Book Review Digest Devoted to the Valuation of Current Literature Reviews of 1920 Books (continued 9)
Reading edition
“The mystery takes so long to clear up that the reader gets a bit tired of it all, and begins to grew impatient at a point where he should, by the rules of the mystery game, be so absorbed as to take no account of time.”
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N Y Times 25:209 Ap 25 ’20 300w
“The style is sometimes crude, but the plot is ingeniously constructed, and certainly has an unexpected solution. Yet our interest is not always maintained at a high level, possibly because none of the persons concerned makes any strong appeal to our sympathy.”
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Sat R 128:251 S 13 ’19 220w
“Mr Cobb writes his new drawing-room comedy with his usual detachment and accomplishment.”
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Spec 123:622 N 8 ’19 80w
“While not melodramatic or sensational, ‘The silver bag’ contains mystery and amusing situations. The book will please those with a weakness for delving into society scandals and near scandals.”
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Springf’d Republican p9a Ag 29 ’20 270w
COCKERELL, THEODORE DRU ALISON. Zoology, il *$3 World bk. 590
20–7593
A work by the professor of zoology in the University of Colorado, published as one of the New-World science series of which John W. Ritchie is general editor. It is designed as a text book for colleges and universities but has several elements of popular appeal. One of its unusual features is the interposition of biographical chapters, the author believing that it is well for the students to know more of the men who have contributed to scientific knowledge. Consequently he has provided sketches of Darwin, Linnæus. Henri Fabre, Pasteur and others. The book has good illustrations including a series of animal photographs taken under the author’s direction in the New York zoological park. References follow the chapters and there is an index.
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Booklist 16:302 Je ’20
CODY, HIRAM ALFRED. Glen of the high north. *$1.90 (2c) Doran
20–18933
Tom Reynolds finds himself at odds with life after his four years at the front. The vision of a beautiful face in a crowded street remains his grip on reality. On top of this comes the suggestion of a friend that he go in search of a Henry Redmond who, with his little girl, had mysteriously disappeared fifteen years previous. Ostensibly Tom goes in search of Redmond, but in reality his quest is for the face. More casual glimpses of it intensify his zeal. It takes him into the mining camps of the far north, plunges him into adventures in which figure the girl, an old philosophic prospector, a villainous miner, and a mysterious landed proprietor lording it in his stronghold behind the Golden Crest. In the end the girl proves to be the daughter of the landlord and the latter, the old prospector and the lost Henry Redmond to be one and the same person. The girl is won, gold is found in the bargain, the villainous miner is made harmless and life is once more real to Tom.
“A commonplace, crudely written melodrama of the most obvious motion-picture type.”
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N Y Times p26 S 12 ’20 200w
CODY, LOUISA (FREDERICI) (MRS WILLIAM FREDERICK CODY). Memories of Buffalo Bill; in collaboration with Courtney Ryley Cooper. il *$2.50 (3½c) Appleton
20–2278
From the time he first courted her, to his death, Mrs Cody records the career of her husband, one of the most picturesque and adventuresome of human careers. Adventure was thrust upon him when a mere child it became a part of his environment and was later sought with the keen relish of the actor in him. “One thing had been borne to him, through the never failing worship of youthful America, that he was an idol who never could be replaced, that as long as there were boys, and as long as those boys had red blood in their veins, they would thrill at the sight of him they loved, and cheer the sounding reverberation of his great booming voice as he whirled into the arena on his great, white horse, came to a swinging stop before the grandstand, and raised his hand for the famous salute from the saddle.” (Chapter 15)
“The book under review may not be a literary masterpiece, but it has a merit which many so-called literary masterpieces lack—the merit of presenting a real man and an admirable character. It is written in a lively and entertaining style, with restraint, and in good taste.” J: Bunker
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Bookm 52:79 S ’20 560w
“Her tale is rambling at times, and at times inclined to the sentimental; however, it is not entirely out of character to know that the Indian-killing scout was a lively lover, as well as a dead shot with the rifle. This story becomes more human on that account. It is evident that the real biography of Colonel William F. Cody, ‘Buffalo Bill,’ is yet to be written, and Mrs Cody has contributed her part in good season.” J. S. B.
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Boston Transcript p7 F 14 ’20 450w
“It may be that the closeness of the author to the scenes of which she writes has marred the perspective. In any case, the present volume very largely fails both in color and adequacy.... By way of compensation, the concluding chapters exhibit a good deal of dramatic power. Indeed, we have seldom read a story more pitifully fascinating than that of the massacre at Wounded Knee, as told by the aged Short Bull in his tepee on the blizzard-swept prairie near Pine Ridge. It is worth knowing, for it is history.”
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Cath World 111:544 Jl ’20 200w
Nation 111:164 Ag 7 ’20 40w
N Y Times 25:81 F 8 ’20 380w
“In addition to its personal interest the book gives a stirring picture of early western life.”
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Outlook 124:249 F 11 ’20 30w
R of Rs 61:334 Mr ’20 50w
Springf’d Republican p6 Ap 19 ’20 200w
CODY, WILLIAM FREDERICK (BUFFALO BILL, pseud.). Autobiography of Buffalo Bill. il *$3 (3c) Cosmopolitan bk. corporation
20–7661
In this story of his life Colonel Cody touches upon his life as a showman only as the final rounding out of his career after the great wild west, of which he had been so integral a part, had become a thing of the past. But in its pages live again and go down to history the thrilling last days of Indian warfare, buffalo hunting and stage-coaching. The book is illustrated by N. C. Wyeth.
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Booklist 17:68 N ’20
“The volume is a brisk, vivid and authentic picture of a departed era, so rich in detail and so bold in outline that it leaves most of our purely fictional wild West stories in total eclipse.” L. B.
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Freeman 1:478 Jl 28 ’20 200w
Nation 111:164 Ag 7 ’20 40w
“Buffalo Bill’s own story does not rank with ‘Treasure Island,’ but it is the boys’ own book, for it holds all that can live of the life its hero led on the plains and afterwards preserved under canvas; and it was written by a boy who actually did the thing every boy resolves to do, stayed a boy in defiance of time and fate for more than seventy years.”
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Review 3:71 Jl 21 ’20 1250w
“His autobiography well deserves a place on the library shelf devoted to western history.”
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R of Rs 62:111 Jl ’20 100w
“It is well to have a life of such varied adventures written at length, the more so since the setting of so much of that life has passed beyond duplication.”
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Springf’d Republican p11a Jl 18 ’20 340w
“Interesting to everyone, for it is an important phase of our history graphically told by the one who knew it best.”
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Wis Lib Bul 16:122 Je ’20 100w
COFFIN, HENRY SLOANE. More Christian industrial order. *$1 (4c) Macmillan 330
20–6208
The author does not hold that the fragmentary sayings of Jesus can be pieced together to form a basis for a new industrial order. What he believes is that the spirit of Jesus furnishes a guide for conduct in any given situation and his purpose here is to ask “what the spirit of Jesus would create out of the existing social system in order that we may be led into a more Christian industrial order.” Contents: The Christian as producer; The Christian as consumer; The Christian as owner; The Christian as investor; The Christian as employer and employee; Conclusion—democracy and faith. The author is minister in the Madison avenue Presbyterian church, New York city, and associate professor in Union theological seminary.
Booklist 17:51 N ’20
N Y Times p30 O 10 ’20 60w
“It is a very quiet book, a book whose tread is muffled, as if it fell upon a thickly carpeted church aisle. Mr Coffin’s book on the social order seems to take us far away from the industrial struggle.”
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Review 3:75 Jl 21 ’20 200w
Survey 44:639 Ag 16 ’20 380w
COHEN, OCTAVUS ROY. Come seven. il *$1.75 (1½c) Dodd
20–16928
A volume of negro stories by the author of “Polished ebony.” Contents: Without benefit of Virgie; The fight that failed; The quicker the dead; Alley money; Twinkle, twinkle, movie star; The light bombastic toe; Cock-a-doodle-doo!
“They approach the burlesque in their fun, but they never fail to amuse.”
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Outlook 126:378 O 27 ’20 50w
COHEN, OCTAVUS ROY. Gray dusk. *$1.75 (2c) Dodd
20–2646
A detective story with scenes laid in South Carolina. Stanford Forrest and his bride had gone there for their honeymoon. Four days later David Carroll receives a telegram stating that Mary Forrest has been murdered, and that Stanford is held for the crime. With his assistant, Jim Sullivan, Carroll hastens to the scene of the tragedy. From the first he is prejudiced in favor of his friend, but Sullivan maintains his professional calm and stands ready to suspect everybody. There seems however to be no one to suspect but Stanford himself, against whom the circumstantial evidence is strong. But gradually others become implicated, Bennet Hemingway, who had written a slanderous letter, Conrad Heston, the man who had so mysteriously occupied Furness Lodge before the arrival of the Forrests, Esther Devarney who loves Heston, and Mart Farnam, the “swamp angel” with a weakness for “licker.” One of these is guilty and Carroll succeeds in finding the evidence that singles out this one.
“There are some good descriptions of the South Carolina ‘back country’ and a lack of objectionable thrills and horrors. The keen reader will be able to guess the solution.”
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Booklist 16:311 Je ’20
“‘Gray dusk’ has two qualities that lift it out of the ruck into which books of its class usually fall. The first of these is a denouement that will catch five out of every six sophisticated readers off guard, and the second is the literary skill the author displays in the successful creation of an atmosphere that enhances his plot.”
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N Y Times 25:28 Jl 18 ’20 460w
“The plot is ingenious and the solution of the mystery unexpected.”
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Spec 125:372 S 18 ’20 30w
“The story is conventional, but is not without lively episodes and suspense.”
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Springf’d Republican p9a Ag 29 ’20 80w
“He writes in an easy, natural manner, with an agreeable absence of that laboured smartness which so often mars American stories.”
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The Times [London] Lit Sup p385 Je 17 ’20 80w
COLE, GEORGE DOUGLAS HOWARD. Chaos and order in industry. *$2.75 (3½c) Stokes 335
(Eng ed 20–76275)
The average man, says the author, becomes conscious of our industrial and economic system only when something has gone wrong. He goes through three stages: apathy, prejudice, knowledge. The object of the book is to serve the third stage and to find out what is really wrong. After reviewing the status of the various industries he arrives at the conclusion that the cleavage in society today is between the workers by hand and by brain on the one side and the rentiers and financiers on the other and that the function of industrial reconstruction consists in devising a policy by which the former can exercise their functions not on behalf of the latter but on behalf of the whole community. Contents: The cause of strikes; Motives in industry; The reconstruction of profiteering; The guild solution; Coal; Railways; “Encroaching control” versus “industrial peace”; Engineering and shipbuilding; Cotton and building; Distribution and the consumer; The finance of industry; The real class struggle; Appendices and index.
