by the use of many different methods of stating results. The theory of water softening is passed over in a few words, but the descriptions of water softening plants as related to steam making are clear and concise.” G. C. Whipple.

+ − Engin. N. 57: 86. Ja. 17, ’07. 220w.

“The book is well written and printed; and the material is of great value, but it would be of greater value if the author, instead of quoting the opinions of engineers and chemists on disputed points, had made a more determined attempt to solve the difficult questions.”

+ − Nation. 84: 388. Ap. 25, ’07. 180w.

N. Y. Times. 12: 79. F. 9, ’07. 60w.

Christmas anthology: carols and poems old and new. **50c. Crowell.

7–20856.

A holiday book which brings together carols and poems which sing of the true spirit of Christmas, of love, of charity, of peace and good will to all men.

81Churchill, Winston. Coniston. †$1.50. Macmillan.

6–19776.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

Reviewed by Mary Moss.

+ + Atlan. 99: 123. Ja. ’07. 440w.

“Reading ‘Coniston’ is very like spending a week in a remote New England village, stopping one’s newspaper and keeping away from the post-office.” Hamilton W. Mabie.

+ + No. Am. 183: 415. S. 7, ’06. 840w.

Cipriani, Lisi de. Cry of defeat. $1.25. Badger.

6–38992.

Under the sub-divisions, The cry of defeat, Words of love and sorrow, Songs of others, A curious world, and Crumbs, appear a collection of short poems varying in subject and merit.

“The only obvious technical defects do not prevent the successful appeal to our sympathies of a sore and wounded spirit, even where the tone is not only sorrowful but exceedingly morbid.”

+ − N. Y. Times. 12: 431. Jl. 6, ’07. 280w.

Cipriani, Lisi. A Tuscan childhood. **$1.25. Century.

7–31991.

With the buoyancy and naïveté of childhood the fourth of seven children in an Italian patrician family sets down the incidents of work and play that fixed the bond of allegiance among them. There is race temperament in abundance, and yet it is the universal nature of childhood that makes the strongest appeal.

“All in all, a not half bad hour may be spent over the volume, which can also well be placed on the shelf for consultation during minor domestic crises.”

+ Lit. D. 35: 795. N. 23, ’07. 210w.

N. Y. Times. 12: 655. O. 19, ’07. 50w.

“It is pleasant reading for an indifferent mood.”

+ N. Y. Times. 12: 698. N. 2, ’07. 210w.

“Every detail in the book is so perfectly set in its place and so well told that one feels a new and pleasant sensation in its perusal.”

+ Outlook. 87: 454. O. 26, ’07. 180w.

Cirkel, August. Looking forward. $1.25. Forward pub. co.

6–42899.

“This is a conspicuous contribution to what may be called the literature of impractical reform. Not for one but for many vital problems in the contemporary life of the United States does Mr. Cirkel proffer a solution. In turn he takes up and with remarkable ease disposes of the issues raised by the growing power of corporations, by the railway companies, by the insurance revelations, by the relations between capital and labor, by the spread of the socialistic movement, and by the necessity of securing an ‘elastic currency.’”—Outlook.

“It is quite true that there is a good deal in his pages to stimulate thought. But this is far overbalanced by the visionary character of the author’s principal proposals and by the extremism of many of his views.”

− + Outlook. 85: 94. Ja. 12, ’07. 160w.

Claassen, H. Beet-sugar manufacture; authorized tr. from the 2d German ed., by W. T. Hall, and G. W. Rolfe. *$3. Wiley.

6–38550.

“The scope and plan of the book embraces the entire process of beet-sugar manufacture from the time of the receiving of the beets to the finished product.”—Science.

“A book which ranks with the very best in the sugar literature of the day. It is a pleasure to state that [the translators’] work, too, is everything that could be desired. A few typographical errors and slips have crept in, but these will unquestionably be noted and corrected in a future edition, which, no doubt, will soon be warranted.” F. G. Wiechmann.

+ + − Science, n.s. 25: 104. Ja. 18, ’07. 590w.

Claremont, Leopold. Gem-cutter’s craft. *$5. Macmillan.

7–18824.

“Describes the appearance of the different varieties of gem-stones, gives an outline of the industry and craft of gem-cutting, tells how to identify the real and precious article and note the difference between it and the imitation, and provides an account of how the gems are mined and made ready for the market either in their first rough state, after having been freed from the minerals surrounding them, or when cut and shaped.” (N. Y. Times.) Fully illustrated.

“The history of the gem from its rough state to its cut and polished final appearance is given with remarkable clearness in this work by a cutter of jewels, who writes in the first place for cutters.”

+ + Acad. 71: 660. D. 29, ’06. 360w.

“The work before us constitutes almost a new departure in the literature of precious stones.” J. W. J.

+ − Nature. 75: 321. Ja. 31, ’07. 1270w.

+ N. Y. Times. 11: 840. D. 1, ’06. 180w.

Clark, Andrew, ed. Shirburn ballads, 1585–1616; ed. from the Ms. *$3.40. Oxford.

They are all from a manuscript in the library of the Earl of Macclesfield, at Shirburn castle. “This collection helps to bridge over the gap between the earlier ballads and those of the post-Restoration period. The variety offered is considerable; there are ballads of religion and of politics, festive ballads and ballads of earthquakes and monsters.” (Dial.)

“The notes of Mr. Shirburn are so learned and interesting that we must admire them in spite of the poetry which they illustrate.” Andrew Lang.

+ Acad. 72: 232. Mr. 9, ’07. 1140w.

“The editor deserves much praise for the pains he has taken to make this book serviceable to the student of Elizabethan social conditions. Many pieces both grave and gay, although throwing no light on institutions or social conditions, yet have an interest to the historian as indicating the temper of the times.”

+ Am. Hist. R. 12: 923. Jl. ’07. 300w.

“The editor ... has done his work with great care. If we were to find fault with anything, it would be that he does not always stick to his antiquarian last.”

+ + − Ath. 1907, 1: 727. Je. 15. 370w.

Dial. 42: 319. My. 16, ’07. 140w.

Lond. Times. 6: 89. Mr. 22, ’07. 1590w.

“Perhaps the greatest importance of the collection is that it bridges over the gap in ballad-literature between the early ballads as represented by Prof. F. J. Child’s monumental work and those of the post-restoration period.”

+ Nation. 84: 384. Ap. 25, ’07. 470w.

Clark, Henry Martyn. Robert Clark of the Panjab. **$1.75. Revell.

“This volume commemorates the life and work of a pioneer missionary amidst a fierce and fanatical people, in northwestern India.... The courage and gentleness, the energy and patience, the self-devotion and tactfulness of the ideal missionary were all illustrated in him, and he did not lack ‘the saving grace’ of a sense of humor. The narrative is blended with sketches of the land and the people, their ways, and the lights and shadows thence resulting. Especially noticeable are the indications of an active interest of both officers and privates of the British army in Christian missions, outrunning a timid policy of the civil government.”—Outlook.

82

+ Lond. Times. 6: 217. Jl. 12, ’07. 430w.

+ Outlook. 86: 745. Ag. 3, ’07. 140w.

+ Spec. 98: 723. My. 4, ’07. 450w.

Clark, Henry W. Philosophy of Christian experience. *$1.25. Revell.

W 6–328.

Mr. Clark “approaches the problem of religion and the object of religious belief from the ethical standpoint. He proposes to treat religion, not as a science of God and his relation to man, but as an art, the ‘art of character-production.’ His book is itself evidence that the Christian religion is primarily a mode of life and conduct, rather than a system of science or philosophy.”—Am. J. Theol.

“Mr. Clark writes eloquently and persuasively. His argument would be stronger and more complete if he had pointed out in his chapter on ‘Christian self-culture’ how identification with Christ involves for man the realization of a definite ideal of service and self-sacrifice. But, on the whole, the book possesses rare merit, having a freshness of inspiration and a cogency of thought quite unusual among works of its class.” Henry W. Wright.

+ + − Am. J. Theol. 11: 358. Ap. ’07. 550w.

“Not often does one find an account of Christian experience which is ethically and philosophically so sound and luminous.”

+ + Outlook. 84: 287. S. 29, ’06. 200w.

Clark, Imogen. Santa Claus’ sweetheart. †$1.25. Dutton.

6–29778.

“Tells how a little maid hailed a passing sleigh, believing it to contain Santa Claus, heard many wonderful things from the merry-hearted Irishman who was driving it, and was left by him at a lumberman’s hut in the forest, where she found her long-lost father.”—N. Y. Times.

“A tender little tale of Christmas time, with big type for encouragement.”

+ Bookm. 24: 529. Ja. ’07. 30w.

“Something very charming in the way of a tale has been woven.”

+ Ind. 61: 1309. D. 22, ’06. 100w.

“The incidents are the homely ones of every day life, but they are told with such a merry tenderness as to bring out all their humor and all their pathos, and make them glow with that spirit of the Christmas time.”

+ N. Y. Times. 11: 808. D. 1, ’06. 70w.

+ N. Y. Times. 11: 895. D. 22, ’06. 70w.

Clark, Mrs. Mary Mead. Corner in India. **$1. Am. Bapt.

7–20732.

“It is a simple story of life-long devotion to the missionary cause, ending with a hopeful, if somewhat meagre, outlook.” (Nation.) Thirty-three years of residence in her corner of the world have brought Mrs. Clark “into contact with many interesting stories of the home-life of the savages in Burma, of their life at work and at play, their worship and strange legends, their relationships with neighboring villages, and, above all, their slow acceptance of the Christian faith offered to them by the zealous missionaries.” (Dial.)

“Her book is consequently of interest both to the casual reader who likes to know about strange people in remote nooks of the world, and to those readers who are vitally concerned about the spread of the Christian religion.” H. E. Coblentz.

+ Dial. 43: 213. O. 1, ’07. 200w.

“Mrs. Clark’s account gains much by its lack of pretence to literary style.”

+ Nation. 85: 120. Ag. 8, ’07. 250w.

