“Political Russia is of more vital interest than physical Russia; but at the moment when the fate of that nation seems to center in one city, it is not amiss to remember that Petrograd is one of the least representative cities of the new republic and that behind all its changes and its transitory emotions there lies the great mass of the Russian people, sturdy, industrious, and immovable. To consider them steadies one’s sense of proportion. Mr Coxwell’s book enables one so to consider them.”
“The main impression it conveys is that the war in 1915 had hardly ruffled daily existence in the smaller Russian towns, and was little regarded in such important centres as Petrograd and Moscow.”
“Mr Coxwell is almost a Pickwickian tourist—so simple-minded, so easily pleased, so little subjective in his observations, that he might seem to have just set out from Goswell street. But there the resemblance ends. Adventures crowded on Mr Pickwick at every turn, but not one befell Mr Coxwell. Mr Coxwell is happier, however, with his camera than with his pen.”
“In the main, of course, the narrative is personal, but personal narratives may be of absorbing interest when the writer is an experienced traveler. Added value is given in the liberal space devoted to details of Russian life and customs and to historic incidents.”
“No doubt students of Russian life will find nothing interesting in these pages and the book is not for those who wish to estimate political, economic, or military forces, or for those who look to Russia for spiritual guidance or inspiration. But it is for the not-too-serious tourist and those who are like the author in spirit. ... There is a slight misconception, perhaps, in the title of the book. It has little or nothing to do with the war, and does not describe special war conditions.”
CRABB, GEORGE.English synonymes. rev and enl ed*$1.25 Harper 424 17-10873
The first edition of Crabb’s “English synonymes explained” was published one hundred years ago. The preface to this centennial edition says, “It is an exceptional tribute to Crabb’s scholarship that during an entire century his masterful work has continued to hold the regard of the English-speaking world, and that to-day it is consulted with probably more appreciation than ever before.” Of the changes and additions made for the new edition the preface says further, “Nothing has been eliminated from the master’s explanations of his chosen words, and his style of presentation has been followed as closely as intervening conditions would permit. The entire body of the original words and explanations has been supplemented by a large number of words with their applications that have grown into the language within recent years, besides many that came to have a deeper significance than before because of the great European war.” Another important feature of the new edition is a complete system of cross references. The work has an introduction by John H. Finley.
“Revised and brought up to date by unnamed editors whose work, one cannot help feeling, is considerably inferior to that of the original author in natural feeling for words, in comprehension of philological niceties, and in insight into derived meanings.”
CRAGIN, LAURA ELLA.Sunday story hour. il*$1.25 (3c) Doran 372.6 17-13402
The author has written these stories for Sunday telling, either at home or in the Sunday school. They are planned for the younger children and are grouped under the headings: Our Heavenly Father’s care; Our Heavenly Father’s protection; The loving care of Jesus; Prayer; The sabbath; Helpfulness; Kindness; Obedience; Easter; Thanksgiving; Christmas. Many of the stories were written for the Beginner’s leaflets issued by the Presbyterian Boards. Other books by the author are “Kindergarten stories for the Sunday school” and “Kindergarten Bible stories.”
“The way in which the child is led to see how God is in his world makes the book especially fitting for Sunday reading, as it is designed to be.”
CRAIG, AUSTIN, ed.Former Philippines thru foreign eyes.*$3 (3c) Appleton 919.14 A17-1007
This volume, edited by Professor Craig of the University of the Philippines, consists of a series of reprints of original documents and other out-of-print material bearing on the early history of the Philippines. Contents: Feodor Jagor’s travels in the Philippines; The state of the Philippines in 1810, by Thomas de Comyn; Manila and Sulu in 1842, by Charles Wilkes, U.S.N.; Manila in 1819, by John White, U.S.N.; The peopling of the Philippines, by Rudolf Virchow; People and prospects of the Philippines, by an English merchant, 1778, and a consul, 1878; Filipino merchants of the early 1890s, by F. Karuth. The volume was first published by the Philippine education company of Manila.
“Taken together, these descriptions form an exceedingly valuable lot of material regarding the Philippines. Of them all, the first is the most valuable, because of the intimate touch it gives of conditions and its excellent descriptions. The translation, which was made especially for this work by a young German, one of the victims of the Japanese onslaught on Tsing Tau, is immensely improved over the defective English translation published in London in 1875. By choosing descriptions on the whole favorable to the Filipinos, Professor Craig has presented but one side of his thesis, although it must be confessed material on the other side is easily available to whoever wishes to study the question from other points of view.” J. A. Robertson
“Only where there is special interest.”
“A republication of valuable and rare documents which is intended to correct the wrong impressions in the minds of students, concerning the Filipino and his islands.” M. C. T.