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Ath p305 S 3 ’20 210w
“Mr Cole’s system may not inspire confident belief in those whose approach to economic study has been through the classical formulae. But no one can afford to dismiss it as a tissue of fallacies, an impossible Utopia.” Alvin Johnson
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New Republic 25:80 D 15 ’20 1500w
“The degeneracy of its tone hangs like a miasma over every page. The whole book is a gospel of greed, a hymn of hate.”
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Sat R 130:221 S 11 ’20 650w
The Times [London] Lit Sup p376 Je 17 ’20 1350w
COLE, GEORGE DOUGLAS HOWARD. Introduction to trade unionism. (Fabian soc., London. Research dept. Trade union ser.) $1.65 For sale by the Survey 331.87
(Eng ed 19–2251)
“In ‘An introduction to trade unionism’ the most prominent of the younger students of the British labor problem presents to the reader an admirable survey of English trade unionism of the present day. The book estimates the strength of organized labor, analyzes trade union structure and government, discusses the unions’ attitude toward amalgamation, toward political action, cooperation, the state, the shop steward’s movement, etc., and gives the reader a forecast of the future.”—Survey
“What Mr Cole has set out to do he has done remarkably well. No student of British trade unionism—or of American trade unionism, for that matter—should pass this little book by.” D. A. McCabe
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Am Econ R 9:589 S ’19 380w
“Mr Cole is to be thanked for explaining to the outside world the growth and goal of the shop stewards’ movement. Those who will take the trouble to follow Mr Cole’s treatment of the subject and to consult the works indicated in his bibliography will realize the futility of attempting to deflect trade unionism from its course by a flood of goodwill.”
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Ath p61 F ’19 140w
“Gives a lucid and commendably dispassionate account of the British trade union movement.”
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Spec 122:202 F 15 ’19 440w
Reviewed by H. W. Laidler
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Survey 43:282 D 20 ’19 240w
COLE, GEORGE DOUGLAS HOWARD. Labour in the commonwealth. (New commonwealth books) *$1.50 Huebsch 331
19–3307
“Mr Cole’s book is a restatement of the humanity of labour; a rescue of labour from the dismal penumbra of abstractions which have prevailed in industrial theory since the industrial revolution of the last century. ‘Labour,’ which the economists have loved to contrast with ‘capital,’ is an abstraction, he believes which has vitiated thinking and perverted economic science from its proper function. Mr Cole, therefore, who is one of the few members of the English intelligenzia who have gained the full confidence of the labour party, writes not of abstract labour as a ‘thing’ but of individual men and women forming the majority of the people in any commonwealth; and gives us his personal theory of labour’s place in the commonwealth and what labour and the labour movement are like. This theory is that labour should have control in the industrial sphere.”—Int J Ethics
“Of particular interest is Professor Cole’s analysis of the state. He avoids very carefully the mistake which is so often made of confusing the state and the commonwealth as a single entity.” G. S. Watkins
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Am Econ R 10:608 S ’20 420w
“A notably interesting book.”
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Ath p31 Ja ’19 30w
“Mr Cole’s new volumes may be heartily recommended to all who search for an understanding of the mainsprings of labour policy and of the groundwork of labour organization.”
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Ath p61 F ’19 340w
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Booklist 16:112 Ja ’20
“A pungent review of the whole range of present industrial and social life in the spirit of a revolutionary critic.”
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Brooklyn 12:31 N ’19 40w
Dial 67:498 N 29 ’19 60w
Int J Ethics 29:506 Jl ’19 140w
“We could wish that Mr Cole would confine himself more rigorously to plain and straightforward explanation. His excursions into satire and humor are unfortunate. The book includes a chapter upon Labour and education which is of real importance. Mr Cole’s discussion of the state in this volume is on the whole better than anything he has previously written on this subject; and a chapter on The organization of freedom, in which there is an exposition of the guild idea from the angle of personal liberty, is an exceedingly fresh and suggestive piece of work.”
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Nation 110:112 Ja 24 ’20 1100w
“Against theories he regards as outworn Mr Cole’s attack, through all his book, is spirited and resourceful. At times Mr Cole’s imaginative style seems less telling than the steady hammering with facts which such a writer as Sidney Webb uses. But there are times enough when Mr Cole drives his sword’s point through a dogma and out its farther side.” C. M.
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New Repub 22:102 Mr 17 ’20 480w
“There is no attempt in this book to equivocate or to win a decision by finesse. In following Mr Cole’s argument many queries cannot fail to occur to the reader, no matter how unprejudiced he may try to keep his mind. In the first place, has Mr Cole been absolutely fair in depicting present industrial conditions?”
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N Y Evening Post p3 F 14 ’20 1800w
N Y Times 25:325 Je 20 ’20 1400w
Spec 122:202 F 15 ’19 240w
“Adds nothing further to the philosophy of the national guildsmen, its object being merely to give a birdseye view of the social relationships to the outsider who wants to know the A B C’s, not of guild socialism but of the industrial problem as a whole. This purpose it fulfills admirably.” H. W. Laidler
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Survey 41:644 F 1 ’19 480w
“By the test of fact Professor Cole is in places inadequate. But his book is spirited, and the drift of his argument is sound. It is, furthermore, entertaining—which alone would justify it. It is finally a key to the state of mind of many of that younger generation to whom it is principally addressed.” W: L. Chenery
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Survey 43:408 Ja 10 ’20 500w
COLE, GEORGE DOUGLAS HOWARD. Social theory. (Library of social studies) *$1.50 (2½c) Stokes 301
20–7572
The book is a study of the actions of men in association, in supplement and complement to their actions as isolated or private individuals, and its object is to ascertain the essential principles of social organizations and the moral and psychological problems upon which their structure and functioning must be based if they are to be in real harmony with the wills of the men and women of whom they are composed. It is the author’s conviction that our existing structure of society is not responsive to human needs, does not allow of the full self-expression of all its members and is doomed to a radical reconstruction. One of the social theories placed on the superannuated list is that of state sovereignty. Contents: The forms of social theory; Some names and their meaning; The principle of function; The forms and motives of association; The state; Democracy and representation; Government and legislation; Coercion and co-ordination; The economic structure of society; Regionalism and local government; Churches; Liberty; The atrophy of institutions; Conclusion; Bibliographical notes and index.
“On the whole candor compels the report that the author has brewed a few familiar concepts and some scattered observation into a turgidity against which adequate familiarity with the sociological analyses of the past two decades and a consistently observed purpose might have been a protection.” A. W. Small
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Am J Soc 26:247 S ’20 870w
“Very able and pregnant little book. His book must be taken very seriously, not only by teachers, but by politicians and reformers. It will rouse keen discussion and hot dissent. Mr Cole will welcome both. For though his manner is dogmatic, his method is tentative and moulds itself on facts. His French logic has been grafted on an English mind.” G. L. Dickinson
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Ath p476 Ap 9 ’20 1700w
Booklist 16:328 Jl ’20
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Dial 69:412 O ’20 640w
“For my own part I take little exception to Mr Cole’s general conclusion as based on the ideas of self-government and function. It is only Mr Cole’s methods of reaching his conclusion which seem to me inadequate. Human association is based not on will but upon necessity.... Mr Cole’s book is exceedingly valuable nevertheless.” Ordway Tead
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Freeman 1:405 Jl 7 ’20 1000w
“The book is compact and closely reasoned, detached, and even academic in manner and revealing, as do Mr Cole’s other works, an acute and masterly handling of his material.” M. J.
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Int J Ethics 31:113 O ’20 520w
“Mr Cole has intellectual power of high order. He knows well what he is aiming at and where he wants to stand. One of the most commendable traits of his book is its candor in confessing that it is prompted by a preference.” T: R. Powell
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Nation 11:sup413 O 13 ’20 2050w
“A brilliant piece of relentless reasoning. Not often is sociology made so easy, even enticing, as in this book.”
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Nation [London] 27:212 My 15 ’20 1150w
“Guild socialism has hitherto lacked a reasoned theory of social organization. In this book Mr Cole makes a brave and wonderfully successful effort to grapple with its difficulties.” H. J. L.
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New Repub 23:154 Je 30 ’20 1600w
“The entire book is abstract to a degree. It cannot be recommended for easy reading, but it should be read with care, if half the world is to know what the other half is thinking about. As a flight of fancy and project of reform Mr Cole’s idea has some attractive features, but we would rather see it tried in some other country.”
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N Y Times p13 Ag 8 ’20 2400w
“‘Social theory’ is a book worth while. It is reasoned and temperate; despite a too frequent reliance upon abstract terms where concrete example is most needed, it is clearly expressed; and it presents a coherent set of principles. One may disagree with all of it and yet acknowledge that the author has ably stated his argument.” W. J. Ghent
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Review 3:316 O 13 ’20 580w
R of Rs 62:110 Jl ’20 150w
“This is a most irritating little book. No text-book has a right to be quite so dull as this; particularly from Mr Cole one had looked for something more original.”
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Sat R 130:56 Ag 17 ’20 650w
“Mr Cole’s book is worthy of and will receive study. While it will not pass unchallenged upon its constructive side, its criticism of old conceptions is surely trenchant and significant.”
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Springf’d Republican p9a Ag 29 ’20 840w
“It is an illuminating book. For one I confess to have wished that Mr Cole could have avoided his rather lengthy definition of the terms he used.” W: L. Chenery
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Survey 45:288 N 20 ’20 180w
“He is so anxious to convey an attitude of philosophic detachment that he sometimes writes in what is for him a rather stilted and commonplace style. Still, Mr Cole has after all an extremely acute and very well trained mind. His analysis of social theory is nothing if it is not acute.”
