“To some not the least interesting part of the book is the indication constantly given as the traveller gets farther south of the large far-seeing policy which the Germans have for the last twenty years been slowly, quietly, and consistently carrying out in the East. ... We are grateful for a book which enables us to share the romance of one great road before the railway opens up its hidden places and destroys its guarded secrets.”
CHITWOOD, OLIVER PERRY.Immediate causes of the great war.*$1.35 (3c) Crowell 940.91 17-13588
“The object of this volume is to narrate briefly the direct causes of the European war as they are given in the published documents of the belligerents. These sources are abundantly adequate for determining the immediate responsibility of each nation and apportioning the guilt for this great crime.” (Preface) The author is professor of European history in West Virginia university, and he says that his experience as a teacher has shown him the need for such a work. Contents: Some indirect causes of the war; The assassination of Francis Ferdinand; The Austro-Hungarian note to Serbia; Serbia’s reply to Austria-Hungary; Efforts to prevent war; Efforts to isolate the war; The war area broadens; Great Britain declares war on the Teutonic powers; The violation of the neutrality of Belgium; Japan and Turkey drawn into the conflict; Italy enters the war; The lesser belligerents.
“Persons who do not have access to the various official statements of the governments at war, or do not have time to read the evidence therein presented, will find this summary convenient and useful.”
CHOLMONDELEY, ALICE.Christine.*$1.35 (2c) Macmillan 17-21644
Reviewers differ from each other as to whether these letters are fact or fiction. The publishers wrote the editor of the Digest on September 13, that “We don’t know and we have no means of finding out.” The letters purport to be written to a mother by a young Englishwoman with a talent for music, who goes to Germany to study the violin, and is in Berlin from May to August, 1914. Christine believes all Germans to be “simple and kindly.” Her disillusionment begins in Frau Berg’s middle-class boarding-house where “she becomes a target for the Anglophobe remarks of the other boarders,” and is continued in the home of a family of the “junker-military-official military set,” where she goes to live later because she has become engaged to a young officer in the Prussian army with a leaning towards music. The point of view of the well-to-do country folk is given when she goes for a short rest to the home of a forester and his wife at Schuppenfelde. The artistic set is represented by her violin teacher, Kloster, who seems to stand “for fearlessness, for freedom, for beauty, for all the great things,” but is silenced when the government “chokes him with the Order of the Red Eagle, First class.” When war comes, Christine’s situation becomes impossible and she starts to join her mother in Switzerland, but contracts pneumonia on the way and dies in a hospital at Stuttgart.
“In style and feeling ‘Christine’ reminds one strongly of ‘Fräulein Schmidt and Mr Anstruther’ and other works of the Baroness von Arnim.”
“It is not often that a collection of letters intended for no eyes but those of a beloved mother turns out to be an amazingly accurate revelation of the real, hidden nature of a great people. ... To the earnest men and women of the time the book is a state document, to the eager story readers an idyll, to the lover of music a perfect interlude, to any reader an hour’s delight.”
“Whether fact or fiction, they have the ring of truth and spontaneity.”
“They tell a touching story, and give a vivid, but for artistic purposes, somewhat over-emphasized picture of a whole nation hypnotized by one man.”
“The doubt as to the legitimacy of the letters comes when one reads the initial one, which, like all first letters in epistolary novels, retails to the ostensible recipient all the facts the reader needs to know. And as one reads on, the natural development of events, the study of the actions and reactions of different classes of Germans to war and then to the war, no less than the fluency of the style, seem to indicate that ‘Christine’ is a clever, interesting, but fabricated, narrative.”
“If the volume is indeed what it purports to be—it is a document as significant as any which the war has yet furnished. For, on this assumption, it goes far to wipe out the distinction gladly made by many between the attitude of the German people and that of the German government towards the possibility of a world war. Provided the letters are genuine, they leave little doubt that the great middle class in Germany ardently desired, even before the Sarajevo tragedy, a testing of German arms, and especially with England. If this is not a true history (and we prefer to believe that it is), then we can only deplore the wretched taste of an author who just at this time would dare to confirm our worst suspicions of Germany by an elaborate fiction parading as a document before the fact.”
