“This compact little book admirably fulfils the purpose of its author. Much stress is properly laid upon the history and budget practice of Great Britain and while all that the author says in praise of the English budget system is true, he has missed the significance of the treasury as a great independent department of administration or business management. He has likewise failed to call attention in his references to authorities and sources for further study of budget systems to the remarkable collection of literature on this subject edited and published by the New York Bureau of municipal research.” S: M. Lindsay
COLLINS, FRANCIS ARNOLD.Air man. il*$1.30 (4c) Century 629.1 17-21113
The conquests of the air man in peace and war are told by the author of “The camera man,” “The wireless man,” etc. The opening chapter on Learning to fly describes and compares the methods of teaching in use in America and in France, and enumerates the requisites for obtaining an American flying license. Other chapters are: The aero-sportsman, Aero-exploration and adventure; Aerial transportation; Embattled air-fleets; Air duels; American airmen under fire; The chivalry of the air. The final chapter, American air forces, tells of what has been accomplished in, and is planned for, aviation in America.
“A book to arouse enthusiasm and confidence in aviation.”
Reviewed by C. H. P. Thurston
“With its interesting text and graphic illustrations from over fifty photographs, ‘The air man’ ranks among the extremely few books upon aviation that appeal to the average American who wants the thrill of its story free of the dry-as-dust of equations and diagrams.”
“Of interest to boys and adults.”
“Mr Collins’s book is very opportune, and the fact that it is so well done, gives so comprehensive a view of the general subject of aeronautics and of what has been already accomplished therein and is written with accuracy, although it is not too technical for the ordinary reader, will help to give it the popularity it deserves.”
COLUM, PADRAIC.Mogu, the wanderer; or, The desert; a fantastic comedy in three acts.*$1 Little 822 17-8575
Padraic Colum has been closely associated with the Irish dramatic movement, but in this play he leaves his native Ireland to write adrama of the East. The scene is laid in Persia. Mogu the wanderer is a beggar from the desert who at one stroke of fate is elevated to the viziership, made second in power to the king. By an equally sudden chance he is restored to his former lowly position, to return to his desert a beggar.
“Full of authentic oriental color.”
“On the stage, when properly presented in accordance with Mr Colum’s directions, it would make a remarkable picture. There is, unfortunately, in the early act an element of uncertainty as to how far the imagination is to play a part in the development of the plot, as to where the audience is to be serious or not, that somewhat confuses the dramatic action.”
“The play is fascinating and it presents a new phase of Mr Colum’s dramatic invention. The key to this phase is in his volume of poems, ‘Wild earth.’”
COLVIN, IAN D.Unseen hand in English history.*7s 6d National review office, London (Eng ed 17-25264)
“Mr Colvin’s ‘Unseen hand in English history’ is a continuation of his book ‘The Germans in England.’” (The Times [London] Lit Sup) “He reviews the chief events of English history since the Tudors with the object of showing what the traditional English policy is.” (Sat R) “The bulk of the book is a plea on not very novel grounds for a protective system, or, as he ... prefers to call it, ‘national industry.’” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)
“The book is not history: it is not even good honest fiction. It is simply a pamphlet decked out with an apparatus of learning. ... It is, however, well worth perusing as a study of Jingo psychology. Mr Colvin, whose incisive style may be recognized in the leading columns of the Morning Post, [draws] his ideas not from Britain, but from Berlin.”
“The book is well worth reading. A lively style, adroit selections, an instinct for contemporary sources and authorities, distinguish Mr Colvin from most of our professional historians, who fear they will lose their name for science if they cease to be dull. ... He argues strongly for a tariff, and he chooses the best arguments for his case.”
“Mr Colvin is too much in the grip of Germany.”
COLVIN, SIR SIDNEY.John Keats; his life and poetry, his friends, critics, and after-fame.il*$4.50 Scribner 17-30270
“Besides presenting for the first time in full and consecutive detail the history of Keats’s life and poetical activity, the new book discusses with a fullness which has not hitherto been attempted his relations both to his Elizabethan masters and some of his Victorian followers, and relates the slow and gradual growth of his fame after his death. It moreover throws, with the help of various illustrations from prints, pictures, and the antique, new light on some of the sources of his inspiration; and aims at calling up the circle of his friends in their human lineaments about him, as well as at making felt the various and conflicting currents of the critical and poetical atmosphere amid which he lived.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
“A scholarly, full and connected account.”
