Uniform in binding and in number of volumes with Paine’s biography of Mark Twain. A brief sketch of Mr Clemens’s life prefaces the first volume, while thruout both volumes is editorial comment which amplifies references in the letters and keeps the chronology clear. The letters reveal the great American humorist at his best, and as the personalities of the recipients of his letters are so different and the observations and interests of the writer so varied the reader enjoys a wide range of reactions. The first letters were written from New York and Philadelphia in 1853 when Mr Clemens left his home in Hannibal, Mo., and started out to make his fortune. Among the largest number to any one person are the letters to W. D. Howells, which are intimate and lasting testimonials of the great friendship between the two men.
Reviewed by Archibald Henderson
“Few writers made their letters so thoroughly a part of themselves as did Mark Twain. They are as characteristic an expression of his individuality, of his manner, of his habit of thought and tricks of speech, as are the pages he wrote for the immediate eye of the public. His letters are an unending pleasure.”
“It goes without saying that he portrays himself in this work in every mood, and he had them all. One of the most significant features of the collection is the light it throws on the creation of his books.”
“The work, as done by Mr Paine, is not only a contribution to Mark Twain literature, but it is, likewise, a notable example of the way in which letters should be compiled so as to reflect the true character of the person who wrote them.”
“[Mr Paine’s] running commentary [is] always modest, always unobtrusive, and always confined to the strictly necessary explanations. In other words, he has let Mark Twain, the letter writer, speak for himself. It is difficult to see how this work could have been done more discreetly or more tactfully. These letters are never composed with any thought of publication; they are never labored; they are always easy; they are sometimes even free and easy. They are the spontaneous expression of the man himself as he happened to be at the moment of taking pen in hand. They are highly individual; they abound in whim, in humorous exaggeration, in imagination, and in energy. They are delightful reading, in themselves in the first place, and in the second as revelations of the character and the characteristics of MrSamuel L. Clemens, who was in some ways a different person from Mr Mark Twain known to all the world.”
“The letters are well edited, with such historical comment as is needed to make them understandable and no more.”
“His is one of the few figures that the whole nation has learned to love, and one that has become an enduring part of our best traditions. It has been only too often the unfortunate office of intimate letters to shatter similar illusions. So what greater tribute can be paid to the present ones than to say that they serve simply to enhance the richness, the tenderness, the whimsical tolerance of the Mark Twain we have learned to know in his books.” F: T. Cooper
“This collection of his letters is a revelation of his growth as a writer and of the main-springs of his conduct.”
“Albert Bigelow Paine is the editor of these volumes and a most loving interpreter of Mark Twain he proves to be. He is a little sweeping in his judgments, but he supplies adequately the information which enables the reader to understand the occasion of any letter. ... The feeling in the book, wherever it crops out, is as unaffected as the humor, and seemingly expressed with the same unconsciousness. The offhand nature of this writing is peculiarly American. The style is undress without being excessively colloquial, vigorous and workmanlike, and, above all, rich with meaning and savor.”
CLEMENS, SAMUEL LANGHORNE (MARK TWAIN, pseud.).What is man? and other essays.il*$1.75 Harper 814 17-13964
A collection of miscellaneous essays and papers, some of them reprinted from magazines, others appearing in print for the first time. “What is man?” the longest piece in the volume, is Mark Twain’s cold and cutting analysis of the human race. It is in the form of colloquy between an old man and a young man, the elder arguing that man is a machine and nothing more. This is followed by the touching memorial to Jean Clemens, who died shortly before her father. Several of the papers are sketches from the author’s travels abroad. One is an appreciation of William Dean Howells. Other miscellaneous essays are: English as she is taught; A simplified alphabet; Concerning tobacco; The bee; Taming the bicycle; Is Shakespeare dead?
“Wherever in these pages he is humorous, Mark Twain is at his best; wherever he is serious and in a disputative mood he causes his readers to long for the creator of the Jumping frog, and for the traveller who made his historic journey through Europe in company with a party of merry Innocents.” E. F. E.
