Volume 3 — C (continued 3)
Reading edition
“Written with unusual spirit and charm.”
+ A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 107. Ap. ’07. ✠
+ Ath. 1907, 1: 405. Ap. 6. 340w.
“The author’s happy faculty for sketching eccentric types of character is exhibited at his best, and we thoroughly enjoy the quaint company that he provides for us.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ Dial. 42: 377. Je. 16, ’07. 260w.
“After you have laid down the book, no character, no dramatic situation remains in the memory—nothing but a general impression of misapplied and wasted cleverness.”
− + Ind. 62: 970. Ap. 25, ’07. 200w.
“A curious and wholly impossible piece of fiction. Has many points of interest, but is very uneven on the whole.”
− + Lit. D. 34: 639. Ap. 20, ’07. 240w.
“Is a brave, amusing, exciting story, but it is not right ‘Q.’ Seldom does a story by ‘Q’ lose interest when you know the plot. We regret that ‘Poison island’ does.”
+ − Lond. Times. 6: 85. Mr. 15, ’07. 530w.
+ N. Y. Times. 12: 177. Mr. 23, ’07. 550w.
“In the end Mr. Quiller-Couch springs some remarkable surprises on his reader, and the closing incidents are even so bizarre and unnatural that the reader suspects that the author is laughing in his sleeve at the credulity of romance-lovers.”
− Outlook. 85: 812. Ap. 6, ’07. 120w.
“There is a lack of spontaneity about it that renders it at times almost tedious.”
− Sat. R. 103: 370. Mr. 23, ’07. 200w.
“If he has not the highest creative faculty, he has at least the power of lending freshness and vitality to time-worn and even hackneyed themes by the agility of his invention and the picturesqueness of his mise-en-scene.”
+ − Spec. 98: 624. Ap. 20, ’07. 1250w.
Couch, A. T: Quiller-. Sir John Constantine. †$1.50. Scribner.
6–31381.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.
+ Dial. 42: 144. Mr. 1, ’07. 540w.
“It lacks the breath of the romantic life, and inspires a feeling that the writer himself has lived chiefly in books and rarely a life of his own.”
− + Sat. R. 103: 54. Ja. 12, ’07. 230w.
Coulton, George Gordon. From St. Francis to Dante: a translation of all that is of primary interest in the chronicle of the Franciscan Salimbene: (1221–1288) together with notes and il. from other medieval sources. *$4.20. Scribner.
6–32412.
For this second edition fresh matter from Salimbene’s chronicle has been added and the notes and appendices have been extended. “For those who wish to see the seamy side of the middle ages, this is the best book in English.” (Nation.)
94“Mr. Coulton is a far-seeing man and a good writer. What is more remarkable he contrives to unite a judicial mind with strong convictions, which lend warmth and interest to his style.”
+ + Lond. Times. 6: 65. Mr. 1, ’07. 1380w.
“He has read widely in the sources of his period, and is able at every turn to illustrate Salimbene’s statements.”
+ + Nation. 83: 244. S. 20, ’06. 1380w.
+ Nation. 85: 303. O. 3, ’07. 70w.
“Contains more of the famous chronicle of Fra Salimbene, a Franciscan friar of the thirteenth century, than has hitherto appeared in print in English, and for that reason it is a valuable book.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 602. S. 20, ’06. 250w.
“He has a great knowledge of his period, considerable attainments, and a very workmanlike gift of exposition. But unfortunately he is before all things else a controversialist.”
+ − Sat. R. 102: 645. N. 24, ’06. 1350w.
“We would recommend the book, as full of curious information, to every one who cares to illustrate his Dante studies by a real contemporary picture of the thirteenth century on its darker side, with all the peculiarities of its social and religious life.”
+ + Spec. 97: 725. N. 10, ’06. 1320w.
Coutts, Francis Burdett. Heresy of Job; with the inventions of William Blake. *$2. Lane.
The volume contains “first, introductory matter explaining the editor’s conception of the poem’s purpose and meaning; second, the poem itself divided into three parts, Prologue, Debate, and Epilogue; third, some pages of notes elucidating certain obscurities in the text; fourth, an appendix containing the speech of Elihu the Buzite; fifth, a list of commentaries consulted; and, finally, the ‘Illustrations of the Book of Job, invented and engraved by William Blake,’ and first published in 1825, by Blake himself. Job’s ‘heresy’ consisted not in a denial of God or a rejection of religion, but rather in a refusal to subscribe to the smug orthodoxy of his three friends, Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar.” (Dial.)
“Mr. Coutts has succeeded in properly emphasizing one important side of the argument of Job, but his error consists in mistaking a part for the whole.”
− + Ath. 1907, 2: 363. S. 28. 250w.
“An attractive and useful volume.”
+ Dial. 43: 255. O. 16, ’07. 320w.
“Scholarly introduction.”
+ N. Y. Times. 12: 542. S. 7, ’07. 120w.
+ Outlook. 87: 133. S. 21, ’07. 220w.
Coutts, Francis Burdett. Romance of King Arthur. *$1.50. Lane.
“The romance of King Arthur is here told in four parts—the poem of ‘Uther Pendragon,’ the plays of ‘Merlin’ and ‘Lancelot du Lake,’ and the poem of ‘The death of Lancelot.’ In his preface the author states that his ‘sole important variation from the accepted legend’ is to represent Mordred as the legitimate son of Morgan le Fay, and thus supply the enchantress with a purely human, and therefore, we may add, somewhat superfluous, motive for her malevolence towards Arthur.”—Ath.
“The whole work is undistinguished and dull. It is all padded out.”
− + Acad. 72: 603. Je. 22, ’07. 280w.
“There are some fairly effective ‘curtains,’ but the blank verse is generally monotonous and rich in commonplaces.”
+ − Ath. 1907, 1: 724. Je. 15. 360w.
“In this volume Mr. Coutts has surprised us. A poet he was known to be; a lyric poet of some intensity and much art; a philosophic poet whose work was unified by a coherent, if undogmatic, faith, and expressed in language as simple as it was profound. The discovery that he is also a dramatic poet comes unexpected.”
+ Lond. Times. 6: 180. Je. 7, ’07. 870w.
“The medium of the whole—idylls and playlets—is blank verse, whereof the quality at times is excellent. The inspiration, in spite of the form, is perhaps rather Kipling than Tennyson, and the playlets are better than the idylls.”
+ N. Y. Times. 12: 504. Ag. 17, ’07. 640w.
“Mr. Coutts’s poems, while they are smooth and flowing and show now and then passages of much beauty or of poetic fervor, are weak and pale when tested beside the Tennysonian idylls.”
+ − N. Y. Times. 12: 557. S. 14, ’07. 390w.
“Mr. Coutts is a grave writer whose verse moves always with dignity, and now and then by dint of simplicity and sincerity rises to a considerable measure of poetry.”
+ Spec. 99: sup. 635. N. 2, ’07. 160w.
Cowan, Samuel. Last days of Mary Stuart and the journal of Bourgoyne, her physician. *$3. Lippincott.
Letters of Queen Mary and the journal of her physician are used to prove her innocence of any complicity in the plotting against Elizabeth.