“Sir Sidney Colvin, in this fine reassortment of the facts of Keats’s life, seems to us to be insufficiently content with Keats’s actual performance. He is eager to introduce an ethical nobleness into the portrait such as certainly is not reflected in Keats’s greatest poetry.”
“This careful, thorough, tactful, and exhaustive work renders obsolete all previous expressions of opinion upon Keats; it deserves, indeed, to be labelled with the final word, ‘definitive.’ If this monumental volume is, in any way, disappointing to the present commentator, it is only because Sir Sidney Colvin—actuated by his trained and careful sense of literary values—has avoided sedulously many manifest temptations to assert and to insist upon the prime importance of his hero. And, to my mind Sir Sidney says, if anything, too little in praise of Keats.” Clayton Hamilton
“A biography to which the very name and chronicle of the subject could not help but add its atmosphere of charm; but it is not a ‘life’ of Keats, because the biographer gets too near his subject without getting inside of it. It is always in the negative qualities of Keats, both as a man and poet, that Mr Colvin is best in his biographical and critical treatment.” W. S. B.
“It is a book to read with delight; better still, it is a book that compels one to turn back and reread the poet himself.” W: C. Greene
“Until some chance discovery of fresh material antiquates it, this must remain the standard authority upon Keats, as accurate as patient scholarship can make it, and interesting to all scholarly and unscholarly lovers of poetry.” P. L.
“The author’s monograph on Keats in the English men of letters series, published thirty years ago, has heretofore been the chief authority upon his life, character, and achievements, but compared with the full-length portrait, complete, detailed, and authoritative, presented in this volume, the other makes of him hardly more than a sketched vignette. It is a notable and distinguished piece of biographical writing that is worthy to be classed among the great biographies of English literature.”
“Manifestly a labour of love, this admirable work, illuminated throughout with thorough knowledge and fine critical acumen, deserves to take high rank in the select company of kindred classics. But the book is not only of absorbing interest as a masterly presentment of the poet and his work; it also teems with vivid studies of the circle in which he lived.”
“A special feature of the book is the remarkably full treatment of the sources of his inspiration in literature. Another strong point is the helpful interpretation of the obscurities of Keats’s symbolism, with the result of enabling the reader to form a truer estimate of ‘Endymion’ than was before possible. And if the book has been a labour of love, it is love which is ‘this side idolatry.’ There is plenty of severe criticism of Keats’s lapses from good taste and clear thinking—his amorous mawkishness, his lax phrasing, and infelicitous coinages. Sir Sidney Colvin is scrupulously fair in his handling of Keats’s critics; if he lets himself go about Byron, the provocation is irresistible.”
“In a book that is itself a poem, so fine and true is its penetration, so full and sensitive its expression, Sir Sidney Colvin has assembled all the essential, one is tempted to say the quintessential, facts relative to the poet Keats.”
“The new matter adds light and shade to the already vivid portraits of the poet and his friends, and examines his art more closely, both in itself and in its relation to the development of English poetry as a whole. In its pages the life and character of Keats stand out clear in all their subtle and tragic beauty.”
Complete United States infantry guide; arr. by Major J. K. Parsons. il*$6 Lippincott 356 17-21916
This volume, for officers and noncommissioned officers, is said to include all the War department publications relating to the infantry arm of the service. It is profusely illustrated with charts and diagrams.
“In this very formidable volume is all information required to make the infantry soldier efficient. His convenience will surely be served by this opportunity to learn what must be learned from one work, instead of being compelled to familiarize himself with twenty-five books.”
“This encyclopedic volume should be in every military man’s library.”
“The material is well selected and arranged and the book contains a detailed index. The only difficulty results from the size of the publication with its 2074 pages.”