“An aftermath of sixteen papers representing the intellectual byplay of a big restless mind. Nothing human is foreign to this ranging curiosity.”
CLEMENTS, FREDERIC EDWARD.Plant succession. pa $5 Carnegie inst. 581.1 16-17349
“For nearly a quarter of a century the author of this large and attractive volume has been investigating numerous problems in the field of phyto-ecology and related subjects as he has found them in the great out-of-door laboratory of western United States. This area is particularly stimulating for such work since so many of the natural life phenomena have been preserved to the present in nearly their original conditions. ... The reader must understand that this work is not in any sense a treatise on general plant ecology. It represents a careful examination of the facts and principles of plant succession, an analysis of the development of vegetation in the past as well as the present, together with a digest of the methods for investigating successional phenomena.” (Science) Professor Clements has recently resigned from the faculty of the University of Minnesota to become a member of the staff of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. He is the author, with Mrs Clements, of “Rocky Mountain flowers.”
“This latest work from Clements will attract the attention of botanists and biologists in general throughout the world. ... The bibliography of nearly a thousand titles, the most of which have been abstracted or noted somewhere in the text, is still another valuable part of the book. This is probably the most nearly complete collection of titles on succession and related phenomena available. It may be said, after securing a bird’s-eye view of the book as a whole, that Clements’s monograph presents an invaluable summary of our knowledge of plant succession and that it must become at once the indispensable reference and guide for the student of vegetative cycles in all parts of the world.” R. J. Pool
CLENNELL, WALTER JAMES.Historical development of religion in China.*$2 Dutton 299 (Eng ed 17-17530)
“This book is an expansion of an address delivered on Dec. 8 and 9, 1913, to the students of the Caermarthen Presbyterian college. The relation between religion and history in China, and the attitude of the Chinese towards religious beliefs and practices, are set before the reader, together with accounts of Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism in China, and Lamaism, the modern transformation of China, and other matters of interest.”—Ath
“A sane and readable account of Chinese culture by a British consul. ... Mr Clennell succeeds in putting comprehensive statements in a lucid way, and any one who performs the easy task of following them is already equipped with some understanding of the creeds of China.”
“Scholarly, thoughtful, suggestive, reverent, the work before us is one of the very best of its kind.” I. C. Hannah
CLIFTON-SHELTON, ALFRED.On the road from Mons. map and diags.*$1.25 Dutton 940.91 (Eng ed A17-707)
“The work in the field of the English A. S. C. (Army service corps) is a branch of the service little known to Americans. Captain Clifton-Shelton, who was with the supply train of the Nineteenth brigade, gives, in ‘On the road from Mons,’ an account of the peril and the obstacles encountered by his immediate command during the historic retreat from Mons and the forward movement to the line of the Aisne.”—Boston Transcript
“Graphic, and at times humorous, account.”
COAN, CLARENCE ARTHUR.Fragrant note book; romance and legend of the flower garden and the bye-way. il*$2.50 Putnam 716 17-14230
Mr Coan tells us “how to know the flowers, intimately and lovingly, but not at all scientifically and botanically. ... Poetry, both original and selected, profusely sprinkles the pages. ... Delicately tinted decorations cover the printed text.”—Dial
“To Mr Coan, his garden, through whose gate the Dumb Porter leads us, is a place of delight, of peace and ease of heart. And its freedom is given generously to us.”
“In its content there is, as the author warns us, ‘of horticulture not a word.’ ... The appearance of the volume is handsome, and it will doubtless figure as a gift-book.”
“Delightfully original.”
“Precisely the sort of sentimental concoction devoted to ‘Romance and legend of the flower garden and the bye-way’ that is irresistibly alluring to a certain part of the American public.”
COBB, IRVIN SHREWSBURY.“Speaking of Prussians—”il*50c (4c) Doran 940.91 17-14799
The author was in Europe as a war correspondent early in the war. At that time he was a neutral, representing a neutral nation. He now says, “I am not a neutral any more. I am an American! My country has clashed with a foreign power, and the enemy of my country is my enemy and deserving of no more consideration at my hands than he deserves at the hands of my country. Moreover, I aim to try to show, as we go along, that any consideration of mercy or charity or magnanimity which we might show him would be misinterpreted. Being what he is he would not understand it.” The essay is reprinted from the Saturday Evening Post.