“Were ‘Christine’ genuine, it would be impressive. Were ‘Christine’ a ‘human document,’ it would confirm many sickening doubts and fears, it would fortify the indictment of a whole people. But whether those doubts and fears are to be sustained or not, ‘Christine’ will not confirm them or even support them because it is a book obviously composed by a skilful writer of fiction, feeding the appetite for hatred, supplying in detail and with subtle art the ‘confirmation’ which it is natural at this date for groveling natures to relish.” F. H.
“A book which is true in essentials though it wears the garb of fiction—so real is it that one is tempted to doubt whether it is fiction at all. ... It would be difficult to find a book in which the state of mind of the German people just before and at the very beginning of the war was pictured so clearly, with so much understanding and convincing detail, as it is in this one. The letters are admirably written, revealing an absolutely charming personality.”
“Doubtless it is based on ‘genuine’ letters. But we can’t help believing that in editing these letters ‘Alice Cholmondeley’s’ knowledge of the needs of fiction was drawn on repeatedly. And we can’t see that the book—even as a ‘document’—has suffered in consequence. The fact part has not been injured by the fiction.”
“It is also odd to find a girl in real life so extraordinarily like one in Mrs Ward’s novels.”
“The chief value of the letters—assuming the correctness of the author’s observations—is the vivid presentation of the German viewpoint and the analysis of the bumptious, modern-minded, all sufficient, yet fear-haunted Germany that plunged the world into a needless war.”
“In one sense, however, it does not matter whether the setting is real or only made up. The matter, in either case, is full of truth. The letters, whether written by an English girl in Berlin before the war, or by a clever story-teller in England during the war, were written by someone who knew Germany and the Germans.”
CHRISTIAN, W. E.Rhymes of the rookies.*$1 Dodd 811 17-25969
The “sunny side of soldier service” is dedicated to Theodore Roosevelt. The rhymes have been called the barrack-room ballads of the American soldier, touching, as they do, upon the little monotonies of life in camp. Aside from the short poems there is a glossary of American and English army slang, words to the army trumpet calls and a few hints for first aid.
CHURCH, ALEXANDER HAMILTON.Manufacturing costs and accounts. diags*$5 McGraw 657 17-3317
“It is the purpose of this book to present the subject of costing in such a way as to bring together the points of view of cost men and of general accountants. ... The book is divided into three parts, the first of which gives a general outline of manufacturing accounts. ... Part 2 opens with a general diagram that, with proper study, makes clear the relationship of the cost records to the main books of account and explains means for unifying the general accounts and the cost system into a consistent whole. The separate features of manufacturing accounts, as outlined in part 1, are then taken up in greater detail. ... Cost system reports and returns for the foreman, superintendent and general executive are suggested and described in part 3. The four chapters making up this part are revised from a series of articles published in the American Machinist in September, 1915.”—Engin News-Rec
“Some question may be raised as to the wisdom of attempting to teach or explain the theory of double entry bookkeeping in the small amount of space allotted to this subject by the author in part one. The book is a notable addition to a library on cost accounting, and to the student who is well grounded in the basic principles of accounting it will prove of considerable value in treating of cost accounts.” A. T. Cameron
“It is sufficiently elementary in treatment to be recommended as a general textbook on accounting and cost keeping for the use of engineers needing instruction in those subjects.” R. R. Potter
“Mature minds ... will find in it suggestion, explanation, and direction obtainable so far as the reviewer knows, nowhere else.” C: B. Going
CHURCHILL, MRS MATILDA (FAULKNER).Letters from my home in India; ed. and arranged by Grace M. Rogers. il*$1.35 (2½c) Doran 16-22790
The author has spent a lifetime in India. She went to that country as a missionary in 1873 immediately after her marriage. The letters cover the period from that time to the present. In the last letter, written from Nova Scotia, the author’s native home, she expresses her deep joy at the prospect of returning to her labors in the mission field.
“The appeal of sincerity is universal. Hence, however divergent, anent foreign missions, may be the views of the readers of Mrs Churchill’s letters, they will be unanimous in respect to the writer’s unselfish and heroic service.”