COMSTOCK, DANIEL FROST, and TROLAND, LEONARD THOMPSON.Nature of matter and electricity; an outline of modern views. il*$2 Van Nostrand 530.1 17-8751
“This is a book on the modern physics of matter intended for the general reader and written without mathematics. The authors have collaborated by writing different parts of the book. A large number of topics are presented to the reader in semi-popular form. The treatment is descriptive, aided by diagrams and chemical formula groupings, and technical terms have been avoided as far as possible. Part 1 is divided into eleven chapters on the following topics: Introductory, the ultimate realities, atoms and their behavior, the nature of heat and allied phenomena, the electron and its behavior, electrons, chemical action and light, electrons and magnetism, radio-activity, the structure of the atom, recent discoveries concerning atomic structure and radiation. Part 2 deals briefly in turn with fifty-six subjects and in a manner somewhat more advanced than that of part 1.”—Elec World
COMSTOCK, MRS HARRIET THERESA.Man thou gavest.il*$1.35 (2c) Doubleday 17-11705
The story opens in the southern mountains. Here Conning Truedale has come to regain his health, and here he meets little Nella-Rose. The witch-like, mountain child fascinates him, and the marriage vows they exchange under the open sky are as sacred to him as they are to her. Then he goes away, promising to return. He keeps his promise and is stunned to learn that the girl has married her outlaw lover and gone away over the mountains. This is what he is told, and believing it, he goes back to New York and in time marries. But the mountain people had been mistaken about Nella-Rose. She had been in hiding, waiting for the man she called her husband to return and for her child to be born. This child, “Lil’ Ann,” later comes into the lives of Conning Truedale and his wife, Lynda.
“The fatal weakness in this story is not its artificiality of plot and excess of emotion so much as the hollow elaboration of its characters. We might have enjoyed the romance if the author had not tried to make it a vehicle of realism.” H. W. Boynton
“Southern mountain dialect as it is not spoken is amply illustrated in Miss Comstock’s latest tale of involved heart interest.”
“The primitive life and character of the mountains are forced into the office of pointing up and giving a sort of exotic relish to an essentially and even conventionally ‘modern’ story. Against an action artificially contrived, the figure of Nella-Rose stands out with a good deal of vigor and clarity.”
“As a whole the characters, like the tale, belong to melodrama. Ingenuity is shown in the management of the incidents which separate Truedale and Nella-Rose and some of the descriptions are well done.”
CONNOLLY, JAMES.Labour in Ireland; with an introd. by Robert Lynd.*4s Maunsel & co., London (Eng ed 17-25871)
“Although James Connolly acted for many years in connection with the extreme Socialistic party in Scotland, the United States, and Belfast, it was not until the Dublin strikes of 1913 that he attracted much attention from the English public; and even then he was overshadowed in the popular judgment by the more spectacular ‘Jim’ Larkin. When the strikes collapsed he passed again out of general notice except in Dublin, where it was known that the nominal second-in-command of the Irish transport workers’ union was the real contriving head and driving-force of the movement. ... When the Sinn Fein rebellion broke out in Easter week of 1916, he appeared as Commandant-General of the Dublin division.’ ... The present volume is made up of reprints of two of his works, ‘Labour in Irish history’ and ‘The reconquest of Ireland.’ The first and more elaborate of the two is based on the thesis that the key to the secret of Irish history is the exploitation of the poor by the rich. ... The second part of the volume depicts, in the darkest colours, the condition of the working class in Dublin and Belfast at the present day.”—Spec
“Given the point of view, the book is ably and not intemperately written. The author fairly admits difficulties in his theory—such, for example, as the inefficiency of local administration in Dublin, where the machinery of government is controlled by a democratic body democratically elected. His bias appears more in his selection and suppression of facts than in his presentment of them; he thinks he does well to be angry. But if you write history remembering only the severities used to restore law and order, and forgetting or justifying the outrages which provoked them: approving of force when used against the rich, and condemning it when used against the poor; assuming as a matter of course that a man of property always and necessarily acts from the basest of interested motives—you may produce a very vivid picture, but it will not bear much relation to the events and men it professes to portray.”