“He is brief, uncompromising, but he is also fair-minded. He defends the German soldier from many charges, and thereby makes his arraignment of the German government and military system the more convincing.”
“He was one of five experienced newspaper men who signed a statement of inability to discover good evidence of German atrocities in Belgium at that time. For such sentiments Mr Cobb was charged with being a German sympathizer when he was merely an open-minded reporter. But if any doubt exists in anybody’s mind as to the real state of the author’s mind, the reading of his little book will rapidly dispose of it.”
COBB, IRVIN SHREWSBURY.Those times and these.*$1.35 (1½c) Doran 17-16321
Ten of Irvin S. Cobb’s stories are collected in the volume. In several of them he returns to his native Kentucky and to Judge Priest. The first story, “‘Ex-fightin’ Billy,” is a tale of Judge Priest’s youth, of the time at the close of the war, when, refusing to be reconstructed, he had tried to become a citizen of Mexico. One of the later stories relates an episode of the present war. Contents: Ex-fightin’ Billy; And there was light; Mr Felsburg gets even; The garb of men; The cure for lonesomeness; The family tree; Hark! from the tombs; Cinnamon seed and sandy bottom; A kiss for kindness; Life among the abandoned farmers.
“Every story is well written, and, as Judge Priest would say, ‘is as clean as a hound’s tooth.’”
“These tales belong more to the surface of things than did certain of the earlier ones; they are less dramatic and less gripping. Nevertheless, they are very well worth reading, even Mr Cobb’s worst being above the best of the great majority of short-story writers. And the volume closes with a bit of satirical foolery which is thoroughly joyous and amusing.”
“In many respects these stories do not measure up to those going before. They are reminiscent and genial as of yore, but their insistently reminiscent qualities give them something of a superficial and not infrequently, forced tone.”
COBBETT, LOUIS.Causes of tuberculosis; together with some account of the prevalence and distribution of the disease. (Cambridge public health ser.) il*$6.50 Putnam 616.2 (Eng ed SG17-322)
Dr Cobbett is lecturer in pathology at Cambridge university and an authority on the subject whereof he treats. Some of the many important problems discussed by him are: “(1) the causes of the steady decline of consumption, since 1863, in spite of the growth of cities and of industrialism; (2) the fact that most of us, without any memory or reminder of it, have at some time or other been infected; (3) the question how far this infection confers immunity against re-infection; (4) the fact, or strong probability, that the risk of infection depends on the dosage—i.e., that we can deal with small doses of the bacilli, but not with ‘massive’ doses.” (Spec)
“His experience of experimental work and its pitfalls, and his acquaintance with the difficulties that face the practical sanitarian and those who are engaged in the treatment of tuberculous patients, enable him to bring to bear a keen critical faculty on the experience and experiments of other investigators, with the result that the work now before us may be looked upon as a ‘classic,’ and one that for years to come will, probably, remain the reference-book for those interested in tuberculosis.”
“Dr Cobbett’s is one of the very best books of its kind, alike in its wealth of knowledge, in its clear, quiet style; its orderly marshalling of the legions of references, and the exact drawing of conclusions so inevitable that they seem to come of themselves. ... And it is for everybody to read who has had a grounding in the principles of bacteriology.”