* Clark, Mrs. S. R. Graham. Gail Weston. †$1.25. Am. Bapt.

7–31978.

A story for young readers which follows the struggle of a mother and her seven children with poverty. The faultfinding mother, a patient, brave-hearted elder daughter and a loyal son who left his grandfather’s comfortable home to shoulder his share of family burdens are the principal actors in the little drama of toil and final success.

Clark, Victor S. Labour movement in Australasia; a study in social democracy. **$1.50. Holt.

6–43934.

Aims to describe the “history of the political labour party of Australasia, to analyse its policy and the results of that policy so far as applied, and at the same time to make clear the difference as well as the similarities characterising those countries and America, which must affect the application to our own problem of their experience.”

“Not quite so interesting as Reeve’s ‘State experiments in Australia and New Zealand’ or Lloyd’s ‘Newest England’ perhaps, but more judicial than either, and more carefully prepared than the latter.”

+ A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 95. Ap. ’07.

“The book is moderate in tone and is the work of an observer anxious to give correct impressions, hence students of labor and social questions will find it a very useful volume, enabling them to understand the causes and nature of the social evolution of Australasia.” George B. Mangold.

+ + Ann. Am. Acad. 29: 230. Ja. ’07. 610w.

“We highly commend the impartial statements of fact to be found in it, combined as they are with a form and style of exposition rarely to be met with among writers upon such topics.”

+ + − Ath. 1907, 1: 320. Mr. 16. 540w.

“Dr. Clark has given students of this problem a most admirable statement of the situation in Australasia,—free from bias, well arranged and comprehensive enough to include the essential facts.” W. B. Guthrie.

+ + Charities. 17: 468. D. 15, ’07. 480w.

“It is refreshing to find an author who is willing to let the facts speak for themselves without playing tricks on credulous partisans and furnishing food for prejudice; and in this interesting volume the author seems to be honestly trying to place the reader in position to form his own judgment in the presence of the actual situation without too much prompting as to the conclusions he ought to derive from the survey.” Charles Richmond Henderson.

+ Dial. 42: 288. My. 1, ’07. 370w.

“Written in scientific spirit, with unprejudiced presentation of both light and shade, composed in orderly manner with the use of clear unstrained English.”

+ + Ind. 63: 455. Ag. 22, ’07. 600w.

“Dr. Clark’s discussion of the working of social democracy in Australasia impresses one as being eminently fair.” John Cummings.

+ J. Pol. Econ. 15: 242. Ap. ’07. 830w.

“Mr. Clark ... is at his best in the chapter dealing with the economic and social effects of industrial regulation, particularly compulsory arbitration. Has covered a large field, and has done his work well; to our knowledge no other writer—in America at least—has brought back from that economic wonderland so reliable a report of the alleged marvels wrought in the name of ‘progress.’ His publisher should have seen to it that the book was provided with a better index.”

+ + − Nation. 84: 364. Ap. 18, ’07. 1670w.

“While much that he says is entirely just and true the general value of his book seems to me to be much vitiated by important defects and omissions. There are also in the volume a number of misstatements of fact, due, doubtless, to misinformation or to insufficient observation. All in all, Dr. Clark’s account of the labor movement in Australasia is of more interest and value to the student of theories than to the practical man of affairs.” Florence Finch Kelly.

− + N. Y. Times. 12: 84. F. 9, ’07. 1730w.

83“The chief value of the present book, moreover, lies not so much in its description as in its interpretation of the facts.” Leonard W. Hatch.

+ + − Pol. Sci. Q. 22: 353. Je. ’07. 850w.

Clarke, Henry Butler. Modern Spain, 1815–1898; with a memoir by the Rev. W. H. Hutton. (Cambridge historical series.) *$2. Putnam.

7–6416.

The posthumous work of a man “of acknowledged competence in matters, especially literary, pertaining to Spain, whose book is almost the only, and certainly the best, account in English of the unfortunate history of that country during the nineteenth century.... Its attitude is historical and, a special point for readers on this side of the Atlantic, its presentation of the Cuban question is temperate and convincing.” (Nation.)

+ + − Ath. 1907, 1: 158. F. 9. 760w.

“A few important points are somewhat slurred, as, for instance, the matter of the Hohenzollern candidacy; the index is poor, and there are more slips and misprints than is usual in this series, but on the whole the book may be warmly recommended.”

+ − Nation. 85: 254. S. 19, ’07. 140w.

“The weakest part of the book appears to be the last pages, in which the author deals with the loss of the colonies in the war with the United States.”

+ − Sat. R. 103: 81. Ja. 19, ’07. 1200w.

“The present volume is a work of undoubted authority, and exhibits a complete mastery of the subject in all its details. It is a book written as it were from within, from a personal knowledge of the country and the people.”

+ + − Spec. 98: 91. Ja. 19, ’07. 410w.

Clarke, Maud W. Nature’s own garden. Il. **$6. Dutton.

“The author tells pleasantly, but with somewhat prolix sentiment, the story of her researches in English fields and woods for the flowers she has painted.” (Ind.) The volume is handsomely illustrated with numerous engravings and fifty colored plates of plants in their native haunts.

“Unfortunately for her book making, she has studied Richard Jefferies too much. We are grateful to her and to Messrs. Dent for providing us with another pretty gift book for our gentle, less critical friends.”

+ − Acad. 72: 506. My. 25, ’07. 1350w.

“Intelligence and thought and knowledge have worked hand in hand; and we appreciate these so much that we lament the more the lack of restraint with which the book is written.”

+ − Ath. 1907, 2: 18. Jl. 6. 390w.

“Eyes hungering for beauty are again, as in Jefferies’s enchanting pages, persuaded to look at things that are near and common, and to find it there; and herein lies the value of this book.” Sara Andrew Shafer.

+ Dial. 42: 1364. Je. 16, ’07. 1900w.

“It is interesting to a lover of American flowers to see how English flowers look, for there are very few of the flowers here figured which grow here, altho many of them are familiar enough in literature.”

+ Ind. 62: 1359. Je. 6, ’07. 180w.

“The manner of the book is personal in tone, colloquial, not always quite exact in the use of language, but fairly entertaining in the mass.”

+ Nation. 84: 572. Je. 20, ’07. 560w.

“Essentially a book of the gift class, it is a worthy recruit to the ranks of the nature books, both in concept and execution.”

+ N. Y. Times. 12: 357. Je. 1, ’07. 280w.

+ N. Y. Times. 12: 379. Je. 15, ’07. 110w.

“Written by a nature-lover of unusual skill in description as well as in observing.”

+ Outlook. 86: 438. Je. 22, ’07. 90w.

“The evident pleasure in the subject and in the task of production is more than usually infectious, and the sermons in aestheticism tend to disappear as the book progresses.”

+ − Sat. R. 104: 178. Ag. 10, ’07. 340w.

“The text is written in an involved and high-flown style, which may occasionally puzzle the understanding of many readers.”

− Spec. 99: 329. S. 7, ’07. 230w.

Clausen, George. Aims and ideals in art. *$1.50. Dutton.

7–15912.

Eight lectures which treat of such subjects as quality in color, direct brush work, drawing, imagination and the ideal.

“We have much that is obvious and elementary, and see Mr. Clausen frequently retiring behind the sheltering authority of Reynolds or Millet or Leonardo.”

+ − Ath. 1906, 2: 699. D. 1. 650w.

+ + Int. Studio. 30: 279. Ja. ’07. 60w.

“Mr. Clausen is in fact an avowed disciple of Reynolds’s teaching. He finds in the famous ‘Discourses’ matter of pregnant interest and help for the student of to-day; and it is no small compliment to his own lectures that they recall, in their sanity and stimulating power, no less than in their clear and temperate style, their great example.”

+ + Lond. Times. 5: 368. N. 2, ’06. 1230w.

+ N. Y. Times. 12: 158. Mr. 16, ’07. 220w.

“He has hardly mastered Reynolds’ critical position. His method is simply to juxtapose the old and new in happy oblivion of their mutual exclusions. He has the artist’s lucky knack of seeing only what he wants to see, and the practical man’s gift of holding contradictory opinions. If Mr. Clausen brings us but a little way towards the solution of the problems which he raises, he has at least produced a modest and charming little book.”

+ − Sat. R. 103: 84. Ja. 19, ’07. 1100w.

“The views expressed here are sound and the thought is clear. There seems to be little wanting that is possessed by the literary critic, while there is much that only the painter can know.”

+ + Spec. 97: 257. F. 16, ’07. 1370w.

Clausen, George. Six lectures on painting, delivered to the students of the Royal academy of arts in London. (London lib.) *$1.50. Dutton.

The six lectures include the following: Some early painters; On lighting and arrangement; On colour; Titian, Velasquez, and Rembrandt; On landscape and open-air painting; On realism and impressionism.

“Should be put into the hands of every young student.”

+ + Int. Studio. 30: 279. Ja. ’07. 60w.

“We applaud Prof. Clausen for appealing straight to the unself-conscious common sense of his audience, and for not wasting time in pedantry.”

+ N. Y. Times. 12: 158. Mr. 16, ’07. 220w.

Clay, Albert Tobias. Light on the Old Testament from Babel. $2. S. S. times co.

7–4784.

“A résumé of the material in the Assyro-Babylonian inscriptions which bears upon the interpretation and understanding of the Hebrew Scriptures. There is much material included on Babylonian life and civilization not to be found in other works of this kind.”—Bib. World.

“This is a valuable addition from a conservative standpoint to the abundant literature on this subject.”

+ + Bib. World. 29: 319. Ap. ’07. 50w.

84“The work is so treated that it scarcely at all duplicates the works previously published.”

+ + Ind. 62: 444. F. 21, ’07. 200w.

“The text displays a vicious tendency to minimize the changes of opinion in the field of Hebrew history and religion made necessary by recent discoveries, and to gloss over the similarities and magnify the differences between Babylonian conceptions and those of the Biblical narrative.”

+ − Nation. 85: 185. Ag. 29, ’07. 190w.

+ Outlook. 86: 569. Je. 13, ’07. 160w.