“‘Labour in Ireland’ cannot be overlooked by any one interested in Irish problems.”
CONNOLLY, JAMES BRENDAN.Running free. il*$1.35 (2c) Scribner 17-24272
This volume includes ten stories of the sea or of seamen ashore, copyrighted 1913-17 by Charles Scribner’s sons, 1912-17 by P. F. Collier & son, 1916 by the Curtis publishing company. “A bale of blankets” is a story of American naval life; “The strategists” and “Breath o’ dawn” are naval romances, with the fleet in the background. Other stories are: The weeping Annie; The bull-fight; Peter stops ashore; The sea-birds; The medicine ship; One wireless night; Dan Magee: white hope.
“Ten live sea stories told with humor and pathos.”
“In all these brief, sometimes sketchy, but always effective picturings of life, the one sure, detectable Connolly touch is the signet-ring stamp of individuality. And it is an individuality born of the sea and of a deep, passionate, unalterable love of the sea.”
“The wind whistles vigorously through Mr Connolly’s pages; they drip with brine; and the threatening face of death frequently interrupts the grim humor of the old salts. This good, clean, virile book, like the others that preceded it, will help to keep his fame afloat.”
“Sensationalism is absent, but there is humor, human appeal and the real salty flavor.”
“The author is unhappy in the choice of the first story to appear in this book. ... But Mr Connolly is at home in the succeeding stories. They are strong, and the sharp tang and clean breath of the sea are beside the reader till the book is finished. Perhaps ‘Seabirds’ contains more real character than the others, but ‘One wireless night’ is the story of the book.”
“‘Running free’ is devoid of sensationalism, free from melodrama. ... You will find a crowd of thoroughly human and humorous, unsentimentalized men of the sea. ... There is heroism as well as humor in these stories, but it is an unassuming, casual sort of heroism.”
“The frequent assertion that romance disappeared from the sea with the advent of steam vessels is abundantly disproved in the ten short stories of ‘Running free.’ In spite of the apparent absence of artificial color, the stories are dramatic and thrilling.”
CONNOR, RALPH, pseud. (CHARLES WILLIAM GORDON).The major.il*$1.40 (1c) Doran 17-30122
The motif of Mr Connor’s story is one whose patriotic climax and poignant cadence echo in the souls of millions of men and women the world over today. Canada furnishes the scene and the characters, but the sentiment portrayed belongs to the whole wide world at war. The hero is a fine type of manhood, the best that countries can produce. He passes thru the period of bewilderment and misery, which thousands have gone thru, when the burden of his thought is, “that great people upon whose generous ideals and liberal Christian culture he had grounded a sure hope of permanent peace, had flung to the winds all the wisdom, and all the justice, and all the humanity which the centuries had garnered for them, and following the primal instincts of the brute, had hurled forth upon the world ruthless war.” Then came the succession of events chief among which were the Belgian atrocities, which kindled slowly in the hero’s heart the purpose to have a part in ridding the earth of a system that could produce such horrors. Many a young man will read in these pages his own reactions to the call to the colors.
“The story-teller is successful in welding all his material into the substance of a spirited romance.” H. W. Boynton
“While Mr Connor’s new novel cannot be said to amount to much as a story, the picture of Canada in the early days of the war with which it concludes is quite interesting.”
“The story has the directness and ‘punch’ of earlier Ralph Connor books. It has also a sound and deep patriotic spirit.”
“It is almost startlingly ingenuous at times, but as a whole vigorous and life like.”
CONRAD, JOSEPH.Shadow line; a confession.*$1.35 (3½c) Doubleday 17-12955
The shadow line marks the boundary between youth and maturity. Its approach is heralded by extreme boredom, weariness and dissatisfaction. It is a time of rash actions—getting married suddenly or throwing up one’s job without reason. The young seaman who is hero of this tale of the Malay Archipelago leaves his ship on a sudden impulse, intending to take passage for home. While idling about in an eastern seaport, opportunity comes his way and he finds himself captain of a sailing vessel whose master had but recently died. He is in command of this ship for twenty-one fever-ridden and ghost-haunted days, and at the end of his voyage he finds that the boundary line has been crossed. Youth lies behind him.