N. Y. Times. 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
“The journal was the work of a man of gossipy intellect of something the same type as that of Boswell and Pepys, and consequently it is often entertaining, and constantly gives close at hand views of the domestic life of Mary’s court.”
+ Outlook. 87: 454. O. 26, ’07. 180w.
“He is a little too partisan and dead-sure to make much of an historian, but he puts his case with enthusiasm and some skill.”
+ − Sat. R. 103: 372. Mr. 23, ’07. 90w.
“A contribution of importance to the literature of its subject.”
+ Spec. 98: 424. Mr. 16, ’07. 140w.
Cowley, Abraham. Essays, plays and sundry verses, v. 2. *$1.50. Putnam.
7–23868.
“The first volume of Cowley’s Works in the Cambridge English classics contained all the poems published in the folio which appeared the year after his death. The second volume, now issued, contains the earlier writings from the edition of 1637, together with the plays and essays. The editor, A. R. Waller, is preparing a Supplement of notes, biographical, bibliographical, and critical.”—Nation.
“A very workmanlike edition.”
+ + Lond. Times. 6: 29. Ja. 25, ’07. 1100w. (Review of v. 2.)
“It cannot be said that this edition, with its reproduction of the old spelling and its inclusion of so much that is dull, is the best for the reader who merely desires his comfort, but for the scholar it is altogether admirable.”
+ − Nation. 84: 132. F. 7, ’07. 130w. (Review of v. 2.)
Reviewed by William A. Bradley.
+ + N. Y. Times. 12: 222. Ap. 6, ’07. 1990w. (Review of v. 2.)
“Admirable and scholarly edition.”
+ + Spec. 96: 95. Ja. 20, ’06. 2300w. (Review of v. 1.)
Cox, Kenyon. Painters and sculptors: a second series of old masters and new. **$2.50. Duffield.
7–31410.
In an introductory essay on “The education of an artist,” Mr. Cox compares the education afforded by the apprenticeship custom of the renaissance with that obtainable in the modern art schools and studios. Following this chapter 95are six, as follows: The Pollaiuoli, Painters of the mode, Holbein, The Rembrandt tercentenary, Rodin and Lord Leighton.
“The appreciations, written in a charming easy style, show the author’s technical knowledge, his catholicity of taste and judgment.”
+ A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 193. N. ’07.
“It is a careful and detailed work, which will of course appeal especially to students of art, the numerous illustrations being valuable adjuncts to an appreciation of the great masters’ work.”
+ Dial. 43: 379. D. 1, ’07. 230w.
“Disclaiming connoisseurship, his scholarship is adequate, while his insight as a painter, as in the essay on Holbein, at times affords discoveries that the connoisseurs have missed. Above all, he is judicious, weighing gingerly his personal admirations. As a whole, the book lacks the consistency and dignity of the first series.”
+ + − Nation. 85: 525. D. 5, ’07. 820w.
“Mr. Cox has a great faculty of seeing the point, and of making his readers see it. There is nothing in the volume which an intelligent lover of art, will not find both intelligible and interesting.” Montgomery Schuyler.
+ + N. Y. Times. 12: 630. O. 19, ’07. 950w.
+ N. Y. Times. 12: 667. O. 19, ’07. 20w.
Outlook. 87: 615. N. 23, ’07. 90w.
“From among the many dry details of craftsmanship, all of them of importance to the practical worker, he selects what will go farthest toward interpreting for the uninitiated the secrets of a masterpiece of painting or modelling.” Elisabeth Luther Cary.
+ Putnam’s. 3: 357. D. ’07. 860w.
“If one wants common sense in criticism, backed by expert knowledge, he may turn to this beautifully illustrated volume.”
+ R. of Rs. 36: 760. D. ’07. 230w.
Crabbe, George. Poems. 3v. v. 3. *$1.50. Putnam.
7–23869.
“This, the concluding volume of Dr. Ward’s masterly edition of Crabbe’s poems, contains the last eleven books of the ‘Tales of the hall,’ the ‘Posthumous tales,’ and ‘Miscellaneous verses’ (1780–1829), which have all been previously printed, but are now for the first time arranged chronologically; and in addition a quantity of matter hitherto unpublished. Of the poems thus newly given to the world, four are of some length—‘Tracy,’ ‘Susan and her lovers,’ ‘The deserted family’ (which alone is printed in its completeness), and ‘The funeral of the Squire.’”—Ath.
“This is the way to edit a man’s works, with scholarship and exhaustive thoroughness.”
+ + Acad. 72: 118. F. 2, ’07. 350w.
“The ‘completeness’ of the edition must be held the principal justification for much which is present. The editing of the present volume—no light task—is as careful and scholarly as ever.”
+ + Ath. 1907, 1: 318. Mr. 16. 430w.
“Dr. Ward does not wear his heart upon his sleeve, and the scheme of his book, which is purely textual, gives him no opportunity of confessing his affections.”
+ Lond. Times. 6: 193. Je. 21, ’07. 910w.
“For those, if any such there be, who wish to study Crabbe minutely, Dr. Ward’s carefully collated text, bibliography, and fresh material will be indispensable. And to the general reader, also, who does not own the eight-volume edition of 1834, or one of the other early editions issued by John Murray, the present publication offers Crabbe in the most comfortable form.”
+ + Nation. 84: 175. F. 21, ’07. 180w.
Craddock, Charles Egbert, pseud. (Mary Noailles Murfree). Amulet. †$1.50. Macmillan.
6–37962.
The Great Smoky mountains during the days when the Cherokees roved over them furnish a background for Miss Murfree’s historical tale. “It is an interesting record of the lives of some very human men and women who have been transplanted from England to the savage wilds of the new world.” (Lit. D.)
+ A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 51. F. ’07.
“Touches of poetic description are frequent in adornment of the narrative, for in this respect Miss Murfree’s hand has not lost its cunning, but otherwise the book falls far below the high standard set in her earlier writings.” Wm. M. Payne.
− + Dial. 42: 227. Ap. 1, ’07. 180w.
“That which gives the volume a permanent value is the amount of historical information it contains about Indian customs, religion and points of view.”
+ Ind. 62: 501. F. 28, ’07. 200w.
“There are some fine descriptive passages, and the character-drawing reveals the firm touch of the practiced artist. It is to the credit of the writer that she has withstood the temptation to indulge in those orgies of slaughter which are usually met with in this type of fiction.”
+ Lit. D. 33: 913. D. 15, ’06. 260w.
“Her present historical romance is a sad affair, perfectly artificial and unreal from start to finish. It may be historically sound, but this, other things being equal, is an altogether trivial consideration.”
− Nation. 83: 463. N. 29, ’06. 120w.
“Is every whit as good as those stories with which Miss Murfree long ago established her enviable reputation.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 795. D. 1, ’06. 760w.
“The action of the story is somewhat slow, and the characters move stiffly, while both narrative and descriptive passages are heavily weighted with words. A knowledge of Indian rites and customs gives evidence of the author’s careful preparation for her work.”
+ − Outlook. 84: 792. N. 24, ’06. 110w.
R. of Rs. 35: 120. Ja. ’07. 20w.
“The interest of the story lies entirely in the author’s realisation and vivid picture of eighteenth century personages and their surroundings.”
+ Spec. 97: 181. F. 2, ’07. 160w.