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The Times [London] Lit Sup p162 Mr 11 ’20 1100w
“As far as he goes, the author is an independent thinker, and neither his knowledge of the labor movement nor his grasp of current social theories can be questioned. The critical and destructive part of his work is therefore fresh and highly suggestive. But both his admirers and his opponents will expect something more, some revolutionary and creative thought.” W: E. Walling
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Yale R n s 10:219 O ’20 720w
COLE, GRENVILLE ARTHUR JAMES. Ireland the outpost. il *$2.50 Oxford 941.5
20–2491
“Mr Cole believes that ‘a realization of the physical structure of Ireland, and of her position as an outpost of Eurasia, may lead to a wider comprehension, not only of the land, but of its complex population.... If the presentation is a true one,’ he adds, ‘the nine sections should lead to one conclusion.’ This conclusion is anticipated in the first sentence of the book: ‘Nature allows no “self-determination” to any point on the surface of the globe.’ If the geology, flora, fauna, and ethnology of Ireland show that it is closely united to the British island, it should not seek to go off on its own politically.”—Nation
Ath p47 Ja 9 ’20 240w
“Professor Cole’s ‘Ireland the outpost,’ has a beauty of style rare even among those who make belles-lettres their profession. With the knowledge of a scientist the author combines the feeling of a poet, and an acquaintance with the contemporary poetry of his country.” N. J. O’C.
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Boston Transcript p6 Ja 21 ’20 400w
“As an argument, ably presented, this one is peculiarly liable to be reduced to the absurd.” Preserved Smith
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Nation 110:555 Ap 24 ’20 200w
COLERIDGE, ERNEST HARTLEY. Life of Thomas Coutts, banker. 2v il *$10 Lane
20–5660
The subject of this biography, one of the founders of the banking house of Coutts & Co., was born in 1735 and died in 1822. Business, financial, political and social events of his time enter into his life story. He was one of those who opposed the war with America and the subject is referred to frequently in his correspondence during that period. The biography is based on a large collection of mss which came to light in 1907 and it tells for the first time in full the story of Thomas Coutts’s romantic attachment for Harriet Mellon, whom he married in his eightieth year. The volumes are very fully illustrated and volume 2 has an index.
Ath p332 Mr 12 ’20 2450w
“Mr Coleridge’s two volumes are skilfully written and able documents.” E. F. E.
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Boston Transcript p6 Mr 31 ’20 1450w
“The biography before us is indebted for its attraction more to the author than the subject. The personality of Tom Coutts does not strike us as original or impressive: his letters are pompous, prosy, and frequently ungrammatical. On the other hand, the prefatory chapters of Mr Hartley Coleridge, the ‘callidæ juncturæ’ with which he stitches together his bundles of letters, are quite delightful; and his historical vignettes are perfect in their lightness of touch and fairness of judgment.”
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Sat R 129:36 Ja 10 ’20 1500w
“The author has had the good fortune to use for the first time the family papers, including the banker’s correspondence, which relates to affairs of the heart as well as to Mammon and to politics. Thus the book gives an intimate portrait of a successful man of business and throws new light on the history of his times.”
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Spec 124:144 Ja 31 ’20 1050w
“Lord Latymer is to be congratulated on having chosen Mr Coleridge to edit these papers and Mr Coleridge on the scholarly way in which he has carried out his task.... We must mention, in conclusion, an extremely characteristic series of letters from Lady Hester Stanhope, expressed with all her vivacious spirit. In spite of all the other riches in this book these should on no account be missed.”
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The Times [London] Lit Sup p7 Ja 1 ’20 1850w
COLERIDGE, STEPHEN.[2] Idolatry of science. *$1.25 Lane 501
20–16351
“Mr Coleridge’s book is really not so much a protest against the idolatry of science as a general onslaught on the influence and on the achievements of science. His theme is that the vital things of life are feeling, thought, conduct, and that with them science has nothing to do. It cannot therefore raise the human mind or play the chief part in education. But he goes much further than that, and avows that science deprives man of beauty and magnanimity; that few of its ‘trumpeted triumphs’ have really brought benefits to mankind; and that it was in an evil hour that ‘James Watt and George Stephenson between them gave railways and factories to mankind.’”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
“It is an amusing performance, even the scientists will admit that if they have sense and humour enough not to take the book too seriously.”
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Ath p353 Mr 12 ’20 110w
“The book is sharp in wit and often delicious in its humor, but its mistakes are so obvious that they scarcely need to be pointed out.” R. E. B.
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Boston Transcript p2 N 27 ’20 300w
“Mr Coleridge’s effusions make us agree with him to the extent of wishing that science had never invented the art of printing or even the alphabet.”
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Nation 112:47 Ja 12 ’21 390w
“A little more of the spirit of impartial investigation which is the method of science would have saved him from much foolish exaggeration about the exaltation of ugliness in ‘poetry, painting, sculpture, and all forms of human expression.’ There is much half-truth in the book, much restatement of the obvious. But it makes good reading, and the very narrowness of its survey adds to its piquancy.”
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The Times [London] Lit Sup p143 F 26 ’20 510w
COLLINS, ARCHIE FREDERICK. Farm and garden tractors. il *$2.25 Stokes 631.37
20–19612
The author claims that the tractor is by all odds the most important factor in solving the farming problem of today, viz: reducing the number of men and lowering the cost of production. The book proposes to tell all about how to buy, run, repair and take care of one. Every kind of tractor and every part and detail is shown in the illustrations and diagrams, there is an appendix and an index, and the contents are: About tractors in general; The parts of a tractor; The mechanism of a tractor; Garden and truck farm tractors; Tractors for small farms; Tractors for average farms; Tractors for big farms; Draw-bar and belt power applications; How to take care of your tractor; Tractor troubles and how to fix them; Tractor repairs and how to make them; The kind of tractor you want.
COLLINS, ARCHIE FREDERICK. Motor car starting and lighting. il *$1.50 Appleton 629.2
20–11306
In a note on “How to use this book” the author says, “This books tells you (1) how to keep out of starting, lighting and ignition troubles, in so far as this is possible, and, what’s more to the point, (2) how to find and fix troubles when they crop out, which they are bound to do even in the best of systems.” The book is composed of four parts: The electric power plant; The electric starting system; The electric lighting system; The electric ignition system. There are eighty-one illustrations and an index.
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N Y P L New Tech Bks p57 Jl ’20 80w
COLLINS, ARCHIE FREDERICK, and COLLINS, VIRGIL DEWEY. Putnam’s handbook of buying and selling. il *$1.90 Putnam 658
20–7432
This book “telling in a simple and practical way how to succeed in business” (Sub-title) is the result of long years of experience in the merchandising field. “It is so simple that however little you know about business you can understand it, and it is so practical you can use it at once and with telling effect.” (Preface) It falls into four parts: Successful selling: Expert buying; Commercial confidence; and Business wisdom. Some of the chapters are: First principles of selling; How to pick live wire salesmen; Selling over the counter; Selling to the retail trade; Selling to the wholesale trade; Making your sales through the mails; The essentials of shrewd buying; Inside credit information; Raising and investing money. There are thirty-two illustrative charts and diagrams and an index.
COLLINS, ARCHIE FREDERICK, and COLLINS, VIRGIL DEWEY. Wonders of natural history. il *$2.25 Stokes 590
20–21293
It is the purpose of this “comprehensive account of man in the making and of prehistoric and present day animals” (Sub-title) “to put into simple language an authoritative account of the chief branches of natural history, namely, zoology, geology, palæontology and mineralogy. Finally it explains the accepted idea of evolution from the lowest protoplasmic matter, through unthinkably long ages, into the highest living forms as we know them today.” (Foreword) The book is indexed, has numerous illustrations and the contents are: Prehistoric animals; Man in the making; About the aborigines; Contemporary mammals; Birds of today; Present-day reptiles; Modern fishes; Living insects, millipedes, crustaceans and spiders; Lower forms of animal life; Minerals and gems; Some other wonders; How the exhibits are prepared.
COLLINS, JOSEPH. Idling in Italy; studies of literature and of life. *$3 Scribner 850
20–17228
“Literary Italy of today is presented by Joseph Collins in his recent book, to which is given the misleading title, ‘Idling in Italy.’ Of particular importance and interest is the long array here presented of Italian writers of prose and verse who are almost entirely unknown in this country, but who in their native land are the apostles of a new movement in Italian literature. An entire chapter is devoted to the futurist movement. His criticism of Giovanni Papini, chief exponent of the futurist movement, is comprehensive. Dr Collins spares neither praise nor scathing criticism of Gabriele D’Annunzio, Italy’s most romantic figure. A number of essays in the book have no relation to Italy. The author dissects W. Somerset Maugham’s ‘The moon and sixpence’; he gives an interesting chapter on Samuel Butler; there is a chapter on feminism and a good pen picture of Wilson.”—Springf’d Republican
Booklist 17:104 D ’20
“The pages are filled with all those qualities which make the perfect essayist.” W. S. B.
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Boston Transcript p7 N 20 ’20 720w
“The study of President Wilson, as it is published in this book, proves to be an appreciation, perhaps the broadest Wilson has called forth. I find this study the best piece of writing about Wilson I have seen, with the one exception of that chapter of Maynard Keynes’s, and what superiority the Keynes essay has in brilliance Dr Collins makes up for in conviction and depth.” J. H. Dounce
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N Y Evening Post p8 N 27 ’20 720w
“There are far too many names, followed in each case by brief critical notes, for the reader to gain a clear impression of any one author to whom he has been introduced. When, however, Dr Collins pauses in his swift flight to linger for a while in contemplation of a single author he reveals an appreciative understanding and an acute critical faculty.”
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N Y Times p4 O 24 ’20 1150w
“The reader gets from the volume ideas, not suggestions: stimulus, not charm. He who picks up the book to be lulled, may lay it down sleepless or enraged. It is a real book, not a piece of literary exquisiteness or a series of agreeable conversational discourses.”
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No Am 212:856 D ’20 1700w
“Dr Collins’s chapters are entertaining as well as keen and illuminative. Some of his themes are in lighter vein, but scarcely any would suggest ‘idling’ except to a gormand for work.”
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Outlook 126:334 O 20 ’20 90w
“Perhaps Dr Collins comments too briefly on the many names which he considers. The book is not organic. It seems that Dr Collins had a number of essays on hand and decided to give them to the public under a pleasing but irrelevant title.”