“Gives somewhat the same sense of the power of the sea and the wonder of human nature as ‘Youth’ and ‘The typhoon.’”
“The atmosphere and the portraiture are masterly, but the book seems to us more the elaboration of a short story than an actual novel.”
“The subtitle, ‘A confession,’ may lead us to surmise that the tale may be bound with special closeness to Mr Conrad’s own experience.” H. W. Boynton
“Nothing written by Mr Conrad during his twenty years of fame as a maker of English fiction is more characteristic than ‘The shadow line.’ It is an epitome of his manner and a summary of his method.”
“For Conrad, ‘the most unliterary of writers,’ is no more nor no less unliterary than Meredith or Swinburne or Shakespeare. No other writer—I do not except the poets—has a richer variety of verbal resource or uses his power with more careful command.” J: Macy
“The tale is quite straightforward, with a sort of breathless simplicity and candor. ... It is told by a master.”
“Indeed, it might fairly be offered as a ‘first degree’ for the novice seeking initiation into the Conradian mysteries. The menace and the glamour of his ocean are here, the humanly strange yet strangely human atoms with which it plays.” H. W. Boynton
“Mr Conrad has given us two superb pictures of courage.” Q. K.
“About ‘The shadow line’ there is an extraordinary atmosphere of beauty. ... It is a beauty deeper than mere words go.”
“‘The shadow line’ is as vivid and as haunting as ‘The ancient mariner.’ What is more, it is thoroughly real and profoundly true.”
“This is a story for the present times, a gospel searching down into the hearts of men to awaken their potentialities in this period of world disaster and send them forth to fight valiantly against their ill-luck, their muddling and mistakes, and to bear with consummate courage the heavy responsibilities thrust upon them.”
“For Mr Conrad the great object of love and enthusiasm is the ship which he came to know so intimately in his twenty years of seamanship. On the title-page [of the English edition] of this book is the sentence, ‘Worthy of my undying regard,’ and underneath stands no human name, but a ship with sails set. Here once more Mr Conrad shows that he loves a ship as a lover does his mistress, and so his latest book is an essential piece of himself, a return to earlier triumphs.”
“Mr Conrad’s new sea story may best be described as a Conradian version of ‘The ancient mariner.’ ... The volume is the first of a new ‘Conrad library,’ including several of hisprevious novels, but we cannot share the publishers’ satisfaction with the ‘specially attractive binding’ prepared for the series. Messrs Dent have deserved so well of the public in this respect that they must not complain if they are judged by their own high standard.”
“It is books of this kind that earn for Conrad the epithet ‘Philosophic adventurer,’ and quicken one’s hope that he may be the chosen artist to achieve the final synthesis of realism and romance, toward which modern fiction has so long and uncertainly evolved.”
“The serene assurance of the imagination which is the outcome of all the finest work of Mr Conrad’s genius is here broken and uncertain. The moral over-balances the story. That deepest meaning which haunts the solemn beauty he has created, simply because, it may be, it has been pursued too consciously or too familiarly, has all but eluded him.”
CONRADI, ALBERT FREDERICK, and THOMAS, WILLIAM ANDREW.Farm spies; how the boys investigated field crop insects. il*50c Macmillan 632 16-19964
“This is a collection of brightly written, well-illustrated ‘story-articles’ on various common injurious insects of North America, designed to catch the attention and enlist the sympathies of ‘boys and girls and those persons who know nothing about insects and how to fight them.’ Among the pests described are the cotton boll-weevil and root-louse, chinch-bugs, grasshoppers, and the black corn weevil.”—Nature
“For fifth or sixth grade.”
“Points in the breeding and feeding habits that bear on farm practice are often cleverly emphasised, and some of our British students might be well occupied in compiling for the home country a somewhat similar work.” G. H. C.