Craddock, Charles Egbert, pseud. (Mary Noailles Murfree). Windfall: a novel. †$1.50. Duffield.
7–15119.
The youthful and breezy manager of a street fair is lured by excursion rates to take his show to a small town in the Great Smoky mountains, and upon arrival realizes that he has been duped and that there are but a handful of people in the county. He sticks it out, however, becomes involved in the discovery of an illicit still, and incidentally, wins a bride, and a windfall.
“It is a good, stirring piece of melodrama, with here and there some characterization of a sort superior to that of many more pretentious works of fiction—pleasant and entertaining, but marred by undisciplined verbosity.”
+ − Ath. 1907, 2: 614. N. 16. 150w.
“The writer shows herself still capable of using the old material to excellent effect, although it would be foolish to deny that she has worked the vein until it shows signs of exhaustion.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ − Dial. 42: 315. My. 16, ’07. 290w.
“She has written a very clever story with as much of the old fashion charm as can be preserved now. The story is extraordinary however, only in the fact that it contains a threehanded 96heroine. Fortunately she has not meddled with the Great Smokies, and the book is worth reading for the descriptions of them which it contains.”
+ − Ind. 63: 100. Jl. 11, ’07. 420w.
“Gives herself free rein in page upon page of the very dullest description that ever escaped editorial scissors.”
− Nation. 84: 476. My. 23, ’07. 390w.
“The writer’s style, ordinarily direct and flexible, is occasionally marred by serious lapses.”
+ − N. Y. Times. 12: 332. My. 25, ’07. 370w.
N. Y. Times. 12: 383. Je. 15, ’07. 80w.
“The plot is simple and somewhat obvious; the situations are not always logical, and the effect of the story is rather commonplace.”
− Outlook. 86: 118. My. 18, ’07. 100w.
Crafts, Wilbur Fisk. Practical Christian sociology. **$1.50. Funk.
7–23083.
A revised fourth edition of a series of lectures on moral reforms and social problems. The subject is treated from the standpoint of the church, the family and education, capital and labor, and citizenship. The statistics are brought down to the present time, and the volume is illustrated with charts and portraits.
“The book is a repository of sociological facts.”
+ Nation. 85: 208. S. 5, ’07. 110w.
Craig, Neville B. Recollections of an ill-fated expedition to the head waters of the Madeira river in Brazil; by Neville B. Craig in co-operation with members of the Madeira and Mamoré association of Philadelphia. **$4. Lippincott.
7–29709.
“The book before us concerns itself much more with the human interest of the story, than with the larger issues involved. It is a plain tale of the adventures, trials and exploits—of the sufferings and privations—undergone by a party of resolute pioneers—American engineers, contractors and railway builders in a year of heroic endeavor in the deadly climate of the Amazon valley.”—Engin. N.
“This book is as entertaining as a novel. The book is a very welcome contribution to the history of American engineering enterprise. Certainly every American engineering school should have a copy of the book. The young engineer will learn things from it that are found in none of the standard text-books, but which are even more necessary for his highest success than anything in his mechanics or chemistry.”
+ + Engin. N. 58: 426. O. 17, ’07. 1590w.
“He disclaims any literary qualifications for his task, but his descriptions of life in the torrid zone are graphic at times and in reporting observations in natural history he avoids the methods of the nature faker.”
+ Lit. D. 35: 577. O. 19, ’07. 400w.
“While the completeness and continuity of the story is somewhat sacrificed to the authenticated veracity of the historical account, it will, nevertheless, appeal to most lovers of works on travels and adventure. The greatest value of the book is as a contribution to engineering literature. It may almost serve as a treatise on organizing and equipping engineering expeditions for tropical work, until an authoritative text-book on the subject is available. It should be read by every engineer and contractor engaged in operations in tropical countries, and will be of value to many others engaged on works in distant lands or far from a base of supplies.” Albert Wells Buel.
+ + − Technical Literature. 2: 454. N. ’07. 1000w.
Craig, W. H. Life of Lord Chesterfield: an account of the ancestry, personal character and public services. *$5. Lane.
7–25141.
A sketch which “has materially broadened our knowledge not alone of Lord Chesterfield, but also of the political and social history of England during the long period of his life.” (N. Y. Times.)
“The style is on the whole clear and pleasant, and the work well deserves careful perusal.”
+ − Ath. 1907, 1: 499. Ap. 27. 3080w.
“It is to be hoped that this biography may help its readers to take a reasonably comprehensive view of a by no means simple personality.” S. M. Francis.
+ Atlan. 100: 490. O. ’07. 410w.
“His apologist, if one may so designate his latest biographer, is temperate and judicious in tone, and has presented what appears to be a not too flattering picture of the man.”
+ Dial. 43: 56. Ag. 1, ’07. 1270w.
“It is the chief merit of Mr. Craig’s book to show sterling qualities which Chesterfield was at too much pains in concealing, to reject the perishable trivialities of his character, and to exhibit him as a philosophic statesman, not inferior to any of his contemporaries, except Walpole at one end of his life, and Chatham at the other.”
+ Lond. Times. 6: 81. Mr. 15, ’07. 2300w.
“In this elaborate biography Mr. Craig has done an important piece of work in a competent way. The index is admirably analytical and leaves nothing to be desired.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 12: 303. My. 11, ’07. 630w.
“The author means to be disinterested, but his animus is occasionally too much for him. What he has to say is excellent in substance, but there is a great deal of repetition and digression in the book.” H. W. Boynton.
+ − Putnam’s. 3: 234. N. ’07. 720w.
“Those who wish to satisfy themselves of Mr. Craig’s judicial acumen, based on knowledge of facts and sympathy with human nature, must read his story of Lord Chesterfield.”
+ + − Sat. R. 103: 428. Ap. 6, ’07. 1720w.
Craigie, Mrs. Pearl Mary Teresa Richards (John Oliver Hobbes, pseud.). Dream and the business. †$1.50. Appleton.
6–36053.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 108. Ap. ’07.
Reviewed by Mary Moss.
Atlan. 99: 117. Ja. ’07. 50w.
“To this the last of her novels a place must be accorded not far below that occupied by ‘Robert Orange’ and ‘A school for saints,’ her unquestioned masterpieces, and it is possibly a more remarkable production than either of those two in certain respects, as of its finished style, its economy of material, and its nice dramatic adjustment.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ + Dial. 42: 15. Ja. 1, ’07. 310w.
“The book comes nearer to actual life than Mrs. Craigie ever came before, and it has, moreover, the exquisite effervescing brilliancy that so distinguished her earliest work and made it command the instant attention of every reader with an ear for epigram.” Cornelia Atwood Pratt.
+ Putnam’s. 2: 185. My. ’07. 200w.
Cram, Ralph Adams. Gothic quest. **$1.50. Baker.
7–21371.
“Contains a number of lectures and essays that have appeared singly in various publications, which are here brought together.... They are mainly a discussion of ecclesiastical architecture from the Gothic standpoint, or, rather, from the standpoint of the English high church. Formalism and ritualism seem to hold as high a place in Christian art, to Mr. Cram’s mind, as do form and abstract beauty in art generally.”—Dial.
