Book Review Digest Devoted to the Valuation of Current Literature Reviews of 1917 Books (continued 10)

119“Written in not too technical language, adapted for mothers and nurses. ... It is blunter than Slemons and not so full as Davis.”

+ A L A Bkl 13:294 Ap ‘17

“The entire problem is treated by the author in a practical and sensible fashion.” Medicus

+ N Y Call p14 F 18 ‘17 200w

“‘In many ways it is an admirable presentation. ... It is encouraging to find another straightforward, thoroughly scientific popular book on the subject of childbearing.’” D. R. Mendenhall

+ Pittsburgh 22:334 Ap ‘17 30w (Reprinted from Journal of Home Economics p144 Mr ‘17)

COOKE, MARJORIE BENTON. Cinderella Jane. il *$1.35 (2c) Doubleday 17-11703

By day Jane Judd cleaned studios in the Washington Square neighborhood. By night she devoted herself to the art of letters. For, unknown to the “Studio colony,” Jane had not only ambition, but ability of a rare order. Jerry Paxton, for whom she had worked for six years, had never taken any notice of Jane. To him she was a quiet, undemonstrative, domestic woman—the ideal wife for a popular society painter, unhappily beset by the women who fell victim to his charm. Unexpectedly Jerry asked Jane to marry him, and she accepted. Interesting developments follow; Jane’s first novel is published, and Jerry, who believes that a woman’s one career should be her husband, finds himself married to a woman who is famous. Their adjustment is the substance of the latter half of the story.

“Will be popular. Appeared in the American Magazine.”

A L A Bkl 13:449 Jl ‘17

“The truth is, genius apart, Jane is a rather tiresome and irritating person—to the male observer, at least.” H. W. Boynton

— Bookm 45:534 Jl ‘17 500w

“The plot is admirably worked out, with a surprise in every chapter. ... Jane is the super-woman type, a trifle too calm to be human. But she is an excellent girl and teems with lessons. Besides, she finally learns a few for herself.”

+ Boston Transcript p6 Ap 25 ‘17 280w

“One is not sure about ‘Cinderella Jane.’ The writer is so set upon being modern, so enthusiastic about the current doctrine of marriage as a mutually free state, that she strains the point at the expense of her Jane and her husband.”

Nation 104:737 Je 21 ‘17 380w

“The best part of the book consists of the remarks made by Jane and the author regarding women’s careers and economic position, and in these there is nothing which will not prove entirely familiar to any one who has given any attention to these subjects.”

N Y Times 22:166 Ap 29 ‘17 330w

Spec 119:741 D 22 ‘17 30w

“The theme is now a common one, but the qualities that made this author’s ‘Bambi’ so pleasing to many are here in even greater measure.”

+ Springf’d Republican p19 Je 10 ‘17 350w

“A novel of New York life, with a good deal of the unabashed emotional appeal one expects from so representative an American writer as the author of ‘The girl who lived in the woods.’”

+ — The Times [London] Lit Sup p602 D 12 ‘17 130w

COOLIDGE, ARCHIBALD GARY. Origins of the Triple alliance. (Univ. of Virginia, Barbour-Page foundation) *$1.25 (3½c) Scribner 940.9 17-20014

This volume is based on three lectures given before the University of Virginia, in 1916, by Professor Coolidge of Harvard university, “pointing out the causes, personal and international, that led to the formation of the alliance. The author disclaims having made any startling discoveries or any new theories; his object is to set out the interplay of political forces, the aims of statesmen, and the aspirations of peoples in Europe after the Franco-Prussian war as an indispensable study for anyone who wishes to understand even in a superficial way the causes that have brought about the present world-conflict.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup) Two appendices give the terms of the Austro-German alliance and the terms (so far as known) of the Triple alliance.

“Its outstanding merit is lucidity of presentation and in this respect the book, considering its small compass and the involved nature of its subject, is a model of exposition. The ordinary student would have been grateful for a list of authorities other than the few referred to in the sparse footnotes.”

+ — Am Hist R 23:430 Ja ‘18 470w

“Short but adequate and very lucid account of the origins of the Triple alliance.”

+ Ath p520 O ‘17 170w

“The book is of general interest just now, when especial need is felt of a readable and accurate account of the political forces at work among the central European powers following the Franco-Prussian war.” L. E. Robinson

+ Bookm 46:272 N ‘17 350w

Cleveland p138 D ‘17 40w

Ind 91:475 S 22 ‘17 170w

“Though Professor Coolidge modestly disclaims having made any startling discoveries, his little volume is probably the clearest, sanest, and most objective brief account of the most important permanent results of European diplomacy between 1866 and 1882. Its value lies in the discriminating judgment, based on wide reading and personal acquaintance, with which he handles such elusive questions as the war scare of 1875, the personal relations between the old Kaiser and the Czar, and the devious motives of Bismarck, Gortchakov, and Andrássy. ... Professor Coolidge has also been wise in giving an unusually full analysis of the Russian and Balkan factors in the origins of the Triple alliance. These have ordinarily been much less appreciated than the Italian and French elements.”

+ Nation 105:223 Ag 30 ‘17 650w

“It is pleasant to recognize a book in which Bismarck as a statesman is not, if the expression may be used, melodramatized out of all lifelikeness.”

+ N Y Times 22:383 O 7 ‘17 500w

Pittsburgh 22:678 O ‘17

“One of the best books to help one understand how the present way came about.” P. B.

+ St Louis 15:353 O ‘17 30w

The Times [London] Lit Sup p395 Ag 16 ‘17 90w

COOLIDGE, DANE. Rimrock Jones. il *$1.35 Watt 17-13184

“‘Rimrock’ is a young Arizona prospector, possessing all the vices and virtues of his kind—the magazine and moving-picture kind. He discovers a fabulously rich copper mine. A young woman stenographer gives him her small savings to assist in establishing his claim, in return for which he gives her a one per cent interest in the property. He interests an eastern capitalist, but past experience has taught him to be wary of surrendering his control. Eventually, a fault develops in his filing and a man jumps one of his claims. Jones kills the man and is jailed. Until he is acquitted the girl watches over his interests, but afterward he becomes infatuated with an eastern woman, follows her to New York and there pursues a round of dissipation and seriously involves himself in disastrous stock speculation. In the meanwhile, the fault in his mining claim once more crops up in Arizona. This the girl uses to advantage in bringing him to his senses.”—Springf’d Republican

“The story is vigorously written, as beseems its subject, and will especially appeal to those acquainted with mining manipulations.”

+ N Y Times 22:274 Jl 22 ‘17 120w

“It is a breezy story of its kind, and its rapid action creates a high degree of interest.”

+ Springf’d Republican p15 Ag 19 ‘17 220w

120COOLIDGE, LOUIS ARTHUR. Ulysses S. Grant. il *$2 (1c) Houghton 17-4331

“No man who ever gained enduring fame was more the sport of chance than Grant,” says his biographer. “No character in history has achieved supreme success in war or the supreme reward of politics who owed less to his own ambition or design. ... He was the child of splendid opportunities which came to him unsought, for which he never seemed to care, and which he met with calm assurance of his own capacity.” It is a well-written work based on trustworthy sources and it treats adequately of what the author calls Grant’s two distinct careers, devoting more space than is usual to Grant’s presidency.

“Mr Coolidge has used the best books relating to the subject, and particularly everything personally relating to Grant, except the material in the Civil war records. He has not, however, familiarized himself with recent monographic literature, or with the economic and social movements of the time, which emphatically influenced Grant’s career, although they left his personality untouched. ... He seems also not to possess a sufficient background of military knowledge to give force to his military criticism. Grant, however, both man and boy, by quotation and incident, stands out more clearly than in any previous account. ... The study of Grant in some respects is apt to prove final.” C. R. Fish

+ Am Hist R 22:885 Jl ‘17 1150w

“General King and Mr Edmonds devote but a small portion of their books to Grant’s life after the close of the Civil war. While not an absolutely necessary biography, would be of use as viewing Grant from this angle.”

+ A L A Bkl 13:351 My ‘17

“The more important and distinctive part of Mr Coolidge’s work lies in the last third of it. ... Scant justice is done to the character of Carl Schurz in this review of Grant’s life. ... Mr Coolidge’s book fails to achieve its evident purpose to set Grant among the few great presidents; it was not needed to place him among the country’s greatest soldiers.” H. S. K.

Boston Transcript p8 F 7 ‘17 900w

“Mr Coolidge presents an informing and, on the whole, judicial account of Grant’s presidency. The student of our history knows that this is no easy task. One of the best features of this excellent biography is the liberal quotation from Grant’s letters and state papers, written in that simple and forceful style which proceeded from his integrity and strength of character.”

+ Dial 64:76 Ja 17 ‘18 630w

+ Ind 91:34 Jl 7 ‘17 60w

“If it cannot be said that Mr Coolidge’s biography altogether explains the man Grant and his career, ... he has nevertheless narrated the events of a difficult historical period with a skill which gives to the present generation a rapid and comprehensive account of much with which it should be acquainted, while older persons familiar with the story can read it once more with renewed interest.”

* + Nation 104:759 Je 28 ‘17 1350w

“The biography, while it embodies in quotation or paraphrase all that is most significant in Grant’s narrative, has abundant freshness and vitality of its own: it is written with more than a touch of eloquence. Not merely because of its fullness and accuracy, but also through its literary qualities—its virility and incisiveness—it is not unworthy to stand beside the ‘Memoirs’ as a companion piece.”

+ No Am 205:803 My ‘17 1150w

“It comes just short of 600 pages, as long as a one volume biography can afford to be, and a study of its proportions reveals good judgment on the part of the author. ... The value of the volume is enhanced by the portraits, seven of Grant alone, one in a group of officers: all but one of these are from the collection of Frederick Hill Meserve of New York and some of them have not hitherto been published. Five of them are of the soldier, one of the president, two of the veteran.”

+ Springf’d Republican p6 Jl 20 ‘17 430w

COOMARASWAMY, ANANDA KENTISH. Buddha and the gospel of Buddhism. il *$3.75 (3½c) Putnam 294 A16-1519

For descriptive note see Annual for 1916.

A L A Bkl 13:240 Mr ‘17

“There is nothing scholarly about this book; as a contribution to scientific knowledge, it is nil. Its accounts of the legendary life of Gautama and his teaching, the discussions of the contemporary religious systems of India and of the later developments of Buddhism, as well as the concluding chapters on Buddhist art, are all a hotch-potch of quotations from modern scholars. ... If one wishes to get a general view of Buddhism, he will do better to turn to any popular manual, say the one by Mrs Rhys Davids in the Home university library, which is far better than the present work, and only costs one-seventh as much. ... The book is confessedly a work of propaganda. As an argument for Buddhism, it is not particularly convincing.”