CRAIG, AUSTIN, and BENITEZ, CONRADO.Philippine progress prior to 1898.$1.25 Philippine education co., Manila 991.4 17-31047
The purpose of this source book of Philippine history, prepared by two members of the faculty of the University of the Philippines, is “to supply a fairer view of Filipino participation and supplement the defective Spanish accounts.” The book consists of two parts. Part 1, The old Philippines’ industrial development, by Conrado Benitez, has chapters on: Agriculture and land-holding at the time of the discovery and conquest; Industries at the time of discovery and conquest; Trade and commerce at the time of discovery and conquest; Trade and commerce: the period of restriction; The 19th century and economic development. Part 2, The Filipinos’ part in the Philippines’ past, consists of documents and reprints, edited with introduction and notes by Austin Craig.
CRAM, MILDRED.Old seaport towns of the South. il*$2.50 (3½c) Dodd 917.5 17-28900
The rain that falls in the first few chapters of this leisurely narrative dampens not at all the ardor of writer, illustrator and reader as they fare forth together on a journey southward from New York to Baltimore, Norfolk, Wilmington, Charleston, Savannah, St Augustine and Galveston. The writer is visiting the South of her parents for the first time—the South that had come to mean “the place of sun, chivalry, romance and Uncle Remus.” With freshness of outlook, therefore, the prominent points of interest are viewed. There is a good deal of history thrown in, some illuminating generalizations about social problems, the whole being interspersed with crisp dialog, clear description and entertaining comment. Good illustrations, the work of the author’s brother, accompany the text.
“She catches the spirit of the cities, Baltimore, Charleston, Norfolk, and others, with remarkable accuracy. ... ‘Old seaport towns of the South’ is a thoroughly delightful book. The publishers have issued it in most attractive form, making a feature of the unusual and striking illustrations.” A. M. Chase
“America is being discovered by its own people. The experiences and discoveries of one pair of explorers—brother and sister—are here related in sprightly detail, and the account is dressed by the publishers in the best product of the printing press. The historical facts woven into the narrative are at times somewhat mixed.”
“She has brought together a great variety of bits of history, tradition, reminiscence, and description which make of each place that she visits a very interesting, attractive, and colorful picture.”
CRAM, RALPH ADAMS.Substance of Gothic. il*$1.50 (4½c) Jones, Marshall 723.5 17-25630
“I have called these lectures, given during the winter of 1916-17 in the Lowell institute course in Boston, ‘The substance of Gothic,’ because in them an effort is made, though briefly and superficially, to deal with the development of Christian architecture from Charlemagne to Henry VIII, rather in relation to its substance than its accidents; to consider it as a definite and growing organism and as the exact and unescapable exponent of a system of life and thought antipodal to that of the modernism thatbegan its final dissolution at the beginning of August A.D. 1914, rather than in the light of its accidents of form and ornament and details of structural design.” (Preface) The author devotes five pages of his preface to listing and characterizing non-technical, easily available books, written in English, for those who wish to follow the subject further.
“It is a truly eloquent book, and regarded as a piece of writing will give pleasure to the layman as a literary performance, quite aside from his interest in the theme or his agreement with the view presented.” R: Burton
“In Mr Cram’s presentation of structural details we are given at last to realize how incomplete, how downright misleading has been the method which presented the material progress, and left altogether out of account the spiritual forces which made that progress possible. ... The importance of such critical method in this day and age is tremendous. ... He is pointing the way to a new understanding of the middle ages upon much more solid foundations. Beneath him is the support of such exhaustively scholarly works as Henry Osborn Taylor’s ‘The mediaeval mind,’ and of such penetrating analysis as has been made by Mr Henry Adams. ... Mr Cram is, on the other hand much inclined to treat the faults and the blemishes of the modern age as though they were the only things visible in all the recent centuries. In this view is much error.” J. E. K.
“The volume, though evidently the work of an accomplished and enthusiastic student of architecture, is by no means a dry text-book abounding in technicalities. Its chief appeal may be to the specialist, nevertheless it will be perused with profit and pleasure by every intelligent reader.”
“Mr Cram writes not alone from the point of view of an ardent Gothicist, but from that of an ardent churchman as well, and this contributes both to the strength and to the weakness of his book—to its strength because he has so keen and constant a realization of the nobility and vitality of the essential spirit of Catholicism; to its weakness because all those who fail or have failed of that realization are to him either heretics, heathen, or pagans, bent on establishing the kingdom of Satan on earth.” Claude Bragdon
CRAM, RALPH ADAMS, and others.Six lectures on architecture. il*$2 (6c) Univ. of Chicago press 720.4 17-4209
This volume contains the Scammon lectures for 1915, the lectures delivered at the Art institute of Chicago as the eleventh series under the Scammon foundation. Contents: The beginnings of Gothic art, and The culmination of Gothic architecture, by Ralph Adams Cram; Principles of architectural composition and Modern architecture, by Thomas Hastings; Organic architecture and The language of form, by Claude Bragdon. There are forty-five illustrations.