“After all criticism of form and matter, one must feel that what underlies the volume should be known and appreciated by every individual 97or committee or congregation interested in the building of a Christian shrine, or house of worship, or temple.”
+ − Dial. 43: 96. Ag. 16, ’07. 310w.
+ − N. Y. Times. 12: 553. S. 14, ’07. 680w.
“Quite rich with plums of wisdom and are filled with a contagious enthusiasm for the expressiveness of mediaeval art.” Elisabeth Luther Cary.
+ Putnam’s. 3: 360. D. ’07. 430w.
Crandall, Charles Lee. Text-book on geodesy and least squares, prepared for the use of civil engineering students. $3. Wiley.
6–42921.
“Prof. Crandall is addressing himself primarily to students of Cornell university and presumably to those who are beginning the study of the subject and not to professional men engaged in actual work.... The first few chapters of the book are mainly occupied with the description of the use and adjustment of instruments in the field. The next three are devoted to consideration of problems connected with the figure of the earth.... In the second part, which consists of three chapters, the author serves up the standing dish of least squares.... The book is well illustrated, and there are some useful tables and information given in the appendix.”—Nature.
“The book is an excellent and well-balanced statement of past and current practice, prepared with rare good judgment as to the relative importance of things. It is especially to be commended as being thoroughly up-to-date. The student, unassisted, will have difficulty at many points in seeing the relation between the facts presented, for the reason that the principles involved are not fully and clearly stated. If the book is supplemented in the class-room by lectures and references to other books, designed to remedy the defects indicated, it will be found to be the best book on geodesy now available in English. The engineer in practice will find it a most excellent and suggestive reference book.” John F. Hayford.
+ + − Engin. N. 57: 85. Ja. 17, ’07. 800w.
“For a text-book to be used by beginners it might be objected that the author has a little overlaid his treatise with a superfluity of detail. A greater fault appears to be one of omission. There is too little, almost nothing, concerning the methods of deriving the latitude and longitude of a station. The information throughout is conveyed in a clear and lucid manner, but a little unevenness is sometimes noticeable, as though the author were uncertain of the degree of thoroughness with which the several topics should be treated.”
+ Nature. 75: 339. F. 7, ’07. 680w.
Crane, Robert Treat. State in constitutional and international law. (Johns Hopkins university studies in historical and political science.) pa. 50c. Johns Hopkins.
7–31399.
A monograph based upon the thesis that the concept of the state in constitutional law must be discriminated from the concept of the state in international law.
Crane, Walter. An artist’s reminiscences. il. *$5. Macmillan.
7–37525.
Notable literary men and women of the Victorian era people Mr. Crane’s book, among them Tennyson, Irving, William Morris, Rossetti, Burne-Jones, Holman Hunt, Stevenson, Henley, Whistler and Leighton. “A feature of the book is the prominence given to the author’s socialistic opinions, in which he followed with the devotion of a pupil and the accuracy of a copyist those of William Morris.” (Lond. Times.)
“The proof-reader has been careless and many small inaccuracies in names &c., are to be found. As a document for the student of the domestic history of our times, an agreeable, chatty volume of reminiscences for the casual reader and above all as the monument of a delicate personality, this book has an assured place.”
+ − Ath. 1907, 2: 486. O. 19. 1940w.
“We have a long autobiography, crowded with trivial detail, interesting, no doubt, to the circle of those immediately concerned, but not especially enlivening to the world at large. Where detail would be of interest it is often lacking.”
+ − Dial. 43: 374. D. 1, ’07. 2000w.
“The story of his own success is modestly revealed. The book shows that among the many crafts in which Mr. Crane has been interested that of the writer is not excepted.”
+ − Int. Studio. 33: 167. D. ’07. 300w.
“If it had been cut down to one third the length, the volume might have been readable, and in a certain sense valuable. Certain theatrical autobiographies are the only books that can be compared with it for self-consciousness.”
− Lond. Times. 6: 291. S. 27, ’07. 710w.
“In ‘An artist’s reminiscences’ we have the work and the man associated for the first time. The result is attractive even picturesque. If Mr. Crane were a great man the result could hardly be more satisfactory.”
+ N. Y. Times. 12: 614. O. 12, ’07. 1850w.
“The work will be of interest to people in many walks of life.”
+ N. Y. Times. 12: 664. O. 19, ’07. 40w.
“No overweening egotism parades through its pages. But they are encumbered by recollections of too many unimportant personages. He makes the further mistake of narrating his own long and eminently successful career in over-great detail.”
+ − Outlook. 87: 611. N. 23, ’07. 170w.
“It is tantalising to feel how little the writer has told us all in these pages of the subject about which he knows so much and could write so well.”
+ − Spec. 99: 671. N. 2, ’07. 570w.
Crane, William Edward. American stationary engineering. $2. Derry-Collard.
6–35993.
“The author discusses in a very clear manner the defects usually found in boilers, engines, steam pipes, pumps, and accessories, and notes the remedies that have been devised to overcome them. The book is, in fact, a recount of his experience with such machinery, and should prove useful to stationary engineers, machinists and others who wish to know how to make engines, boilers, etc., operate correctly, and how to remedy defects in them when they appear.... The book is concluded with notes, rules and tables of useful information.”—Engin. N.
+ Engin. N. 56: 522. N. 15, ’06. 200w.
Cravath, James Raley, and Lansingh, Van Rensselaer. Practical illumination. *$3. McGraw pub.
7–17392.
“The authors, in the preface to their book, point out that their object is ‘to present exact practical information of every-day use on many points that come up in arranging artificial lighting.’ They make no attempt to treat of the apparatus for the production of light, but rather to confine the work to the much neglected subject of how best to use the light after it is produced. A great many tests are shown giving information on the light distribution of various illuminants with different globes, reflectors and shades. Much of this information has not before been available to the general reader.”—Engin. N.
“Taken all in all the book may be truly said to constitute a real contribution to the literature of the art of practical illumination. It goes without saying that it should find a place in the library of every illuminating engineer. But the illuminating engineer is not the only 98one to whom the book will appeal. The authors happily have presented the subject in such a way that the architect, the contractor and the central station man will derive much benefit from reading it.” L. B. Marks.
+ + − Engin. N. 57: 549. My. 16, ’07. 1710w.
Crawford, Francis Marion. Arethusa. †$1.50. Macmillan.
7–33911.
A story of Constantinople in the fourteenth century whose plot is built up about the expulsion of the usurper Andronicus from the throne and the restoration of Johannes. Arethusa, who with her foster parents were objects of Andronicus’ cruelty, sells herself into slavery to save her foster mother from poverty, is bought by Carlo Zeno the principal actor in the Johannine faction, and becomes involved in the plot to re-establish the deposed ruler.
+ A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 200. N. ’07. ✠
“The breathless adventures and the hairbreadth escapes, the scenes of torture and luxury are all good reading as isolated episodes; but they hardly go to make a novel worthy of the author.”
+ − Ath. 1907, 2: 613. N. 16. 150w.
Reviewed by Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ Bookm. 26: 268. N. ’07. 460w.
“More than once the narrative causes one’s breath to come unevenly—a sure test of a story of adventure. It would have gone all the better for the absence of certain over-frequent and rather sententious little asides, chiefly on the feminine character.”