CHURCHILL, WINSTON.Dwelling-place of light.il*$1.60 (1c) Macmillan 17-25746
Mr Churchill’s latest novel deals with, but makes no attempt to solve, the industrial problem. “The Massachusetts mill city of Hampton ... appears to be Holyoke to a hair, until an industrial crisis involving the I.W.W. and a dynamite plot on the part of the manufacturers convinces us that we are in Lawrence, with its neighboring Andover.” (Nation) The central figure in the story is Janet Bumpus, whose father, “a racial failure who worships the Bumpus genealogy,” is gate-keeper in the Chippering mill. Janet becomes stenographer and confidential secretary to Claude Ditmar, the manager of the mill, but later joins his enemies, the I.W.W. workers who are handling the strike. Janet’s personal relations with Ditmar, with Rolfe, the I.W.W. leader, and with Brooks Insall, the humanitarian author, are recounted with much detail. Lise, Janet’s sister, who has the temperament of a courtesan, and is “all for easy street,” forms a strong contrast to Janet.
“Though we did not close the book satisfied that we had learnt how and where the mind might be sure of being environed by wisdom, we felt that some of the ways and means of approach had been indicated.”
“Somewhat oddly, perhaps, our author is a good deal more chary of laying down the law about industrialism than he was about religion. It almost seems indeed that, three-quarters through his narrative, he gradually withdraws from the problem he has so thoroughly stated, and takes refuge in the personal human story of the girl Janet.” H. W. Boynton
“With ‘The dwelling-place of light’ Mr Churchill begins what appears to be his third epoch as a novelist. It contains something of each of his earlier manners, but it also involves an archaic tale of unrequited love such as hitherto he has never attempted to tell. He combines this with an ultra-modern portrayal of the sordid conditions of life among the poor, and a tedious account of a strike whose details are very obviously drawn from the activities of a notorious labor organization in a New England manufacturing city a few years ago. ... Doubtless the novelist has written it in a mood of conviction and sincerity, but it does not convey that impression.” E. F. E.
“Frankly, we believe that this novel merits severe condemnation. Any man who, at this stage of our national life, with a war on our hands and many internal dangers and problems to cope with, will publish such a defence of the propaganda of syndicalism and mob-rule, deserves a reprimand.”
“He is apparently trying to show Theodore Dreiser the high honor of imitation. He has not Dreiser’s savage equipment, and lacks the ponderous sledge-hammer stroke that makes its effect by heavy iteration of details. He lacks, too, the evident sincerity of Dreiser, who, however unpleasant he may be, is always unmistakably in earnest. Mr Churchill is a sheep in wolf’s clothing, and the costume suits him not at all.”
“To the reader of Mr Churchill’s new novel, bewildered and curious at such long-continued philosophizing and analyzing of apparently ordinary characters, will suddenly come a conviction that, under an apparent sameness, there is something entirely new, something intensely vital.”
“Mr Churchill has rendered with extraordinary breadth and sympathy the New England manufacturing city, with its enterprise and its squalor, its huge industrial ‘plants’ driving always remorselessly for increased dividends, its polyglot hordes kept within bounds, for the most part, by the slender but steely filaments of necessity. Claude Ditmar, manager of the Chippering mill, is a striking portrait of the successful American. ... One closes the record with the impression that, as Mr Churchill has solved Janet’s knot by cutting it, he is fain to dispose of the industrial problem by retiring from it, as Janet has done, to some kindlier, mellower atmosphere.”
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
“Mr Churchill will never escape from gentility. He has achieved his position as its favorite interpreter. But the vitality shown in the ‘Dwelling-place of light’ proves how persistent is his faith in its tenets. He can make a place for the I.W.W. in his tradition rather than give up an American mill or an American girl.” F. H.
“The picturing part of the book is an excellent performance, but the preachment of the after effects of freedom in love, and against socialistic and syndicalistic ideas, smacks of that mid-McKinleyan conservatism and prudery out of whose somber shadows America has stepped, for once and for all.” Clement Wood
“He has never hitherto depicted a woman character with quite so much insight, skill, and surety as he portrays Janet Bumpus. ... It is a pleasure to bear witness to the finer, truer taste with which Mr Churchill now writes. Scarcely anywhere in the book does one find any of those occasional lapses which offended so much in his earlier work. But this does not hold true of the ending of the story. Not since the deathbed of Little Eva has there been anything more banal than the last pages of this novel.”
“Mr Churchill is not afraid to present life as it is, and that with unsparing frankness, but also with a spirit of idealism and desire for future national and social advance.”