— Dial 62:405 My 3 ‘17 750w

“We have many expositions of Buddhism, but few possess either the charm or the forcefulness of this.”

+ Lit D 54:913 Mr 31 ‘17 320w

“This book, dealing, as it does, very largely with metaphysical speculations, is, of course, not very easy reading. But the author’s style is admirably clear. It is illustrated with a number of fine plates, some in color, others in black and white.”

+ N Y Times 22:357 S 23 ‘17 500w

St Louis 15:47 F ‘17

“The author’s previous work and his peculiar fitness to write authoritatively on this subject should go far to recommend this book for serious consideration by all students of the Buddhist religion.”

+ Springf’d Republican p6 Mr 12 ‘17 300w

COOPER, CLAYTON SEDGWICK. Brazilians and their country. il *$3.50 (3c) Stokes 918.1 17-29767

The writer contends that in a period when territorial barriers are being so rapidly dissolved and when national and social conditions are being so deeply stirred by the greatest human conflict of all ages, isolation and localism are no longer possible for any thoughtful person. He offers this contention as an apologia for a North American’s presumption in writing about a South American people. Contents: Mental hospitality; Brazilian traits; Portugal and Brazil; The Brazilian empire; The orientalism of Brazil; Republican government; A leviathan country; Education; Brazilian home life; The triumph of the engineer; Seeing Rio de Janeiro by tramway; Electric energy transforming Brazil; The racial melting pot; In the land of the Paulistas; The awakening of southern Brazil; Trade and transportation; Outdoor sports and lotteries; Rio de Janeiro, city of enchantment; Bahia, old and bizarre; Paranagua; Pernambuco and Central Brazil; Para and the rubber workers of the Amazon; The Brazilian Indian; Languages, libraries and literature; Brazil’s army and navy; The Latin American view of North Americans; The newspaper as an international medium; Brazil’s tomorrow.

“We have as a result a history with science, observation and experience combined in a really valuable volume.” T: Walsh

+ Bookm 46:606 Ja ‘18 110w

“The frequent comparisons between North American and South American ways of looking at life and of carrying on the business of living are always interesting and ought to prove useful to all business men, especially young men, who hope to enter into trade relations with South America.”

+ N Y Times 22:579 D 30 ‘17 360w

“Exceptional among serious descriptive works in being readable as well as full of useful information. A business man with South American 121trade in the back of his mind might well invest in this book. It gives a striking picture of our great southern neighbor and ally.”

+ Outlook 117:519 N 28 ‘17 50w

+ R of Rs 57:219 F ‘18 60w

COOPER, ELIZABETH (MRS CLAYTON SEDGWICK COOPER). Heart of O Sono San. il *$1.75 (3½c) Stokes 17-28073

The heart of O Sono San is not only the heart of every Japanese girl, but the heart of woman the world over. The customs, the ceremonies, the superstitions and traditions that dominate the environment in which O Sono San is reared are those which now stifle, now strangely quicken the development of Japanese women. From babyhood to motherhood we follow her. In her maturity when she gives her boy to her country, while she lives thru the uncertainties and terrors of the struggle for Japan’s life, when her boy falls serving his country, she rallies from the staggering blow with the heroism that is no more Japanese than French, English, German or American. It is the old Spartan heroism of universal womanhood. The illustrations are excellent reproductions in duo tone from photographs.

+ A L A Bkl 14:130 Ja ‘18

“The author’s ‘The lady of the Chinese court yard’ was an interesting piece of work. It was brilliant, but not so fine as ‘The heart of O Sono San,’ because the latter book possesses rare ethical and spiritual beauty.”

+ N Y Times 22:578 D 30 ‘17 770w

“If the illustrations do not always illustrate the accompanying text, they are in themselves exquisite. The book is worth owning.”

+ Outlook 117:510 N 28 ‘17 50w

COOPER, JAMES A. Cap’n Abe, storekeeper; a story of Cape Cod. il *$1.25 (1½c) Sully & Kleinteich 17-14190

Louise Grayling decides suddenly to spend the summer on Cape Cod with an uncle she has never seen, Cap’n Abram Silt. She finds Cap’n Abe to be a mild and peaceful old gentleman who for many years has entertained his neighbors with tales of the wild adventures of his seafaring brother, Cap’n Amazon. Louise has never heard of this brother and is amazed to learn that she has another uncle. There are others, too, who have begun to express polite doubt as to his existence. So to silence these doubters, Cap’n Abram arranges for the appearance of Cap’n Amazon. His own disappearance is coincident with the arrival of the swarthy-skinned, black-haired, red-turbaned seaman who can be no other than the legendary captain. The village accepts the stranger at his face value but is sorely puzzled to know what has become of the gentle Cap’n Abe. The reader will anticipate Louise in guessing the secret, but the curious villagers are kept in doubt for some time.

+ A L A Bkl 11:26 O ‘17

“Mr Cooper is to be credited with some ingenuity of plot and with holding concealed until almost the closing chapter a climax which can fairly claim originality. ... There is a conventional love romance in the book.”

Boston Transcript p6 Jl 11 ‘17 250w

“If your last trip to the Cape has lost any of that delicious odor of clams and seaweed that clung even to your shoelaces, you can get a new whiff of it here, with a great deal of pleasure.”

+ Dial 63:354 O 11 ‘17 100w

“The sea and the seafolk give the breezy atmosphere which makes it pleasant reading for a summer’s day.”

+ N Y Times 22:258 Jl 8 ‘17 130w

+ Springf’d Republican p13 Je 17 ‘17 220w

COOPER, LANE, ed. Concordance to the works of Horace. pa $7 Carnegie inst. 874 16-20920

“With this monumental volume a great labor of love on the part of the professor of the English language and literature in Cornell university has been finished, and a new and advanced position in the progress of classical scholarship has been gained. ... The text on which the ‘Concordance’ is based is that of Vollmer’s ‘Editio maior’ of 1912. Contrary to the usual practice, Mr Cooper has maintained a purely alphabetical sequence in the arrangement of Horatian forms, as, for instance, ‘sum, eram, esse, fui,’ etc., rather than listing all these under the basis of ‘sum’ or ‘esse.’ The advantage of this plan is that the student can at once detect the presence or absence of any given form in Horace. The work is a concordance and not a mere index. Each word is quoted in connection with a whole line (or more if necessary) of its context, which makes it possible, not only instantly to identify the passage, but also to study the word or phrase in question without turning it up in the original text. ... Mr Cooper has issued with the ‘Concordance,’ for the benefit of those engaged in a similar task, a list of instructions for preparing the slips used in the compilation of this great work.”—Class J

“We, who up to date have had no index to Horace except those of the Zangemeister-Bentley type, works ill printed and out of print at that, will have constant cause for gratitude to Mr Lane and to his ‘Maecenas,’ the Carnegie institute of Washington, for his scholarly, handsome, and entirely usable volume. It is a royal octavo, on heavy durable paper, printed with type unusually large and clear for such a work.” F. J. Miller

+ Class J 63:609 Je ‘17 530w

“To review a concordance exhaustively one must have thumbed it in long service. I have tested this one only by rapid reading of a hundred pages selected at random. I have observed no misprints and no instances of unintelligent or misleading delimitation of the excerpts. They are always so made as to indicate sufficiently the metrical, the grammatical, and the substantive context. ... An interesting page of the preface describes the method by which the forty-five thousand slips were prepared by eighteen collaborators.” Paul Shorey

+ Class Philol 12:311 Jl ‘17 450w

COOPER, LANE, ed. Greek genius and its influence. *$3.50 (2½c) Yale univ. press 913.38 17-29847

Select essays and extracts that interpret the life and genius of classic Greece. The work aims to supply “a part of the necessary background for the study of Greek and Latin masterpieces, ... and to stimulate and rectify the comparison of ancient with modern literature.” The characterizations of the Greek race which are assembled here have special interest for students of literature, and the writer hopes, for the geographer and anthropologist. A penetrating study of the traits of the Greek race, at its best, furnishes an introduction to the volume. He finds the Greek the most versatile and evenly developed of any race nature has brought forth; they were religious and intellectual; remarkable was their scientific interest in human conduct. The writer, who is professor of the English language and literature in Cornell university, offers the volume as a stimulus to the study of standard English translations of the classics.

“Certainly the reading is good reading, for the whole two hundred odd pages. Only—and one must ask it—why isn’t it edited?” H. B. Alexander

+ — Dial 64:63 Ja 17 ‘18 1250w

“While this book lacks the unity that a single authorship would compel, it is none the less abundant in interest and in wisdom.”

+ Educ R 55:78 Ja ‘18 80w

COOPER, LENNA FRANCES. How to cut food costs. il 75c Good health pub. 641 17-19175

“In this little book, the director of the Battle Creek sanitarium school of home economics gives a popular explanation of a balanced diet and provides a guide to the selection of low cost foods. It contains a large number of recipes and a list of economical menus for ten days. The seasonal factor in food economy is brought out, and the part played in cost by transportation 122and selling charges illustrated by telling examples. The emphasis is laid on wise buying rather than waste in the kitchen which, so far as working class households are concerned, is apt to be exaggerated by the critics.”—Survey

Cleveland p131 D ‘17 40w

+ Ind 91:353 S 1 ‘17 70w

“The book closes with a complete bibliography on kindred subjects.”

+ Springf’d Republican p17 O 28 ‘17 140w

“Though this book cannot take the place of verbal instruction and practical demonstration in the education of the less educated housewives, it may be recommended as a trustworthy manual for those already interested in the subject.” B. L.

+ Survey 39:73 O 20 ‘17 130w

COPPING, ARTHUR E. Souls in khaki; with a foreword by General Bramwell Booth. *$1 (2c) Doran 940.91 17-17990

“Mr Copping’s book presents a series of pictures of his personal investigations into spiritual experiences and sources of heroism in the English army. [With the assistance of the War office and the Salvation army] he visited the training camps in England, went to France, tarried in the hospitals, went through the trenches, was under fire, talked with numberless soldiers, whole and wounded, spent much time in the Salvation army huts, and everywhere made it his chief purpose to find out what quality it is in the British soldier that enables him to face calmly and smilingly the horrors and the perils of battle. It is his conclusion that at the front ‘the spirit is supreme and the flesh subordinate,’ and he bears witness to what so many other observers have noted, the reality of religious faith among the soldiers.”—N Y Times

Ath p420 Ag ‘17 100w

“In spite of the incessant and aggravating recurrence of adjectives—‘piteous’ seems to appear upon every other page—the writer has achieved a very readable war book and one that ought to find a place in the libraries of our Sunday schools.”