+ − Lond. Times. 6: 309. O. 11, ’07. 480w.
“He is merely, as the author of some thirty-five novels should be, extraordinarily adept, a master of his craft, as a craft.”
+ Nation. 85: 496. N. 28, ’07. 450w.
N. Y. Times. 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 40w.
“The tale is told with Mr. Crawford’s usual skill and more than his usual vivacity.”
+ Outlook. 87: 622. N. 23, ’07. 110w.
“His admitted acquaintance with his subject exempts him from the imputation of having studied it for a purpose, yet thereby making more flagrant his transposition of twentieth-century manners and morals into the corrupt decrepitude of Constantinople in 1376.”
+ − Sat. R. 104: sup. 7. O. 19, ’07. 750w.
Crawford, Francis Marion. Lady of Rome. †$1.50. Macmillan.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
Current Literature. 42: 228. F. ’07. 850w.
“It has perhaps rather less of plot and rather more of psychology than the author is wont to give us, but the story has both texture and strength, besides being thoroughly praiseworthy in its ethical implications.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ Dial. 42: 15. Ja. 1, ’07. 440w.
+ + Ind. 62: 501. F. 28, ’07. 220w.
* Crawford, Francis Marion. Little city of hope: a Christmas story. †$1.25. Macmillan.
A touching Christmas story which tells of an inventor’s intense struggle for a certain scientific triumph, how poverty blocked his way and how his little son constructed a model city—a miniature of the college town where the father had been a professor of mathematics—and wooed and held Hope within its tiny gates. The wife who had sought a position as governess is the good Christmas angel who makes final success a possibility.
Outlook. 87: 623. N. 23, ’07. 70w.
Crawford, J. H. From fox’s earth to mountain tarn: days among the wild animals of Scotland. **$3.50. Lane.
The wild life of Scotland inhabiting the country from Ailsa Crag and the Tweed to the Shetlands is dealt with in true nature-lover fashion. Mr. Crawford makes a plea for the preservation of eagles, hawks, foxes, and various other birds of artificial sport.
“Twenty-one short essays, all interesting and well written, in spite of a somewhat affected style.”
+ − Ath. 1906, 2: 688. D. 1. 410w.
“Mr. Crawford has a way of saying things that makes one think.” May Estelle Cook.
+ Dial. 41: 388. D. 1, ’06. 250w.
+ N. Y. Times. 12: 263. Ap. 20, ’07. 320w.
“We find him an instructive and delightful companion, and the range and minuteness of his knowledge is indisputable.”
+ − Sat. R. 102: 489. O. 20, ’06. 850w.
“His style is vigorous. His sentences are short. It contains some excellent accounts of wild life.”
+ Spec. 97: 216. F. 9, ’07. 90w.
Crawford, William Henry. Girolamo Savonarola, a prophet of righteousness. *$1. West. Meth. bk.
7–18143.
This volume in “The men of the kingdom” series aims “to show what Savonarola was as a man, and what he did as a true prophet of righteousness.”
“President Crawford ... writes with contagious enthusiasm, though his style seems far from being as finished and full of color as the subject demands. It is certainly a far cry from Villari to Mr. Crawford.”
− + Outlook. 86: 526. Jl. 6, ’07. 140w.
Crawfurd, Oswald J. F. Revelations of Inspector Morgan. †$1.50. Dodd.
7–25506.
Four stories founded on revelations made by a Scotland Yard officer, “presumably the fruits of his imagination stimulated and impelled by Scotland Yard narratives to the defence of the professional detective so long over-shadowed in fiction by the popular and famous amateur.” (Sat. R.)
“Good detective stories.”
+ A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 201. N. ’07.
“Readers will find two of the four stories well up to recent standards of the kind; while one, ‘The kidnapped children,’ works out a motive which is as adequate and convincing as it is ingenious and unexpected.”
+ Nation. 85: 519. D. 5, ’07. 360w.
“He gets himself read. Many better story tellers are less lucky.”
+ − N. Y. Times. 12: 584. S. 28, ’07. 640w.
“The not too exacting lover of mystery will find plenty to amuse him in these studies of crime, though they are somewhat naïve and crude in their development, and occasionally weak in detail.”
+ − Sat. R. 102: 53. Jl. 14, ’06. 90w.
“We cannot say that these stories are better or worse than the flood of detective fiction which is just now poured so liberally on the reading public.”
+ − Spec. 96: 1044. Je. 30, ’06. 130w.
Crawshaw, William Henry. Making of English literature. *$1.25. Heath.
7–16385.
“A compact yet broadly suggestive historical introduction to English literature for use by students and by general readers.” The subject is taken up in six successive periods: Paganism and Christianity 449–1066, which treats of Anglo-Saxon poetry; Religion and romance, 1066–1500, which includes the Anglo-Norman period and the age of Chaucer; Renaissance and reformation, 1500–1660, covering Shakespeare and Milton; Classicism, 1660–1780, including the times of Dryden, Pope and Johnson; Individualism 1780–1832, Burns and Wordsworth and Democracy and science 1832–1892, the age of Tennyson.
99“In individual cases ... we may take exception to Mr. Crawshaw’s critical estimate, but in the main he is to be commended as a sound guide.”
+ − Ath. 1907, 2: 300. S. 14. 260w.
“The present work is one of the most satisfactory of compendiums. It is conceived on new lines and in many respects is better adapted for the student and general reader than any treatise of the kind that we can recall. The book bears strong evidence of the influence which Taine has exercised upon contemporaneous literary history and criticism.”
+ + Lit. D. 35: 25. Jl. 6, ’07. 150w.
“The critical pages are to be commended for their sanity, good judgment, breadth of spirit, and sympathetic comprehension.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 12: 433. Jl. 6, ’07. 260w.
“For the general reader, as well as for the student this is an illuminating book.”
+ Outlook. 86: 568. Je. 13, ’07. 280w.
+ R. of Rs. 34: 383. S. ’07. 80w.
“Our space does not permit us to go into a detailed analysis of this splendid book, splendid in its critical acumen, sane judgments, breadth of spirit, and in catholic sympathy, but we must note a point or two where we think the author might have improved his book. His treatment of the drama before Shakespeare, especially the mystery and morality plays, is inadequate and not compactly grouped. We are of the opinion, too, that many readers of the book will be inclined to disagree with Professor Crawshaw in his assigning Pope a place as a forerunner of the romantic movement. With these manifold excellences we doubt very much if the volume has the staying qualities necessary for classroom work. For the general reader it is undoubtedly an excellent book.” H. E. Coblentz.
+ − School R. 15: 624. O. ’07. 700w.
Creighton, William Henry. P. Steam-engine and other heat-motors. $5. Wiley.
7–8522.
A text for students rather than a reference book for the practicing engineer. Principles are clearly stated with ample numerical examples and problems.
“The book is clearly written. Among the illustrations there are rather too many picked up from the trade catalogues or from other books of similar nature. These do not always fit in well with the text. But otherwise, the book is excellent as to the dress given to it by the publishers.” Storm Bull.
+ − Engin. N. 57: 665. Je. 13, ’07. 1140w.
“An examination of the book shows that it is not a vade mecum of the steam engine. The author has had in mind the needs of the engineering student, and the matter is presented in a manner which is intended to train the student to think.” John J. Flather.