“One feels that the straight and logical working out of the plot has been distorted in order to furnish the author with vehicle for some of his own social theories. This, however, does not rob the final tragedy of its poignancy, nor detract from the merit of the masterly analysis of a certain type of feminine temperament embodied in Janet.” F: T. Cooper
“Mr Winston Churchill has been moved to picture the rapidly changing conditions of American social and industrial life in a story of great earnestness and power.”
“It is with thanksgiving that the serious English reader hails the work of those American authors—a select few—whose mental standpoint differs little from his own. Of these writers, sprung from the old American stock, our near relations, Mr Winston Churchill is perhaps the nearest to us. His point of view is indistinguishable from that of a well-educated and large-minded Englishman, and his language is, with a few comprehensible variants, our own.In the course of the story we get a wonderfully clear impression of the heterogeneous mob of workers in an American manufacturing town; and of the dismay with which the old American regards these hordes of foreigners.”
“In his plot Mr Churchill is less successful than usual. He has evidently taken great pains with Janet’s complex personality; but though every woman, and every man too, may be a bundle of inconsistencies, a heroine, to be credible and sympathetic, must have a more definite character than she seems to possess.”
“Recently we had the melancholy spectacle of the gifted Mr Galsworthy floundering in the miasma of sex, and now comes Winston Churchill with a story which treads dangerously near the distressing phases of the same theme. There is doubt whether Mr Churchill is marking time, or entering a new epoch in his literary life. For his own well-being, it is to be hoped that the former is the case, for, notwithstanding abundant evidences of his graceful narrative style and ability at vivid portraiture of character, the story adds little, if anything to his achievements.”
“It is a long book and closely thought out; but it is always interesting to read, because Mr Winston Churchill writes with a discernment which is based on knowledge.”
CLADEL, JUDITH, comp.Rodin: the man and his art; with leaves from his notebook; tr. by S. K. Star; with introd. by J. Huneker. il*$5 Century 17-29347
“Mr Huneker opens the book with an introduction in which he says practically all that need be said of Rodin. He tells us in a few paragraphs what is significant in his career; that he mastered the technique of his art by the sweat of his brow, working for other sculptors as an anonym, that he worked for the Sevres porcelain works, [etc]. ... In the biographical chapters the events of Rodin’s life are elaborated and a reasonable perspective is kept, bringing into relief the important moments [of his career]. ... The pages devoted to Rodin’s own notes cover a wide field of comment. Throughout he raises a hymn to work. ... Besides these comments, written from the intense interest of the artist in the reasons and sources of what he observes, there are other notes that are casual or lyric as the spirit prompts.” (N Y Times) “The text is illustrated by about forty beautiful photographs of Rodin’s work.” (A L A Bkl)
Reviewed by Kenyon Cox
“Much of the text is touched by the generous but blighting spirit of special pleading and resentment against criticism of Rodin, but biographical information is given of the kind that alone is important in the case of an artist; and the quotations from the note-books have the great value of original and direct expressions upon a subject thoroughly known and deeply felt.”
CLAPHAM, CHARLES BLANCHARD.Arithmetic for engineers. (Directly-useful technical ser.) il*$3 Dutton 620.8 17-14150
“This is a comprehensive, practical treatment of the most elementary arts of mathematics, including simple algebra, mensuration, logarithms, graphs and the slide rule. It is written for students of most limited training; in fact, in the endeavor to make all points perfectly clear to this class of readers the explanations and practical examples are given with most comprehensive care.”—Engin Rec
“The most important feature of the text is the use of at least one practical example to illustrate every principle or procedure described. This results in a fully illustrated volume, filled with stimulating exercises using engineering subjects, presented in a satisfactory form typographically. It should be emphasized, however, that the text is written for elementary students and is in no sense a handbook for reference.”
“The clear detail of the work should commend it wherever a text or home study is desired.”
“Author is lecturer in engineering and elementary mathematics, University of London.”
CLARK, ALEXANDER GRAHAM.Text book on motor car engineering. 2v v 2 il*$3 Van Nostrand 629.2
v 2Design.
Volume 1 dealing with Construction was published in 1912. The subject matter of the present volume is based on the author’s lectures to students in the Polytechnic, London, and it is intended “for the use of engineers, designers, draughtsmen, students and others whose work entails a knowledge of design.” The illustrations number over sixty and there are also numerous tables.