+ — Bib World 50:375 D ‘17 380w

“Chatty and interesting but marred by occasional sentimentality.”

+ — Cleveland p118 N ‘17 40w

“It is a chatty and very readable little book and shows in a graphic way how spirit can rise above material conditions and make them contribute to its own good, no matter how abhorrent they may be. And that is something that ought, just now, when our own men are soon to be in the trenches, to be a consoling message to Americans.”

+ N Y Times 22:261 Jl 15 ‘17 330w

“The book is full of stirring anecdotes of heroism and exalted Christian service. It is well put together and is free from any suspicion of special pleading. Mr Copping has done his best to get at the facts. His material is fresh and, in the main, convincing.”

+ Springf’d Republican p8 Ag 1 ‘17 280w

CORBETT, JULIAN STAFFORD. England in the Mediterranean [1603-1713]. 2d ed 2v *$5 Longmans 942.06

“‘Once to grasp the Mediterranean point of view is to be dominated by its fascination,’ wrote Julian S. Corbett a dozen years ago in the preface to his admirable work on ‘England in the Mediterranean, 1603-1713.’ He went on to give the first satisfactory account of that important bit of English naval and political history by which England first established her sea-power within the Pillars of Hercules, occupied for a while Tangier, and finally fixed her unshakable hold on the Rock of Gibraltar.”—Nation

“Today the Mediterranean is more than ever the ‘Keyboard of Europe,’ and the history of the seventeenth century strategists who secured it for England must always be of deep historic interest. Some of the episodes discussed in the book are ‘Sir Walter Raleigh,’ ‘England and the Venice conspiracy,’ ‘The navy under James I,’ ‘The Spanish succession,’ ‘Marlborough and the navy,’ and ‘The congress of Utrecht.’”

+ Cath World 105:539 Jl ‘17 320w

+ Ind 91:187 Ag 4 ‘17 40w

“With unusual success he has kept the complicated politics of the period in close relation to the naval history. With their readable style and their sense of the romance of the sea in its embodiment in English sea-fighters, Mr Corbett’s volumes are again welcome.”

+ Lit D 54:1428 My 12 ‘17 280w

“The great war, which has again centered men’s minds on England’s sea-power and her position in the Mediterranean, has called forth a second edition of Professor Corbett’s authoritative story of those small beginnings in the seventeenth century. It is reprinted in smaller format, but otherwise there is no change from the first edition.”

+ Nation 104:553 My 3 ‘17 140w

CORBETT-SMITH, ARTHUR. Retreat from Mons. il *3s 6d Cassell & co., London 940.91 (Eng ed 16-22253)

“The book deals with Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien’s corps more than with Sir Douglas Haig’s, and even on its own ground does not attempt a connected narrative. It gives us specimen episodes in the fighting; but these are so well chosen that they do in effect convey to us an accurate idea of what the whole strategical issue was.” (Spec) “Much of the book is anecdote: stories of heroism; stories of the irrepressible humor of the British soldier; stories of the capture and summary execution of German spies.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup) On p. xi-xvi the roll of honour of the First expeditionary force is given.

“He is particularly skilful in describing individual feats and incidents.”

+ Ath p486 O ‘16 40w

“If we were asked how to get the best idea of the early fighting by our small but immortal Expeditionary force, we would say: Read Lord Ernest Hamilton’s book, ‘The first seven divisions,’ for the facts, and Major Corbett-Smith’s book, ‘The retreat from Mons,’ for the spirit.”

+ Spec 117:585 N 11 ‘16 1800w

“He gives us one of the most graphic accounts which we have read of the German mass attacks at Mons.”

+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p471 O 5 ‘16 900w

CORBIN, THOMAS W. Marvels of scientific invention. (Marvels ser.) il *$1.25 Lippincott 608 17-4604

“Some of the ‘Marvels of scientific invention’ are collected in this interesting account by Thomas W. Corbin. The subjects include guns, torpedoes, the use of high explosives on farms, submarines, protection in mines, smelting, freezing, color photography, and electrical testing. These inventions and their uses are told in a pleasant fashion and their scientific aspects are described accurately in non-technical language.”—Nation

+ A L A Bkl 13:336 My ‘17

Nation 104:346 Mr 22 ‘17 60w

N Y Br Lib News 3:189 D ‘16

St Louis 15:363 O ‘17 30w

“Mr Corbin’s book is briefer than Mr Talbot’s, and covers a smaller range. On the other hand, it has an index, and it goes more fully into the chemistry and science of the subject.”

Sat R 122:sup10 D 9 ‘16 150w

“On the whole Mr Thomas W. Corbin achieves considerable success. But he is not entirely free from mistakes in fact.”

+ — The Times [London] Lit Sup p612 D 14 ‘16 120w

Wis Lib Bul 13:154 My ‘17 30w

123CORCORAN, TIMOTHY, comp. State policy in Irish education, A. D. 1536 to 1816; exemplified in documents collected from lectures to postgraduate classes. *$2 Longmans (Eng ed E17-153)

“The professor of education in the National university has printed a series of documents illustrating the chequered history of Irish education, hampered for centuries by racial, linguistic, and religious differences. The first of them is Henry VIII’s admonition to Galway ‘that every inhabitaunt within the saide towne indevor theym selfe to speke Englyshe,’ and it is characteristic. ... Dr Corcoran’s historical introduction, written from the Roman Catholic standpoint, is instructive, but the documents tell their own tale.”—Spec

+ Educ R 54:95 Je ‘17 70w

“It has been necessary to point out that Dr Corcoran mutilates or omits important documents—a practice which might be further illustrated from this book. But, notwithstanding this, all students of Irish history will be grateful for what he has given them. To much of it, no doubt, the criticism which has been made does not apply.” E.

* + – Eng Hist R 32:309 Ap ‘17 650w

Spec 117:sup533 N 4 ‘16 140w

CORIAT, ISADOR HENRY. What is psychoanalysis? *75c (5½c) Moffat 131 17-10883

This little book consists of questions and answers on psychoanalysis. Such general questions as, What is psychoanalysis? Where and under what conditions did it originate? Can psychoanalysis be harmful? What is the cause of certain failures in psychoanalysis? are answered together with many more specific questions relating to definite neurotic ills. The author is first assistant visiting physician for diseases of the nervous system, Boston city hospital, and he has written other books on “Abnormal psychology,” “The meaning of dreams,” etc.

“A straightforward clear exposition of the general procedure of psychoanalysis and of the technical terms that have arisen in connection with it.”

+ Boston Transcript p6 My 12 ‘17 470w

+ Ind 91:512 S 29 ‘17 40w

“Dr Coriat answers questions that have been in the minds of many persons. All this information is presented in simple terms quite within the understanding of persons of ordinary intelligence.”

+ N Y Times 22:432 O 21 ‘17 60w

CORKERY, DANIEL. Munster twilight. *$1 (2c) Stokes

A collection of Irish tales possessing all of the qualities we have now come to associate with things Irish, mysticism, pathos, poetry and humor of the sort that is more grim than jovial. Six of the stories are grouped together under the title The cobbler’s den. They are the stories drawn from the reminiscences of a group of cronies who come together nightly in the cobbler’s shop.

N Y Times 22:202 My 20 ‘17 270w

“Whether he has been influenced by the study of Gorky and others of this violently depressing school of realists we cannot say. It may be merely an unconscious convergence, but the resemblance is sufficiently striking. ... Mr Corkery has put nearly all his gloom in the van, a method to be deprecated on prudential grounds, for while it may impress the critic who admires strong meat, it is apt to choke off the plain and gentle reader, especially at the present time. But we recommend the reader to persevere, for he will be rewarded.”

+ — Spec 118:109 Ja 27 ‘17 1200w

“Not all of these stories are violent or harshly humorous. Some are warm and tender, with a deep, queer insight into the hearts of old and gentle and afflicted people.”

+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p19 Ja 11 ‘17 500w

CORNELL, ERA. Above Cayuga’s waters; comp. by the editors of the Class of 1917. il $1 Cornell era, Ithaca, N. Y. 378 16-19647

A selection of articles and poems that have appeared in the Cornell Era since its founding in 1868 to the present day. It has been the policy of the magazine to obtain for publication articles by prominent men on all phases of college life. “As a result,” says the preface, “the bound copies of the Era, covering nearly fifty years, are a storehouse of articles valuable for all who may be interested in that wonderful phenomenon, the American university.” With few exceptions the authors of the selections are either Cornell graduates or members of the Cornell faculty. Among those represented are Andrew D. White, Goldwin Smith, David Starr Jordan, Hugh Black, Arthur Brisbane, Norman Hapgood, Dana Burnet, Liberty Hyde Bailey, and Jacob Gould Schurman.

“This little book will have interest not only for all Cornellians, graduate as well as undergraduate, but also for many others who busy their minds much or occasionally with the problems of student life and the relations between that life and the world life.”

+ N Y Times 21:576 D 31 ‘16 550w

“The book has little general appeal, but is valuable to students because of its treatment of their problems, and to Cornell men because of the memories it preserves.”

Springf’d Republican p19 My 20 ‘17 200w

COSMOS, pseud. Basis of durable peace. *50c (1c) Scribner 940.91 17-3465

A series of articles written for the New York Times in November and December, 1916. As a starting point the author examines statements at that time recently made by the German chancellor and the British prime minister. Finding the two statements strikingly similar in outward appearance, he discusses the meaning of such expressions as “rights of small nations,” “freedom of the seas,” etc., from both the German and the British points of view. He discusses further the principles of the new international order that may be established after the war and the place of the United States in it. Victory for the Allies is the first essential for a durable peace. The second is the stamping out of the military ideal, not in Prussia alone, but in all the countries of the world. “The spirit and the point of view which manifest themselves in militarism, in the subordination of civil to military authority and policy, and in the setting of right below might, must be driven out of the hearts and minds of men. ... The basis of sound international policy will be found in sound domestic policy, and in sympathy with equally sound domestic policies in other lands.”

“The writer who offers his work under the title of Cosmos, and who is undoubtedly ex-President William H. Taft, has given us probably the sanest discussion of the terms of peace that the nations must agree upon at the close of the war. The articles show sound judgment and as far as the settlement of the war is concerned, great practicability.”

+ Cath World 106:111 O ‘17 250w

“Much information clearly and briefly given.”