Clegg, Thomas Bailey. Wilderness. †$1.50. Lane.

“This is a story of a great wrong, a bitter hatred, and retribution complete and merciless enough to satisfy the most remorseless seeker after justice.... The scene is laid in Australia, a country which Mr. Clegg has evidently studied to some purpose; the characters are primitive men with primitive passions.”—Acad.

“Mr. Clegg writes well.”

+ Acad. 71: 374. O. 13, ’06. 130w.

“Its fault is that it is too rich in themes, with the result that no one of them is adequately worked out.”

+ − Ath. 1906, 2: 578. N. 10. 270w.

“A thoroughly interesting and unconventional piece of work, vigorous with the spirit of a land still in its youth, so far as the over refinements of civilization go; and depicting persons and scenes far enough out of the ordinary to prove uncommonly attractive to the jaded reader of stories.”

+ N. Y. Times. 11: 896. D. 22, ’06. 1510w.

Cleghorn, Sarah N. Turnpike lady: a tale of Beartown, Vermont, 1768–1796. †$1.25. Holt.

7–30831.

A story literally steeped in the atmosphere of “little nothingnesses” that make up the life of a family in a Vermont hamlet at the beginning of the revolution. It’s “an old-time American idyl with the spirit of locality strong upon it.”

“One recognizes an uncommonly successful writing-down of many of its present-day idiosyncrasies. For the rest, the story is quite inoffensive, told in a rambling, artless, unpracticed fashion, that almost makes one question whether it were not intended as a juvenile.”

+ − Nation. 85: 423. N. 7, ’07. 240w.

“A pretty story.”

+ N. Y. Times. 12: 681. O. 26, ’07. 110w.

“One feels that the author has real sympathy with her subject and characters, and that, despite her abrupt and disjointed manner of telling the tale, it is really worth having.”

+ − Outlook. 87: 497. N. 2, ’07. 70w.

Clemens, Samuel Langhorne (Mark Twain, pseud.). Christian science. $1.75. Harper.

7–6631.

Mark Twain’s viewpoint is an objective one, humorously critical and one which characterizes the Christian science faith in the light of a reversal of the very things which to its followers are possible. He counts Christian science among the religions of the insane, and considers Mrs. Eddy in the light of a self-deified mental despot, which picture is drawn from the author’s interpretation of her acts and words.

“He does his work coolly and impartially. ‘Christian science’ in the United States and elsewhere will find the present work offensive, and regard some portions of the humor which pervades it as little short of blasphemy.”

+ − Ath. 1907, 1: 466. Ap. 20. 2140w.

+ − Cath. World. 86: 244. N. ’07. 760w.

Current Literature. 42: 321. Mr. ’07. 2620w.

“Adds nothing to the fame of the author.”

− Dial. 42: 190. Mr. 16, ’07. 140w.

“It certainly is extremely funny—in spots.”

+ Ind. 63: 1238. N. 21, ’07. 40w.

Lit. D. 34: 255. F. 16, ’07. 1250w.

“Mark Twain does not attempt a serious examination of the doctrines of Christian science; probably he thinks it would be useless.”

+ − Lond. Times. 6: 108. Ap. 5, ’07. 1450w.

“The book is without beginning, middle, or end; it is extremely repetitious. It cannot be regarded as either a serious or a humorous contribution to the discussion.”

− Nation. 84: 154. F. 14, ’07. 200w.

+ N. Y. Times. 12: 386. Je. 15, ’07. 150w.

“From beginning to end Mr. Twain misunderstands where he does not misstate the beliefs of Christian scientists.” Charles Klein.

− − No. Am. 184: 637. Mr. 15, ’07. 2190w.

“His book is much more than a garland of humor. In reality it is much more. It is a sober, compassionate and very earnest study of a remarkable system, the achievement of a very gifted woman.” Charles Johnston.

+ No. Am. 184: 641. Mr. 15, ’07. 1580w.

R. of Rs. 35: 508. Ap. ’07. 180w.

“Altogether, this book is unfortunate. Uproarious passages in it which have all Mark Twain’s old drollery and delightful extravagance tell us that his great comic powers are unimpaired. They wait to be reapplied successfully.”

− Spec. 98: 536. Ap. 6, ’07. 1570w.

Clemens, Samuel Langhorne (Mark Twain, pseud.). Horse’s tale. †$1. Harper.

7–34780.

Our much loved humorist has done another kindly service to his dumb brothers in this story of the cavalry horse, Soldier Boy, and the sunny little girl who loved him and all the world. There is much amusing satire in the story, but beneath it there throbs a great hearted kin-feeling for the animals who serve us, and there is a plea for true recognition of this service in the tragic death of little Cathy who lays down her life for the horse who has once saved it.

“We feel the throb of the kindest heart in the world beating for the helpless, whether brute or human, in this book, as in its long line of predecessors.”

+ Ind. 63: 1377. D. 5, ’07. 170w.

“The tale will interest both children and grown-ups.”

+ Nation. 85: 519. D. 5, ’07. 90w.

“A short story in a rare vein of the author. Tenderness and swift, unexpected pathos make it notable.”

+ + N. Y. Times. 12: 653. O. 19, ’07. 40w.

“Combining some of the best flavor of Mark Twain’s peculiar humor with sentiment borrowed partly from standard nursery literature and partly from the tracts of the Society for the prevention of cruelty to animals.”

+ − N. Y. Times. 12: 742. N. 23, ’07. 230w.

Clemens, Samuel Langhorne (Mark Twain, pseud.). King Leopold’s soliloquy: a defense of his Congo rule. 25c. P. R. Warren co., Boston.

5–32801.

With the intention of aiding Congo reform, Mark Twain arraigns humorously, but none the less scathingly, the shortcomings of King Leopold in his dominion over the Congo State.

“The great humorist never wielded his pen more pointedly in behalf of honesty and humanity.”

+ Am. J. Theol. 10: 198. Ja. ’06. 60w.

+ Ath. 1907, 1: 664. Je. 1. 50w.

“While we are wholly in sympathy with Mark Twain’s purpose, we cannot approve of his method. The man so soliloquising would not say the things which the king is made to say, would not quote long passages which are, in fact, evidence against himself of the most 85damnatory kind. It is not a case, we think, in which fiction can be legitimately used, and as a matter of fact, it is not used with any great subtlety or art.”

− + Spec. 98: 947. Je. 15, ’07. 270w.

Clements, Frederic Edward. Plant physiology and ecology. *$2. Holt.

7–25525.

A book intended for use with classes in second-year botany in college and university. In fifteen chapters the author treats of stimulus and response, the water of the habitat, adjustment to water, to light, to temperature, and to gravity, adaptation to water and to light, the origin of new forms, methods of studying vegetation; the plant formation, aggregation and migration, competition and ecesis, invasion and succession, alteration and zanation. The illustrations, consisting of photographs and line cuts, are many and good.

“Dr. Clements set himself a very difficult task, perhaps an impossible one, if we do not mistake the trend of recent study. That must be allowed for. Our main criticism, however, is not upon the choice of material for a brief treatise; it is against the attitude of mind that can tolerate vague explanations and invalid reasoning, and against a treatment of fundamental topics which is ineffective and not in accord with present knowledge.” C. R. B.

− Bot. Gaz. 44: 307. O. ’07. 970w.

“The author writes in a peculiarly lucid and interesting way.”

+ + Nation. 85: 257. S. 19, ’07. 150w.

“Constitutes a notable addition to the literature of botany in America.” Charles E. Bessey.

+ + Science, n.s. 26: 440. O. 4, ’07. 620w.

Clerici, Graziano Paolo. Queen of indiscretions: tragedy of Caroline of Brunswick, queen of England; tr. by Frederic Chapman. *$7. Lane.

7–19766.

The unpleasant story of Queen Caroline, the much disliked wife of George IV. is given in detail in this volume. “To speak of her in the words of the romantic and attractive title of this book as ‘a queen of indiscretions’ is to put her case very leniently indeed. Knowing that scandalmongers were constantly busy with her name, she deliberately did whatever a mind remarkably fertile in expedients could devise to make herself talked about the more. Finally she left England and spent six years trailing her little court ... all over Europe and even into Asia. Much of this time she spent in Italy. And it is to the records of her stay in that country that Signor Clerici has especially devoted himself in the preparation of this book.... The illustrations are numerous and interesting.” (N. Y. Times.)

“Caroline’s life was an astounding romance, and though it is a little clouded in the sumptuous volume before us by sentiment and pathos which are not needed, the account is ably given. The numerous illustrations, which are admirably reproduced from contemporary portraits and prints, would alone make the book of interest and value.”

+ − Acad. 72: 55. Ja. 19, ’07. 850w.

“It cannot be said that any addition of importance has been made to history. The book will doubtless have its public, and is laudably free from errors, unless we count as such the statement that Brougham was ever the ‘leader’ of the Whig party.”

+ − Ath. 1906, 2: 728. D. 8. 1950w.

“The index, by the way, is evidently not the work of an expert. There is a lack, too, throughout the narrative, of definite acknowledgment of sources.”

− + Dial. 42: 147. Mr. 1, ’07. 300w.

“It has two great merits—really new material and a seriously historical mind. He himself has brought to his task immense pains, lucidity, and an impartiality of mind which does not prevent a definite view from emerging.”

+ + − Lond. Times. 6: 10. Ja. 11, ’07. 870w.

“The book has for its chief attractions a series of illustrations, of which several are of interest, and some new, if not very important evidence as to Caroline’s doings in Italy.”

+ − Nation. 84: 105. Ja. 31, ’07. 140w.

N. Y. Times. 12: 76. F. 3, ’07. 560w.

“Mr. Chapman has produced a very readable version of the original, but he ought not to have allowed ‘Huskisson’ to have been spelt ‘Hutchinson.’ Nor can we speak in warm terms of his introduction, which is largely made up of copious extracts from the Malmesbury diaries and Lady Charlotte Bury, together with much gossip that had better have been omitted. Some of the illustrations are exceedingly curious, and the book altogether is worthy of a better subject.”