“We cannot praise too highly the clearness of diction and simplicity of expression which prevail throughout the work. Were it not for the illustrations, we should have been at some trouble to find any cause for criticism of the work at all. ... A little more discrimination in regard to the scale of the drawings as reproduced, and the preparation of an entirely new set of half-tones from original photographs, would have enhanced the value of the book to a degree which would be out of all proportion to the additional expenditure involved.”
CLARK, BARRETT HARPER.How to produce amateur plays.*$1.50 Little 792 17-15178
“A practical handbook whose aim is to demonstrate how dramatic pieces can be produced in an inexpensive, artistic and effective manner. Discussions of the choice of play and cast are followed by three chapters on rehearsing, with detailed consideration of the stage, lighting, scenery and costumes. Selective lists of amateur plays are added. The appendices include a statement on the workings of copyright and royalty and a note on make-up embodied in an article by Miss Grace Griswold. Mr Clark is qualified to discuss his subject and does so in a lucid manner that makes his instructions clear and comprehensible.”—Springf’d Republican
“Covers much the same ground as Taylor but is more direct in method, has a chapter on lighting, and is illustrated both with diagrams and photographs.”
“Such a handbook as Mr Clark’s has often been called for. Its teaching is practical and its doctrine admirable.” Algernon Tassin
CLARK, BARRETT HARPER, ed. Masterpieces of modern Spanish drama; tr. from the Spanish and Catalan.*$2 Duffield 862 17-8763
The three plays presented in this book are “The great Galeoto,” by José Echegaray; “The duchess of San Quentin,” by Benito Pérez-Galdós; and “Daniela,” by Angel Guimerá. The first and third have appeared in English in earlier translations, the third under the title “La pecadora.” A biographical sketch of the author precedes each play. In his preface Mr Clark says, “As may be seen after a cursoryreading of the three plays contained in this collection, the Spanish drama of to-day cannot easily be summed up in a few words; the attempt here made is largely with a view to showing something of the genius of a nation whose dramatic products have as yet scarcely begun to receive the attention they so well deserve.”
“Good translations.”
“Echegaray’s ‘The great Galeoto’ is already known through previous translations and public readings; ‘The duchess of San Quentin,’ by Galdós, seems a little facile, theatrical, and old-fashioned. ... Guimerá’s ‘Daniela’ alone, translated from the Catalan by John Garrett Underhill, comes to us with all the force of a new sensation, and this by virtue of the profound and tragic poetry of its theme. ... It is of the great order.”
“The splendid technique shown in the structure and dialogue of these Spanish dramas is an answer to the slovenly and ill-fitting constructors of plays in other countries. One learns that correctness and certainty of emphasis are not altogether lost arts in the theatre, and one wishes good fortune to the influence of these Spanish playwrights.”
“Should have a hearty welcome from the public. ... By some slight oversight, Mr Barrett Clark, who has edited the plays and written a most agreeable introduction, states that only ‘The great Galeoto’ has been previously given an English translation. An excellent version of ‘Daniela,’ rather freely translated by Wallace Gillpatrick, was included among the publications of the Hispanic society (Putnam) in 1916.”
CLARK, CHARLES EDGAR.My fifty years in the navy. il*$2.50 (3½c) Little 17-28674
Rear-Admiral Clark was born in Vermont in 1843, graduated from the United States naval academy at Annapolis in 1863, and was retired from the navy in 1905. In this book, he tells the story of his public life up to the time of his retirement. During the Civil war, he served on board the “Ossipee” in the West Gulf blockading squadron for nearly two years, taking an active part in the battle of Mobile bay. In the Spanish-American war, he commanded the “Oregon” on her memorable trip around the Horn to play her part in the battle of Santiago, July 3, 1898. Some thirty pages of chapter twelve are devoted to a log of the “Oregon” as written by an unlettered sailor, who was one of her crew. The addenda include diagrams showing the positions of the American and Spanish ships at the battle of Santiago. There are three portraits of Rear-Admiral Clark and a number of other illustrations.
“The author is a prince of raconteurs. The style is simple and direct. The book is well made up; the illustrations few, but good; its index fairly complete. It should be read by all who seek to comprehend the spirit of our navy during the transition from sail to steam.”