+ Ind 89:362 F 26 ‘17 40w

+ N Y Times 22:29 Ja 28 ‘17 800w

Pratt p36 Jl ‘17 40w

“One of the ablest expositions of the subject that has appeared in small compass. Much less technical than Lafontaine’s ‘The great solution.’” L. A. Mead

+ Survey 38:553 S 22 ‘17 290w

COULT, MARGARET, ed. Letters from many pens. (Macmillan’s pocket American and English classics) *25c Macmillan 826 17-7948

“Miss Coult has followed a plan of her own in selecting the letters, and her collection is variously lively, informing and inspiring. It is an admirable book for use in schools. ... There is a group devoted to chat about home matters, another group of letters from young people to their elders and another of letters 124from grown people to children (including some of Phillips Brooks’s and Lewis Carroll’s), a group of letters addressed to strangers, a long collection of sketches from many lands, a section about tastes and a group of letters expressing emotions. A capital group is that of ‘Other times, other manners,’ which runs from classical times through the 18th century.”—Springf’d Republican

“While the educational use of the work is perhaps most important, many persons will find it profitable and delightful for casual reading.”

+ Springf’d Republican p10 My 18 ‘17 190w

COUPERUS, LOUIS MARIE ANNE. Twilight of the souls; tr. by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos. *$1.50 (2½c) Dodd 17-25859

This is the third of a series of four novels, “The book of the small souls.” It carries on the story of the various branches of the Van Lowe family. Ernst becomes temporarily deranged, Gerrit, the “healthy brute” of a soldier, who figures largely in this volume, has a severe illness; suffering and death come also to other of the Van Lowes, and the “family group” that “Mamma” van Lowe has tried so hard to hold together, seems to be breaking up. Constance, who, in the two preceding volumes, has been passing through a period of spiritual evolution, and has reached “the happiness of accepting one’s own smallness ... and of not being angry and bitter because of all the mistakes ... and of being grateful for what is beautiful and clear and true,” has a bitter disappointment when her son, Adriaan, tells her that he cannot carry out his parents’ long cherished plan and enter the diplomatic service, because he has become absolutely convinced that he should be a doctor. But the mother understands, forces down her disappointment and encourages her boy to follow his deepest conviction.

“It is a depressing chapter in the family history, yet not without its glimmer of happier light. Constance sees it as that atom, that ‘grain of absolute truth and reality’ which even small souls may possess, and may impart to others.” H. W. Boynton

+ Bookm 46:488 D ‘17 600w

“The general tone is pessimistic but it is remarkable in its human sympathy and has touches of fine idealism.”

+ Cleveland p2 Ja ‘18 150w

“In ‘The twilight of the souls’ Mr De Mattos translates with his accustomed skill the third of those linked ‘Books of the small souls’ in which the Dutch realist Couperus has embodied so searching and sympathetic an interpretation of human nature and of modern life.”

+ Nation 105:514 N 8 ‘17 350w

“Among the three volumes of the series which have now appeared, this, the third, ranks second in merit, above ‘The later life’ and below the ‘Small souls.’ This because, while very much better in every way than the former, it has less variety than ‘Small souls’ and less of inevitability.”

+ — N Y Times 22:446 N 4 ‘17 1050w

COURVILLE, E. H., comp. Autograph prices current. *25s E. H. Courville, 25 Rumsey Road, Brixton, London, S. W. 017

“The records in the volume are stated to have been extracted from the catalogues of about sixty-five days’ sales, and to represent a sum of more than £35,000. Among the entries we notice autograph letters of Rossetti, Swinburne, Sir Walter Scott, Samuel Johnson, R. L. Stevenson, Louis XIV, Napoleon, Washington, and others. ... Numerous quotations from letters are embodied in the text.” (Ath) The compilation is to be published annually and is “a complete alphabetical and chronological record of all autograph letters, documents, and manuscripts, sold by auction in London, with the date and place of sale, name of purchaser, and price of each lot: together with a comprehensive reference index.” (Sub-title). Sales from August, 1914 to July, 1916, inclusive, are comprised in this first issue.

+ Ath p425 S ‘16 140w

“His scholarly catalogue will be welcomed by the student, the collector, and the dealer alike.”

+ Spec 117:419 O 7 ‘16 190w

“On every page of this carefully edited volume there is something to arrest the attention, and we can only express the hope that it may become as hardy and as vigorous an annual as ‘Book prices current.’”

+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p428 S 7 ‘16 950w

COUSINS, FRANK, and RILEY, PHIL M. Wood-carver of Salem; Samuel McIntire, his life and work. il *$7.50 Little 724.9 16-23955

“‘The wood-carver of Salem’ is a well-deserved tribute to Samuel McIntire, of Salem, whose distinction as an architect and designer, as well as a craftsman, is preserved in many of the stately houses of the third colonial period that still adorn the ancient streets of Salem. ... McIntire passed his whole life and did all his work in Salem, never having had an opportunity to see the productions of Wren and other contemporary English architects. Yet he attained high rank as a designer and, in the opinion of the authors of this book, he was our foremost colonial architect of domestic buildings.”—R of Rs

“To anyone that loves New England and is familiar with its widespread excellence of old architecture such a book as ‘The wood-carver of Salem’ affords pleasant entertainment. ... It is a book to read beside a fireplace such as those fireplaces that it pictures and describes.” W. A. M.

+ Boston Transcript p8 D 27 ‘16 400w

+ Cleveland p80 Je ‘17 30w

“A plentiful index and 127 plates give added importance to a work that is replete with vital interest.”

+ Int Studio 60:95 Ja ‘17 200w

“It appears as a limited edition, carefully and elaborately prepared.”

+ Lit D 54:567 Mr 3 ‘17 200w

R of Rs 55:105 Ja ‘17 150w

COX, KENYON. Concerning painting; considerations theoretical and historical. il *$1.75 (4c) Scribner 750 17-24869

“This book is the result of such thinking as I have been able to do on my own art of painting. It divides itself into three parts: the first is an inquiry into what painting essentially is and into the nature of its appeal to humanity; the second is an attempted account of what painting was in the golden age, from the beginning of the sixteenth century to nearly the end of the seventeenth; the third deals with some aspects of the painting of the more immediate past. Part first was originally given in the form of lectures at Union college. Parts second and third were delivered at Yale, in the Trowbridge course on the history of art, and at the Metropolitan museum and other institutions. The three chapters on ‘The golden age of painting’ have appeared in Scribner’s Magazine, and the other five in the Art World.” (Preface) There are thirty-two reproductions of typical works from the older and from contemporary artists.

“The suggestions are clear and not too technical in form so that they will interest the intelligent layman as well as the student.”

+ A L A Bkl 14:83 D ‘17

“I find the first division of the book, devoted to a general consideration of what painting is according to Cox, the most arresting part of the discussion: probably because it is most Cox, whereas the historical survey puts him in a vast field where the competitors are numerous.” R: Burton

+ Bookm 46:478 D ‘17 550w

“Dr Cox elsewhere has not kept to himself his opinions regarding the vagaries of futurism, cubism and the other extreme manifestations of erratic individualism but he refrains from even recognizing in this book the existence of such a school or even mentioning the name of 125its votaries. He waxes quite enthusiastic over John La Farge, having evidently fallen under the sway of the personality of that brilliant genius.” N. H D.

+ — Boston Transcript p8 O 27 ‘17 750w

+ Cleveland p136 D ‘17 10w

“The eight essays are of unequal interest. Mr Cox has done nothing better than the two studies ‘Painting as an art of imitation’ and ‘Painting as an art of relation.’ ... There is a cleanness and trenchancy about this work which is beyond the range of any other American critic of art. Where Mr Cox’s admiration is fully aroused there is also a great sensitiveness. This quality Mr Cox keeps for his favorites. The rest get a rather schoolmasterly report.”

+ — Nation 105:545 N 15 ‘17 290w

“If he wrote only of the technical side of his art he would be an absorbingly interesting author; but he is too much of an artist to stop with this. Not only the form but the meaning interests him, and he connects his comments on the detail of the workshop with observations on persons and schools and countries as catholic and sound and sincere as they are learned. ... His arguments have lost the bitterness that once diminished the force of their effect on his readers.”

+ N Y Times 22:417 O 21 ‘17 530w

+ Outlook 117:514 N 28 ‘17 50w

“In his chapters on the Italian renaissance and the Venetian school, Mr Cox is at his best. His brief, crisp summing up of the four great masters, Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael and Correggio, is luminous with clear, incisive judgments. ... It is in the third division of this work, devoted to certain aspects of 19th century painting, that we find Mr Cox somewhat disappointing. He has tried to crowd too much into inadequate space. ... Perhaps the most disappointing of all the essays is that relating to the mural painters.” F: T. Cooper

+ — Pub W 92:817 S 15 ‘17 1000w

“The book is valuable to teachers and students for several excellent reasons: It is accurately informative, intelligently analytical, and stimulating to the cultivation of æsthetic conceptions that are in harmony with our ideals concerning the newer civilization that we hope to see emerge out of the present chaos of thought.”

+ School Arts Magazine 17:226 Ja ‘18 300w

COXON, MURIEL (HINE) (MRS SIDNEY COXON). Autumn. *$1.40 (lc) Lane 17-9809

After ten years of an unhappy marriage, Deirdre Caradoc thought that the best of life was over for her. She was midway in her thirties, she had no child, and her love for her husband was dead. She decides to separate from him, and takes a house in the country where she hopes for uninterrupted quiet. Here she makes two friends, a father and his young daughter, who become of momentous importance in her life. Between the man and herself a deep and sincere love comes to life, but the course of their future is influenced by the daughter, who, in falling in love with a married man older than herself, seems to be giving them a replica of their own situation.

“This work carries the evidence of some originality. But the action does not progress with the desired celerity.”

Boston Transcript p8 Ap 14 ‘17 220w

“It has to do with several charming people who seem unable, either by sin or by virtue, to solve their problems practically, ethically or sentimentally. Puppets of circumstance are they, whose perfervid loves play havoc with them. One wishes that they were all set to earning their living.”

— Ind 90:594 Je 30 ‘17 60w

“If the closing chapters of ‘Autumn’ do not quite fulfill the promise of its earlier portion, the novel is, nevertheless, one of unusual merit. ... It has that nameless distinction which, for want of a better word, we term quality.”

+ N Y Times 22:136 Ap 15 ‘17 600w

Spec 119:93 Jl 28 ‘17 20w

“What one complains of chiefly is, first, that the main events of the story do not happen inevitably, but only because the author makes them happen, and that they are, therefore, unconvincing. One’s second ground of complaint is the author’s constant evasion.”