COBERN, CAMDEN MCCORMACK.New archeological discoveries. il*$3 Funk 225 17-15313
The author, who holds the chair of English Bible and philosophy of religion at Allegheny college, Pa., tells us that he is the first to attempt “to give a summary of all the discoveries in all lands, so far as these in any important way have cast light upon the New Testament writings or the life of the primitive church”; that the mass of new information utilized by him comes from the recently unearthed Greek and Coptic papyri; that “many of the texts are here translated into English for the first time”; and that his “semi-popular summary of important results” has been written “primarily for Bible teachers and ministers.” Dr Cobern shows that the papyri recently discovered in Egypt “prove conclusively that the Greek in which the New Testament was written was ... the vernacular of the day,” (Lit D) and that this “has led, not only to a rewriting of the New Testament grammars and lexicons but to a general recasting of very many phrases in the gospels and epistles, some of which were formerly obscure.” (Boston Transcript) A list of Scripture texts, illustrated is given on pages 687-8. There is an introduction by Edouard Naville, professor of archeology at the University of Geneva.
“Dr Cobern has produced a monumental work, in which he has brought down even to the opening of the current calendar year the richest and fullest knowledge which sheds light upon hitherto dark places in the Bible story.” E. J. C.
“The fact that Dr Naville has written the introduction is sufficient guarantee of the scholarly character of Dr Cobern’s work. The present volume will prove of the greatest utility to the large number of readers who look for just such a ready reference to the scientific discoveries of modern times, and scholars, too, with large libraries at their disposal, will welcome the main facts presented in this condensed form.”
“While filled with illuminating material that will be prized by scholars and Bible students, it is written in a style so popular as to make a strong appeal to every book-lover. ... The illustrations are exceptionally fine, showing numerous portrait busts, recently excavated temples, and other buildings, frescoes, sarcophagi, etc.”
“Dr Cobern brings the life and the customs of the early Christians before us in astonishing detail.”
“It is manifestly unfair to write what purports to be a scientific study and to twist facts and give far-fetched interpretations of facts to fit a preconceived system of ideas. Camden M. Cobern has written a compendious work in which he is carried much too far by prepossessions. He at times makes astonishing statements and neglects to give the slightest authority or evidence therefor.”
COCHRAN, MRS EVE OWEN.Wilderness rose; a play in four acts especially adapted for the use of American historical societies and chapters of the D. A. R. (American dramatists ser.)*$1 Badger, R: G. 812 17-10977
A pageant-play designed for amateur production. It tells a story of colonial New England in the days of the witchcraft delusion. Naomi Dickinson, a young girl, is accused of witchcraft. She flees from her native village and finds shelter with friendly Indians. Repentance on the part of the woman who had cast suspicion upon her and the efforts of her lover to find her result in her return and a happy ending.
COCKE, SARAH COBB (JOHNSON) (MRS LUCIAN HOWARD COCKE).Master of the hills; a tale of the Georgia mountains.*$1.50 Dutton 17-17974
“Mrs Cocke [relates] the adventures of two generations of the old Georgian family of Warner, whose lives are curiously interwoven with those of the family of the sturdy mountaineer, ‘Gray Eagle,’ known to his clan as ‘the Master of the hills.’ The story opens just before the outbreak of the Civil war, when, after finishing their education in Europe, the son and nephew of Judge Warner have returned to the little Georgian university town. ... With them comes the young Marquis de Layne, whose advent brings about an undreamed-of complication involving not only the Warners and their friends, but the family of the mountaineer Gray Eagle.”—Boston Transcript
“The changed conditions in the South, after the war, are well indicated. And although they are presented from a southern point of view, they are free from those mannerisms which often make pictures of the kind valueless. The story is agreeably told, sustaining its quiet interest to the end.”
“The book proves, if it proves anything at all, that an author may be fairly truthful in regard to history, geography, and dialect, and yet completely miss the essential characteristics of a people.”
“To call it unreal is to insult reality. We marvel most at its finding a publisher.” Clement Wood
“The author’s style is poor.”
“The book shows immature workmanship.”
COCROFT, SUSANNA.Growth in silence; the undertone of life. il*$1.50 (5c) Putnam 131 17-25740
A cheerful, demonstrable theory of life underlies these helpful sermonettes. Women who owe Mrs Cocroft a debt of gratitude for demonstrating the way to fuller physical perfection will turn with confidence to what she has to say on the subject of Mental and physical poise, Happiness, Mental atmosphere, Health, Nerve control, Freedom of thought, and kindred themes. The philosophy is a philosophy of optimism which if put into practice develops the harmonies of the soul, and in turn manifest harmony in the body. A book for both men and women.