+ − Spec. 98: sup. 118. Ja. 26, ’07. 340w.

Cleveland, (Stephen) Grover. Fishing and shooting sketches; il. by H: S. Watson. *$1.25. Outing pub.

6–35962.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“The sentences are sometimes long and involved and do not make what is called ‘easy reading.’”

+ − A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 40. F. ’07.

“Short and unpretentious chapters, written as they are in a humane and enlightened spirit, with an occasional touch of humor in its specific sense, and a delightful prevalence of good humor throughout.”

+ + Dial. 42: 189. Mr. 16, ’07. 190w.

Ind. 62: 739. Mr. 28, ’07. 90w.

“This is perhaps the nearest approach the public will ever make toward seeing an autobiography by Mr. Cleveland.”

+ + Lit. D. 34: 263. F. 16, ’07. 80w.

“His little book is full of sound, homely philosophy and quaint humor.”

+ + N. Y. Times. 12: 64. F. 2, ’07. 220w.

Clouston, Thomas Smith. Hygiene of mind. *$2.50. Dutton.

7–29074.

“A convenient and sensible handbook, setting forth the doctrines of sound health of mind.... The nature of brain action, its dependence upon the muscular, nutritive, and supporting systems, the changes of state in the several ages of man, the momentous doctrines of heredity, the special liabilities of the periods of life, the questions of diet and exercise, the reflex influences of good cheer and healthy-mindedness—all these are plainly handled.”—Dial.

“The book is a readable and practical contribution to its topic. It reflects a clinical interest in the workings of the mind, but lacks the insight into the underlying psychological relations that might well sharpen the contours and add interest to the details of the ensemble.”

+ − Dial. 42: 291. My. 1, ’07. 180w.

“His treatment of the management of instincts is particularly good, and is supremely sane.”

+ Ind. 62: 858. Ap. 11, ’07. 180w.

“The greater portion of the volume escapes from the difficulties incidental to conflict between physics and metaphysics, and is devoted to giving good advice concerning the physical, moral, and intellectual training of the young. In this part of his task Dr. Clouston, although seldom original, is always sensible and instructive.”

+ − Lond. Times. 5: 383. D. 16, ’06. 910w.

“A book that parents and others will find helpful in its suggestiveness rather than in definite directions or explicit advice.”

+ Nation. 85: 105. Ag. 1, ’07. 270w.

“It is sensibly written and backed by a wide experience of the matters in hand. A good deal of the author’s advice is stated somewhat too generally to be easily convertible into terms of practice, but the burden of his theme is clear enough.”

+ − Sat. R. 102: 778. D. 22, ’06. 340w.

86“His materials are ample, betray wide experience, and on the whole are thoughtfully and wisely utilised.”

+ Spec. 97: sup. 763. N. 17, ’06. 390w.

Cody, Sherwin. Success in letter-writing, business and social. **75c. McClurg.

6–24040.

A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 66. Mr. ’07. S.

Colby, June Rose. Literature and life in school. *$1.25. Houghton.

6–41522.

Concerned with the needs of elementary schools this book “aims to show that literature should be made a vital part of school life—not merely in the formal instruction, but in many incidental ways and in a spontaneous rather than a conventional fashion.... An appendix gives in condensed form suggestions for class and outside reading.” (Outlook.)

Dial. 42: 233. Ap. 1, ’07. 50w.

“The book is well worth reading, not merely by teachers, but by all who have an interest in the development of the child mind and in the advance of good taste and right standards in literary study.”

+ Outlook. 85: 94. Ja. 12, ’07. 100w.

“The style confuses one as to the usefulness of the book. It is a literary style, whereas it ought to be a scientific style. This gives it a vague and indirect air, where one has a right to expect directness and authority.” Porter Lander MacClintock.

− School R. 15: 400. My. ’07. 460w.

* Cole, Timothy. Old Spanish masters engraved by Timothy Cole, with historical notes by Charles H. Caffin and comments by the engraver. **$6. Century.

7–32152.

This work continues the series of reproductions of paintings by old masters including Old Italian masters, Old Dutch and Flemish masters, and Old English masters. The enduring value of Mr. Cole’s engravings has been faithfully imparted to these reproductions while the text furnishes an interesting story of Spanish art. “Starting at the moment when Italian art was entering upon the superb achievements of the high renaissance, it survived the latter’s decay, reached its own independent climax in the seventeenth century, and received a supplementary chapter at the end of the eighteenth. As a connected narrative it may be said to have begun with the birth of a United States in 1492.”

“The thirty-one examples of his work contained add fresh lustre to his fame. Though not all of equal excellence, they are as beautiful artistically as anything he has previously done, and some of them are quite unsurpassed. Mr. Cole’s skill with the graver shows no sign of diminution. His line is still as marvellously varied, as virile and sympathetically expressive, as ever.” Frederick W. Gookin.

+ + Dial. 43: 370. D. 1, ’07. 1050w.

N. Y. Times. 12: 666. O. 19, ’07. 80w.

“Mr. Cole’s illustrations of [Velasquez, Ribera, and Zurburan] ... are too suave, but he has certainly done the world of art a service in his other reproductions.”

+ + − Outlook. 87: 614. N. 23, ’07. 340w.

Coleridge, Mary E. Lady on the drawingroom floor. $1.50. Longmans.

7–35195.

“A dreamy prose idyl; the scene, that most unromantic spot, a London lodginghouse; the persons, a middle-aged spinster and an elderly bachelor. Yet with these unpromising materials the author succeeds in awakening sympathetic attention. The pleasant mystification running through these pages will not bear too close analysis; nor do we feel inclined to put it to such a test. Lucilla is the name of the heroine. She is as agreeable as her name, and lives in an atmosphere of flowers, music, and firelight, with pets as ill-assorted as a tortoise, a cat, and a parrot.”—N. Y. Times.

“Interesting, not for its plot, but for the character sketches and conversation and the originality of the two main characters. Unusually well written.”

+ A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 107. Ap. ’07.

“The dreamy and half-mystical charm characteristic of the author is stamped on every detail of the story, imparting to it an individuality and persuasiveness of its own.”

+ Ath. 1906, 2: 730. D. 8. 120w.

“Hers is the method, rare, indeed, among English writers of fiction, which constructs without letting the reader see the processes of construction. There is such comedy or tragedy or fantasy on every page that the reader soon feels that to skip even a single sentence is to run the risk of missing something essential to the general effect, and at once to defraud himself and to do injustice to the writer and there is something of the fineness of thought which is rarely absent from good work.”

+ + Lond. Times. 5: 352. O. 19, ’06. 590w.

“This is a frankly sentimental book, without being at all mawkish. There are no laughs to be gained from it, but many comfortable smiles. The author’s style has grace and distinction.”

+ N. Y. Times. 11: 904. D. 29, ’06. 130w.

“It is very well done but was it worth doing?”

+ − Sat. R. 102: 553. N. 3, ’06. 170w.

“A volume in which the delicate simplicity of the style is happily attuned to the gracious distinction of the author’s thought.”

+ Spec. 97: 684. N. 3, ’06. 1070w.

Colestock, Henry Thomas. Ministry of David Baldwin. †$1.50. Crowell.

7–10047.

David Baldwin, a young minister, just out of the divinity school, receives a call to a conservative pulpit in a Minnesota town, one condition being stipulated, viz., that he shall take with him a wife. He fulfills the letter of the call, and enters upon a mission full of stress and opposition. The pillars of his church denounce his ideas on the inspiration of the Bible, evolution and the higher criticism as unsound. How he holds to his principles and wins out in the conflict furnishes an interesting solution to a present day problem.

Acad. 72: 368. Ap. 13, ’07. 180w.

+ Lit. D. 34: 509. Mr. 30, ’07. 240w.

“The author designates his book a novel, but he would be better justified in calling it a novel once or twice removed.”

− Nation. 84: 341. Ap. 11, ’07. 290w.

“The author, having arranged his pieces and set his problems, having made sundry moves as if he were going to play the game according to the rules, finally falls back on an act of God for his solution, which leaves the whole business where it began.”

− N. Y. Times. 12: 139. Mr. 9, ’07. 570w.

N. Y. Times. 12: 379. Je. 15, ’07. 180w.

“While there are many homely scenes sufficiently true to life in this tale ... it lacks grace, and fails to awaken complete sympathy for the somewhat ordinary young preacher.”

− − + Outlook. 86: 340. Je. 15, ’07. 110w.

Collings, Jesse. Land reform, occupying ownership, peasant proprietary, and rural education. *$4.20. Longmans.

7–2568.

This volume by “the well-known supporter of Mr. Chamberlain and president of the Rural laborers’ league ... opens with a discussion of the principles of the purchase of land bills, introduced into the house of commons by the 87author two years ago. Next follow seven excellent chapters containing a fairly full history of the origin and growth of the present English land system, and particularly of the gradual disappearance of peasant proprietorship. Lastly, a third division of nine chapters sets forth the arguments for and against the various proposals which have been made for the revival of British agriculture and the encouragement of small holdings.”—Nation.

“Mr. Jesse Collings will carry a larger public with him in his attempt to supply material for a history of the land question, from the point of view of the occupying owner, than he will in his definite proposals.”

+ − Ath. 1906, 2: 128. Ag. 4. 660w.

“Valuable and instructive work.”

+ Lond. Times. 5: 270. Ag. 3, ’06. 1420w.

“A book of which certain parts are extremely interesting, though they appear in somewhat confused array.”

+ − Nation. 84: 176. F. 21, ’07. 240w.

“Those who are interested in the problem of English land tenure, whether they agree with Mr. Collings in his main contention or not, will find his book instructive; those who are interested in rural education will find it suggestive, and all who are interested in social and economic problems should find it worth reading.” Henry C. Taylor.

+ Pol. Sci. Q. 22: 351. Je. ’07. 860w.

Sat. R. 102: 808. D. 29, ’06. 1050w.

“Ought to have been wholly authoritative, and yet throughout must be read with caution.”