CONWAY, AGNES ETHEL.Ride through the Balkans; on classic ground with a camera; with introd. by Sir Martin Conway. il*$1.75 (3½c) Sturgis & Walton 914.96 (Eng ed 17-10195)
A novel story told in the fashion that best suited a woman traveler, who with another traveler of her own sex, in the months immediately succeeding a bloody war, wandered unescorted thru regions but recently disturbed, and met with kindness and hospitality at the hands of the people. Instead of an exhaustive treatment of objects of interest in the towns visited we find in the short chapters crisp, informing bits of history, description and comment that stand out with the definition of a photograph. The cities which occupy the leisurely tourists are Athens, Corinth, Constantinople, Salonica, Tempe, Thessaly, St Luke of Stiris, Delphi, Mistra and Sparta, Megalopolis, Bassæ, Yanina, Cettigne, Scutari and Dalmatia. The book is beautifully illustrated from photographs.
“An ordinary narrative of travel, with plenty of human interest. Certain of the views leave something to be desired in regard to clearness of detail.”
“Miss Conway’s book is very good reading, and all too brief.”
“The work is lightly written, and archæology, which was the inspiration of the journey, is left in the background, as is explained in an excellent introduction by Sir Martin Conway; but it will appeal to the Antikajis, even amid their martial labours, as well as to the ordinary reader.”
CONWELL, RUSSELL HERMAN.[2]Observation:—every man his own university. il*$1 (3c) Harper 374 17-26979
By the author of “Acres of diamonds” this book is sent out “to induce people to look at their own eyes, to pick up the gold in their laps, to study anatomy under the tutorship of their own hearts.” Observation, the writer believes, is the key to success. This key is viewed in the light of a prized possession and the reader points the way to using it intelligently. Contents: Observation—the key to success; Who the real leaders are; Mastering natural forces; Whom mankind shall love; Need of orators; Woman’s influence; Every man’s university; Animals and “the least things”; The bottom rung; Home reading; Thoughtfulness; Instincts and individuality; Women; Musical culture; Oratory; Self-help; Some advice to young men.
CONWELL, RUSSELL HERMAN.What you can do with your will power.*50c (6c) Harper 174 17-9814
The author says, “The message I would like to leave with the young men and women of America is a message I have been trying humbly to deliver from lecture platform and pulpit for more than fifty years. ... The message is this: Your future stands before you like a block of unwrought marble. You can work it into what you will. Neither heredity, nor environment, nor any obstacles superimposed by man can keep you from marching straight through to success, provided you are guided by a firm, driving determination and have normal health and intelligence.”
CONYNGTON, THOMAS.Corporate organization and management. $5 Ronald 347.1 17-24990
Mr Conyngton’s two earlier books “Corporate management” and “Corporate organization,” published respectively in 1903 and 1904, have been revised and combined into one volume by Miss Helen Potter of the New York bar. “All duplicated and obsolete material has been deleted, and the volume as a whole has been brought sharply up to date. While this has been done, no necessary material has been omitted, all the valuable features of both volumes being retained.” (Preface) In its present form the work is made up of five parts: The corporate system; Corporate organization; Corporate management; Special corporate topics; Forms and precedents. The volume is indexed.
COOK, ARTHUR LEROY.Interior wiring and systems for electric light and power service. il*$2 Wiley 621.31 17-7827
“This book is intended as a guide to modern practice in electric lighting and power applications, and in the design and installation of the wiring for such purposes.” (Preface) It has been written particularly for electrical workers but is also adapted for use in schools. The author is head of the department of applied electricity at Pratt institute. The book is made up of three parts: Electric lighting systems; Electric power systems; Interior wiring.
“Valuable to electric workers occupied with only interior wiring, industrial works, office buildings, or dwellings. Covers this subject more fully than Croft.”
“Examples illustrate each step. Of particular value to the electrical worker are the many diagrams of connections, illustrations of electrical apparatus and fixtures, curves and tables.”
“Practical and free from troublesome mathematics. A wealth of clearly expressed and definite information and instruction compressed into a volume of pocket size.”
“‘Treatment of lighting is especially good. ... Principles of illumination are taken up in a clear and concise manner. The thirty-three pages on calculation of illumination are eminently suited for the busy architect and contractor. ... The characteristics and advantages of various types of motors are given. Control devices are well treated. ... The chapter on selection of motors is good. ... Interior wiring forms the last section. ... A very useful feature is the chapter on examples of actual wiring systems.’”