“A straightforward narrative of interest to all who love the American navy.”
Reviewed by F: T. Cooper
CLARK, FRANCIS EDWARD.[2]In the footsteps of St Paul. il*2 (2c) Putnam 915.69
An account of the life and labors of St Paul in the light of a personal journey to the cities visited by him. The author has gone over and identified the Apostle’s routes of travel thru Tarsus, Jerusalem, Damascus, Antioch, Iconium, Ephesus, Salonica, Athens, Corinth, and a score of other cities. In reconstructing, as far as possible, the physical background and the scenery of St Paul’s labors, the writer makes his activities more real and vivid. The book seeks its audience among Bible students, Sunday school teachers—all who study the Bible for public or private use.
“This book is a boon to many unlikely to have heard of such a masterpiece as Sir William Ramsay’s ‘Paul the traveller and Roman citizen.’”
CLARK, JOHN SCOTT.Study of English and American writers, v 3 $2 Row, Peterson & co. 820 16-16560
v 3The books that have preceded this are “A study of English prose writers” and “A study of English and American poets.” In these three volumes the author has developed a “laboratory method” for use in teaching English literature. The preface to this volume says, “The method consists in determining the particular and distinctive features of the writer’s style (using the term style in its widest sense), in sustaining this analysis by a consensus of critical opinion, in illustrating the particular characteristics of each writer by carefully selected extracts from his works, and in then requiring the pupil to find, in the works of the writer, parallel illustrations.” About sixty-five authors are included. Professor Clark died before the book was ready for publication and his work has been completed by John Price Odell, professor of English in Occidental college, Los Angeles, California.
“Teachers who have not become familiar with the methods of these volumes have missed valuable training.” G: Sherburn
CLARK, JOHN SPENCER.Life and letters of John Fiske. 2v il*$7.50 Houghton 17-27754
“This is the long-awaited official life of the most eminent and the most interesting of later American historians, the work of one of John Fiske’s lifelong friends, who was associated with him in his philosophical studies, and as a member of the publishing house of James R. Osgood & Co. Mr Fiske’s career was a crowded one, and Mr Clark was in touch with it at every point. He tells the story of the famous historian’s New England boyhood, his early literary struggles, his close association with the famous Darwin-Huxley-Spencer group, his life as a lecturer on American history, his friendships, and his contributions to philosophy and literature.”—Lit D
“Mr Clark’s two-volume life shows just why such rich quality of thought and variety of knowledge filled to overflowing all that John Fiske wrote and why he was able to present his great stores to his readers with never failing clarity, simplicity, and impressiveness.” F. F. Kelly
“The story of John Fiske’s life is told by Mr Clark by means of numerous letters with connecting links of a narrative which is frequently verbosely labored and repetitious. It succeeds in giving, however, a faithful account of a notable career and remarkable intellectual achievements, although little revelation is made of the personality of the man.” E. F. E.
“No book of more general interest to a thoughtful reader is likely to appear in a long time; certainly no book presenting a more engaging personality.”
“These two imposing volumes and their subject are mutually worthy of each other. If one is tempted to criticize the amount of space given to the childhood and youth of young Fiske, he soon learns that the subject is worthy of it.”
“A wealth of personal letters and memoranda has been skilfully utilized, and reveals in attractive light the scope of Fiske’s intellectual activities and the warmth of his friendships. Rarely has the home life of a man of letters shown itself possessed of greater simplicity or sincerity than these pages display. In all these respects the work is an addition of permanent value to American biography. As a piece of constructive criticism, on the other hand, Mr Clark’s work is somewhat less satisfactory.”
“His letters to his family [from England], from which Mr Clark makes liberal quotation, afford some of the most graphic and interesting portraitures of the famous people of that day we have had from any source. ... But, interesting as these portraits are, they should not obscure the story of Fiske’s remarkable career, which Mr Clark has told with full detail and with a richness of background and vividness of color that make it one of the notable books of the year and one of the most notable of American biographies.”
“Mr Clark has produced a faithful, comprehensive account of John Fiske’s life. The reader would gladly spare one or two of the author’s mannerisms. But the book, as a whole, is concrete and readable, and there is no emphasis on questions of philosophy beyond the point to which the average reader will care to go.”