COESTER, ALFRED LESTER.Literary history of Spanish America.*$2.50 (2c) Macmillan 860 16-18492
For descriptive note seeAnnual for 1916.
“One pays tribute to the author’s labor, and also to his scholarship. In his printing of Spanish names and quotations, he is singularly accurate, only a negligible number of trifling errors having fallen under the reviewer’s eye. ... It may be that, in the course of his long poring over South American writers, and his epitomes of their books, Dr Coester sometimes loses his sense of proportion; is betrayed into calling a poet great because his admiring fellow-countrymen did so. But as a whole he keeps his head and his poise.”
“Mr Coester’s book fills an inestimable place as a guide and counsellor in this otherwise uncharted study.” T: Walsh
“A closing chapter on the contemporary Modernista movement is especially valuable for its appreciation and criticism of the work of the brilliant Nicaraguan lyric poet, Ruben Darío, who died recently. Used in conjunction with the author’s bibliography of Spanish-American literature, published in the Romanic Review, we have here the best available guide, in English, for the novitiate in this field.”
“Devoting some forty pages to what he has called the ‘Colonial period’ of Spanish-American literature, the author exhibits with a wealth of interesting detail the origins of one of the most fascinating of literary epochs. The average reader will here find an unexplored mine of information. He will gain some idea of Spain’s eminence in the field of literature.”
“Dr Coester is a young Harvard man, corresponding member of the Hispanic society of America, and author of a ‘Practical Spanish grammar,’ and kindred text books.”
“Mr Coester gives a chapter to each country. The average reader is surprised to learn that there is a school of realistic novelists in Mexico, which most Americans cannot think of as a literary nation.”
COHEN, ISRAEL.Ruhleben prison camp, il*$2.50 (2½c) Dodd 940.91 (Eng ed 17-18379)
Ruhleben is a race course outside Berlin that is now used as a concentration camp for British civilians. The author was interned there for nineteen months, from November 6, 1914 to June 6, 1916. He says, “In the following pages I have endeavoured to set forth as faithfully as my memory would permit the varied vicissitudes through which I passed from the outbreak of the war down to my arrival in London. I have confined myself as much as possibleto a record of my own experiences and observations, supplemented only to a small extent by the information I gleaned from trustworthy fellow-prisoners.” He writes of: The act of internment; Rules, regimen, and rumours; The segregation of the Jews; Administration, discipline, and punishment; Communal organization; Social amenities and characters; Intellectual activities, etc.
“The experiences related have naturally a good deal in common with those described by Mr Geoffrey Pyke in his book published in February, 1916, but Mr Cohen’s way of meeting troubles and difficulties does not appear to us to have been so commendable.”
“The whole story is told dispassionately and with a charm of manner and power of description that make the recital one of the most vivid and fascinating chapters yet written in the history of the great war.”
“It is owing to Mr Cohen’s faculty of conveying these impressions vividly as well as to his graphic descriptions of external conditions that his book has such great human interest.”
“An accomplished journalist, he has none of the higher gifts of writing which stir and thrill the heart. Rather he has written a sober and comprehensive history which will survive as a permanent document of the war when the brilliant sketches are, perhaps, forgotten. ... The illustrations are well chosen and serve to complete a remarkably full book, so thick with detail that it is somewhat difficult to read.”
“Of all the books so far printed about Ruhleben it is the most complete, though it could not, in the nature of the case, tell all that there is to be told. It has, no doubt, the defects of its qualities. ... One must go elsewhere for a study of the effect of too much barbed wire upon the human mind.”
COHEN, JULIUS HENRY.The law; business or profession?*$2.50 Banks 340 16-23082
“‘The law: business or profession?’ raises and answers the question of the ethics of law practice. Mr Cohen finds the case hopeful. He does not blink the bad reputation which lawyers as a class have gained with the common people, and he does not assert that it is unjustified by facts. But he points out a growing spirit within the bar to cleanse itself of undesirable practitioners, and to keep the law as a profession free from business entanglements and from corruption through financial interests.”—Springf’d Republican
“Mr Cohen writes with earnestness and vigor. His plea for the recognition of the law as a profession and not a business will benefit every lawyer and layman who reads it.”