+ − Spec. 97: 682. N. 3, ’06. 730w.

Collins, Thomas Byard. New agriculture. $2. Munn.

6–40570.

“A popular outline of the changes which are revolutionizing the methods of farming and the habits of farm life. The writer maintains that farm life was never so attractive as it is today, although he admits that present methods of production and distribution outside the farm leave much to be desired.”—R. of Rs.

“The book is a treatise rather than an experience and savors considerably of poetry as well as of business, and he makes some mistakes. It will be of use, however, to anyone who wishes to easily inform himself of recent progress in agriculture or cheer that ever-increasing hope that lies in urban hearts and makes men think of a farm home.” J. Russell Smith.

+ − Ann. Am. Acad. 29: 424. Mr. ’07. 360w.

“An interesting volume.”

+ R. of Rs. 35: 510. Ap. ’07. 120w.

Collyer, Robert. Father Taylor. *80c. Am. Unitar.

6–42972.

Father Taylor lived and preached the principles of universal brotherhood. “An untutored son of nature, rugged of build, endowed with keen power of wit and repartee, scathing in his rebuke of everything low or mean, a father to his homeless sailor ‘boys,’ frank, generous, outspoken, fearless, owning no man his master in thought or action, lovable always, with an emotional nature generous in all its impulses, set aflame in the cause of those to whom he devoted his life, who made use of his Seamen’s Bethel in the port of Boston.”

“In his ‘Father Taylor’ Robert Collyer is at his best.” Robert E. Bisbee.

+ + Arena. 37: 111. Ja. ’07. 300w.

Colquhoun, Archibald Ross, and Colquhoun, Ethel Maud. Whirlpool of Europe, Austria-Hungary and the Habsburgs; with maps, diag. and il. **$3.50. Dodd.

7–10613.

“Not merely a travel book, nor yet one purely geographical or political, but a combination of the two.” (R. of Rs.) “In this ‘Whirlpool of Europe’ may be studied the eddying currents of five or six different races, religions, and national ambitions. Every phase of European civilization, every question, racial political, or social, that has agitated Europe in the last two centuries may be here studied.” (Lit. D.)

“The book is the more important because of the scarcity of material on Austria available at the present time.”

+ A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 161. O. ’07. S.

“The value of the book—and it is great—does not consist in reply to the questions which the reader will put, but in the fact that a vast mass of material helping him to construct answers for himself is to be found in the pages of Mr. and Mrs. Colquhoun.”

+ Ath. 1907, 1: 320. Mr. 16. 350w.

“The book is highly interesting to all who wish information about the problems of the dual monarchy. The shortcomings of the book are in the conclusions and the observations of the near past and the present-day life. The intimate knowledge which cannot be taken from books, but which can be obtained only by an extended sojourn in the country, is often lacking, and in its place there are categoric statements not always reliable.”

+ − Ind. 63: 40. Jl. 4, ’07. 720w.

“As regards political personages and living issues, such as Pan-Germanism, Pan-Slavism, etc. the volume is instructive and interesting. Very interesting also is the authoritative account of the emperor’s personality.”

+ Lit. D. 34: 723. My. 4, ’07. 280w.

“Mr. Colquhoun’s book appears to us to suffer to some extent from the attempt to cover too much ground; and we believe that it would have been more useful if he had devoted rather more space to the history of the last forty years and rather less to that of the Middle Ages.”

+ − Lond. Times. 6: 89. Mr. 22, ’07. 1430w.

“It is pleasant to lay hands on a serious study of an interesting problem by writers who can bring to the task the essential historical perspective and a capacity for making the event of the day relate to what came before it.”

+ Nation. 85: 146. Ag. 15, ’07. 940w.

“As they have immeasurably accomplished their object, they are fairly entitled to a vote of thanks, even if they have failed to make their narrative quite as interesting as the picturesqueness of the material might persuade one to hope it might be.”

+ − N. Y. Times. 12: 293. My. 4, ’07. 970w.

“A distinct contribution of value to political literature.”

+ Outlook. 86: 613. Jl. 20, ’07. 190w.

R. of Rs. 35: 636. My. ’07. 120w.

“The chief weakness in the book lies in the want of arrangement, and an unfortunate tendency to go off at a tangent at any moment. Contains the makings of an excellent book on Austria-Hungary, but a great deal of revision and further study is necessary.”

+ − Spec. 98: 832. My. 25, ’07. 2000w.

* Colton, Arthur Willis. Harps hung up in Babylon. **$1.25. Holt.

7–30424.

A lyrical offering whose verse rings on, sings on as do the loosened strings of his “harp of Babylon.” “Brief, happily-fashioned records of a mood, such as ‘Let me no more a mendicant’ or ‘To-morrow,’ show his characteristic touch, but the ‘Canticle of the road’ is perhaps more delightful, with its marching measure and breath of ozone. Mr. Colton’s work does not interpret a wide range of experience nor formulate a philosophy, though the Eastern morality poems are thoughtful and true in ethics, but it has a touch of its own and a charm of personality.” (Putnam’s.)

88“He did well, however, to associate his collection with the name and the charm of its opening lyric, for here is as lovely a bit of melody as one will find in recent poetry.” Jessie B. Rittenhouse.

+ Putnam’s. 3: 366. D. ’07. 240w.

Colvin, Sir Auckland. Making of modern Egypt. 3d ed. *$4. Dutton.

6–24922.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“A well-written digest of official reports, skillfully edited by a ‘Financial adviser’ who had a fair share in the ‘making.’”

+ + Ind. 62: 98. Ja. 10, ’07. 810w.

Commander, Lydia Kingsmill. American idea. $1.50. Barnes.

7–7168.

“In which the following question is considered: “Does the determination of the American people to establish a small family point to race suicide or race development?” The author discusses the question from first hand observation, search and interview and concludes that unless there is a social adjustment of industrial and social conditions, race suicide is inevitable.”

“A volume in which one of the gravest questions of the hour is treated in a most entertaining yet deeply thoughtful and wisely suggestive manner.”

+ + Arena. 38: 212. Ag. ’07. 800w.

Ind. 62: 562. Mr. 7, ’07. 200w.

“The discussion bears none of the dogmatic traits which usually characterize subjects of this nature; it is conducted in a fair and dispassionate manner.”

+ Lit. D. 34: 677. Ap. 27, ’07. 390w.

“Is valuable chiefly for the large amount of first-hand testimony it contains touching the causes of our falling birthrate.” Edward Alsworth Ross.

+ Pol. Sci. Q. 22: 544. S. ’07. 310w.

R. of Rs. 35: 638. My. ’07. 90w.

Commons, John Rogers. Proportional representation. 2d ed.; with chapters on the initiative, the referendum, and primary elections. **$1.25. Macmillan.

7–21300.

The main portion of the work remains unchanged; in addition to it are several appendices, embracing articles written by the author since 1896, and dealing with the system of direct primary election, the initiative and referendum—“measures designed to make popular government in very reality government by the people, through enabling the people on the one hand to propose and on the other to veto legislation.” (Outlook.)

J. Pol. Econ. 15: 442. Jl. ’07. 130w.

+ Nation. 85: 254. S. 19, ’07. 180w.

“Certain statistical information might advantageously have been brought closer to date. We observe, also, a few tabular errors that should have been corrected.”

+ − Outlook. 86: 835. Ag. 17, ’07. 370w.

+ R. of Rs. 36: 511. O. ’07. 110w.

Commons, John Rogers. Races and immigrants in America. **$1.50. Macmillan.

7–17894.

“Prof. Commons believes that the dominant factor in American life, underlying all our political, legal, economic, ecclesiastical, and moral problems, is the conflict and assimilation of races. He has shown how the heterogenous elements that go to make up the American people have influenced our institutions, pointing out the characteristics of the various races and nationalities, their part in self-government, their effect on wealth and its distribution, the forces of Americanization, and the barriers against inundation.”—N. Y. Times.

“A popular study with scientific basis.”

+ A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 162. O. ’07. S.

“The work is scientific as to method and popular in style, and forms a very useful handbook about the American population.”

+ + Dial. 43: 122. S. 1, ’07. 340w.

“Well fortified throughout by statistics, and evidencing a wide range of observation, the great merit of the volume is its sensibleness.”

+ + Nation. 85: 229. S. 12, ’07. 340w.

N. Y. Times. 12: 300. My. 11, ’07. 100w.

“Prof. Commons has managed to set forth an immense amount of condensed information about these many-colored threads that have gone into the weaving of our Joseph’s coat and has found room also to discuss, with a remarkable breadth of view and an unusual amount of common sense, the causes of immigration, the instruments of assimilation, and the effect of the new conditions upon the immigrants.”

+ + N. Y. Times. 12: 427. Jl. 6, ’07. 240w.

“Professor Commons has used the last census to good advantage, and gives much interesting information as to the constituent elements of this heterogeneous population, and also regarding the continuous displacing of one group by another with a lower standard of life.” G. Louis Beer.

+ Putnam’s. 2: 742. S. ’07. 410w.

“We do not recall another book of its size that presents so much important and essential information on this vital topic.”

+ + R. of Rs. 35: 758. Je. ’07. 170w.

Commons, John Rogers, ed. Trade unionism and labor problems. *$2.50. Ginn.

5–34201.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

Reviewed by W. B. Guthrie.

+ Charities. 17: 470. D. 15, ’06. 370w.

Compayre, (Jules) Gabriel. Pioneers in education; tr. by M. E. Findlay, J. E. Mansion, R. P. Jago and Mary D. Frost. 6v. ea. **90c. Crowell.

7–32037–32041.

A series of six studies on the rise and growth of popular education as shown in the efforts of the following pioneer educators: J. J. Rousseau and education by nature; Herbert Spencer and scientific education; Pestalozzi and elementary education; Herbart and education by instruction; Montaigne and education of the judgment, and Horace Mann and the public-school system of the United States.

“M. Compayré possesses keen insight into the significance of the educational leaders and their contributions to educational thought, and both his critical and expository writing about them are most excellent.”