— The Times [London] Lit Sup p281 Je 14 ‘17 820w

COXWELL, CHARLES FILLINGHAM. Through Russia in war-time. il *$3.50 Scribner 914.7 (Eng ed 17-18477)

“It was on May 22, 1915 that the author, an Englishman, sailed from New York for North Cape and Archangel.” (N Y Times) “He describes with full appreciation for the wonders of Russia his journey and the various cities and sections he visited. He entered at Archangel, and travelled from north to south and from east to west of Russia. Much space is given to Petrograd and Moscow. He describes Holy Kiev, Odessa with its busy life, the beauty of the Crimea, the antiquities of Kertch, the Cossack country, the wonderful Georgian military road over the Caucasus, as well as the less-known parts of Russia. At the end he passes through Finland and through the country of the Lapps.”—Boston Transcript

A L A Bkl 14:66 N ‘17

“In spite of his limited Russian vocabulary and in spite of war-time restrictions, he nearly always manages to get into actual touch with the natives, and ultimately to persuade them to pose for him. The result is a collection of unconventional photographs which help to impress on the mind a vivid picture of all those who came within Mr Coxwell’s view.”

+ Ath p342 Jl ‘17 700w

“An amusing account is given of the author’s difficulties at the outset with the Russian language.”

+ Ath p364 Jl ‘17 80w

+ Boston Transcript p6 Ag 22 ‘17 250w

“Political Russia is of more vital interest than physical Russia; but at the moment when the fate of that nation seems to center in one city, it is not amiss to remember that Petrograd is one of the least representative cities of the new republic and that behind all its changes and its transitory emotions there lies the great mass of the Russian people, sturdy, industrious, and immovable. To consider them steadies one’s sense of proportion. Mr Coxwell’s book enables one so to consider them.”

+ Dial 63:276 S 27 ‘17 230w

“The main impression it conveys is that the war in 1915 had hardly ruffled daily existence in the smaller Russian towns, and was little regarded in such important centres as Petrograd and Moscow.”

+ N Y Times 22:294 Ag 12 ‘17 480w

“Mr Coxwell is almost a Pickwickian tourist—so simple-minded, so easily pleased, so little subjective in his observations, that he might seem to have just set out from Goswell street. But there the resemblance ends. Adventures crowded on Mr Pickwick at every turn, but not one befell Mr Coxwell. Mr Coxwell is happier, however, with his camera than with his pen.”

– + Sat R 124:250 S 29 ‘17 350w

“In the main, of course, the narrative is personal, but personal narratives may be of absorbing interest when the writer is an experienced traveler. Added value is given in the liberal space devoted to details of Russian life and customs and to historic incidents.”

+ Springf’d Republican p6 S 6 ‘17 230w

“No doubt students of Russian life will find nothing interesting in these pages and the book is not for those who wish to estimate political, economic, or military forces, or for those who look to Russia for spiritual guidance or inspiration. But it is for the not-too-serious tourist and those who are like the author in spirit. ... There is a slight misconception, perhaps, in the title of the book. It has little or nothing to do with the war, and does not describe special war conditions.”

+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p268 Je 7 ‘17 1050w

126CRABB, GEORGE. English synonymes. rev and enl ed *$1.25 Harper 424 17-10873

The first edition of Crabb’s “English synonymes explained” was published one hundred years ago. The preface to this centennial edition says, “It is an exceptional tribute to Crabb’s scholarship that during an entire century his masterful work has continued to hold the regard of the English-speaking world, and that to-day it is consulted with probably more appreciation than ever before.” Of the changes and additions made for the new edition the preface says further, “Nothing has been eliminated from the master’s explanations of his chosen words, and his style of presentation has been followed as closely as intervening conditions would permit. The entire body of the original words and explanations has been supplemented by a large number of words with their applications that have grown into the language within recent years, besides many that came to have a deeper significance than before because of the great European war.” Another important feature of the new edition is a complete system of cross references. The work has an introduction by John H. Finley.

“Revised and brought up to date by unnamed editors whose work, one cannot help feeling, is considerably inferior to that of the original author in natural feeling for words, in comprehension of philological niceties, and in insight into derived meanings.”

Springf’d Republican p8 My 31 ‘17 430w

CRAGIN, LAURA ELLA. Sunday story hour. il *$1.25 (3c) Doran 372.6 17-13402

The author has written these stories for Sunday telling, either at home or in the Sunday school. They are planned for the younger children and are grouped under the headings: Our Heavenly Father’s care; Our Heavenly Father’s protection; The loving care of Jesus; Prayer; The sabbath; Helpfulness; Kindness; Obedience; Easter; Thanksgiving; Christmas. Many of the stories were written for the Beginner’s leaflets issued by the Presbyterian Boards. Other books by the author are “Kindergarten stories for the Sunday school” and “Kindergarten Bible stories.”

“The way in which the child is led to see how God is in his world makes the book especially fitting for Sunday reading, as it is designed to be.”

+ Springf’d Republican p15 Ag 26 ‘17 100w

CRAIG, AUSTIN, ed. Former Philippines thru foreign eyes. *$3 (3c) Appleton 919.14 A17-1007

This volume, edited by Professor Craig of the University of the Philippines, consists of a series of reprints of original documents and other out-of-print material bearing on the early history of the Philippines. Contents: Feodor Jagor’s travels in the Philippines; The state of the Philippines in 1810, by Thomas de Comyn; Manila and Sulu in 1842, by Charles Wilkes, U.S.N.; Manila in 1819, by John White, U.S.N.; The peopling of the Philippines, by Rudolf Virchow; People and prospects of the Philippines, by an English merchant, 1778, and a consul, 1878; Filipino merchants of the early 1890s, by F. Karuth. The volume was first published by the Philippine education company of Manila.

“Taken together, these descriptions form an exceedingly valuable lot of material regarding the Philippines. Of them all, the first is the most valuable, because of the intimate touch it gives of conditions and its excellent descriptions. The translation, which was made especially for this work by a young German, one of the victims of the Japanese onslaught on Tsing Tau, is immensely improved over the defective English translation published in London in 1875. By choosing descriptions on the whole favorable to the Filipinos, Professor Craig has presented but one side of his thesis, although it must be confessed material on the other side is easily available to whoever wishes to study the question from other points of view.” J. A. Robertson

+ Am Hist R 23:197 O ‘17 900w

“Only where there is special interest.”

A L A Bkl 13:442 Jl ‘17

“A republication of valuable and rare documents which is intended to correct the wrong impressions in the minds of students, concerning the Filipino and his islands.” M. C. T.

+ St Louis 15:185 Je ‘17 20w

CRAIG, AUSTIN, and BENITEZ, CONRADO. Philippine progress prior to 1898. $1.25 Philippine education co., Manila 991.4 17-31047

The purpose of this source book of Philippine history, prepared by two members of the faculty of the University of the Philippines, is “to supply a fairer view of Filipino participation and supplement the defective Spanish accounts.” The book consists of two parts. Part 1, The old Philippines’ industrial development, by Conrado Benitez, has chapters on: Agriculture and land-holding at the time of the discovery and conquest; Industries at the time of discovery and conquest; Trade and commerce at the time of discovery and conquest; Trade and commerce: the period of restriction; The 19th century and economic development. Part 2, The Filipinos’ part in the Philippines’ past, consists of documents and reprints, edited with introduction and notes by Austin Craig.

CRAM, MILDRED. Old seaport towns of the South. il *$2.50 (3½c) Dodd 917.5 17-28900

The rain that falls in the first few chapters of this leisurely narrative dampens not at all the ardor of writer, illustrator and reader as they fare forth together on a journey southward from New York to Baltimore, Norfolk, Wilmington, Charleston, Savannah, St Augustine and Galveston. The writer is visiting the South of her parents for the first time—the South that had come to mean “the place of sun, chivalry, romance and Uncle Remus.” With freshness of outlook, therefore, the prominent points of interest are viewed. There is a good deal of history thrown in, some illuminating generalizations about social problems, the whole being interspersed with crisp dialog, clear description and entertaining comment. Good illustrations, the work of the author’s brother, accompany the text.

+ A L A Bkl 14:91 D ‘17

“She catches the spirit of the cities, Baltimore, Charleston, Norfolk, and others, with remarkable accuracy. ... ‘Old seaport towns of the South’ is a thoroughly delightful book. The publishers have issued it in most attractive form, making a feature of the unusual and striking illustrations.” A. M. Chase

+ Bookm 46:335 N ‘17 190w

+ Boston Transcript p8 N 3 ‘17 600w

“America is being discovered by its own people. The experiences and discoveries of one pair of explorers—brother and sister—are here related in sprightly detail, and the account is dressed by the publishers in the best product of the printing press. The historical facts woven into the narrative are at times somewhat mixed.”

+ — Dial 63:592 D 6 ‘17 280w

+ Lit D 55:39 D 8 ‘17 120w

“She has brought together a great variety of bits of history, tradition, reminiscence, and description which make of each place that she visits a very interesting, attractive, and colorful picture.”

+ N Y Times 22:482 N 18 ‘17 100w

CRAM, RALPH ADAMS. Substance of Gothic. il *$1.50 (4½c) Jones, Marshall 723.5 17-25630

“I have called these lectures, given during the winter of 1916-17 in the Lowell institute course in Boston, ‘The substance of Gothic,’ because in them an effort is made, though briefly and superficially, to deal with the development of Christian architecture from Charlemagne to Henry VIII, rather in relation to its substance than its accidents; to consider it as a definite and growing organism and as the exact and unescapable exponent of a system of life and thought antipodal to that of the modernism that 127began its final dissolution at the beginning of August A.D. 1914, rather than in the light of its accidents of form and ornament and details of structural design.” (Preface) The author devotes five pages of his preface to listing and characterizing non-technical, easily available books, written in English, for those who wish to follow the subject further.

A L A Bkl 14:83 D ‘17

“It is a truly eloquent book, and regarded as a piece of writing will give pleasure to the layman as a literary performance, quite aside from his interest in the theme or his agreement with the view presented.” R: Burton

+ Bookm 46:477 D ‘17 640w

“In Mr Cram’s presentation of structural details we are given at last to realize how incomplete, how downright misleading has been the method which presented the material progress, and left altogether out of account the spiritual forces which made that progress possible. ... The importance of such critical method in this day and age is tremendous. ... He is pointing the way to a new understanding of the middle ages upon much more solid foundations. Beneath him is the support of such exhaustively scholarly works as Henry Osborn Taylor’s ‘The mediaeval mind,’ and of such penetrating analysis as has been made by Mr Henry Adams. ... Mr Cram is, on the other hand much inclined to treat the faults and the blemishes of the modern age as though they were the only things visible in all the recent centuries. In this view is much error.” J. E. K.