COOK, CARROLL BLAINE (DIXIE CARROLL, pseud.).Lake and stream game fishing; with an introd. by James Keeley, and a foreword by Jack Lait. il $1.75 (3c) Stewart & Kidd 799 17-20655
This book, by the president of the American anglers league, conveys much practical instruction in matters of fresh-water angling. It includes “Stories of big fish as told by their captors”; “One hundred questions and answers on tackle, fish and fishing”; and “Poems of the water trails,” by Albert Jay Cook. There are ten full-page illustrations.
“More useful than many recent books on angling in that it gives minute and specific instructions, some of them intended for the mere novice, some valuable to the experienced sportsman. A student of Walton is tempted to the cynical remark that the English is what might be expected of a man who favors self-thumbing and self-spooling reels; but this doubtless betrays a hopelessly old-fashioned taste in both tackle and literary style.”
“Doubtless the novice who wishes to learn how to catch pike or bass in Wisconsin streams and lakes will get more out of Dixie Carroll to that immediate end than he could extract in any available allowance of time from Izaak Walton. But slang is a vehicle of expression all too easily overworked.”
“Conceived in the spirit of Izaak Walton but actually written in the modern vernacular of the disciples of the rod and reel. A delightful book to read if you do not fish. The amusing introduction is by Jack Lait.”
COOK, SIR THEODORE ANDREA.Mark of the beast. il*5s Murray, London 940.91 17-13490
“The author’s object in collecting and arranging the facts marshalled in this book is to drive home the lesson that an inconclusive ‘peace with the German empire will be a disastrous defeat.’ The three main subjects are ‘German kultur,’ ‘German history and diplomacy,’ and ‘German atrocities.’ The prophecies of Bernhardi, the work of Col. Frobenius, and similar pronouncements, are submitted to illuminative criticism; the tortuousness and duplicity of German diplomacy are described at length; together with the appalling events at Louvain, Aerschot, Audenne, Dinant, &c.” (Ath) The illustrations are reproductions from Holbein’s “Dance of death.”
“As a cumulative indictment of German methods this work is impressive and of deep gravity.”
“Our chief criticism of this book is that Sir Theodore Cook is not dealing quite fairly with his readers, for a very brief examination is sufficient to show that a considerable portion of it has already been republished in book form. Page after page of this work is identical with a large part of his previous book, ‘Kaiser, Krupp, and kultur,’ including the quotations with which each chapter is headed; and of this fact no warning is given to the reader.”
COOK, SIR THEODORE ANDREA.Twenty-five great houses of France; the story of the noblest French chateaux; with an introd. by W. H. Ward. (Country life lib.) il*$16 Scribner 728.8
“Sir Theodore Cook is an enthusiast for certain phases of French architecture, and he knows his subject. He is also an assiduous student of the romance of history, and he has given the results of his researches and wanderings in France in this handsome and attractive volume.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup) “The author has described houses ranging in character from the citadel of a royal borough to the country seat of a minister of state, from a great fortified monastic establishment on its wind-swept cliff to a substantial burgher’s residence in the heart of a great city. In date the houses described range over five centuries.” (N Y Times)
“The splendid page, the open type, the broad margins, the host of full page plates and the greater host of cuts of details make this study by T. A. Cook a thoroly delightful and valuable work on the chateaux.”
“To architects and students of architecture and to all who have looked upon the noble buildings that made France lovely, even before the war had revealed her heroic soul, this book has an irresistible appeal. ... The text conveys a clear idea of the characteristic architecture of the buildings to even those readers who lack special knowledge of this subject, and the 380 illustrations are a joy to the eye.”
“Sir Theodore Andrea Cook is the best of guides, for he is equally interested in history and in architecture. The letterpress exactly reflects in this respect the fascination of thechâteaux.”
“Sir Theodore Cook is always sympathetic, sensitive to impressions, tolerant, and eminently readable, even if he sometimes loses touch of his critical sense in his full-blooded enthusiasm for all the pageantry of the past. But his chief concern is with people, with those who owned and those who lived in these great houses, rather than with the humble artist who designed them.”