+ Educ. R. 34: 536. D. ’07. 70w.

N. Y. Times. 12: 737. N. 16, ’07. 420w.

R. of Rs. 36: 636. N. ’07. 140w.

Comstock, Anna Botsford (Mrs. J: H: Comstock) (Marian Lee, pseud.). Confessions to a heathen idol; il. from photographs, by Fred Robinson. †$1.50. Doubleday.

6–36878.

An irresponsive confidant in the form of an ugly little teak-wood idol hears the nightly heart-confessions of a woman of forty. Even thru her puzzled wonderings there is the wholesome sanity of a well-poised woman who says, “life with all its blisses and sorrows, its ecstasies and commonplaces, is mightily worth while to us mortals, because, good or bad, it is ever and always so surprisingly interesting.”

“A refreshingly unusual and whimsical book.” Frederic Taber Cooper.

+ Bookm. 24: 589. F. ’07. 550w.

89“The book has in it much to please and interest besides its rather thin little story. It is written with a refinement of taste and a distinction of manner that are to be found all too rarely in American fiction. But it lacks vital connection with life. It is pleasing, interesting, refined, but purely academic.”

+ − N. Y. Times. 11: 703. O. 27, ’06. 350w.

“It is, in fact, a very good mechanism for telling a love story.”

+ N. Y. Times. 11: 811. D. 1, ’06. 160w.

Comstock, Harriet T. Meg and the others. †75c. Crowell.

6–25997.

“Seldom have we read a sweeter or more natural and wholesome tale for little folks of from six to ten years of age than this charming story.”

+ + Arena. 37: 222. F. ’07. 160w.

Conant, Charles Arthur. Principles of money and banking. 2v. *$4. Harper.

5–36153.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“It is a work that marks an epoch and it is a work to influence that epoch—would that it might have that careful reading and study that it deserves, for the result would be a better America, because a more intelligent one!” E. S. Crandon.

+ + New England M. 35: 591. Ja. ’07. 2350w.

Connolly, James Bennet. Crested seas. †$1.50. Scribner.

7–30867.

A new volume of sea stories is added to Mr. Connolly’s other three. “Many of the old characters of his previous books appear in new rôles and scenes; Martin Carr, the good-natured veteran; Tommie Clancy, the reckless sail carrier; Dan Coleman, the soft-hearted skipper, and such familiar hands as Peter Kane, Sam Leary and Eddie Foy. To a farmer who has never seen the ocean these stories would be full of interest, but to one who knows a seine-heaver from a bite-passer, who realizes what it is to carry full sail when the water stands to the helmsman’s waist, and has himself heard the rattle of reef points on a tauted sail and the groaning of riggings under a press of canvas, these tales of the sea weave a spell that is difficult to throw off for some time.” (Ind.)

+ A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 200. N. ’07. ✠

“The romance of a sailor’s life is not a new theme, but Connolly has lived and talked with these rough men of the banks, and has discovered the softer, sweeter side of their lives.”

+ Ind. 63: 944. O. 17, ’07. 310w.

“That the author possesses a real, if not too versatile, narrative gift is undeniable.”

+ Nation. 85: 353. O. 17, ’07. 420w.

N. Y. Times. 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 30w.

“Mr. Connolly appears to understand the psychological make-up of sea-faring men, and he is hypercritical who would ask too many questions of a tale teller who always spins a good yarn and frequently one that has in it the elements of permanent value.”

+ N. Y. Times. 12: 683. O. 26, ’07. 470w.

“Has the spirited style that befits the sea tale of danger, romance and adventure.”

+ Outlook. 87: 624. N. 23, ’07. 100w.

Connor, Ralph, pseud. The Doctor; a tale of the Rockies. †$1.50. Revell.

6–41274.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“A rather conventional tale, but will be very popular with readers of earlier stories by the same author. Like them, it has a strong religious bias.”

+ A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 16. Ja. ’07. ✠

“A worthy successor of the ‘Sky-pilot.’”

+ + Ath. 1907, 1: 10. Ja. 5. 360w.

“But out of the total impression left on me by this story two facts emerge which seem to have significance of the right sort. One of these is the religious tone that pervades the book. The other significant fact is what I am compelled to call the immorality of portions of the book.” Ward Clark.

+ − Bookm. 24: 597. F. ’07. 890w.

“Is written in his usual stringent style and abounds in thrilling situations.”

+ + Ind. 62: 737. Mr. 28, ’07. 100w.

“A narrative that throbs with human interest.”

+ + Lit. D. 34: 25. Ja. 5, ’07. 270w.

“Yet there is an artistic weakness, and it lies in the reiterated appeal to the reader’s finest sentiment.”

+ − Outlook. 84: 1081. D. 29, ’06. 150w.

“The plot is a little involved and intricate, and therefore not easy to follow, and the character drawing is not very strongly marked.”

+ − Spec. 98: 94. Ja. 19, ’07. 170w.

Conrad, Joseph (Joseph Conrad Korzeniowski). Mirror of the sea. †$1.50. Harper.

6–37221.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“In a manner Mr. Conrad’s book marks an epoch, since it is written in praise of ships, by a man who has sailed them, whose style and shapes shall be sailed no more.”

+ Sat. R. 102: 777. D. 22, ’06. 760w.

Conrad, Joseph. Secret agent. †$1.50. Harper.

7–29428.

A skilfully written story which looks into the lives of anarchists and the machinery of their organization. It tells of a secret agent in the employ of the Russian embassy in London, and of his relations with his employers, with anarchists, with an inspector of police, and with the sluggish members of his own family.

“It is a masterly study, the raw material of which would have been turned into crude melodrama by some writers. Mr. Conrad has made it the vehicle for some of the most telling characterization he has accomplished.”

+ Ath. 1907, 2: 361. S. 28. 630w.

“We approach Mr. Conrad’s ‘The secret agent’ with anticipations that are not fulfilled.” Wm. M. Payne.

− + Dial. 43: 252. O. 16, ’07. 200w.

“We do not consider ‘The secret agent’ Mr. Conrad’s masterpiece; it lacks the free movement of ‘Youth’ and the terrible minuteness of ‘Lord Jim,’ while it offers no scope for the employment of the tender and warm fancy that made ‘Karain’ so memorable; but it is, we think, an advance upon ‘Nostromo,’ its immediate predecessor.”

+ Lond. Times. 6: 285. S. 20, ’07. 440w.

“The characters stand forth clearly enough, but you cannot get interested in them till you have gone through the first half of the volume. This is too heavy a draft on the faith of the reader.”

− + Nation. 85: 285. S. 26, ’07. 250w.

“There is, nevertheless, a vast gulf fixed between Mr. Conrad and the melodramatist, between the human tragedy of ‘The secret agent’ and the detective story of commerce.”

+ N. Y. Times. 12: 562. S. 21, ’07. 1230w.

N. Y. Times. 12: 655. O. 19, ’07. 20w.

“The book will not compare favorably in narrative and descriptive ability with some of Mr. Conrad’s early work, but it has, in its strange way, notable tragic intensity.”

+ − Outlook. 87: 309. O. 12, ’07. 130w.

“In an Idle Reader’s opinion he is the best man at present telling stories.”

+ + Putnam’s. 3: 370. D. ’07. 90w.

“There are certain obvious blemishes in this book.”

+ − Spec. 99: 400. S. 21, ’07. 1690w.

90* Conway, Katherine Eleanor. In the footprints of the Good Shepherd, New York, 1857–1907; from the Convent annals and from personal study of the work. $1.25. Convent of the Good Shepherd. N. Y.

7–21320.

A memorial of the fiftieth anniversary jubilee of the Convent of the Good Shepherd of New York city. “Besides telling the story of the convent’s growth, Miss Conway gives an interesting account of the rule of life practiced by the Sisters, and their methods of treating their charges, with many touching illustrations of the divine efficacy of the Good Shepherd’s power.” (Cath. World.)

+ Cath. World. 86: 115. O. ’07. 390w.

Conway, Moncure Daniel. My pilgrimage to the wise men of the East. **$3. Houghton.

6–38349.

“This volume which forms a supplement to Mr. Conway’s autobiography, published last year, contains an account of his travels in India and recounts conversations with leading Buddhists, Brahmins, Parsees, and Mohammedans. The religious side of the author is thus brought into unusual prominence, with the result of considerably enhancing the interest of the volume.” (Lit. D.)

A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 7. Ja. ’07.

“His peculiar views upon Christianity may repel or offend some readers, but the kindly spirit in which he writes of all men and almost all creeds is attractive, and he deals in loving reverence with the secrets of the underlying religious life of India.”

+ Ath. 1906, 2: 690. D. 1. 820w.

Current Literature. 42: 202. F. ’07. 2030w.

“The work shows him in the ripeness of his powers, and in the enjoyment of his fearless independence as a free-thinker, but never playing the part of a scoffer. His perceptions have lost nothing of their keenness, his hand has not forgot its cunning and literary craftsmanship.” Percy F. Bicknell.

+ + Dial. 42: 8. Ja. 1, ’07. 2100w.

“Mr. Conway ... is a seer with a vivid poetic imagination, with an irreverent reverence of his own, and goes through the religions of the Far East with little concern for anything but what appeals to his own sense of truth and beauty.”

+ Ind. 63: 43. Jl. 4, ’07. 380w.

+ Lit. D. 33: 855. D. 8, ’06. 100w.

“Mr. Conway’s acquaintance with Hindu literature is so very vague that the reader must be warned of the valuelessness of such literary criticism as his fertile mind offers, for in this respect ignorance is no bar to his daring. The one note that jars in these recollections of a venerable teacher is that teacher’s too evident pride in his own mental superiority.”

+ − Nation. 84: 110. Ja. 31, ’07. 730w.

“This résumé of his religious beliefs and unbeliefs will appear as shocking to some of his readers as it will appear illuminating to others. The seasoned reader and thinker will like it for its evident sincerity and its suggestiveness, but will not be sufficiently affected by it one way or another to lose any sleep on account of it.”