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Springf’d Republican p10 O 29 ’20 500w
COLMAN, SAMUEL, and COAN, CLARENCE ARTHUR. Proportional form. il *$3 Putnam 740
20–7442
“Further studies in the science of beauty, being supplemental to those set forth in ‘Nature’s harmonic unity.’” (Sub-title) “Nature’s harmonic unity,” published in 1912, was based on the thesis that in nature “a few fundamental and major rules work in concert for the government of the whole scheme,” and on the relation between this universal harmony and art. The present work represents a continuation of studies in the same field presented in a simpler form. Certain fundamental principles have been repeated in order to obviate constant reference to the first book. The volume has 156 drawings and designs and is indexed. A note on the title page states “The drawings and correlating descriptions are by Mr Colman. The text and mathematics are by Capt. Coan.”
R of Rs 61:672 Je ’20 40w
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COLUM, PADRAIC. Boy apprenticed to an enchanter. il *$2.50 (8½c) Macmillan
20–21991
Mr Colum has written a new fairy story for children, the story of Eean the fisherman’s son who was caught stealing the horses of King Manus. He was brought bound into the king’s hall doomed to die at sunrise. But first the king asked him to tell how it came about that he had risked his life in attempting so dangerous a thing. “And I declare,” said the king, “if he shows us that he was ever in greater danger than he is in this night I shall give him his life.” So Eean the fisherman’s son tells the story of his apprenticeship to Zabulun the enchanter.
“With the Celt’s instinct for magician’s tricks Colum has taken Greek, Egyptian, Biblical, and Arthurian tales, and made a simply-constructed patch-work of enchantment.”
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Bookm 52:550 F ’21 130w
Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne
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COLUM, PADRAIC. Children of Odin. il *$4 Macmillan 293
20–19525
“In ‘The children of Odin’ Padraic Colum has given a free rendering of the myths of the poetic and the prose Eddas. Mr Colum tells us that he has done his work directly from the Eddas and in consultation with Norwegian scholars. Mr Colum had boys and girls above twelve years in mind when preparing his text.”—Bookm.
“Told in a connected narrative that flows in a simple, rhythmic prose sometimes poetic. Expensive for many libraries.”
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Reviewed by A. C. Moore
Bookm 50:380 N ’19 90w
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Boston Transcript p7 N 17 ’20 440w
Dial 69:548 N ’20 70w
“Not the least part of the beauty of this telling of them is that, for all his Norse subject, Mr Colum is as usual invincibly Irish.”
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Ind 104:380 D 11 ’20 50w
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Lit D p86 D 4 ’20 150w
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New Repub 25:24 D 1 ’20 220w
Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne
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N Y Times p8 D 19 ’20 60w
COMERFORD, FRANK. New world. *$2 Appleton 335
20–17097
The author has made a tour of Europe to study our present day world problems. He claims to have made a thorough study from every conceivable point of view. He blames bolshevism and socialism for all the chaos. He sympathizes with labor but fears its methods of redress and is absolutely opposed to everything that threatens law and order. Among the contents are: Problems facing a stricken world; The problem of Europe’s poverty; A tragedy of politics; Russia out of balance; The soviet machine; Clash of fact and theory; The failure of the socialization of industry; The third international; Intermeddling in Russia; Bolshevism in the United States. There are appendices consisting of various documents.
“Frank Comerford’s ‘The new world’ combines a sane and temperate judgment with a firm, intellectual grasp of his subject.”
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N Y Evening Post p11 O 30 ’20 400w
COMFORT, WILL LEVINGTON, and DOST, ZAMIN KI (WILLIMINA LEONORA ARMSTRONG). Son of power. *$1.90 (2c) Doubleday
20–21182
His name was Sanford Hantee, but the boys of the Chicago streets called him “Skag.” It was at the Lincoln Park zoo that he first began to know animals, and their fascination for him was so keen that he ran away from home and became a circus trainer. His power over animals seemed to come from his absolute control of himself and from the fact that he knew no fear. It was old Alec Binz of the circus who gave Skag his desire to go to India and know for himself the animals of the jungle. In India he very soon achieved the title Rana Jai—Son of power. The book is really a series of short stories telling of Skag’s exploits with various jungle beasts. Among the titles are: The good grey nerve: The monkey glen; Jungle laughter; The hunting cheetah; Elephant concerns; Blue beast, and Fever birds. Skag made some human friends, too, in India, among them Carlin Deal, a girl half-Indian and half-English who becomes almost as important as Skag himself in the narrative.
“Men and boys especially will like it.”
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Booklist 17:156 Ja ’21
“Interesting and colorful, these stories, though written with a collaborator, are thoroughly characteristic of Mr Comfort. Though parts of the volume make rather too great demands upon the reader’s credulity, it is, on the whole, a fascinating piece of work, vivid, picturesque, full of color and the glamour and mysticism of India.”
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COMMITTEE ON THE WAR AND THE RELIGIOUS OUTLOOK. Church and industrial reconstruction. *$2 Assn. press 261
20–15930
This volume is the third in a series of reports that is being issued by the Committee on the war and the religious outlook. In these times of industrial unrest and uncertainty following the world war, says the introduction, the spirit of God “moves on the face of the waters” challenging the church “to reconsider its own gospel, to redefine its attitude toward the present social order, and to interpret for our time the way of life involved in Christian discipleship.” After defining the Christian interest in and approach to the industrial problems the volume takes up: The Christian ideal of society; Unchristian aspects of the present industrial order; The Christian attitude toward the system as a whole; The Christian method of social betterment; Present practicable steps toward a more Christian industrial order: The question of the longer future; What individual Christians can do to Christianize the industrial order; What the church can do to Christianize the industrial order. The appendices are: I, The historic attitude of the church to economic questions; II, Selected bibliography on the church and industrial reconstruction; III, The Committee on the war and the religious outlook. There is an index.
Reviewed by G: Soule
Nation 111:535 N 10 ’20 680w
“Within the compass of no other single volume can be found such a summary of the churches’ experiences in the present industrial age, backed by a valuable historical study of the successive attitudes of the church to economic questions.” Graham Taylor
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Survey 45:467 D 25 ’20 1250w
COMMITTEE ON THE WAR AND THE RELIGIOUS OUTLOOK. Missionary outlook in the light of the war. *$2 Assn. press 266
20–7779
This volume is one in a series of studies that is being brought out by the Committee on the war and the religious outlook. It is the report prepared by a special sub-committee with Dr Robert E. Speer as its chairman and Rev. Samuel McCrea Cavert as its secretary and contains the evidences collected and the conclusions arrived at, on the religious outlook, by a great number of competent men. The contents fall into three parts: Part 1—The enhanced significance and urgency of foreign missions in the light of the war; Part 2—The effect of the war on the religious outlook in various lands; Part 3—Missionary principles and policies in the light of the war. The appendices contain a synopsis of the contents and a selected bibliography.
“The papers are uniformly by men who possess first-hand knowledge of the subjects on which they write.”
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Booklist 17:6 O ’20
“This volume is not simply for so-called church people but has much suggestion for all who are facing the problems of our time. Such readers may have to do some skipping, for there are pages here reminiscent of the missionary tract of our childhood, and they will have to do a good deal of translating.”
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COMMITTEE ON THE WAR AND THE RELIGIOUS OUTLOOK. Religion among American men, as revealed by a study of conditions in the army. *$1.50 Assn. press 261
20–5049
“This volume is one of a series of studies that is being brought out by the Committee on the war and the religious outlook. The committee was constituted, while the war was still in progress, by the joint action of the Federal council of the churches of Christ in America and the General war-time commission of the churches and was an expression of the conviction that the war had laid upon the churches the duty of the most thorough self-examination.” (Editorial preface) The book, which corresponds in aim and method to the British work “The army and religion,” is based on answers to questionnaires, personal interviews, letters, articles in the religious press, etc. It is in three parts: The state of religion as revealed in the army; The effect of the war on religion in the army; Lessons for the church.
“These pages ought to be before every church or convention that is planning to serve the nation through the organized church.”
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Booklist 17:6 O ’20
Reviewed by H. A. Jump
Boston Transcript p8 Mr 13 ’20 3050w
Reviewed by Hugh Page
Pub W 97:1295 Ap 17 ’20 290w
CONE, HELEN GRAY. Coat without a seam, and other poems. *$1.25 Dutton 811
20–519
“‘The coat without a seam, and other poems,’ by Helen Gray Cone, though not an unusual book of verse, is significant for its strong, impressive faith and its whole-hearted optimism. More than half of the poems concern the war, and are brimming with war’s idealism. The remainder, collected under the title ‘The quiet days,’ are lyrics on various themes. Miss Cone has been best known in the past few years as the author of a ‘A chant of love for England,’ the answer to the German ‘Hymn of hate.’”—Springf’d Republican
“Time was, and not long since, these counters had a brave ring; now, without the mixture and fusion of noble metals, the poor alloy predominates. Even the shrill notes sound flat.” L: Untermeyer
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“Among the poetesses in the larger mood, Helen Gray Cone, though palpably not the least ambitious, is destined least to survive the present hour for the reason that her ardors have been lighted at unsubstantial altars, those of the late war and the late peace. A poetess of the flag, she seems stale now as well as strident.” M. V. D.
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Nation 111:247 Ag 28 ’20 70w
“It is well conceived and the rhetoric is of a high quality, but the pulse of authentic poetry is too often missing.”
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N Y Times 25:16 Je 27 ’20 170w
“Miss Helen Gray Cone has a substantially perfect technique. The highest originalities are not open to her, but her feeling is delicate and true, and, in all the agitations of the late war, there is no tremor in the mounting flame.” O. W. Firkins
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Review 2:519 My 15 ’20 160w
“Miss Cone’s diction is simple, unaffected, and tinted rather than colored. Her style is good.”
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Springf’d Republican p11a Mr 21 ’20 100w
CONKLING, MRS GRACE WALCOTT (HAZARD). Wilderness songs. *$1.50 Holt 811
20–9071
This collection of poems, reprinted from various magazines, show nature and life reflected in the poetic soul of a woman. The poems are grouped under the headings: Songs of New England roads; Songs of war; Seven interludes; Songs of places—old Mexico; Nocturnes; and a concluding poem: The wilderness.
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Booklist 16:337 Jl ’20
“It is conspicuous that ‘Wilderness songs’ should follow ‘Afternoons of April.’ The fragile, tremulous art of the earlier book has taken on a firm, ripe quality of mood and expression.” W. S. B.