COOKE, JOSEPH BROWN.Baby, before and after arrival; intimate talks with prospective mothers in plain, non-technical language. il*$1 Lippincott 618.2 16-23365
“This book deals chiefly with the mother, before and after the baby’s arrival, and the title is therefore somewhat misleading. Recent statistics would seem to indicate that child-bearing is still quite hazardous. ... While infant mortality has been reduced almost 50 per cent within the last generation, the death rate of child-bearing mothers has remained stationary. Dr Cooke points out that, while the medical profession is chiefly to blame for this state of affairs, the public is responsible for a good many impediments it has put in the way of the conscientious physician in the scientific performance of his duties. He details the essential facts about pregnancy and childbirth, and indicates the necessity for cooperation between physician and patient.”—N Y Call
“Written in not too technical language, adapted for mothers and nurses. ... It is blunter than Slemons and not so full as Davis.”
“The entire problem is treated by the author in a practical and sensible fashion.” Medicus
“‘In many ways it is an admirable presentation. ... It is encouraging to find another straightforward, thoroughly scientific popular book on the subject of childbearing.’” D. R. Mendenhall
COOKE, MARJORIE BENTON.Cinderella Jane.il*$1.35 (2c) Doubleday 17-11703
By day Jane Judd cleaned studios in the Washington Square neighborhood. By night she devoted herself to the art of letters. For, unknown to the “Studio colony,” Jane had not only ambition, but ability of a rare order. Jerry Paxton, for whom she had worked for six years, had never taken any notice of Jane. To him she was a quiet, undemonstrative, domestic woman—the ideal wife for a popular society painter, unhappily beset by the women who fell victim to his charm. Unexpectedly Jerry asked Jane to marry him, and she accepted. Interesting developments follow; Jane’s first novel is published, and Jerry, who believes that a woman’s one career should be her husband, finds himself married to a woman who is famous. Their adjustment is the substance of the latter half of the story.
“Will be popular. Appeared in the American Magazine.”
“The truth is, genius apart, Jane is a rather tiresome and irritating person—to the male observer, at least.” H. W. Boynton
“The plot is admirably worked out, with a surprise in every chapter. ... Jane is the super-woman type, a trifle too calm to be human. But she is an excellent girl and teems with lessons. Besides, she finally learns a few for herself.”
“One is not sure about ‘Cinderella Jane.’ The writer is so set upon being modern, so enthusiastic about the current doctrine of marriage as a mutually free state, that she strains the point at the expense of her Jane and her husband.”
“The best part of the book consists of the remarks made by Jane and the author regarding women’s careers and economic position, and in these there is nothing which will not prove entirely familiar to any one who has given any attention to these subjects.”
“The theme is now a common one, but the qualities that made this author’s ‘Bambi’ so pleasing to many are here in even greater measure.”
“A novel of New York life, with a good deal of the unabashed emotional appeal one expects from so representative an American writer as the author of ‘The girl who lived in the woods.’”
COOLIDGE, ARCHIBALD GARY.Origins of the Triple alliance. (Univ. of Virginia, Barbour-Page foundation)*$1.25 (3½c) Scribner 940.9 17-20014
This volume is based on three lectures given before the University of Virginia, in 1916, by Professor Coolidge of Harvard university, “pointing out the causes, personal and international, that led to the formation of the alliance. The author disclaims having made any startling discoveries or any new theories; his object is to set out the interplay of political forces, the aims of statesmen, and the aspirations of peoples in Europe after the Franco-Prussian war as an indispensable study for anyone who wishes to understand even in a superficial way the causes that have brought about the present world-conflict.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup) Two appendices give the terms of the Austro-German alliance and the terms (so far as known) of the Triple alliance.
“Its outstanding merit is lucidity of presentation and in this respect the book, considering its small compass and the involved nature of its subject, is a model of exposition. The ordinary student would have been grateful for a list of authorities other than the few referred to in the sparse footnotes.”
“Short but adequate and very lucid account of the origins of the Triple alliance.”