+ + − Technical Literature. 2: 457. N. ’07. 930w.
Crockett, Samuel Rutherford. White plume. †$1.50. Dodd.
6–34687.
Once more the horrors of the massacre of St. Bartholomew lie fresh upon the pages of a historial romance in which figure Henry of Navarre, the easy going Marguerite of Valois, the odious Queen-mother, the Duke of Guise, Philip of Spain, etc. “The story proper begins with the day of the barricades, where Francis Agnew, an agent entrusted with high matters by the kings of Scotland and Navarre, is also left dead. His daughter is aided in her extremity by a certain professor of the Sorbonne and a gallant young student, John d’Albret, who became the main actors in a love story, which runs parallel—if such a term may be used of a tortuous history—with the events of the wars of religion and the political activities and cruelties of Spanish inquisitors and statesmen.” (Ath.)
“With certain deductions which seem inevitable in respect of style ... Mr. Crockett has handled a theme of much complexity with vivacity and skill; and the characterization is in his best form.”
+ − Ath. 1906, 2: 509. O. 27. 260w.
“Mr. Crockett has put his historical facts (duly supplemented by sentimental inventions) to skilful use, and made the old story quite readable again.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ Dial. 42: 144. Mr. 1, ’07. 160w.
“The book reminds us of the elder Dumas, partly because the author has chosen similar situations in French history upon which to found his story and partly because he has the old charm for spinning a tale full of intrigue and wild adventures.”
+ + Ind. 62: 216. Ja. 24, ’07. 260w.
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 721. N. 3, ’06. 100w.
+ Sat. R. 102: 811. D. 29, ’06. 150w.
Croly, Herbert David. Houses for town or country. **$2. Duffield.
7–28610.
In text and illustration are revealed the tendencies of architecture in America toward nationalization, and the causes for emancipation from imitation of foreign models. The typical town house, the typical country house and the house for all the year are discussed, attractive ideas are set down concerning the hall and the stairs, the living-room, the dining-room, the bedroom and the kitchen, and the house in relation to out-of-doors.
“Anyone wishing to build, remodel, or decorate a house, or to plan a suitable garden for it, can find something suggestive and to his purpose ... in ‘Houses for town or country.’”
+ Dial. 43: 257. O. 16, ’07. 170w.
N. Y. Times. 12: 579. S. 28, ’07. 130w.
“The inquiring layman can learn much from this exposition of architectural ideals, however, and if he is thinking of building a house either in town or country, he will do well to consult these pages.”
+ Outlook. 87: 271. O. 5, ’07. 190w.
Reviewed by Elisabeth Luther Cary.
Putnam’s. 3: 360. D. ’07. 350w.
Cromarsh, H. Ripley. See Angell, Bryan Mary.
Crook, Rev. Isaac. John Knox: the reformer. *$1. West. Meth. bk.
7–14594.
In this biography of Knox in the “Men of the kingdom” series, the author has “drawn the reformer out of a cloudy past into a clear modern vision.”
Cross, Alfred W. S. Public baths and wash houses; a treatise on their planning, design, arrangement, and fitting. *$7.50. Scribner.
7–12686.
A book that is conceived and executed from the view point of the architect rather than from that of the municipal official or the sanitarian.
“The volume before us is a commendable one.”
+ + Engin. N. 57: 307. Mr. 14, ’07. 440w.
“Unfortunately, the title is misleading in omitting to prefix the qualifying adjective British. In spite of its limitations, the volume should be on the shelves of every technical library and of every architect who is likely to design bath houses.”
+ + Nation. 85: 383. O. 24, ’07. 940w.
* Cross, Richard James, ed. Hundred great poems. **$1.25. Holt.
A hundred poems of the sort of merit that has stood the test of time. Shakespeare, Herbert, Herrick, Milton, Burns, Wordsworth, Lamb, Moore, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Hood, Longfellow, the Brownings, and many others are represented.
100* Crothers, Samuel McChord. Making of religion. *40c. Am. Unitar.
Mr. Crothers argues less for antiquarian research, for looking back at our saints and heroes than for looking forward to the unchangeable vision that has cheered the ages on.
Crouse, Mary Elizabeth. Algiers. **$2. Pott.
6–38897.
“A book of impressions is ‘Algiers.’... The author narrates the story of this morning land where the East and the West have met; goes down into its life to discover the traces of what has been ... tells the romance of the palaces, describes the passing of the days, sees Lazarus in his rags at the gates, the orange peddlers rolled in their cloaks, asleep on the ground, and gives many glimpses of the native women whose lives are veiled like their faces.”—N. Y. Times.
+ A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 96. Ap. ’07.
“Charming as this book often is, it does not bring assurance with its interpretations.”
− + Nation. 83: 533. D. 20, ’06. 260w.
“The book was worth writing, the task has been admirably performed and the pictures have much artistic merit.” Cyrus C. Adams.
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 846. D. 3, ’06. 540w.
Crowell, Norman H. Sportsman’s primer. $1.25. Outing pub. co.
7–22732.
Both sportsmen and scoffers will enjoy the humor of these satirical chapters upon football, hunting ducks, automobiling, frog catching, base ball, tennis, wrestling, angling, golf, dog training, moose hunting, bear hunting, snipe shooting, whaling and other sports.
Crozier, John B. Wheel of wealth, being a reconstruction of the science and art of political economy on the lines of modern evolution. $4.50. Longmans.
6–46262.
A three-part work on economics illuminated by the thought “that the symbol of a revolving wheel is the natural symbol of the reproduction of wealth, and that the laws of the increase and decrease of wealth, as well as the immediate deduction therefrom, must be identical with, and so be transferable from the mathematics of a mechanical wheel of wealth and the science of political economy.” Part 1, treats of “Reconstruction;” Part 2, “Free trade and protection;” Part 3, surveys the “Critical and historical” aspects of the subjects, passing under review the English and foreign schools.
“So thoroughly is political economy ‘reconstructed’ in this modest volume, that we fail to recognize the battered, though regenerated, science. The book is as disproportioned as a monster. Vital economic problems are completely disregarded, other questions are treated at excessive length.”
− Ann. Am. Acad. 29: 633. My. ’07. 160w.
“Dr. Crozier possesses a bright and generally intelligible, though perhaps occasionally rather roystering style, great learning and great industry. It is not a book to be hastily passed by, and should be studied carefully by those who disagree with it.”
+ + − Ath. 1907, 1: 191. F. 16. 1700w.
“Eliminate the wheel; moderate the oratorical rush of the writer; reduce the book to a half of its length by omitting many explanations which really obscure, and metaphors which are none the less superfluous because ingenious; substitute occasionally a short mathematical formula for an eloquent paragraph and this book would take a high place in modern economical literature.”
+ − Lond. Times. 5: 434. D. 28, ’06. 1390w.
“In a work which reconstructs an entire science in a single stroke, it is an ungrateful task to call attention to such minor defects as errors of fact and inference; and in a single number of the ‘Nation’ it would be impossible to chronicle more than a small part of Mr. Crozier’s mistakes. It is only fair to say that the ‘Wheel of wealth,’ like the author’s preceding works, is entertainingly written, and is an interesting, if not successful, addition to the books that have undertaken to reform the unregenerate science of political economy.”