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Boston Transcript p6 Jl 14 ’20 1600w
“Mrs Conkling feels platitudes snugly and sweetly. Her cadences, like her attachments, are the generally accepted. Her mood and meter seem all too neat, with seldom a sign that their creation brought thrusts of pleasurable pain.” M. V. D.
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Nation 111:247 Ag 28 ’20 40w
“Few indeed are the books of lyrics as well made as these. The melodies are light, but lovely; the diction shows an exquisite discretion; and there is always a sense of proportion in design.” Marguerite Wilkinson
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N Y Times 25:272 My 23 ’20 280w
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Spec 125:745 D 4 ’20 20w
“Delicate perception expressed with quiet charm is characteristic of the poems. The volume in general satisfies the craving for nature in her gentler moods.”
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Springf’d Republican p11a Je 13 ’20 240w
CONKLING, HILDA. Poems by a little girl. *$1.50 Stokes 811
20–7794
The author of these poems is now nine years old. Amy Lowell writes a long preface to the book in which she says: “It is poetry, the stuff and essence of poetry.... I know of no other instance in which such really beautiful poetry has been written by a child.... What this book chiefly shows is high promise; but it also has its pages of real achievement, and that of so high an order it may well set us pondering.” With some biographical data on the child Miss Lowell describes her manner of working, which she considers to be largely subconscious and perfectly instinctive. The poems are grouped according to the child’s age into: Four to five years old; Five to six years old; Six to seven years old; and Seven to nine years old.
“The book as a whole is convincing, and a number of the poems are beautiful.”
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Ath p644 N 12 ’20 620w
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Booklist 16:305 Je ’20
“Charming and unusual. Here is a book of poems instinct with the spirit of childhood and so childlike in much of its phrasing as to make a direct and permanent appeal to children and grown people.” A. C. Moore
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Bookm 51:314 My ’20 1000w
“Her thought has not the incoherence that might be expected of a child; she paints in each poem a complete picture, step by step, usually leading up to the last line with a fine feeling for climax. In economy of words and in power of connotation these poems resemble the translations from the Chinese and the Japanese which have lately attracted the attention of occidental poets, but there is a richness of detail that we are accustomed to associate with the tradition of English literature.” N. J. O’Conor
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Boston Transcript p10 My 15 ’20 1150w
“Many a mature poet might be proud of some of these little gems. All of them sparkle with that faery light that enables its possessor to see things quaintly and daintily.”
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Cleveland p73 Ag ’20 220w
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Cleveland p108 D ’20 70w
“The quality which shines behind practically all of these facets of loveliness is a directness of perception, an almost mystic divination. It is its own stamp of unaffected originality, a genuine ingenuousness. It is ridiculous to talk of the ‘stages’ in the work of a ten-year-old child and yet the verses conceived between four and seven are more vivid, seem more spontaneous and less—absurd as it may seem—sophisticated than those written between seven and nine.” L: Untermeyer
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Dial 69:186 Ag ’20 1200w
“Readers will be glad of the book, not only because it was written by a child, but because it contains beautiful poetry. Not a false image is to be found in it, not a single artificial symbol, not a line of dull, stereotyped diction!”
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N Y Times 25:193 Ap 18 ’20 380w
“The gift is given us gravely and unconsciously, with none of the reticences that fears ridicule, and yet with none of the exaggeration that tries to ‘show off.’” Marguerite Wilkinson
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N Y Times 25:272 My 23 ’20 1000w
“The present volume deserves a high place among the expressions of youthful imagination. It is vivid, fresh, and creative in no small degree.”
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Outlook 125:542 Jl 21 ’20 130w
“The handling of the verse-form is skillful, though not masterly.” O. W. Firkins
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Review 3:653 D 29 ’20 320w
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Spec 125:709 N 27 ’20 50w
“The ‘Poems by a little girl’ do not smack of the exotic and consciously clever; they are robust as well as delicate, with the characteristic deliberation and spontaneity of childhood seizing life with keen eyes and quick imagination.”
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Springf’d Republican p8 My 27 ’20 500w
CONNOLLY, JAMES BRENDAN. Hiker Joy. il *$1.75 (2½c) Scribner
20–8795
Hiker, the young hero of Mr Connolly’s series of adventures, is a little gamin from the New York water front, who ships to sea with his friend Bill Green on a lumber schooner bound for somewhere across the Atlantic in wartime. The ship is wrecked in a storm and Bill gets possession of the valuable papers the captain had been carrying and turns them over to the secret service, according to orders. Other adventures follow, with German spies, U-boats, and Zeppelins, and the whole tale is related by Hiker in his own vernacular.
“Sea stories which will have their usual appeal because the author knows how to write them.”
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Booklist 16:346 Jl ’20
“The whole book is sufficient to provide an evening’s entertainment of no mean quality.”
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Boston Transcript p7 Ag 25 ’20 260w
Cleveland p72 Ag ’20 40w
“Every page vibrates with action and glows with unforced drama. Happily, both his matter and manner are excellent.”
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N Y Times 25:17 Je 27 ’20 240w
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Springf’d Republican p11a Je 27 ’20 300w
CONNOR, HENRY GROVES. John Archibald Campbell. *$2.25 (3c) Houghton
20–7012
The subject of this biography was a southern jurist, appointed a justice of the Supreme court in 1853. In 1861 he resigned to become assistant secretary of war for the Confederacy. He was one of the three Confederate peace commissioners who met Lincoln and Seward in 1865. The table of contents indicates the outstanding points in his career and shows the biographer’s plan of treatment; Ancestry and early career at the bar; Associate justice of the Supreme court of the United States; The slavery question before the court; On the circuit: filibustering and the slave trade; Efforts to avert civil war; Services to the confederacy and peace negotiations: The problem of restoration; The slaughter-house cases and the fourteenth amendment; Last years at the bar; Personal characteristics, intellectual and social traits; Conclusion. A table of cases follows and an index.
“The biographer’s judicial experience gives him an advantage in the treatment of legal points, while his sense of restraint eliminates bias in the discussion of matters that ordinarily arouse the keenest controversy. The method of inserting quoted portions is at times confusing, and there are numerous inaccuracies of quotation.” J. G. Randall
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“Will interest students of history.”
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Booklist 16:310 Je ’20
Boston Transcript p4 Ap 21 ’20 550w
Reviewed by J: C. Rose
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Review 2:601 Je 5 ’20 1050w
R of Rs 61:671 Je ’20 80w
CONRAD, JOSEPH. Rescue: a romance of the shallows. *$2 (1c) Doubleday
20–10316
Mr Conrad’s new tale of the South Seas is the story of a man torn between loyalty to friend and love of woman, forced to choose between faith to his plighted word and her safety. It is a story of a generation ago with civil war rife among the native tribes of the Malay straits. Captain Tom Lingard has pledged his all to the service of Rajah Hassim and has plotted and contrived to restore him to his kingdom. The enterprise has reached its climax when an English yacht blunders into the scene of activity and runs aground. Captain Lingard goes aboard her with offers of assistance, his one thought to get the intruders out of the way. His offer is met with insolence on the part of the owner and he would gladly have left them to their fate, but he had seen the woman, Mrs Travers, and her spell is on him. Thereafter these two are but puppets in the hands of fate and the outcome is the wreck of all Lingard’s hopes and the failure of the cause he had served.
“This fascinating book revives in use the youthful feeling that we are not so much reading a story of adventure as living in and through it, absorbing it, making it our own. This feeling is not wholly the result of the method, the style which the author has chosen; it arises more truly from the quality of the emotion in which the book is steeped.” K. M.
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Ath p15 Jl 2 ’20 1500w
“A characteristic story, one of his best.”
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Booklist 16:346 Jl ’20
“While the charm of its style is undeniable, while it is filled with glowing word-pictures of tropical scenes, we shall doubtless be held to be intellectually blind and artistically obtuse by many Conrad admirers when we say that it has none of the flowing narrative qualities which should be the chief characteristic of a story of its sort.” E. F. E.
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Boston Transcript p4 My 26 ’20 1250w
“‘The rescue’ is characterized by that extraordinary grasp of reality and breadth of outlook for which Mr Conrad is famous.”
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Cleveland p70 Ag ’20 100w
“It is not easy to find another name for genius. The effort to describe it is ungrateful enough. When it penetrates so deep to the roots of life one can pay it the tribute of becoming silent at the earliest possible moment.” Gilbert Seldes
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Dial 69:191 Ag ’20 2250w
“If Mr Joseph Conrad’s ‘The rescue’ is an earlier novel, as has been said, it is difficult to see why he did not leave its style intact or re-write it wholly in his later, sparer manner. Yet with all the disappointments of detail, in completion ‘The rescue’ produces a massiveness of effect which belongs only to Conrad.” C. M. R.
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Freeman 1:454 Jl 21 ’20 370w
“Mr Conrad remains a writer who approaches greatness. In ‘The rescue’ there are prose harmonies as rich and plangent as in ‘Youth’ itself. There are glimpses of men—Shaw, Travers, Jörgenson—that are sharp as etchings. His senses are marvellously active and acute and his ability to render their perceptions into language is superb. He fails, contrary to a common opinion, when he seeks to explain the operations of the mind or the character of the passions or when he reflects.”
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Nation 110:804 Je 12 ’20 1150w
“The book is absorbingly interesting; dramatic, subtle, fascinating with that allurement, that sheer power and sweep of romance which is Joseph Conrad’s to command.” L. M. Field
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N Y Times 25:263 My 23 ’20 1450w
“Begun some twenty years ago, finished last year, it combines the lucidity of his earlier work with the subtlety of his later manner.”
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Outlook 125:280 Je 9 ’20 560w
Review 2:604 Je 5 ’20 240w
“We who have had a sense of groping for the old magic amongst the later tales of Joseph Conrad may find it in this book.” H. W. Boynton
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Review 2:629 Je 16 ’20 1150w
“His command of what was originally an alien tongue, probably unequalled in the whole course of English letters, has gained in mastery and subtlety, and the gifts that he brings us are still rich and strange and new.”
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Spec 124:52 Jl 10 ’20 850w
“It matters not how often Mr Conrad tells the story of the man and the brig. Out of the million stories that life offers the novelist, this one is founded upon truth. And it is only Mr Conrad who is able to tell it us. But if the statement of the theme is extremely fine, we have to admit that the working out of the theme is puzzling: we cannot deny that we are left with a feeling of disappointment.”