“It is not to be thought that there is anything local about the book. It is even broader than the nation, many leading countries being searched for cases affording a basis for the principles which control the lawyer’s professional ethics everywhere, and in all times.”
“Sound doctrine for both the profession and the public.”
COIT, STANTON.Is civilization a disease?*$1 (6c) Houghton 302 17-13984
In this essay, presented first at the University of California in the series of Barbara Weinstock lectures on the morals of trade, the author uses the term trade in a broad sense to include our whole system of socialized wealth. Civilization is defined as “the organization of man’s mastery over nature on a basis of self interest,” and modern trade is said to disclose civilization in its acutest form. Civilization, the author points out, is a mushroom growth. It is already beginning to crumble, and will in time be superseded by a new order which is already in process of creation. The title of the little book is suggested by Edward Carpenter’s “Civilization: its cause and cure.”
“These lectures bear the earmarks of shallow thinking, as well as the defacements of fulsome expression.” Archibald Henderson
Reviewed by H. M. Kallen
“If the Barbara Weinstock lectures are to be the vehicle for such wild surmisings as those displayed in ‘Is civilization a disease?’ the founder’s money might have been put to much better uses.”
“Dr Coit is evidently one of those sociological rhetoricians who preach eugenics in season and out of season. Otherwise he might have been graciously willing to discuss the very interesting subject proposed by the foundation of lectures which he was the first to adorn.”
“Dr Coit, in this essay, provides a stupendous idea in tabloid form.” Bruno Lasker
COLE, NORMAN BROWN, and ERNST, CLAYTON H.First aid for boys. il*$1.25 Appleton 614.8 17-14057
“A manual for boy scouts and for others interested in prompt help for the injured and the sick.” (Sub-title) Contents: A handful of signs; What to do; Shock and fainting; A little about the blood and more about bleeding; Sunstroke and heat exhaustion; Concussion, skull fracture, apoplexy, alcoholic intoxication, and epilepsy; Infection and “staphy”; Burns and frostbites; Poisoning; Bandages and carries; Fractures and dislocations; Drowning and artificial respiration; Minor emergencies. There are fifty-one illustrations from drawings by Walt Harris. The book is endorsed by James E. West, chief scout executive of the Boy scouts of America.
“Directions well given and simplified by diagrams.”
“Dr Cole and Mr Ernst have been active workers in the scout movement, and have made their book not only sound technically but adapted psychologically to the interest of the boy reader. ... Similarly, the drawings by Walt Harris reinforce the text accurately and ingeniously.”
COLEMAN, ALGERNON, and LA MESLÉE, A. MARIN.Le soldat américain en France, map*50c Univ. of Chicago press 448 17-22278
A French reader containing “chapters on France, transports, hotels, railroads, manners and customs, food, money, army, etc., with a vocabulary giving the article with all nouns and indicating pronunciation.”—A L A Bkl
“To be used in connection with either of the University of Chicago manuals.”
“For the green student, this little book would be wholly useless, unless studied with a teacher. The figured pronunciation, even with the instructions given would be an unsolvable mystery. ... The verb is the back-bone of a language; but not a hint is given as to the inflections.The chapters that follow the elaborate statement of pronunciation are written in idiomatic French and are a mixture of the commonplace and the valuable.”
COLEMAN, FREDERIC ABERNETHY.With cavalry in the great war; the British trooper in the trench line. il*$1.50 Jacobs 940.91 A17-1461
“A phase of the fighting on the western front, of which we have known little, is covered by Mr Coleman in this personal narrative of the exploits of the British cavalry through the second battle of Ypres. Some of our readers may recall Mr Coleman’s earlier book entitled, ‘From Mons to Ypres with General French.’ The present volume takes up the story where its predecessor left it—with the closing days of 1914.”—R of Rs
Reviewed by C. M. Francis
“Mr Coleman’s book is copiously illustrated with excellent photographic views.”