+ + — Boston Transcript p6 S 26 ‘17 1350w

“The volume, though evidently the work of an accomplished and enthusiastic student of architecture, is by no means a dry text-book abounding in technicalities. Its chief appeal may be to the specialist, nevertheless it will be perused with profit and pleasure by every intelligent reader.”

+ Cath World 106:389 D ‘17 230w

“Mr Cram writes not alone from the point of view of an ardent Gothicist, but from that of an ardent churchman as well, and this contributes both to the strength and to the weakness of his book—to its strength because he has so keen and constant a realization of the nobility and vitality of the essential spirit of Catholicism; to its weakness because all those who fail or have failed of that realization are to him either heretics, heathen, or pagans, bent on establishing the kingdom of Satan on earth.” Claude Bragdon

+ — Dial 63:517 N 22 ‘17 900w

R of Rs 57:216 F ‘18 170w

CRAM, RALPH ADAMS, and others. Six lectures on architecture. il *$2 (6c) Univ. of Chicago press 720.4 17-4209

This volume contains the Scammon lectures for 1915, the lectures delivered at the Art institute of Chicago as the eleventh series under the Scammon foundation. Contents: The beginnings of Gothic art, and The culmination of Gothic architecture, by Ralph Adams Cram; Principles of architectural composition and Modern architecture, by Thomas Hastings; Organic architecture and The language of form, by Claude Bragdon. There are forty-five illustrations.

A L A Bkl 13:387 Je ‘17

“Mr Bragdon’s first lecture, entitled ‘Organic architecture,’ is an unusually clear statement of the condition of modern architecture. ... His second lecture, on ‘The language of form,’ is a valuable and suggestive exposition of his views as to possible sources of new forms in art and ornament.” P. B. Wight

+ Architectural Record 41:370 Ap ‘17 1400w

“Mr Cram’s two lectures, which it is rather hard to judge fairly, as he covers an immense field in a few pages, are admirably written. Mr Hastings’s two have some carelessnesses in style. ... There is a good deal of practical advice and of suggestive information in all six. The volume would have been improved had an index been added.” N. H. D.

+ Boston Transcript p8 Mr 14 ‘17 1050w

“Stimulating discussion of conflicting ideals in American architecture.”

+ Cleveland p114 S ‘17 70w

“Mr Cram summarizes the evolution of the characteristic features of Gothic construction in paragraphs bristling with names, dates, and technical terms. The effect is sufficiently cryptic even on the printed page. Yet the treatment, on the whole, is stimulating and suggestive. No one in the world to-day—certainly not in this country—is, perhaps, better qualified than Mr Cram to interpret the Gothic spirit. It can hardly be said that Mr Hastings presents a very strong brief for his cause.” W: A. Bradley

+ — Dial 63:110 Ag 16 ‘17 1050w

“Well worth reading as examples of three wholly different attitudes and methods of approach to the subject. ... The minds of auditors who heard all six lectures must have been left at the end in a somewhat bewildered state, for the book is full of contentious and provocative suggestions. It is hardly milk for babes in architecture, but it is good reading for those who are already somewhat instructed in the subject, and may well set the mature architect to thinking.”

+ Nation 104:437 Ap 12 ‘17 420w

N Y Br Lib News 4:75 My ‘17 30w

“The doctors disagree, but it is the disagreement of living thought, and from the series of lectures the public receives a lively thrust toward the act of original thinking which is the desired result in all educational work.”

+ N Y Times 22:415 O 21 ‘17 400w

Pittsburgh 22:316 Ap ‘17

Pratt p29 O ‘17 50w

+ Spec 118:732 Je 30 ‘17 140w

Springf’d Republican p6 N 9 ‘17 290w

CRANCH, CHRISTOPHER PEARSE. Life and letters, [ed.] by his daughter, Leonora Cranch Scott. il *$3.50 (3c) Houghton 17-8755

Altho Christopher Pearse Cranch was born in Virginia, he was closely associated with the literary life of New England. As a young man he entered the Unitarian ministry, but left it after a time to follow an artist’s career. He devoted himself to landscape painting and wrote poetry for the Atlantic Monthly, the Dial and other papers of the time. He was the friend of Emerson, James Freeman Clarke, George William Curtis and other distinguished Americans and in his travels abroad he formed friendships with men of letters in Europe, among them Thackeray, and the Brownings. In this book his daughter presents a selection from his letters, joined together by extracts from an unpublished autobiography.

+ A L A Bkl 13:399 Je ‘17

“Christopher Pearse Cranch finds a place in many anthologies, and his books are on the shelves of numerous libraries, public and private, that preserve the relics of bygone literary accomplishment. ... It is regrettable that his daughter, despite the abundant material in her possession and her liberal use of it in this volume of ‘Life and letters,’ has thrown it together so carelessly, and has made no attempt, either in her own words or in the words of others, to tell a well-ordered and coherent story of his life. ... As a miscellany of incidents in the inconspicuous life of an American man of letters and leisure, Mrs Scott’s record of her father is valuable despite its incompleteness. ... As material for a biography, Mrs Scott’s volume will serve. It is also an excellent memorial tribute to a worthy life.” E. F. E.

+ — Boston Transcript p8 Mr 24 ‘17 1450w

“By far the most valuable part of the book is made up of the letters he received from others. Besides early notes from James Freeman Clarke and Emerson, there are several letters in Lowell’s happiest manner, several from the Brownings ... and many from W. W. Story and George William Curtis. A few, like those of 128Curtis from Berlin, are valuable for themselves; but most are of the sort that reveal the recipient as well as the author.”

+ Dial 63:69 Jl 19 ‘17 430w

“His personality was well worth studying, but the greatest charm of the book lies in the intimate view we get of such friends as Curtis, James Russell Lowell, Mr and Mrs Browning, Ralph Waldo Emerson, W. W. Story, Margaret Fuller, and others famous in art, music, and literature. ... It is a very readable biography.”

+ Lit D 54:2007 Je 30 ‘17 180w

“The reader who wishes to find a picture of the pale, reflected, undisturbed, and comfortable condition of American arts and letters of the period will do no better than to turn lightly the pages of this volume. But if he is looking for the impact upon a man of varied culture of the forces that were to shake artists, composers, and writers out of their traditional ease, he will turn away as from a sago pudding.”

+ — Nation 105:697 D 20 ‘17 440w

“Mr Cranch was one of the most interesting Americans of the last generation.”

Outlook 115:668 Ap 11 ‘17 30w

Pittsburgh 22:525 Je ‘17 90w

Pratt p47 O ‘17 30w

“His relations with New England transcendentalism and with Emerson form an entertaining chapter of the book.”

+ R of Rs 55:667 Je ‘17 50w

“If the material gathered in this volume had been thoroughly sifted and digested into a book of half the size, two objects would have been probably attained: We should have had a sufficiently detailed life of the poet, and his life would be likely to interest more readers. As it is, the volume is formidable because of its size and because of the method of presentation of its subject matter.”

+ — Springf’d Republican p8 Je 15 ‘17 1600w

CRANDALL, LEE SAUNDERS. Pets; their history and care. il *$2 (2½c) Holt 636 17-13515

This book on pets and their care is divided into four sections: Mammals; Birds; Reptiles and batrachians; The aquarium. As this division will indicate, the term pet has been given a rather wide interpretation. The author says, “To give, in a single volume, full and efficient directions for the treatment of so many diverse creatures, means that the space devoted to each must be no greater than necessary. For this reason rare or particularly delicate members of the various groups have been excluded. ... On the other hand, many of the birds, such as the pheasants, cranes and waterfowl, cannot be considered as pets in the sense that they may be fondled, but they are widely kept for ornamental purposes, and their proper treatment is a matter often not well known.” (Preface) Theories of breeding are discussed in an appendix. There are many illustrations from photographs, a bibliography and index.

“It covers about the same number of animals as Comstock and is, therefore, fuller in treatment than Verrill. Has fifteen more illustrations than Comstock and a general bibliography at the end of the book instead of the references for each animal discussed in Comstock.”

+ A L A Bkl 14:44 N ‘17

Cleveland p111 S ‘17 30w

N Y Times 22:461 N 11 ‘17 70w

“As an introduction to the practical knowledge of pets, Mr Crandall’s book will well serve. As assistant curator of birds in the New York zoological park he speaks with the weight of an authority behind him. ... There are nearly 100 excellent illustrations.”

+ Springf’d Republican p19 My 27 ‘17 230w

CRANE, FRANK.^[2] Christmas and the year round. *$1 (2c) Lane 170.4 17-29490

“Christmas means the supreme fact about life, namely: that it is joyful,” writes Dr Frank Crane in the first of these essays. Others in an equally optimistic vein follow. The art of quietness, Life an adventure, The man who keeps his word, Democracy, The postponement of life, The delusion of safety, are some of the titles.

+ Boston Transcript p6 Ja 9 ‘18 100w

“Dr Crane puts a great deal of common sense philosophy into his essays in a spirited, readable form and this newest product is packed with optimistic humanism and wisdom.”

+ Ind 92:604 D 29 ‘17 130w

“He is always brisk, and the ideal of life to which he calls his readers is always democratic, independent, contented, and sturdy.”

+ N Y Times 22:564 D 16 ‘17 370w

CRANE, FRANK. Looking glass. *$1 (2c) Lane 170.4 17-13215

A book of short essays on such subjects as: The secrecy of goodness; The art of being cheerful; The higher probabilities; Keeping young; Amusements; The fear of deciding; The new teacher; The theatre and morals; The immorality of fear; A consumer’s views on salesmanship; Democracy and organization, etc.

+ A L A Bkl 13:423 Jl ‘17

“Dr Crane’s devoted admirers will receive with joy a new contribution to his list of books. Like his other offerings, this volume is crammed with spicy essays in tabloid form.”

+ Boston Transcript p7 Je 2 ‘17 190w

“Brisk, wholesome, direct, this spicily served advice is all the better for not taking itself too seriously.”

+ Ind 90:517 Je 16 ‘17 40w

“His short essays express, in terse phrase, the brisk American optimism. It is not mawkish or spineless; on the contrary, it is vigorously upstanding. But it is determined to see ‘good in everything.’ But we cannot all agree in finding cause for happiness in the ‘number of things’ of which the world is full today. And there is something more than irritation—there is something ghastly—in Dr Crane’s exuberant cry of all-inclusive gladness: ‘Thank God for now!’”