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CONSTABLE, FRANK CHALLICE. Myself and dreams. *$2.50 (2½c) Dodd 150
19–15968
The book is a contribution to the literature on psychical matters in which the soul is treated as a psychical subject whose physiological state is but transitory, merely an “occasion” for conduct. Part 1, Myself, includes such subjects as the relativity of knowledge, insight, self-consciousness, the intelligible universe and the sensible universe, ideas, free-will and the categorical imperative. Part 2, Dreams, includes chapters on: Sleep; Physiological and psychological theories; Multiplex personality; Hallucination and illusion in dreams; Romance and fairie; Phantasy; Ecstasy; The eternal.
CONTEMPORARY verse anthology; with an introd. by C: W. Stork.[2] *$3 Dutton 811.08
20–19666
“The editor of Contemporary Verse has selected from the pages of that magazine devoted exclusively to poetry the representative contributions printed during the past four years as examples of a style and quality of poetic expression ‘broadly devoted to the needs and interests of the general reading public.’ Among the contributors are found such well-known names as Louis Untermeyer, Witter Bynner, Clement Wood, John Hall Wheelock, William Rose Benet, Lizette Woodworth Reese, Sara Teasdale, Mary Carolyn Davies, Margaret Widdemer and Ruth Comfort Mitchell. Among the lesser known contributors are Amory Hare, Stephen Moylan Bird, Gertrude Cornwell Hopkins, Elinor Wylie, Winifred Welles, Phoebe Hoffman, Dorothy Anderson, Amanda B. Hall, William Baird, Berenice K. Van Slyke, Leonora Speyer and many another.”—Boston Transcript
Bookm 52:560 F ’21 600w
Boston Transcript p9 D 1 ’20 340w
“It has a little that is very good, more that is very bad, and very much that is mediocre.”
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Nation 112:188 F 2 ’21 50w
“The selections which appear in this volume, are, in the main, chosen with discrimination and taste.”
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Outlook 126:768 D 29 ’20 40w
“Throughout there is an undercurrent of sane vitality, that spirit of healthy restlessness and inquisitiveness that more than anything else distinguishes the work of so many of the present American poets from that of their quieter, more smoothly flowing British brothers.”
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Springf’d Republican p5a Ja 2 ’21 250w
CONYNGTON, THOMAS. Business law; a working manual of every-day law. 2d ed 2v $8 Ronald 347.7
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A two-volume edition of the work published in 1918. Volume 1 covers: The law of the land; Contracts; Sales; Agency; Negotiable instruments; Insurance; Employment; Partnership; Corporations. Volume 2: Real and personal property; Wills and inheritance; Personal relations; Suretyship; Debts and interest; Bankruptcy; Bailments and common carriers; Patents, trademarks, and copyrights; Taxation; Arbitration; Law and lawyers; Forms. Appendixes to volume 2 contain: Chart showing jurisdiction of state courts; A professional law library; Glossary, and there is an index.
Booklist 16:355 Jl ’20
“It is a valuable handbook; it can be referred to by the ordinary citizen because nontechnical terms are used and the statements of law are plain and concise.”
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N Y P L Munic Ref Lib Notes 7:55 N 17 ’20 180w
“It is well arranged and clearly written for the business man.”
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R of Rs 62:336 S ’20 80w
COOK, CARROLL BLAINE (DIXIE CARROLL, pseud.). Goin’ fishin’; with an introd. by Leonard Wood, and a foreword by Wright A. Patterson. il *$2.75 (1½c) Stewart & Kidd 799
20–16782
“Weather and feed facts; the fresh-water game fish: the natural and artificial baits and their use.” (Sub-title) Besides this information the book contains the infectious exuberance of spirit which comes from the love of out-o’-doors and which, says the author, has burned like an unquenchable volcano within him from the earliest moments of his life. The motor boat in fishing, footwear and the camp commissary also receive attention and a list of recommended fishing waters—in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Pacific Northwest and Canada—concludes the book.
COOK, SIR EDWARD TYAS. More literary recreations. *$2.75 Macmillan 824
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“About half the book is devoted to three charming papers on Pliny’s letters, the classics in daily life, and the Greek anthology. Other essays are on travelling companions, the art of editing, the changes and corruptions of words, and on ‘single poem poets.’”—Brooklyn
Brooklyn 12:102 Mr ’20 50w
“The essays in this second volume of literary recreations, composed in the intervals of leisure snatched from his official duties during the war, are now published for the first time, and only serve to heighten the regret caused by the premature death of their author. Reserved and restrained with strangers, he here reveals a geniality and sympathy of which only the few who knew him intimately were aware.”
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“There will be a good many readers of this book who, after listening to Sir Edward Cook, will take down the Greek anthology or the half-forgotten Virgil or Homer from its shelf, and so thank him in the way he would have best liked to be thanked.”
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The Times [London] Lit Sup p580 O 23 ’19 900w
COOK, W. VICTOR. Grey fish. *$2 Stokes
“In the Shetland Islands they have a toast which they drink on New Year’s day, ‘Health to man and death to the grey fish.’ In this novel both name and toast are applied to a grim sort of hunting and of prey, the German submarines off the coast of Spain during the war. The story consists of twelve connected episodes in which two of the characters are always in the centre of interest, a few others come and go, and still more appear only in single tales. The two chief actors are a young Scot ostensibly in the employ of a British firm of wine merchants with offices at various Spanish ports. The other is a middle-aged Spaniard, a stevedore, once a peasant and an ex-smuggler. A double motive urges him into the grey fish hunting, a love of dangerous adventure for its own sake and a passionate hatred of the Germans because his brother’s boat had been sunk and his brother drowned by a German submarine.”—N Y Times
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Ath p30 Ja 2 ’20 120w
“The author of ‘Grey fish’ has provided a series of fascinating, well spiced tales so closely connected that they deserve to be called a novel, into which he has put not a little of the atmosphere and color of the Spanish coast.”
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N Y Times 25:28 Jl 18 ’20 400w
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
Review 3:254 S 22 ’20 130w
The Times [London] Lit Sup p754 D 11 ’19 70w
COOKE, GEORGE WILLIS. Social evolution of religion. *$3.50 Stratford co. 201
20–4088
“The author is dominated by one thought throughout his work, and that is ‘all religion is essentially communal or social.’ Primitive man, like the child, he asserts, does not know himself apart from the group; and he adds: ‘It must be recognized that all the evidence is in favor of the conclusion that the earliest manifestations of religion were those of a group, and not those of individuals.’ And the conclusion is drawn that man has been religious from the beginning. After a few chapters in which are described the social transmission of human experience, the creative genius of social man, and communal and tribal religion; feudal, national, international and universal religion are described; and the closing chapter is on religion as cosmic and human motive. Two fundamental points underlie and color this entire work, namely, that religion is a natural phenomenon and that it is primarily social.”—Boston Transcript
Booklist 17:48 N ’20
“He has collected a great mass of facts, and his interpretation of those facts, while evidencing a vigorous mind, is but the judgment of a human being; and there will be no lack of dissent on the part of readers.” F. W. C.
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Boston Transcript p6 Jl 7 ’20 800w
“The author has drawn heavily upon writers of his own way of thinking. Nowhere is there evidence of any scientific discernment.”
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Cath World 111:258 My ’20 500w
“The author tells us that this book contains fifty years’ study of religion but there is not the slightest suspicion in it of an old man’s conservatism. Few books about religion are more radical, more fearless, more resolutely faced toward the future than this one.” A. W. Vernon
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Nation 112:187 F 2 ’21 780w
R of Rs 62:447 O ’20 60w
COOKE, RICHARD JOSEPH, bp.[2] Church and world peace. *$1 Abingdon press 261
20–8658
“After discussing the demand for a League of nations and answering the question whether or not such a league is possible, and after stating the political difficulties in the way of such a league, the author concludes that the league will need all the spiritual power of the church to make it effective. He says that ‘while the League of nations may do much to prevent war, it cannot eradicate the desire for war. It would seem, therefore, absolutely essential that the physical power of the League shall be supplemented by a spiritual power, some mighty generating influence which, by its appeal to the souls of man, shall be able to cool super-heated passions, and for treasured wrong substitute desire for justice and not revenge, for peace and not war.’ There must then be a Christian league, a league of Christendom supplementing the political League of nations.”—Boston Transcript
Bib World 54:652 N ’20 280w
“The book is a strong one, well argued, clearly written, and exceedingly timely. It closes with an inspiring note of optimism.”
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Boston Transcript p6 Jl 28 ’20 240w
COOLEY, ANNA MARIA, and SPOHR, WILHELMINA. Household arts for home and school. 2v il v 1 *$1.50; v 2 *$1.60 Macmillan 640.7
20–4147
These volumes are intended for the use of household arts classes in school and as a help in home work. Volume 1 describes how the girls of the Ellen H. Richards school chose the furniture and all accessories for the Sunnyside apartment of five rooms, to be occupied by two of the teachers, and to be used as a practice house for the school. The girls made all the curtains, couch covers, dresser scarfs, table doilies, towels, etc., and while doing so learned all about the decorations and furnishing of a home, its management and up-keep, the use of the sewing machine, the making, mending and cost of clothing and the care of the baby. Volume 2 is more especially devoted to the daily work in the home. The storing and canning of fruits and vegetables, cooking, cleaning and laundering, the preparation of breakfasts and dinners, keeping well and happy are discussed. Each volume has an appendix and an index and many illustrations.
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Boston Transcript p4 My 5 ’20 260w
“The lessons are selected with discrimination, and suitable balance is maintained between the various topics. The book does not make adequate provision for the development of thought and initiative on the part of the pupil and fails to give opportunity for the understanding of principles through experiments.”