COLERIDGE, STEPHEN.Evening in my library among the English poets.*$1.25 Lane 821 17-13371
An essay on English poetry, with many quotations. The author says, “I invite the reader to spend an evening in my library, drawing down a volume here and a volume there, following no definite order either of date or subject, guided only by a desire to estimate without prejudice the quality of the verse.” Among the poems selected for quotation are many that are not universally known. Among these are a few of the more exquisite of modern poems. With the radical departures in verse-making, the author has no sympathy.
“This book is rather a personal expression of likes and dislikes in the field of poetry than a work of genuine criticism, that will have an abiding value in one’s own library.”
“The anthology on the whole is fair, and something more than that. It includes poems from little-known authors, which any reader will be glad to have brought to his notice. The book leaves an impression in harmony with its title.”
“A book which definitely assists in the development of literary taste.”
“A very unconventional anthology, interspersed with some candid criticism. The modern apostles of ‘force’ like Mr Masefield, and the late Rupert Brooke, and Francis Thompson in his highly rhetorical mood are sternly reproved. ... For our part, we could wish that Mr Coleridge had not included second-rate modern verse like ‘The rosary,’ and that he had hesitated before asserting that Goldsmith’s ‘Deserted village’ was inspired while Gray’s ‘Elegy’ was not.”
“Some of the poems, too, are worthy of rediscovery and deserve a popularizing of their merits. But most of them are less unfamiliar than Mr Coleridge seems to think.”
“What are the principles that guide Mr Coleridge in choosing selections for our improvement and delight? It is not difficult to discover them. The prize always goes to the poet of finish and scholarship, who observes the laws of prosody and elevates and refines the passions, which is Mr Coleridge observes, the ‘true function of the poet.’ And with this for his standard he moves his poets up and down like boys in a class. ... Enough has been said, perhaps, to show that, though we should not allow Mr Coleridge to choose our new poets for us, he is a very vigilant guardian of the old.”
COLLIN, CHRISTEN CHRISTIAN DREYER.War against war, and the enforcement of peace; introd. by W: Archer.*80c Macmillan 341.1 (Eng ed 17-18476)
“Professor Collin, of Christiania, is one of the most eminent of Norwegian writers. ... In these eleven essays he writes with much force in support of the allied cause, and deals effectively with the utterances on the other side in his own country and in Germany—his view of the future being that ‘universal peace will be secured not by disarmament but by joint armament.’”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
“An excellent statement of our cause by a detached observer. ... Perhaps the most interesting chapter in the book is the essay on Kant’s ‘Perpetual peace.’ Prof. Collin fixes on the ironical fact that it was Kant, a German, who first promulgated the idea of the gradual federation of the free nations of the world into a world-republic.”
“Prof. Christen Christian Collin, of the University of Christiania, is an acknowledged authority upon Greek, Norwegian, French, and English literature, and an ardent sociologist.”
“A very sensible plea for the cause of the Entente Allies.”
“Nearly all of the essays take up the idea of a league of nations as an outcome of the present war whose function it would be to lessen the danger of war in the future and perhaps even prevent its recurrence.”
COLLINS, ARCHIE FREDERICK.Home handy book. il*$1.10 Appleton 680 17-14069
“A compendium of useful things to do around the average house and how to keep it in repair.” (Sub-title) The author advises every man to learn how to do his own repair work on two counts: first, he will save money, second, he will take pride and pleasure in doing things for himself. He writes of: Tools everyone should have; Indoor mechanics; Be your own locksmith; Doing electrical jobs; The amateur plumber; The handy glazier; The furniture repairer; The home decorator; Handy helps for the house; Odds and ends.
“Just the thing for the man who likes to ‘putter around,’ or the growing boy who wishes to make himself handy.”