− + Nation. 84: 155. F. 14, ’07. 1810w.
“Dr. Crozier’s own reconstruction, we confess, we have some difficulty in appreciating.”
− Spec. 97: 176. F. 2, ’07. 1680w.
Cruickshank, J. W., and Cruickshank, A. M. Christian Rome. (Grant Allen’s historical guides.) **$1.25. Wessels.
7–30815.
A small guide to Rome which follows “the lines laid down by Mr. Grant Allen for his series of historical guide-books, of which the present volume forms a part. His idea was to concentrate the reader’s attention only on what is essential, important, and typical. Hence the compilers have made no attempt to catalogue every church and work of art connected with Christian Rome.”—Outlook.
“In plan than which there are none better.”
+ A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 162. O. ’07.
“Especially valuable for the Vatican galleries.”
+ Ind. 62: 1358. Je. 6, ’07. 60w.
“An admirably practical guide.”
+ Outlook. 86: 525. Jl. 6, ’07. 100w.
Cruickshank, J. W., and Cruickshank, A. M. Umbrian cities of Italy. 2v. il. $3. Page.
7–30814.
A guide-book, yet it withholds information about the details of travel. “The authors’ method is to give a brief history of the region, and also of each city, from which the traveler may form an idea of the states of civilization under which the various art treasures of each locality were produced and of the people who made them. Then follow descriptions and studies of monuments, churches, museums, and their contents. The books are not intended to take the place of an ordinary guide book nor to furnish catalogues of collections. The aim of the authors has been to supplement these by giving such a background of history and tradition and of biographical coloring as will make the objects studied stand out before the traveler full of meaning and suggestion.” (N. Y. Times.)
“The plans for the identification of particular pictures in lavishly decorated churches or other buildings should prove very useful.”
+ Nation. 85: 383. O. 24, ’07. 130w.
“Through the descriptions are scattered many bits of criticism which give to them just the personal, companionable note that most travelers will enjoy.”
+ N. Y. Times. 12: 638. O. 19, ’07. 190w.
Cruttwell, Maud. Antonio Pollaiuolo. *$2. Scribner.
7–28946.
A comprehensive review of the work of this famous Italian draughtsman meets a definite need. “One of Miss Cruttwell’s main objects has been to draw a clear distinction between the two brothers Antonio and Piero, whose works are commonly classed together and whom ordinarily well-informed persons find it difficult to separate in their minds.... The book contains as an appendix all the known ‘documents’ bearing on the brothers Pollaiuolo, and there is a complete catalogue of their admitted works.” (N. Y. Times.)
“The illustrations are excellent, and the appendix, consisting of documents relating to the life, list of works and bibliography, makes the book of extreme value to students. The latter, however, is not so free from printer’s errors as is the text.”
+ + − Acad. 72: 208. Mr. 2, ’07. 1170w.
101“One of the most scholarly as well as most readable art books issued in many a day; and no doubt it will long remain the authoritative treatise on the Pollaiuoli.”
+ + Ind. 63: 1175. N. 14, ’07. 340w.
“A book of permanent value to students.”
+ + Lond. Times. 6: 38. F. 1, ’07. 1210w.
+ + N. Y. Times. 12: 85. F. 9, ’07. 1270w. (Reprinted from Lond. Times.)
“Has permanent value.”
+ Outlook. 85: 859. Ap. 13, ’07. 260w.
Cruttwell, Maud. Guide to the paintings in the Florentine galleries, the Uffizi, the Pitti, the Accademia. $1.25. Dutton.
7–33970.
Miss Cruttwell has subtracted many of the commonplace guide book features, among them descriptions, but yet supplies the necessary facts of information in clear time-saving form. She says that her book is not a catalog for use in galleries but a reference volume for the student. It is timely in view of the recent changes made in the three galleries of Florence.
“Of the miniature ‘reproductions’ with which this neat and handy volume is illustrated, we cannot speak with unqualified praise.”
+ − Ath. 1907, 1: 672. Je. 1. 410w.
N. Y. Times. 12: 551. S. 14, ’07. 90w.
“All the defects of her latest book, however, can be easily removed in another edition.”
+ − Outlook. 86: 613. Jl. 20, ’07. 380w.
Cundall, H. M. Birket Foster, R. W. S. il. *$6. Macmillan.
7–28516.
An artistic and descriptive volume of the life of one of the foremost representatives of the English school of water color painting. His landscapes, his studies of peasant and farm life, and his architectural reproductions all bespeak a genius that has tested its work by the artist’s standards and found it good. To Americans he is best known for his illustrations to “Evangeline.”
Ath. 1907, 1: 52. Ja. 12. 1200w.
“Its author has had exceptional facilities for dealing successfully with his subject and has turned them to account with no little tact and skill.”
+ + Int. Studio. 31: 81. Mr. ’07. 340w.
“It is a beautifully illustrated, gossipy book, which carries the reader back to the early days of pictorial journalism in England.”
+ + Lit. D. 34: 341. Mr. 2, ’07. 390w.
+ + Nation. 84: 322. Ap. 4, ’07. 130w.
“In all this series there is not a more attractive volume.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 12: 76. F. 9, ’07. 450w.
+ + Outlook. 85: 857. Ap. 13, ’07. 140w.
“Somehow we cannot reconcile ourselves to Birket Foster in the form in which he is here reproduced. Mr. Cundall brings to bear on his work plenty of enthusiasm of the right kind, and is thoroughly appreciative of the exquisite art of his man, but the book as a whole leaves us uncontent.”
+ − Sat. R. 102: 780. D. 22, ’06. 110w.
Cunningham, William. Wisdom of the wise, three lectures on free trade imperialism. *60c. Putnam.
6–33507.
“The three ‘wise’ men whose views upon imperialism and trade policy are discussed in these lectures are Right Hon. R. B. Haldane, Mr. St. Loe Stachey, and Lord Rosebery.... The first of these essays discusses English classical free-trade economics.... The second essay is devoted to a discussion of free-trade imperialism, with reference especially to Mr. Stachey’s views.... The last essay is a commentary upon Lord Rosebery’s utterances upon the problem of the unemployed.”—J. Pol. Econ.
“The analysis is dispassionate, and the author shows a desire to take his opponents at their best.”
+ Ann. Am. Acad. 29: 634. My. ’07. 100w.
“There is much interesting economic speculation in these essays. The argument would, however, be more convincing if less apologetic.”
+ − J. Pol. Econ. 14: 523. O. ’06. 350w.
Reviewed by Alvin S. Johnson.
+ Pol. Sci. Q. 21: 718. D. ’06. 450w.
“Innuendoes against colleagues and political opponents are not atoned for by pulpit platitudes on religion and political life. Irrelevance and confusion are worsened, and bettered, when advanced under the cloak of a distinguished reputation. The role of political pamphleteer is not, in short, adapted to Dr. Cunningham’s genius.”
− Spec. 96: 1042. Je. 30, ’06. 1700w.
Cunynghame, Henry H. S. European enamels. (Connoisseur’s lib., no. 9.) *$6.75. Macmillan.
6–41011.