+ — N Y Times 22:278 Jl 29 ‘17 360w

CRANE, UTLEY EDWIN. Business law for business men. *$3.50 Winston 347 17-1500

A work on business law, “covering all the states and territories in the Union, with abstracts of commercial law in every state and territory and legal forms for many transactions.” (Title-page) The author, a judge of the municipal court of Philadelphia, says, “Recognizing that the average business man has neither the opportunity nor inclination to pursue a systematic study of business law, this work has been specially prepared to meet the requirements of the busy man of affairs. Omission of any citation of authority and all legal technicalities has been for the purpose of rendering the work interesting as well as instructive.” Contents: Contracts; Partnerships; Corporations; Negotiable instruments; Real estate and conveyancing; Bankruptcy; Insurance; Common carriers; Patents; Trade-marks; Copyrights; Sales; Business crimes; Domestic relations; Building and loan associations; Architects and builders; Money; Executors and administrators; Constitutional law; Banks and banking.

“It is a practical book for practical business. It will also be of ‘handy reference’ value to lawyers. It is easy to read and well arranged, so that the layman will have no difficulty in finding the information which he desires.”

+ Boston Transcript p7 Ag 18 ‘17 380w

“One of the commendable features of the work is its national application. ... As an exposition of the legal principles involved in ordinary mercantile transactions, the work can be commended as sufficiently simple and untechnical to meet the requirements of the busy man of affairs.”

+ Springf’d Republican p17 Ap 29 ‘17 130w

129CRANMER-BYNG, LAUNCELOT ALFRED, tr. Feast of lanterns; rendered with an introd. *80c Dutton 895 (Eng ed 17-6225)

“In ‘The wisdom of the East series,’ edited by L. Cranmer-Byng, and Dr S. A. Kapadia, there is now published a treasure for students of poetry, ‘A feast of lanterns,’ translations from the work of twenty Chinese poets. The introduction explains the tenets of Chinese poetic art, their reverence and love for flowers, symbolism in poetry, and the lore of the dragon, one of the four spiritually endowed creatures of China. There are also interesting comments on the epochs of Chinese poetry, and on the great storehouse of verse that remains untranslated into western tongues.”—R of Rs

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+ Ind 91:78 Jl 14 ‘17 60w

“The reader of these graceful relics of the thought of an alien race in by-gone centuries echoes the sentiment of Sir John Davis, quoted on the title-page of this volume, ‘As our gardens have already been indebted to China for a few choice flowers, who knows but our poetry may some day be under a similar obligation?’”

+ Lit D 54:1862 Je 16 ‘17 500w

+ N Y Times 22:290 Ag 5 ‘17 430w

+ R of Rs 56:105 Jl ‘17 90w

CRAVATH, PAUL DRENNAN. Great Britain’s part. *$1 (8c) Appleton 940.91 17-7951

These “observations of an American visitor to the British army in France at the beginning of the third year of the war,” were written first for the New York Times. They are republished in the hope that they may “aid a few Americans to a better appreciation of the greatness of England’s achievements in the European war.” The author says, “The British people and press have so liberally exercised the Englishman’s inalienable right to abuse the government that we in America often hear more of England’s mistakes than of her achievements. As a result, there is, I find, real misapprehension among Americans as to England’s part in the war.”

+ Cleveland p82 Je ‘17 50w

+ Dial 63:212 S 13 ‘17 170w

“Hardly more than a magazine article, Paul D. Cravath’s little book makes clear methods of organization and the way work is done behind the British lines.”

+ Ind 90:297 My 12 ‘17 30w

“A thin book of not two hours’ reading, which is far too sketchy and meagre to justify a defiance of the high cost of paper by adding another pebble to the mountain of war-books. But one conviction strongly and instinctively held by Mr Cravath catches our interest. The conviction is that England will win, that nothing can stop the new army. Since we have ourselves entered the war, we have been glad of any reassurance, however uncritical or dogmatic. Mr Cravath’s conviction is both, yet he has the power to convey his conviction to his readers.”

New Repub 10:330 Ap 14 ‘17 230w

Pittsburgh 22:528 Je ‘17 40w

“His account of the businesslike methods by which a modern battle is fought makes good reading.”

+ R of Rs 55:445 Ap ‘17 100w

“Largely a reiteration of what we already know. But it makes an interesting reiteration because it is the result of personal, inexpert observation.”

+ Springf’d Republican p10 Ap 27 ‘17 170w

CREAGER, WILLIAM PITCHER. Engineering for masonry dams. il $2.50 Wiley 627 17-17759

“A concise handbook treating first of dams in general, choice of location, preliminary and final investigations, choice of type, and forces acting on dams with tables and equations for computing them; second, of particular types with examples of each and the calculations for their construction. The three final chapters are concerned with the preparation and protection of the foundation, flood flows, details and accessories.”—N Y P L New Tech Bks

“The 229 pages of the volume are full of valuable information, made easy of access by the methodical arrangement of the material. The assumptions and recommendations are consistent with good conservative practice. ... If the reader feels any regret it is because he does not find treated one of the difficult problems of engineering of masonry dams—outlet control.” F. Teichman

+ — Engin News-Rec 79:562 S 20 ‘17 580w

N Y P L New Tech Bks p6 Jl ‘17 60w

CREELMAN, HARLAN. Introduction to the Old Testament; with a foreword by Frank K. Sanders. *$2.75 Macmillan 221 17-12733

“After about thirty pages of discussion of questions of general introduction the outline of biblical material is given chronologically, and divided into ten periods. The materials of four of these periods are found in the Hexateuch; and they are the primitive, the patriarchal, the exodus and the conquest of western Palestine periods. Then follow successively the periods of the judges, of the united kingdom, of the divided kingdom, of the exile, of Persian rule and of Grecian rule. All of this mass of material is analyzed, dated and described. Each section, paragraph, verse and part of a verse is carefully marked, so that the student of the English Bible may test for himself the data upon which the modern view of the Old Testament rests.”—Boston Transcript

“Its general point of view, of course, is that of the historical school, and the author’s conclusions, in so far as they are indicated, are of the cautious type represented by such scholars as Driver and the contributors to Hastings’ ‘Dictionary of the Bible.’ But the critical literature so abundantly cited, if used by the inquiring reader, will bring him into touch with every shade of opinion.” J. M. P. Smith

+ Am J Theol 21:608 O ‘17 430w

“There are three indexes which will prove very helpful to the student. For those who wish to study the Old Testament as an original source this is the best volume that has been published in English.”

+ Boston Transcript p6 Je 16 ‘17 470w

CREEVEY, CAROLINE ALATHEA (STICKNEY) (MRS JOHN KENNEDY CREEVEY). Daughter of the Puritans. il *$1.50 (2c) Putnam 17-6643

The author of “Recreations in botany,” “Harper’s guide to wild flowers,” and other books, writes here of her girlhood. The years covered are those from her childhood up to her marriage in 1866 at the age of twenty-three. Of particular interest is her account of the religious training of New England children in her day and of its effect on the child mind. She herself, she says, lived two lives “one natural and childlike, the other terrified and unnatural.”

+ A L A Bkl 13:351 My ‘17

“The childish attitude towards religion and God as it existed more than a half century ago could not be better epitomized.” E. F. E.

+ Boston Transcript p6 Ja 20 ‘17 1600w

“Mrs Creevey is not only a botanist and a writer on botany, with several handy and useful books to her credit on our native flora and the pleasures of its study, but also an agreeable chronicler of events in the animate world of human beings. ... Her account of her education and her school-teaching is good reading—truthful and richly human, with a spice of humor.”

+ Dial 62:316 Ap 5 ‘17 230w

+ Ind 90:473 Je 9 ‘17 40w

“All except the very young will find in this autobiography their own experiences mirrored.”

+ Lit D 54:1088 Ap 14 ‘17 180w

130“There are three chapters on Wheaton seminary (now college) at Norton, Mass.”

R of Rs 55:667 Je ‘17 30w

CREHORE, ALBERT GUSHING. Mystery of matter and energy. il *$1 (6c) Van Nostrand 530.1 17-28773

In the first chapter of this little book the author says, “One of the purposes of the following lines will be fully accomplished if we succeed in presenting to those who have given little thought to this subject some conception of what is implied by the words ‘the problem of the structure of matter.’ Among scientists this problem has gradually increased in importance to such an extent that it may now be said to be the problem of problems.” Discoveries of recent years have advanced the problem to a point where its solution becomes a possibility. “The improbability of its solution in the eyes of a former generation has, it may be said, been changed into a probability in the eyes of the present generation.” The problem is stated, recent steps in its development traced, and the field for future effort outlined.

“A fascinating little volume. ... The book is written without algebra, but it contains some beautiful geometrical drawings and atomic-model pictures. The volume is to be recommended to all educated persons possessing some general knowledge of physics who are interested in the most recent investigations within the microcosmic world.”

+ Elec World 71:50 Ja 5 ‘18 340w

CREIGHTON, LOUISE (VON GLEHN) (MRS MANDELL CREIGHTON).^[2] Life and letters of Thomas Hodgkin. il *$4.50 Longmans

Thomas Hodgkin, an English banker, historian and antiquary who died in 1913, is allowed to tell his life story largely in his own words, Mrs Creighton having drawn on his extensive correspondence and his private journals and diaries. She says, “My object has been to give a portrait of a man, not an account of the various causes in which he was interested, nor even, in the first place, of the work which he actually achieved.” Thomas Hodgkin was a Quaker and the record of his association with the Society of Friends is given in the words of fellow members of that faith. A bibliography, giving a list of all Dr Hodgkin’s writings is included in the appendix. Mrs Creighton is also author of the “Life and letters of Mandell Creighton.”

“The record of a life such as Dr Hodgkin’s belongs among the notable biographies of men of thought and action.” E. F. E.

+ Boston Transcript p6 Ja 9 ‘18 1350w

“The portrait she presents is serene but a trifle monotonous. There are too many birthday letters, written in a tone of affectionate retrospect, and a superabundance of religious discussions with Sir Edward Fry and other intimates.”

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+ Spec 119:679 D 8 ‘17 1800w

The Times [London] Lit Sup p557 N 15 ‘17 50w

“It is natural that to Mrs Creighton, who so admirably revealed the many-sided powers of the bishop [Bishop Creighton] who ‘tried to write true history,’ should be given the opportunity of preserving for posterity the lovable character of his friend. In this she has succeeded. ... There is no criticism, no endeavour to analyse his purpose, or assign him rank among the great historians.”