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El School J 21:75 S ’20 370w
St Louis 18:221 S ’20 30w
COOLEY, ANNA MARIA, and others. Teaching home economics. *$1.80 Macmillan 640.7
19–15655
“The authors took upon themselves a large task as indicated in the statement of their aim, namely, to ‘offer suggestions for the organization, administration, and teaching of home economics subjects.’ The authors say, ‘It is taken for granted that the students who will use it will be familiar with the scope of the field,’ and that ‘the book is intended for use primarily in normal schools and colleges’ though they ‘hope that the social workers, vocational advisors, and lay readers will find in this book suggestions of value.’ They specially stress the fact that they wish to ‘attack the subject in the light of the new vision of education as a factor in social evolution.’ The attempt to cover in outline the whole field is treated under four different divisions: (1) Home economics as an organized study in the school program; (2) Organization of courses in home economics; (3) Planning of lessons; (4) Personnel, materials, and opportunities; (5) Addenda.”—J Home Econ
Booklist 17:57 N ’20
Brooklyn 12:99 Mr ’20 40w
“One of the good features of the book is the list of questions after each chapter and the suggested references for collateral reading. While the authors have succeeded in bringing together in one volume material which will be very helpful to the discriminating teacher of home economics, the undertaking was so great as almost to prevent adequate treatment of the various parts.” Isabel Bevier
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J Home Econ 12:137 Mr ’20 550w
“One finishes the reading of the book with the realization that innumerable statements as to existing conditions have been given, but a feeling akin to bewilderment is not cleared away by any definite conclusion as to wise selection of material, clear emphasis on abilities to be developed, or teaching methods to be used.”
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School R 28:311 Ap ’20 360w
COOLIDGE, DANE. Wunpost. *$2 Dutton
20–10766
“‘Wunpost’ was the nickname bestowed on John C. Calhoun, who, though he came from a good old southern family and had ‘the profile of a bronze Greek god,’ was nevertheless so illiterate that, when he found a gold mine and decided to call it the ‘One post,’ he spelled the name ‘Wunpost.’ He had a habit of finding gold mines. During the course of the narrative he discovers no less than three, but he is cheated out of two of them by the wickedness and ingenuity of old Judson Eells and his ‘yaller dog,’ Lapham, the lawyer who thoroughly understood how to draw up a contract of the most deceptive kind. ‘Wunpost’ went to work to get even with Eells, with Lapham, and with ‘Pisenface’ Lynch, who was Eells’s ‘hired mankiller and professional claim-jumper.’ Of course he succeeded. But meanwhile he learned something about the dangers of boasting, had any number of adventures, including one with an Indian scout whom he outwitted and made a trip across the famous Death valley, besides falling in love.”—N Y Times
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Boston Transcript p6 S 1 ’20 320w
“The best of this book is the descriptions.”
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N Y Times 25:23 Jl 11 ’20 390w
“The work is an excellent specimen of the better class of western fiction, glowing with local color, featured by continuous and well sustained action and containing an abundance of its own variety of love and adventure.”
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Springf’d Republican p11a S 12 ’20 100w
COOPER, HENRY ST JOHN. Sunny Ducrow. *$1.90 (1½c) Putnam
20–6635
The story of a little girl of the London slums who leaves a pickle factory to go on the stage. Her name is Elizabeth Ann but everybody calls her Sunny and it is as Sunny Ducrow that she rises to fame. Later she buys an interest in the pickle factory and moves it to the suburbs where she establishes a model village called Sunnyville. A noble lord falls in love with her and for a time Sunny thinks she is in love with him, but she finds out that she is not and gives her hand to a less distinguished suitor in her own profession.
“The book is brightly and vivaciously written, and many people will be glad to become acquainted with Mr Cooper’s heroine.”
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Ath p1138 O 31 ’19 60w
“Sunny Ducrow is an amusing impossibility.”
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Boston Transcript p8 D 11 ’20 300w
“In ‘Sunny Ducrow’ Henry St John Cooper barely escapes unwittingly surpassing the ‘novels’ that first established Stephen Leacock’s reputation. His heroine outglads Pollyanna and outbunks Bunker Bean.”
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N Y Times 25:31 Jl 18 ’20 380w
Outlook 125:223 Je 2 ’20 70w
“There is much that is good in the book and much that is interesting. Good types in all classes of society are here, and the writing is sincere and simple in style. Sunny is almost too perfect, too infallible, too easily successful, and all the various humans who come into her life are almost too regenerated.” G. I. Colbron
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Pub W 97:991 Mr 20 ’20 350w
Sat R 128:sup16 N 29 ’19 170w
The Times [London] Lit Sup p613 O 30 ’19 200w
COOPER, JAMES A. Tobias o’ the light. il *$1.75 (2c) Sully
20–9142
Tobias is the light-keeper in one of the Cape Cod lighthouses. In addition, he is a born matchmaker, and when Ralph and Lorna declare they will not marry each other, although—or perhaps because—their families urge it so strongly, he tries to patch up their difficulties by telling each that the other is in financial difficulties. Their pity and chivalry aroused, all might have gone well, had it not been for the bank robbery, of which Ralph is suspected. When Lorna believes Ralph to be the thief because of his need of money, Tobias feels that perhaps he may have overreached himself in his stories. But fortunately the discovery of the part Conny Degger, Ralph’s enemy, has played in the whole affair, puts the matter to rights, and the prospect is bright for Ralph and Lorna, financially and sentimentally.
Springf’d Republican p11a Jl 25 ’20 180w
COPE, HENRY FREDERICK. Education for democracy. *$2 (2c) Macmillan 370
20–8371
“Democracy is more than a form of government: it is a social ideal, a mode of life and a quality of the human spirit; therefore it cannot be imposed on a people; it must be acquired.” How it can be acquired and how our educational plans and ideals can be made to express personal-social values and a common good will in all phases of life is the subject of these essays. A partial list of the contents is: Education in a democracy; Democracy as a religious ideal; The spiritual nature of education in a democracy; Beginning at home; the public schools and democracy’s program; Spiritual values in school studies; Organizing the community; Democracy in the crucial hour.
“This little volume contains many excellent suggestions on the subject of education for democracy, and is worth reading both by teachers and by parents. But it is not always self-consistent, nor does it seem to us well grounded in fundamental principles.”
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Outlook 126:334 O 20 ’20 270w
Reviewed by J. K. Hart
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Survey 45:136 O 23 ’20 160w
The Times [London] Lit Sup p571 S 2 ’20 70w
COPPLESTONE, BENNET. Last of the Grenvilles. *$2.50 Dutton
20–1693
“Another story of naval adventure by the author of the widely read tale entitled ‘The lost naval papers.’ Plot and war romance abound. The area of activity covered is, as before, purely naval, and, like the former book, this not only includes stories of spies and their detection but also furnishes a true and amusing picture of the British sailor in wartime.” (Outlook) “The hero is a descendant of Grenville of the ‘Revenge,’ and his life is related from boyhood till he enters the naval service and goes through the great war.” (Ath)
“The experienced author makes ‘history repeat itself’ in excellent fashion for the youthful reader.”
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Ath p1083 O 24 ’19 40w
Reviewed by M. E. Bailey
Bookm 51:208 Ap ’20 280w
“Mr Copplestone knows the sea and ships as few writers know it, and ‘The last of the Grenvilles’ is a stirring example of his storytelling power.”
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N Y Times 25:23 Jl 18 ’20 320w
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Outlook 124:291 F 18 ’20 60w
“No one who has read one of Mr Copplestone’s books will allow another of them to pass him unread.”
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Sat R 129:70 Ja 17 ’20 90w
“In the sentimental episode entitled ‘The warm haven’ the author challenges comparisons with ‘Bartimeus’ and without success; a lighter touch is needed. But with this deduction the book is a spirited and enjoyable performance.”
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Spec 124:214 F 14 ’20 380w
CORBETT, ELIZABETH F. Puritan and pagan. *$1.75 (1c) Holt
20–20188
Nancy Desmond is the puritan, Mary Allen the pagan. Nancy is a painter with a studio on Washington Square. Mary Allen is a distinguished actress. Max Meredith, who has married one of Nancy’s college friends, comes to New York on business and looks her up. They see much of one another during his stay and find to their dismay that they have fallen in love. True to her instincts and her ideals Nancy sends Max away from her. In the meantime, Roger Greene, Nancy’s friend and teacher, has become infatuated with Mary and between these two there is no question of renunciation. They accept their love as a fact altho Mary refuses marriage. When Nancy learns of the affair she is crushed and finds how much Roger has meant to her. Later after a long separation, after she has seen Max again and after the other love has run its course, Nancy and Roger come together.
“Her picture will prove fascinating to those who do not know that it is not faithful.”
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Bookm 52:552 F ’21 90w
“There is a palpable unevenness in ‘Puritan and pagan.’ It is so surprisingly good in spots that we should not expect that an author could maintain that high level everywhere. The novel very frankly contrasts the puritan and the pagan, but it is a contrast, fortunately, which possesses no element of didacticism, no hint of moral purpose.” D. L. M.
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Boston Transcript p7 D 4 ’20 1050w
“The author has vividly portrayed several phases of New York life and analyzed skilfully several original characters, without forgetting that her main purpose was to tell a very old and very human story.”
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N Y Evening Post p18 D 4 ’20 180w
“The plot is sound, the dramatis personae consistently interesting, and the action logical and generally swift.”
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N Y Times p25 D 26 ’20 340w
“All the plans, hopes, fears, regrets and dreams of three young lives find their expression between the covers, and while there is much that is bitter-sweet in the reading, the sympathetic reader will follow with unflagging interest to the end.”
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Springf’d Republican p7a D 26 ’20 200w
CORBETT, SIR JULIAN STAFFORD. Naval operations. *$6.50 Longmans 940.45
20–8648
“In the official history of the great war prepared by direction of the historical section of the British committee of imperial defense, this is the first volume devoted to naval operation, and concludes with the battle of the Falklands in December, 1914. It gives a detailed account of all the activities of the British navy during the first five months of the war, and this account is entirely based on official reports and other documents. Besides the maps, plans and diagrams inserted in this volume, there is a separate case containing eighteen maps and charts.”—R of Rs
“The pictures presented are consecutive and clear. The efforts of the author to produce a plain and interesting narrative are ably seconded by the publishers; for the make-up of the book is admirable in the highest degree, and presents a model that makes the work of most American publishers seem crude. In comparison with this book, any other book, even though it deal with mighty armies, seems modelled on microscopic lines.” B. A. Fiske
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Am Hist R 26:94 O ’20 1150w
“Sir Julian Corbett had a moving tale to tell, and he has told it well. It is not altogether impossible to imagine it better written. But the story is at least clear and objective. His judgments err in being a little over-kind.”
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Ath p412 Mr 26 ’20 1850w
“Scrupulous care in the presentation of facts and reticence in criticizing them characterize this very detailed, well documented history.”