CLARK, KEITH.Spell of Scotland.il*$2.50 Page 914.1 16-23814
“This is one of the interesting ‘Spell’ series. Like its predecessors, it unites description with reminiscences of travel and appreciation of famous sights, antiquities, and landscape beauties of the country it treats.” (Outlook) “The chief attractions of Scotland are agreeably brought to our attention in the eleven chapters of the book, even the Hebrides, but apparently not the Orkney or the Shetland Islands, being included in the author’s tour of the kingdom.” (Dial)
“It is well illustrated, has a good map, and has a four-page bibliography. More expensive than Griffis but in the same ‘popular’ travel-book style.”
“Though Miss Clark succeeded admirably in ‘The spell of Spain,’ she could hardly have hoped to achieve there what she has in her second book. For she is Scotch of the Scotch herself, and here every page of her writing breathes an instinctive and inherent sympathy and understanding. To ‘see’ Scotland through such eyes is indeed to feel its spell. To the Catholic reader Miss Clark’s book cannot fail to recommend itself with a very special appeal.”
“Literary allusion and quotation, with a sufficiency of history for popular liking, enrich the descriptions, which are made more vivid still by frequent illustrations from photographs and other sources and eight colored plates of much beauty.”
CLARK, VICTOR SELDEN.History of manufactures in the United States, 1607-1860; with an introd. note by H: W. Farnam. il pa $6 Carnegie inst. 330.9 16-15333
“This is the second of the contributions to American economic history which have been written under the auspices of the Carnegie institution of Washington. ... Of the twenty chapters in the present volume that deal with the history of manufactures, nine cover the colonial period, eleven the period between 1790 and 1860. Dr Clark first describes the colonial environment, British policy, and colonial legislation affecting manufactures. ... The spread of the factory system Dr Clark attributes quite as much to the growth of markets in the South as to the invention of new processes and machines. The effects of tariff legislation, of the development of better transportation agencies, and of a more plentiful supply of capital and labor are treated in successive chapters, as are the technical progress, the organization, and the general distribution of manufactures. Some valuable appendices conclude the volume. ... A second volume, covering the period from 1860 to date, is promised.”—Ann Am Acad
“To say that Mr Clark’s book is the best in its field would be faint praise, for there is only one other that covers the field, and that was written nearly sixty years ago. ... Mr Clark’s book is singularly free from bias or prejudice. ... The quantity of facts assembled in this framework is very great, for the writer’s researches have been wide and laborious. But they are not always interpreted, and sometimes several pages of specific facts are given that have little apparent significance. ... It is far from being the ‘final word’ on this subject, but it is the most considerable contribution to it that has ever been made.” T: W. Page
“The volume under review may safely be proclaimed one of the most important and valuable contributions to the economic history of the United States which has appeared in recent years. ... The value of the work is in no small degree to be attributed to the broad interpretation and the method of treatment adopted by the author. ... In the main the conclusions of the author, backed up as they are by scholarly method and a broader basis of fact than has heretofore been available, will, it is believed, be accepted. Concerning a few of the more general statements the reviewer, however, would be inclined to raise a question. ... The index is adequate and the bibliography comprehensive.” C. W. Wright
“One is inevitably led to compare this work with that of Bishop, which covers practically the same ground and for so long has been the single authority covering the whole field. Dr Clark’s book is more analytical and endeavors to explain the movements and forces of each period, and not merely to chronicle facts. It moreover takes up phases of the subject not touched upon by Bishop, such as organization. All in all it constitutes an admirable economic history of manufactures.” E. L. Bogart
“The chief contribution of the work is in details rather than in principles. ... Not all of the generalizations are substantiated. ... The allotment of space and the distribution of emphasis are open to serious criticism. ... The history of the development of industrial organization is inadequate. ... The section on the factory system (pp. 448-55) is incomplete. ... Since the book was apparently written to trace the volume of growth rather than to analyze the causes for the development of new forms of industrial organization, one ends a critical reading of the volume with a feeling of uncertainty as to how much valuable evidence on the latter subject may have been overlooked.” M. T. Copeland
CLARKE, GEORGE HERBERT, ed.Treasury of war poetry, 1914-1917.*$1.25 Houghton 821.08 17-25441
The publishers state that this collection of about 130 British and American poems of the world war “contains important poems by important authors which have not been accessible to other anthologies.” They are arranged under the headings: America; England and America; England; France; Belgium; Russia and America; Italy; Australia; Canada; Liège; Verdun; Oxford; Reflections; Incidents and aspects; Poets militant; Auxiliaries; Keeping the seas; The wounded; The fallen; Women and the war. The editor’s policy “has been humanly hospitable, rather than academically critical, especially in the case of some of the verses written by soldiers at the front.” (Introd.) There are indexes of first lines, of titles and of authors;Occasional notes, giving brief biographies of some of the poets; and an introduction by the editor.