COLLINS, ARCHIE FREDERICK.Magic of science. il*$1.25 Revell 530 17-19383
“In ‘The magic of science,’ A. Frederick Collins has compiled, largely from manuals of his own writing, a book of scientific amusements which can be performed with simple apparatus. Practical glimpses are provided into the mystery of light, heat, sound, magnetism and electricity, and a successful effort is made to set the experiments in an orderly sequence that should make for the positive instruction of the youthful experimenter. Many of the processes are already familiar, but they lose none of their interest from that fact. There are numerous illustrations.”—Springf’d Republican
“It will interest and spur boys’ curiosity in spite of its unattractive make-up.”
“His latest volume deals with scientific facts, novel and delightful facts many of them, and small boys with average intelligence aged from eleven to fifteen will read it with eagerness.”
“We are sorry for the boy who cannot own a copy of this fascinating book.”
COLLINS, ARCHIE FREDERICK.Money making for boys. il*$1 (2c) Dodd 658 17-31276
Practical money-making schemes for boys in the country, village or city based on the best business ethics. The value to the boy is that the instruction tends to train him to put a value on whatever is sold that is fair to both customer and to himself. The training itself forms the foundation of a business career; it brings into play all of the ingenuity of the boy and helps him direct it into profitable channels. Contents: Why every boy should make money; Ways a boy can make money; How to start an agency business; Running a messenger service; Getting and doing trade jobs; There’s money in refreshments; Raising small live stock; In partnership with the earth; Fishing, hunting and trapping; Making things to sell; Working for other people; What to do with your money.
COLLINS, ARCHIE FREDERICK, and COLLINS, VIRGIL DEWEY.[2]Boys’ book of submarines.il*$1.35 (3c) Stokes 623.8 17-31264
A book for boys, made up of the following chapters: The first of the submarines; How to make and work a model submarine; How a real submarine is made and works; The heart of the submarine; Making and shooting the torpedo; Making the submarine deadlier; The wonderful eye of the submarine; The marvelous tongue and ears of the submarine; The crew of the submarine; How the submarine attacks; The new submarine chasers; The last word in submarines. There are illustrations from photographs and numerous figures and diagrams.
“A book that is a help to the understanding of war news.”
“A splendid book for the boy who is interested in boats and mechanics.”
COLLINS, CHARLES WALLACE.National budget system.*$1.25 (4½c) Macmillan 351.73 17-20555
“This work is an attempt to show in as brief a compass as possible what the budget system is, why it is said to be needed for the United States, and what adjustments could possibly be made short of a constitutional amendment to secure its adoption. ... The writer has attempted, even at the risk of the loss of scientific technique, to make this exposition readable. The work is not intended to be original or exhaustive. ... In the preparation of this work the author has used portions of an article of his, ‘Constitutional aspects of a national budget system’ in the Yale Law Journal for March, 1916, and another, ‘The coming of the budget system’ in the South Atlantic Quarterly for October, 1916.” (Preface) A short list of authorities is appended.
“The intricacies of national finance are not easily expressed in simple terms but the author of the present volume set out to do this and on the whole he has succeeded. This is not because he has evaded or glossed over the difficulties but because he first explains with sufficient detail just how each of the great countries prepares its financial program for the year and then indicates where our own short-comings are. His criticism of the American system is incisive and to the point, but not overdone.”
“On the whole the argument presented is excellent, but some of the difficulties which would be involved under our present system of federal government are passed over with slight or no consideration.”
“Mr Collins’ book is a distinctly valuable contribution. It contains little original material. All the data he uses lay undigested in the forbidding tomes of committee reports, statutes and treatises on political science. But, except for Professor Ford’s ‘Cost of our national government,’ little of this has been predigested for popular consumption. Mr Collins’ book is more up to date, has a wider sweep and contains more definite proposals for change, while it avoids even more successfully the pitfalls of technical lingo and involved exposition.” Evans Clark
“Public finance is generally a dry subject, but Judge Collins has managed with rare ability to make his volume interesting and comprehensive. It should appeal to the ordinary reader as well as to students. Not the least interesting part of the work is the author’s description of the various budget systems of foreign governments.”