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Booklist 17:64 N ’20
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Boston Transcript p6 S 1 ’20 420w
Reviewed by Reginald Custance
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Eng Hist R 35:460 Jl ’20 2600w
“Sir Julian Corbett is a master of naval lore; he is deeply versed in the strategy and the tactics of the great captains of the old days. The maps are of the highest value and importance.”
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Nature 105:546 Jl 1 ’20 250w
“Sir Julian’s style is clear and concise, his treatment of the subject admirable in every way. A more thrillingly interesting book would be hard to find, or one more valuable.”
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Review 4:36 Ja 12 ’21 1150w
R of Rs 62:223 Ag ’20 90w
“The chief merit of Sir Julian Corbett’s volume consists in its exposition of the interplay of naval and military considerations.”
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Sat R 129:370 Ap 17 ’20 1250w
“The author’s lucid and dispassionate works on the past history of our navy had shown that he was specially qualified to record its greatest undertaking, and his new book is all that we had expected it to be as a narrative, even if some of his occasional remarks and deductions may provoke dissent.”
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Spec 124:348 Mr 13 ’20 1250w
“Sir Julian S. Corbett reveals himself a student of detail, a scholarly narrator, and a man who is not impatient of research. These virtues, together with an ability to retain throughout a comprehensive view of the worldwide field of operations and the political or military necessity governing many moves that were unavailing, give this history an uncommon value.”
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Springf’d Republican p9a Ag 15 ’20 170w
“In our judgment Sir Julian has accomplished his extremely difficult task with very great skill. The difficulty of the task is, indeed, in large measure concealed by the skill of its accomplishment. No naval historian has ever had to paint on so large a canvas. None has ever had such intricate and far-reaching operations to describe.”
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The Times [London] Lit Sup p206 Ap 1 ’20 3200w
CORIAT, ISADORE HENRY.[2] Repressed emotions. *$2 Brentano’s 130
20–19840
“Defining emotional repression as ‘the defense of conscious thinking from mental processes which are painful’ the author goes on to explain the nature of repression, its relation to the unconscious, the part it plays in mental disorders and the manner in which it may be treated through psychoanalysis. He gives a description of the unconscious, emphasizing its importance in the light of the new psychology, and states that it ‘originated not only in the childhood of man but in the childhood of the world,’ and that in it ‘is condensed and capitulated the cultural history of mankind.’ The process of psychoanalysis is outlined, and its value, not only in the treatment of neuroses, but also for the insight it furnishes into certain character defects, is pointed out. The author lays special stress on the fact that psychoanalysis is largely educational since it serves to further the development of character.”—Survey
Nation 111:694 D 15 ’20 30w
“Dr Coriat has made good his promise of adding to the knowledge of the race. A simpler vocabulary would sublimate the complexities of his thought.”
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N Y Evening Post p12 D 31 ’20 110w
“On the whole the book is very well written, avoiding terminology which might confuse the lay reader, and while it contains nothing especially new, it does help to clarify one’s ideas on the subject and is well worth reading.” J. J. Joslyn
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Survey 45:546 Ja 8 ’21 270w
CORNELL, FRED C.[2] Glamour of prospecting. il *$6 (6c) Stokes 916
The volume is a record of the “wanderings of a South African prospector in search of copper, gold, emeralds, and diamonds.” (Sub-title) The book was written before the outbreak of the war, and the country has since undergone many changes and many of the waste places, difficult of travel, can now be reached by rail. But this still leaves vast untapped spaces for the lover of adventure. It was the love of adventure more than the mineral riches that tempted the author and his book is, therefore, no handbook for the would-be prospector, neither is it intended to discourage him with discomforts and hardships, for these “were richly compensated for by the glorious freedom and adventure of the finest of outdoor lives, spent in one of the finest countries and climates of the world.” (Preface) The book is well illustrated from photographs and contains an insert map.
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Ath p612 N 5 ’20 640w
“The author has a keen sense of humor and an equally marked facility in description. And his experiences furnish him ample opportunity to give full play to both of these powers.”
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N Y Times p22 Ja 16 ’21 550w
“His story may be taken as a treasure hunt; but it is something more permanently satisfying than fiction, for it treats of real things.”
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The Times [London] Lit Sup p533 Ag 19 ’20 1750w
CORWIN, EDWARD SAMUEL. Constitution and what it means today. $1.50 Princeton univ. press 342.7
20–26748
“Within the compass of only one hundred fourteen pages, Professor Corwin has combined with the full text of the Constitution of the United States a series of concise explanations elucidating as far as necessary every paragraph of this document. In a brief introduction he states his purpose to be, not merely to explain the original intentions of the founders of our government, but to show what in the course of time the constitution has come to mean and does actually mean today.”—Review
Am Pol Sci R 14:738 N ’20 40w
Booklist 17:11 O ’20
“The task set for this volume has been performed skillfully, concisely, and unostentatiously. There is in this book no citation of cases or decisions, which would deflect its purpose, and no intrusion of private opinion.” D: J. Hill
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Review 3:212 S 8 ’20 1000W
“The idea of the book is excellent. A greater proportion of quotations from decisions of the supreme court would be welcome. And the comment on the question whether the president should pay an income tax savors of personal opinion.”
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Springf’d Republican p8 Jl 10 ’20 130w
CORY, GEORGE EDWARD. Rise of South Africa. 4v v 3 il *$9 (*25s) Longmans 968
“Professor Cory in the new volume of his excellent history of South Africa, deals fully with the critical era that followed the abolition of slavery and that saw the great trek. The author states with much force the case of the colonists, and especially the Dutch farmers, against a most unsympathetic and tactless government.” (Spec) “What was said and written and done at this particular critical time shaped and coloured the whole subsequent history of South Africa; and the mischief then wrought never has been, and possibly never will be, wholly eliminated. As Professor Cory shows, the great trek did not take place because the Dutch did not like their British neighbors, but because they wanted to be quit of the British government, as that government was directed from England.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup) Descriptive note for volume 1 will be found in the Book Review Digest for 1910; for volume 2 in 1914.
“Allowing for the restricted scope of the treatment, both in time and area, the author has made a valuable contribution of far more general interest than the particular incidents he actually describes.” A. L. Cross
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Am Hist R 26:357 Ja ’21 500w
Brooklyn 12:69 Ja ’20 30w
“The conclusions reached by Mr Cory are those already familiar; but, assuredly, they have never before been based on such a background of well-digested and well-marshalled authority. In more than one instance the author has been able to interview survivors of the events narrated; whilst, throughout, the best evidence available is dispassionately put forward. Undoubtedly the author’s extreme moderation renders more impressive the judgment at which he arrives.” H. E. Egerton
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Eng Hist R 35:289 Ap ’20 460w
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Spec 123:663 N 15 ’19 200w
“It is a book of high merit, clearly written, attractively illustrated, bearing evidence of tireless research and of information derived from first-hand sources, so far as such sources still exist. For South African readers it provides a reasoned and whole-hearted defence of a past generation of colonists, both British and Dutch. From the point of view of a wider public it lends itself to some criticism, on the double ground that the author, as is natural from his surroundings, is over much an advocate, and that his book, from its minuteness and wealth of detail, is too much of a chronicle and too little of a history.”
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The Times [London] Lit Sup p703 D 4 ’19 1500w
CORY, HERBERT ELLSWORTH. Intellectuals and the wage workers. $2 Sunwise turn 304
20–1365
“Mr Herbert Ellsworth Cory’s ‘The Intellectuals and the wage workers’ is an attempt to present the terms upon which intellectuals and wage workers should unite in the task of social reconstruction. But Mr Cory sees modern society, the labor movement, and the purpose of revolution in psychoanalytic terms. He states his purpose thus: ‘I have been trying to make some forecast of the processes by which intellectuals and wage workers will unite to break down rationally those institutions which are but hysterical symptoms, compromises, bad habit-formations from competitive random activities, morbid complexes and inertia.’”—Nation
“His apparently easy references to the most diverse contributors in half a dozen fields of human knowledge, philosophy, psychology, education, the labor movement, economics, the physical sciences, are amazing. Yet a full integration seems to be lacking. The members of the proletariat, to whom, it is evident, he dedicates his volume, will be least likely to grasp Mr Cory’s message because it is so heavily weighted with scientific terms.”
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Nation 110:338 Mr 13 ’20 350w
“He has revealed the tragedy of modern thought, but has lacked the force to bring it into touch with the tragedy of modern life, and has produced half a book instead of a whole one. The half book that he has written could hardly be done better.” Gilbert Cannan
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N Y Times 25:2 Mr 7 ’20 1650w
“I hope that it will be widely read; for there is need for all to know what fantastic speculation is constantly issuing from the revolutionary fold. Among thinking persons the book will prove its own best antidote.” W. J. Ghent
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Review 2:229 Mr 6 ’20 260w
“It is to be hoped that Professor Cory will work out his theory in more detail in its relation to the labor union movement. He sometimes gives the impression of a man seeing it through a golden haze. In avoiding the cocksure pedantry of the typical college professor he has now and then fallen into an uncritical acceptance of unprofessional things.” W: E. Bohn
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Socialist R 8:247 Mr ’20 900w
The Times [London] Lit Sup p91 F 5 ’20 200w
COSTER, CHARLES THEODORE HENRI DE. Flemish legends. il *$3 Stokes 398.2
20–26992
These legends, translated from the French by Harold Taylor and supplied with eight woodcuts by Albert Delstanche, are taken from the folk-lore current in the middle ages in Brabant and Flanders. The translator’s note contains a brief survey of De Coster’s career as a writer. The first tale of “The brotherhood of the cheerful countenance,” tells how the inn-keeper Pieter Gans, of Uccle, was tempted by the devil to set up the image of Bacchus in his hall and form the above brotherhood, whereupon there were nightly carousings by the male population of Uccle; and how, therefore, it fell to the lot of the women of Uccle, to form themselves into an archery club, under the protection of the Virgin Mary, and save the city from brigands. The other tales are: The three sisters; Sir Halewyn; Smetse Smee.
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Booklist 17:93 D ’20
“They are Rabelaisian in form but without the coarseness and rollicking humor of the great French satirist. There is much of somber beauty in the stories, but also much of the blood-lust of the period.”
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Outlook 126:378 O 27 ’20 50w