+ N. Y. Times. 11: 871. D. 15, ’06. 1340w.

“What value his book has lies in his ability to tell a story, certainly not in his estimate of conditions.”

+ − Outlook. 85: 761. Mr. 30, ’07. 1200w.

+ R. of Rs. 34: 754. D. ’06. 100w.

“Any one interested in questions of morality and religion may profitably read this volume, if he does not mind having his toes trodden, even trampled on.”

+ − Spec. 98: 298. F. 23, ’07. 270w.

Conway, Sir William Martin. No Man’s land. *$3. Putnam.

W 6–184.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“A model of painstaking research.”

+ Nation. 84: 316. Ap. 4, ’07. 580w.

Conybeare, Frederick Cornwallis, and Stock, St. George. Selections from the Septuagint according to the text of Swete. *$1.65. Ginn.

5–36804.

“Brief introductions and copious notes fit these easy historical selections from the Septuagint for use by college students. The book should be useful in extending the knowledge of the Old Testament in Greek.”—Bib. World.

“It is not only scholarly and clever, but also bright and attractive.”

+ + Ath. 1906, 2: 239. S. 1. 230w.

Bib. World. 27: 400. My. ’06. 30w.

“The book is welcome as filling a gap in our list of text-books, but it is in some respects ... disappointing, and it may well be doubted whether, as the publishers claim, it is a valuable contribution to a better understanding of the language of the New Testament.” Clarence H. Young.

− + Educ. R. 33: 534. My. ’07. 300w.

Cook, Albert E. Bright side and the other side: what India can teach us; with introd. by J. G. Haller and W. F. Oldham. *75c. West Meth. bk.

7–13927.

In which the fruits of Mohammedanism are discussed. The study is based upon a knowledge of the religion’s influence on the life and manners of its devotees.

Cook, Albert S. Higher study of English. *$1. Houghton.

6–38399.

“The aims of the higher study of English rather than the methods is the purport of Prof. Cook’s recent treatise, and it addresses itself rather to the advanced and eager student than to the established teacher.” (Forum.) The book consists of four addresses, The province of English philology, The teaching of English, The relations of words to literature, and The aims of graduate study of English. “Yet the obvious note in all four is a general elevation of standards, both ethical and aesthetic, throughout the entire curriculum of English—a broadening and deepening of our national culture through an intensive appreciation of the best that has been handed down to us in literature.” (Dial.)

“Does not solve any problems or reveal any startlingly new point of view, but it is thoughtful and readable and therefore to be commended.”

+ Acad. 72: 292. Mr. 23, ’07. 260w.

+ + Dial. 42: 17. Ja. 1, ’07. 460w.

“As a presentation of an ideal the book could scarcely be surpassed.” William T. Brewster.

+ + − Forum. 38: 391. Ja. ’07. 730w.

“His work appeals to the general reader as well as the teacher.”

+ Nation. 84: 10. Ja. 3, ’07. 110w.

“The book is not only richly suggestive to teachers of English, but to us of the present generation it is especially interesting for its historical placing of our subject.” Franklin T. Baker.

+ School R. 15: 308. Ap. ’07. 380w.

Cook, E. Wake. Betterment, individual, social and industrial. **$1.20. Stokes.

6–40953.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

Reviewed by W. B. Guthrie.

Charities. 17: 499. D. 15, ’06. 220w.

91Cook, Theodore A. Eclipse and O’Kelly. *$7. Dutton.

Agr 7–2179.

Eclipse is a horse that has won repeated race-course honors, and O’Kelly is his owner. Everything is set down “that could possibly be found out concerning Eclipse, his ancestors, his birth and education, his achievements, his appearance and measurements, the fate of his skin and his hoofs and his skeleton, his descendants and what they in turn have accomplished.” (Acad.)

“The book is a monument of thoroughness—also of energy.” G. S. Street.

+ Acad. 72: 601. Je. 22, ’07. 1040w.

“We must not hunt for small inaccuracies in a big book. Let us rather acknowledge frankly that the compiler has put together a standard work of reference concerning the subject.”

+ − Ath. 1907, 2: 122. Ag. 3. 1070w.

“A volume, with a good deal of information that is quite new and some stimulating suggestions. Even the smaller sporting library can hardly dispense with it.”

+ − Lond. Times. 6: 283. S. 20, ’07. 1090w.

“Mr. Cook has discharged his task entertainingly well, and there is plenty of enjoyment waiting in his pages.”

+ N. Y. Times. 12: 457. Jl. 20, ’07. 510w.

“The task of attempting the visualisation of the manners and the men of the latter half of the eighteenth century has occupied Mr. Cook with enthusiasm, and the result is some admirable work. He has pursued figures and statistics with immense energy and thoroughness. His figures will doubtless prove of great value to the biologist and breeder; but the best part of the book has to do with the heroic horse and the men who saw him race.”

+ + Spec. 99: 130. Jl. 27, ’07. 1590w.

Cooper, Francis, pseud. Financing an enterprise: a manual of information and suggestion for promoters, investors and business men generally. 2v. $4. Ronald press, New York.

7–485.

“The work treats of financing an enterprise that is either merely a development, proposition, or that is a growing concern, or that demands liquidation. The importance of proper preparation and presentation of such an enterprise is pointed out and attention called to the fact that without proper presentation, it is often extremely difficult to finance an enterprise, while with proper presentation, enterprises utterly devoid of merit have frequently been financed. The conditions and methods of financing are lucidly stated and illustrated with succinct examples.”—Technical Literature.

“This is a book on a subject concerning which few, if any, books have been written and very little published anywhere. Engineers who have to do with patented inventions and their commercial exploitation will also find much instructive and helpful matter in this treatise.”

+ Engin. N. 58: 534. N. 14, ’07. 680w.

+ Lit. D. 34: 263. F. 16, ’07. 60w.

“The writer of this work displays an intimate knowledge of his subject, evidently, at least considerably, acquired through experience. His attitude is well balanced, and his discussions take both sides of the question. He appears to pay equal attention to advantages and disadvantages, and not to be carried to unjustifiable extremes in any of his discussion.”

+ + Technical Literature. 1: 223. My. ’07. 900w.

Cooper, Lane, ed. Theories of style with especial reference to prose composition: essays, excerpts and translations. *$1.10. Macmillan.

7–27343.

Written from a conviction that the link between substance and form, between knowledge and expression ought never to be broken, this volume includes a body of literary models, for the most part by masters of expression, illustrating and reiterating the salient principles of most good handbooks on English prose composition. The work is suggestive and of wide scope.

“An interesting contribution to the apparatus for the teaching of rhetoric.”

+ Educ. R. 34: 535. D. ’07. 50w.

Corbin, John. Cave man. il. †$1.50. Appleton.

7–14254.

“Specifically, Mr. Corbin’s story concerns a great motor trust and a rivalry in love, with a pretty opening scene on class day in the yard at Harvard. The desired and desirable lady names one of the men (who is old-fashioned enough to be honest) the ‘cave-man.’ The story, which has many really dramatic moments, shows how love modernized this ‘cave-man’—how he ceased, in the old-fashioned sense, to be honest and acquired the new higher or financial morality. Mr. Corbin suggests sardonically that it’s all right—and perhaps it is.”—N. Y. Times.

“A love-story that has depth and strength, that means more than the usual pretty, unconvincing obligatory romance in most of the current novels of this genre.”

+ Ind. 63: 339. Ag. 8, ’07. 220w.

“It is a cleverly handled novel portraying a phase of genuine American life. Ultramodern novels of this type are apt to be disfigured by smartness, that sin of up-to-date fiction; and it must be said that ‘The cave man’ is not wholly immune from the fault. The habit of adopting the raw slang in vogue into the pages of a novel ought not to be encouraged.”

+ − Lit. D. 34: 723. My. 4, ’07. 180w.

+ − Nation. 84: 457. My. 16, ’07. 180w.

“Piquánt, interesting and readable from first to last. The book is a rarely perfect example of what may be achieved when an able critic turns novelist at second hand.”

+ + N. Y. Times. 12: 234. Ap. 13, ’07. 610w.

N. Y. Times. 12: 379. Je. 15, ’07. 110w.

+ Outlook. 86: 256. Je. 1, ’07. 80w.

R. of Rs. 35: 761. Je. ’07. 60w.

Cornford, Francis Macdonald. Thucydides Mythistoricus. *$3. Longmans.

This volume contains not only “a study of the Greek historian who was a contemporary of Pericles ... but also a theory of history, a study of the historian’s art from the modern and sophisticated point of view.”—N. Y. Times.

“Able and brilliant.” R. Y. Tyrrell.

+ + Acad. 72: 311. Mr. 30, ’07. 1280w.

“A book that is easy, even fascinating reading. It did not need his words of acknowledgment to let us into the secret of Dr. Verrall’s influence upon his ideas and methods. There is the same evidence of careful work and profound meditation; there is an approach to Dr. Verrall’s characteristic brilliancy of presentation; but there is left in the end the same impression of special pleading.”

+ − Ann. Am. Acad. 30: 152. Jl. ’07. 490w.

“A very delightful book.”

+ + − Ath. 1907. 1: 497. Ap. 27. 1900w.

“The challenge implied in Mr. Cornford’s title is maintained in his book in a fashion which will be stimulating and suggestive even to those who cannot accept its conclusions.” Paul Shorey.

+ − Dial. 43: 202. O. 1, ’07. 2160w.

“Mr. Cornford’s brilliant and suggestive study provides material help ... towards revising the traditional estimate of Thucydides. Mr. Cornford does not always carry conviction. In particular, a cautious student will hesitate to trust himself to the insecure Icarus-flights of a higher-criticism which treats the sequels to the careers of Pausanias and Themistocles as ‘rationalized Saga-history influenced by drama.’”

+ − Lond. Times. 6: 195. Je. 21, ’07. 1640w.

92“An inspiriting and commendable book.”

+ + N. Y. Times. 12: 272. Ap. 27, ’07. 250w.

“The strong side of Mr. Cornford’s book is as an analysis of Thucydides’ mind.”