“On the whole Professor Clarke has been remarkably successful in sifting the grain from the chaff.”
“Many of the poems have been inaccessible to other anthologists, and Professor Clarke has provided illuminating notes to the whole collection.”
“Practically all of the best and finest things the war has inspired are included in the collection, and that means at least a little of the finest verse that has been written in English for some years. The indexes are so well contrived that they deserve a word of praise.”
“While there may be individual differences of opinion regarding the inclusion or omission of particular poems, no one will find fault with Prof. Clarke’s general principle of selection.”
CLAY, OLIVER.Heroes of the American revolution. il*$1.25 (2c) Duffield 973.3 16-25270
The title of this book is somewhat misleading. It suggests a book of biographies. What the author has written is a series of chapters bearing on the Revolution and devoted to groups and localities rather than to individuals. Contents: The men of Massachusetts; The royal province of Virginia; The part New York played; The rally of the patriots; The writer of our Declaration of independence; The birth of the American army; Our foreign allies; The shadows of the Revolution; Daughters of liberty; Our revolutionary navy; From Lexington to Yorktown; Our commander-in-chief.
“Would appear to be fitted for use in secondary school instruction. ... It is a good book to put into the hands of American boys, whether in or out of school.”
“The author’s method undoubtedly has its advantages in focusing the reader’s attention on the movements of men in the mass rather than on the development of sporadic careers.”
“While primarily intended for young persons, grown-ups will also find much of interest in ‘Heroes of the American revolution.’”
CLEGHORN, SARAH NORCLIFFE.Portraits and protests.*$1.25 Holt 811 17-23579
The poems in this volume are arranged under the four headings: Portraits; Of country places and the simple heart; Of time and immortality; Protests.
“She belongs as thoroughly to New England as does Robert Frost himself, but she sees New England in softer, more gentle garb than he sees it. ... Though people do not move her to the biting word and we feel in her portraits a charity of outlook, it would be doing faint justice to Miss Cleghorn not to note the way in which her lines can flay, when she is roused by injustice or cruelty.” D. L. M.
“While the verses have all a distinct, personal accent, they fail adequately to convey emotion. This is partly due to the fact that the author clings to lilting measures, intelligible for ‘Margerita singing ballads,’ but not for ‘Jane Addams,’ that she uses inversion frequently, permits her metrical feet to stumble, and has a rather tiresome fondness for flounces and roundabouts. The lack of intensity is perhaps also due to Miss Cleghorn’s austere passion for New England.”
“Many of her poems of protest, such as ‘Comrade Jesus,’ have been reprinted in all radical periodicals and anthologies. Others, such as ‘Peace hath her Belgiums,’ ‘The incentive’ and ‘One hundred thousand more’ deserve to be as widely known. ... In the earlier sections of the book there are some lovely things. ‘Come, Captain Age,’ ‘Vermont’ and a few others stand out. But too often the verses seem too chiselled, too cautiously contrived, too much a product of reading rather than life, which either make the result unimportant, or incoherent.” Clement Wood
“The war intrudes itself only momentarily to elicit the ‘protest’ which seems to come instinctively from the ‘intellectual’ in an era of patriotism.’ ... ‘The poltroon’ and ‘Comrade Jesus’ ought to receive the chuckles of delight and the mutterings of wrath that they were doubtless expected to call forth. ... ‘Portraits and protests’ gives the impression that it ought to be an anthology combining the work of George Woodberry, the Masses and Franklin P. Adams.”
CLEMENS, SAMUEL LANGHORNE (MARK TWAIN, pseud.).Mark Twain’s letters; ed. by Albert Bigelow Paine. 2v*$4 (1½c) Harper 17-30756