+ — The Times [London] Lit Sup p565 N 22 ‘17 1400w

Crime, The, by a German: tr. by Alexander Gray.^[2] 2v v 1 *$2.50 (1½c) Doran 940.91 17-26980

A book called forth by the criticisms of the author’s earlier book “J’accuse,” with answers to the objections of German critics, among them Dr Karl Helfferich, Dr Theodor Schiemann, Paul Rohrbach, and Houston Stewart Chamberlain. The author’s chief aim has been to bring new evidence to bear on the thesis of the first book.

“A far better appreciation of the present work is possible to those who have studied ‘J’accuse’ than to readers imperfectly acquainted with its subject-matter. ‘The crime’ will be widely read, and will deepen the impression made by the author’s previous book.”

+ Ath p684 D ‘17 210w

“Had his first chapter been written without epithets, declamation, and self-laudation, the whole work would have gained in dignity and force. It is unnecessary explicitly to damn opponents whom your sober arguments render so ridiculous as this author renders the Teutonic apologists. Apart from this blemish the book is unanswerable.”

+ — Lit D 56:32 Ja 26 ‘18 580w

“The author lays no claim to be in possession of any material which is not universally accessible, but in very patient and thoroughly German fashion he has made the most of what is available. It must be admitted that his method becomes at times wearisome. Those chapters which are freshest and will be most read deal with the relations between Lord Grey of Fallodon and Count Lichnowsky, the German ambassador in London, before the actual outbreak of war, and discuss the German claim that Russia, by being in so great a hurry to mobilize, was really the European ‘incendiary.’”

+ — Spec 119:sup550 N 17 ‘17 220w

CROFT, TERRELL WILLIAMS.^[2] Electrical machinery; principles, operation and management. il *$2 McGraw 621.31 17-19176

“Avoiding the use of difficult mathematics, this well known author aims to explain to the ‘average’ man the theoretical principles and the essential operating facts relating to alternating-current and direct-current generators as well as to motors and similar machinery, with consideration of control apparatus. Design is not discussed. There are chapters on troubles, testing, and the determination of motor drive requirements. [There are] clear cut illustrations and practical examples with solutions.”—N Y P L New Tech Bks

A L A Bkl 14:45 N ‘17

N Y P L New Tech Bks p7 Jl ‘17 70w

Pittsburgh 22:658 O ‘17 10w

+ Power 46:238 Ag 14 ‘17 500w

+ Quar List New Tech Bks O ‘17 70w

CROFT, TERRELL WILLIAMS. Wiring for light and power. il *$2 McGraw 621.31 17-11353

“The ‘National electric code’ which this book explains and illustrates is a set of rules prepared by the National board of fire underwriters for the purpose of insuring safe electrical installation. The aim of the author of the present book is to make plain just how the work should be performed to meet the requirements of the ‘Code.’ The ‘Code’ itself may be had gratis from the National board of fire underwriters, 76 William st., New York city.”—Quar List New Tech Bks

“Valuable reference manual. Covers outside and theater lighting which Cook does not, is better illustrated and a little less technical.”

+ A L A Bkl 14:115 Ja ‘18

“Exceptionally well illustrated and indexed.”

+ Bul N Y Public Library 21:482 Jl ‘17 120w

“Valuable reference manual.”

+ Cleveland p109 S ‘17 10w

N Y Br Lib News 4:105 Jl ‘17

“Mr Croft, who has several other excellent handbooks to his credit, has in this practical 131and clearly written work supplied the desirable explanations and elaborations.”

+ N Y P L New Tech Bks p8 Ap ‘17 120w

Pittsburgh 22:517 Je ‘17

Pratt p21 O ‘17 30w

+ Quar List New Tech Bks Jl ‘17 90w

CRONAU, RUDOLF. German achievements in America. il $1 R. Cronau, 340 E. 198th st., N.Y. 325.7 16-16931

“Written as an answer to what the author terms ‘unwarranted insinuations questioning the loyalty of the German-Americans toward the land of their adoption,’ this book brings together brief records of German achievements in America, from the days of the Palatines to the present, and covers achievements in pioneer life, war, politics, industry and commerce, science and engineering, literature and the press, music and drama, philanthropy and women’s work, including also a chapter on the National German-American alliance and its purposes, and The future mission of the German element in America.”—Cleveland

Cleveland p159 D ‘16 90w

Pittsburgh 22:213 Mr ‘17

St Louis 14:386 N ‘16

CROSS, HÉLÈNE (FODOR) (MRS C: E: CROSS). Soldiers’ spoken French. *60c Dutton 448 17-22899

This book is a “short-cut to the amount of French which it is necessary that our men who go to France should be able to speak.” It has been “compiled from a real course of spoken lessons as given to New Zealand’s soldiers.” The author states: “The approximate pronunciation of each word will be found, as the sound would be spelt in English, in brackets beside it.” The binding is said to be waterproof and the book will fit the pocket of a uniform.

+ A L A Bkl 14:9 O ‘17

“It was an oversight, however, on the part of the American publishers not to give the equivalent of the French money in American, as well as in English currency.”

+ — Cath World 105:847 S ‘17 120w

+ N Y Call p15 Ag 19 ‘17 60w

R of Rs 56:325 S ‘17 30w

St Louis 15:361 O ‘17 20w

The Times [London] Lit Sup p347 Jl 19 ‘17 30w

CROSWELL, JAMES GREENLEAF. Letters and writings. il *$2 (3c) Houghton 17-13972

James Greenleaf Croswell became in 1887 head-master of the Brearley school for girls in New York city. His letters fill a little more than half of the present volume. “Many are written to relatives; some to literary and other friends; the majority, perhaps, to present and former pupils.” (Nation) These are followed by about one hundred pages of the author’s writings in prose and verse. Then come some seventy pages of “Recollections and appreciations” of Mr Croswell. The book is illustrated with three portraits of the author, a picture of his summer home and a facsimile of a letter to a child.

“Evidently we have to do rather with a somewhat miscellaneous collection than with a book. Yet it contains enough interesting matter to give the reader no little insight into Mr Croswell’s character. Most interesting, naturally, to teachers are the letters exhibiting Croswell’s views on his own profession, as shown by allusions here and there in them—rarely by more elaborate or formal statement.” E. D. Perry

+ Educ R 54:419 N ‘17 1450w

“Even to one who had never before heard of Mr Croswell or of the Brearley school, the book would be sure to be interesting, because there is a man in it. ... The more formal ‘Writings’—a couple of addresses, a fable or two, and a few translations and poems—add little to the picture, but do nothing to injure it. In the letters especially, which fill rather more than half the volume, one meets a personality of genuine and most winning humility, of entire unselfishness and a kind of appealing wistfulness, yet not without subtlety; and this conjoined with a mind of extraordinary keenness, flexibility, and refinement. ... It would be impossible to imagine better letters to young girls than many of these.”

+ Nation 105:228 Ag 30 ‘17 550w

Pittsburgh 22:743 N ‘17 70w

CROW, MRS MARTHA (FOOTE), comp. Christ in the poetry of today: an anthology from American poets. $1 Woman’s press 811.08 17-21868

The compiler of this volume, aroused by Dr Josiah Strong’s allusion to “the return to Christ that is now taking place,” decided to try out the truth of his statement in modern poetry. In fifty volumes of poetry of about 1890, she found few or no poems about Jesus; in 1895, a few; in 1900, many more; while in 1910, times had distinctly changed. In her introduction the compiler says: “Selecting, then, from the super-abundant wealth of poetical material on this theme, written by the poets of the United States of America, since about 1900, and arranging them in the order of the events of his life, we have here a sort of new biography of Jesus, each chapter of which consists of a poem written by a different author, and the whole forming the poetic reaction of our time to the thought of Jesus. ... Jew and Gentile, Protestant, Roman Catholic, Neo-Pagan, Socialist, Emersonian—all sorts and conditions of lovers and admirers of Jesus are represented in this collection.”

“A most useful book for all having to do with programs for church, schools and societies.”

+ Ind 91:477 S 22 ‘17 70w

CROWELL, BERTHA. Wings of the cardinal. *$1.35 (1½c) Doran 17-25289

Ferol Rankin, a beautiful red-haired, seventeen year old Texas country girl, to get money for her mother, became the mistress of Berry Ward, a rich New Yorker, with tuberculosis, who was seeking a divorce from a cheap actress whom he had married when he was drunk. Ward promised to marry Ferol when he got his divorce, and kept his word. After spending some time in Kansas City, in California and in New York, the Wards settled in San Vincente, New Mexico. Here Ward had an affair with Julia Brace, a married woman, though he was still in love with his wife. Meanwhile James Sanger, a sculptor, fell in love with Ferol and tried to make her go away with him, but although she loved Sanger, she decided that she couldn’t “be a quitter” and elected to stay with her husband. Ward, however, divined the state of the case, told Sanger that he would “play to lose” and that Ferol would be free in six months. He stayed alone in a hunting camp and died of hemorrhage. The “Texas Cardinal” then cabled Sanger, who was in Algiers, that he might return in a few months.

“The novel reads very like a first book, but though it is deficient in artistry and in interest, it has some clever bits, usually descriptions of places and environments. Especially good is the sketch of San Vincente and its health colony, outwardly so light-hearted and careless, really engaged in a plucky fight against the one real enemy, tuberculosis.”

N Y Times 22:326 S 2 ‘17 300w

CROY, MAE SAVELL. 1000 hints on flowers and birds. *$1.50 Putnam 716 17-17297

Uniform with “1000 hints on vegetable gardening.” Treats of The art of growing flowers, Essentials in gardening, Special features of the garden, The lawn, Shrubbery and trees, Insects and sprays, Color scheme, List of common and botanical names of flowers mentioned in the text, List of flowers arranged according to the blossoming period, List of perennials, also annuals, arranged according to colors, Flowers for cutting, Flowers requiring little sunlight, Flowers 132that thrive in damp places, Flowers for the old-fashioned garden, and a List of evergreen shrubs and trees. The last thirty pages are concerned with “A plea for the birds.”

“The indexing of the helpful information is scholarly and invaluable.”

+ Lit D 56:40 Ja 12 ‘18 130w

“An almost dishonestly misleading title. The impression of coördination that is conveyed is belied when it turns out that the birds receive only thirty-two pages in a volume of 359 pages, or one chapter among twenty-one. This chapter, it should also be said, is of no value to the field student, concerning, as it does, only such matters as bird houses and food. The justification of the book (it does justify itself) is in the highly condensed information on gardening and full index that renders this information quickly accessible. The author’s information, though generally correct and serviceable, is more than once careless.”