+ − Sat. R. 104: 579. N. 9, ’07. 950w.

“With this objection to his title, criticism of Mr. Cornford ends and admiration begins. We can only indicate Mr. Cornford’s view, and recommend all students to examine his arguments for themselves. They will find everywhere much that is instructive, and, however his apparent paradoxes may at first startle, the substantial truth of his position will in the end, we think, appear not less remarkable than its novelty.”

+ − Spec. 98: 862. Je. 1, ’07. 1430w.

Cornill, Carl H. Introduction to the canonical books of the Old Testament; tr. by G. H. Box. (Theological translation lib.) *$3. Putnam.

A translation of Professor Cornill’s fifth revised edition. The volume renders to the reader “knowledge which will enable him to understand the problems of the Old Testament and value the solutions which scholars have offered.” (Ath.)

“There is in our language no single volume on the subject which contains so much material, and especially which gives such full lists of relevant writings, as does this book by Prof. Cornill. There is always danger, however, that the limitations of a short work on a long subject may make an author dogmatic, and in this respect Prof. Cornill is not above suspicion.”

+ − Ath. 1907, 1: 439. Ap. 13. 580w.

“The clearness and conciseness of the original are preserved in the translation, but it is to be regretted that the translator has made references to previous passages by sections only, which are not noted at the top of the page and are therefore difficult to find in the text.”

+ + − Nation. 84: 565. Je. 20, ’07. 270w.

“While primarily designed as a handbook for critical students, it is serviceable in the main points and general lines for intelligent readers, though unacquainted with Hebrew, in its presentation of Old Testament critical science at this date, both as to its closed questions and remaining problems.”

+ Outlook. 86: 614. Jl. 20, ’07. 180w.

Cornish, Charles John. Animal artisans and other studies of birds and beasts; with a prefatory memoir by his widow; 2 pors. from photographs and 12 drawings by Patten Wilson. $2.50. Longmans.

7–28981.

“These papers, now for the first time gathered in book form ... present many interesting phases of animal life, particularly from what might be called the industrial side, the underlying current being the existence among other animals than man of distinct arts and crafts by which they either gain a mere living or provide themselves with shelter.”—N. Y. Times.

“The single defect of the book is the absence of an index.”

+ − Ath. 1907, 1: 580. My. 11. 450w.

“One receives the impression that the natural history here recorded is the outcome of an avocation. It lacks the tension, and the critical point of view, of the trained scientist.” Charles Atwood Kofoid.

+ − Dial. 42: 366. Je. 16, ’07. 390w.

+ Lond. Times. 6: 204. Je. 28, ’07. 500w.

“Several of these articles display a lamentable want of knowledge of scientific zoology on the part of the author. After all, the volume is perhaps sufficiently accurate to suit the requirements of the readers to whom it is likely to appeal.”

+ − Nature. 75: 437. Mr. 7, ’07. 380w.

+ N. Y. Times. 12: 236. Ap. 13, ’07. 170w.

N. Y. Times. 12: 379. Je. 15, ’07. 80w.

“If the papers in the volume before us are distinguished in any way from others that went before, we should say that the observation of the author is more ingenious than ever.”

+ Spec. 98: 292. F. 23, ’07. 1600w.

Corthell, Elmer L. Allowable pressure on deep foundations. *$1.25. Wiley.

7–28847.

This work is an amplified form of a paper to the Institution of civil engineers brought about by Dr. Corthell’s investigation of the subject relating to the construction of a port at the city of Rozario on the Panama river.

“The admirable form of the compilation, and the thoroughness with which the abstracts of published articles have been made, make the book one of great value.”

+ + Engin. N. 58: 80. Jl. 18, ’07. 310w.

Cory, Vivian (Victoria Cross, pseud.). Life’s shop window. $1.50. Kennerley.

7–4158.

With the frankness of Zola, Victoria Cross presents in this novel “the passions and the emotions and the part they play in the life of a young girl.” (N. Y. Times.) Imagination substitutes experience in the delineation of character.

“The book is not even what is known as ‘a picture of life,’ since its personages are all drawn straight from sensational melodrama and their humanity is only a semblance, far from convincing.”

− N. Y. Times. 12: 80. F. 9, ’07. 490w.

“‘Victoria Cross’ writes in the feverish manner of Miss Corelli, and much in ‘Life’s shop window’ will remind the reader of that novelist.”

+ − N. Y. Times. 12: 379. Je. 15, ’07. 110w.

Cotes, Everard. Signs and portents in the Far East. **$2.50. Putnam.

7–29141.

“After a cursory glance at the Japan of today, the author tells of the Chinese question in British territory, of the situation at Canton, of missionaries and anti-foreign riots, of Hankow and Peking and other Chinese cities. Then he takes the reader north to the scene of the Russo-Japanese war. He describes Port Arthur as it is to-day, and Mukden, and other places, the names of which were so conspicuous in newspapers not long ago. Glancing at that country of problems, Korea, Mr. Cotes devotes several more chapters to Japan and the Japanese.”—N. Y. Times.

“The book is both brightly written and politically interesting, though we cannot go with the author in some of his beliefs and the recommendations based upon them.”

+ − Ath. 1907, 1: 252. Mr. 2. 920w.

“The author has a gift of accurate narration which brings places and persons clearly before the mental vision of the reader. There is no attempt at effect; yet, none the less effectiveness is attained.” H. T. P.

+ + Bookm. 25: 422. Je. ’07. 1300w.

“On missionary matters he is more sane and truthful than Mr. Weale.”

+ − Ind. 63: 757. S. 26, ’07. 550w.

Lond. Times. 6: 114. Ap. 12, ’07. 410w.

+ − Nation. 85: 60. Jl. 15, ’07. 350w.

“Full of interesting information.”

+ Outlook. 86: 436. Je. 22, ’07. 230w.

“He enunciates certain theories and offers some suggestions with regard to the significance of the new activity in China that opens up an interesting field for speculation.”

+ Sat. R. 103: 654. My. 25, ’07. 1440w.

Couch, A. T: Quiller-. From a Cornish window. *$1.50. Dutton.

6–35302.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

93“Is apparently a re-hash in book form of various magazine articles, literary criticisms and reviews.”

− Sat. R. 102: 746. D. 15, ’06. 370w.

Couch, A. T. Quiller- (“Q,” pseud.) Major Vigoureux. †$1.50. Scribner.

7–30166.

“The major is commandant of a dismantled and half-forgotten naval post on certain inconsequent islands off the English coast. The garrison has dwindled to two, and their duties are simply to wait upon the commandant. He has lost his authority in the islands, and what with shame and apathy is in a fair way to lose all interest in life.” (Nation.) A famous singer returns to her island home and becomes the ‘dea ex machina’ of the plot. She “restores to Major Vigoureux his self-respect and teaches the Lord Proprietor his proper place” besides performing many another telling service.

“A well written amusing tale.”

+ A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 200. N. ’07. ✠

“It is seldom that one can criticize ‘Q.’ in details; but there is once, if we mistake not, a discrepancy about a tide.”

+ + − Ath. 1907, 2: 579. N. 9. 420w.

“His last story is like a chalice of old wine reddened within by all the fine fires of life and beaded high with immortal love and courage.”

+ Ind. 63: 1228. N. 21, ’07. 30w.

“In ‘Major Vigoureux’ ‘Q’ marks time. It is full of good things, we wish we could think that half the novels of the season would hold so many; but in itself it lacks the flowing beauty, the unity, what might almost be called the lyrical, singing quality with which this author, at his best, lends distinction to his novels.”

+ + Lond. Times. 6: 285. S. 20, ’07. 410w.

“The tale is a most agreeable literary confection.”

+ Nation. 85: 328. O. 10, ’07. 240w.

“On the whole, there is much to enjoy in this tale, although some readers will object to its lack of definite ending.”

+ Outlook. 87: 309. O. 12, ’07. 160w.

“The story verges on melodrama and barely escapes tragedy: the ending lacks definiteness: but ‘Q’ is never commonplace.”

+ Outlook. 87: 622. N. 23, ’07. 100w.

“He limits his scene, but he brings to bear upon it a mind enriched with wide reading, a pen that is scholarly yet never pedantic, and a keen eye for the rich possibilities of adventure and romance that underlie the daily round and common task of modern life.”

+ Spec. 99: 488. O. 5, ’07. 750w.

Couch, A. T. Quiller-. Pilgrims’ way. *$1.50. Dutton.

7–35145.

“‘The pilgrims’ way’ has a more serious purpose than is usually associated with anthologies, the selections of prose and verse which Mr. Quiller-Couch has chosen being definitely arranged with a view to their suitability to the different stages of life’s journey, beginning with childhood and ending with death. These selections are charming in themselves, and they cover a wide range of literature, extending from the Bible to the work of such very modern authors as Mr. Laurence Binyon and Maeterlinck.”—Ath.

“A delightful collection.”

+ A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 66. Mr. ’07.

“The whole makes a most attractive little volume.”

+ Ath. 1906, 2: 826. D. 29. 180w.

“Unerring good taste is evident throughout the collection. Not the least of the volume’s charms is the compiler’s fine little prefatory essay.”

+ + Dial. 41: 457. D. 16, ’06. 100w.

+ Nation. 83: 508. D. 13, ’06. 60w.

“An agreeable little collection made with taste and a certain daintiness.”

+ Sat. R. 103: 57. Ja. 12, ’07. 150w.

“A very delightful book this.”

+ Spec. 97: 733. N. 10, ’06. 80w.

Couch, A. T. Quiller-. Poison Island. †$1.50. Scribner.

7–8212.

Some sixteen chapters of this adventure story lead up thru school-boy escapades, crime, and mystery to the secret of Mortallone island in the bay of Honduras. The chart containing the plan of the island and affording the key to the spot of buried treasure after causing a deal of trouble falls into the hands of a little party who set sail from Falmouth in quest of the island and its hoard. Mr. Quiller-Couch has drawn with clever touches the spirit of unanimity which, with noticeable lack of greed, characterizes the treasure seekers.