The third edition of Mr. Cunynghame’s work on enamels, in which he has included a chapter on a new kind of furnace invented by himself.
“Mr. Cunynghame has absorbed the whole history of his subject and sets it before us in so convenient and graceful a way as to make his volume one of the most charming of an excellent series.”
+ Acad. 72: 22. Ja. 5, ’07. 300w.
“On questions relating to the history of enamel the author helps us hardly at all. He supplies only scraps of comment drawn from various sources. His style is discursive, and at times it is impossible to take seriously his ideas on art matters generally.”
+ − Ath. 1906, 2: 520. O. 27. 980w.
“A book that will not stand the test of criticism.”
− Dial. 42: 230. Ap. 1, ’07. 340w.
“Beautiful and instructive volume.”
+ Ind. 63: 225. Jl. 25, ’07. 240w.
“A very interesting, and on the whole, reliable work on the subject.”
+ Int. Studio. 30: 184. D. ’06. 450w.
“The worst fault, however, from the connoisseur’s point of view, is the absence of a bibliography. Credit must be given him for a real knowledge of materials and processes, and what he has to say on these ... is extremely valuable.”
+ − Lond. Times. 5: 370. N. 2, ’06. 460w.
“We close the volume with the feeling that enthusiasm for the art and knowledge of its character are to be gained by a faithful study of these pages. The not very attractive photographic plates are at least useful. It is altogether a good book for the beginner.”
+ Nation. 84: 418. My. 2, ’07. 620w.
+ N. Y. Times. 12: 113. F. 23, ’07. 560w.
“A valuable volume.”
+ + Outlook. 85: 858. Ap. 13, ’07. 130w.
Cunynghame, Henry H. S. Time and clocks: a description of ancient and modern methods of measuring time. *$1.50. Dutton.
7–11023.
“Mr. Cunynghame, after discussing the subject of time generally, proceeds to describe the sun-dial, the water-clock (with a notice of the complication caused by the division of the day into twelve hours), and sand-glasses. In due course he comes to clocks in their various forms.”—Spec.
“If Mr. Cunynghame had stuck to his subject, a valuable book might have resulted, and it need not have been any shorter than the one actually in hand.”
− + Ath. 1907, 1: 20. Ja. 5. 500w.
“We rather fear that the reader who has not gone through a course of dynamics will find it hard to grasp the significance of the various 102discussions, despite the clear reasoning and simple examples, whilst to the science student a greater part of the matter is unnecessary.” W. E. R.
+ − Nature. 75: 269. F. 17, ’07. 160w.
“A very interesting book it is, though in spots disconcertingly mathematical.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 12: 476. Ag. 3, ’07. 1090w.
“He is always scientific, and discusses the principle of the technical contrivances which he describes.”
+ Spec. 97: 1051. D. 22, ’06. 60w.
Curtis, Carleton Clarence. Nature and development of plants. *$2.50. Holt.
7–34596.
A work which has less of the text-book aim than that of creating for the student a viewpoint. It is put forth with the hope that the discussion “will give the student such comprehension of the subject that he will come to the lecture room in a proper attitude and that he will approach his laboratory work with the desire for investigation.”
Curtis, Natalie, ed. Indians’ book: an offering by the American Indians of Indian lore, musical and narrative, to form a record of the songs and legends of their race. il. **$7.50. Harper.
7–31183.
A most handsomely made book, “undertaken primarily for the Indians, in the hope that this, their own volume, when placed in the hands of their children, might help to revive for the younger generation that sense of the dignity and worth of their race which is the Indian’s birth-right.” “The book reflects the soul of one of the types of primitive man.... It is the direct utterance of the Indians themselves. The red man dictated and the white friend recorded.” The songs, stories and drawings have been contributed by Indians themselves.
“To most of its white readers the book will be a revelation of the vaguely stirring genius and the art, mystic in its intent, spontaneous in its symbolism, of a child race.”
+ Dial. 43: 382. D. 1, ’07. 640w.
“It must be said in general that the poems, stories, and tunes collected by Miss Curtis have the true aboriginal flavor.”
+ Nation. 85: 428. N. 7, ’07. 750w.
“For herself makes claim only to the work of the recorder. But even the cursory reader will see that she deserves, in addition, much credit for the noble purpose by which she has been animated, the tact and patience with which she has carried the work through successfully, and the painstaking labor which has been involved.” F. F. Kelly.
+ N. Y. Times. 12: 646. O. 19, ’07. 1170w.
N. Y. Times. 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 10w.
“The appeal of the book is to the lover of folk-lore, to the musician, to the student of primitive art, and to all who would know about the Indian character and the Indian traditions.”
+ Outlook. 87: 558. O. 19, ’07. 160w.
“A noteworthy contribution to the descriptive literature of vanishing peoples.”
+ R. of Rs. 36: 637. N. ’07. 280w.
Curtis, Newton Martin. From Bull Run to Chancellorsville: the story of the Sixteenth New York infantry with personal reminiscences. **$2. Putnam.
6–27984.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The historian’s research into archives has been faithful and laborious; but it is more than rivalled by this loving quest of tear-bedewed letters from the front, and recollections of actual survivors.”
+ + Cath. World. 85: 685. Ag. ’07. 430w.
“In its human interest, a volume like this finds its value and its justification.”
+ Ind. 62: 620. Mr. 14, ’07. 300w.
Cust, Lionel. Van Dyck. (Great masters in painting and sculpture.) $1.75. Macmillan.
W 7–162.
“An abridged and revised version of the exhaustive volume on the life and work of Van Dyck published six years ago by Mr. Lionel Cust, whose erudition is now placed within the reach of a wider public.... The illustrations are well-chosen and adequately reproduced, and though we could wish the list of paintings included those in private as well as those in public collections, the book must be pronounced in every way a worthy addition to a series remarkable for its convenience and authority.”—Acad.
“As an authoritative account of a painter whose work is richly represented in this country, Mr. Cust’s condensed volume should find a place in the library of every connoisseur.”
+ Acad. 72: 162. F. 16, ’07. 130w.
“The addition of new facts which have recently come to light bring the book up to the level of present-day knowledge.”
+ N. Y. Times. 12: 557. S. 14, ’07. 140w.
* Cutting, Mrs. Mary Stewart. Suburban whirl. †$1.25. McClure.
7–33206.
Includes “The suburban whirl” and several shorter sketches which contain tangible precipitates from every-day happenings in home routine. The titular story shows how in attempting to solve the question of providing for three on a slender income two charming young people try suburban life. “They find themselves speedily caught in the small local maelstrom of clubs and dinners and subscription dances, obliged to buy tickets to church festivals and charitable entertainments, and double their expenditures on personal effects, in order to live up to their new standards.” (Bookm.)
“One of the many well-deserved forms of praise that may be offered be Mrs. Cutting ... is that her instinct for economy of structure is almost flawless. A larger number [of characters] would have spoiled the illusion of a small suburban town; a smaller number would not have conveyed a sense of a social whirl in the suburbs of anywhere else. In short, she has struck the golden mean, which makes this little story as admirable for its symmetry as it is for the simple philosophy of its culmination.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ + Bookm. 26: 407. D. ’07. 430w.
N. Y. Times. 12: 653. O. 19, ’07. 30w.