“Mr Bragdon’s first lecture, entitled ‘Organic architecture,’ is an unusually clear statement of the condition of modern architecture. ... His second lecture, on ‘The language of form,’ is a valuable and suggestive exposition of his views as to possible sources of new forms in art and ornament.” P. B. Wight
“Mr Cram’s two lectures, which it is rather hard to judge fairly, as he covers an immense field in a few pages, are admirably written. Mr Hastings’s two have some carelessnesses in style. ... There is a good deal of practical advice and of suggestive information in all six. The volume would have been improved had an index been added.” N. H. D.
“Stimulating discussion of conflicting ideals in American architecture.”
“Mr Cram summarizes the evolution of the characteristic features of Gothic construction in paragraphs bristling with names, dates, and technical terms. The effect is sufficiently cryptic even on the printed page. Yet the treatment, on the whole, is stimulating and suggestive. No one in the world to-day—certainly not in this country—is, perhaps, better qualified than Mr Cram to interpret the Gothic spirit. It can hardly be said that Mr Hastings presents a very strong brief for his cause.” W: A. Bradley
“Well worth reading as examples of three wholly different attitudes and methods of approach to the subject. ... The minds of auditors who heard all six lectures must have been left at the end in a somewhat bewildered state, for the book is full of contentious and provocative suggestions. It is hardly milk for babes in architecture, but it is good reading for those who are already somewhat instructed in the subject, and may well set the mature architect to thinking.”
“The doctors disagree, but it is the disagreement of living thought, and from the series of lectures the public receives a lively thrust toward the act of original thinking which is the desired result in all educational work.”
CRANCH, CHRISTOPHER PEARSE.Life and letters, [ed.] by his daughter, Leonora Cranch Scott. il*$3.50 (3c) Houghton 17-8755
Altho Christopher Pearse Cranch was born in Virginia, he was closely associated with the literary life of New England. As a young man he entered the Unitarian ministry, but left it after a time to follow an artist’s career. He devoted himself to landscape painting and wrote poetry for the Atlantic Monthly, the Dial and other papers of the time. He was the friend of Emerson, James Freeman Clarke, George William Curtis and other distinguished Americans and in his travels abroad he formed friendships with men of letters in Europe, among them Thackeray, and the Brownings. In this book his daughter presents a selection from his letters, joined together by extracts from an unpublished autobiography.
“Christopher Pearse Cranch finds a place in many anthologies, and his books are on the shelves of numerous libraries, public and private, that preserve the relics of bygone literary accomplishment. ... It is regrettable that his daughter, despite the abundant material in her possession and her liberal use of it in this volume of ‘Life and letters,’ has thrown it together so carelessly, and has made no attempt, either in her own words or in the words of others, to tell a well-ordered and coherent story of his life. ... As a miscellany of incidents in the inconspicuous life of an American man of letters and leisure, Mrs Scott’s record of her father is valuable despite its incompleteness. ... As material for a biography, Mrs Scott’s volume will serve. It is also an excellent memorial tribute to a worthy life.” E. F. E.
“By far the most valuable part of the book is made up of the letters he received from others. Besides early notes from James Freeman Clarke and Emerson, there are several letters in Lowell’s happiest manner, several from the Brownings ... and many from W. W. Story and George William Curtis. A few, like those ofCurtis from Berlin, are valuable for themselves; but most are of the sort that reveal the recipient as well as the author.”
“His personality was well worth studying, but the greatest charm of the book lies in the intimate view we get of such friends as Curtis, James Russell Lowell, Mr and Mrs Browning, Ralph Waldo Emerson, W. W. Story, Margaret Fuller, and others famous in art, music, and literature. ... It is a very readable biography.”
“The reader who wishes to find a picture of the pale, reflected, undisturbed, and comfortable condition of American arts and letters of the period will do no better than to turn lightly the pages of this volume. But if he is looking for the impact upon a man of varied culture of the forces that were to shake artists, composers, and writers out of their traditional ease, he will turn away as from a sago pudding.”
“Mr Cranch was one of the most interesting Americans of the last generation.”
“His relations with New England transcendentalism and with Emerson form an entertaining chapter of the book.”
“If the material gathered in this volume had been thoroughly sifted and digested into a book of half the size, two objects would have been probably attained: We should have had a sufficiently detailed life of the poet, and his life would be likely to interest more readers. As it is, the volume is formidable because of its size and because of the method of presentation of its subject matter.”
CRANDALL, LEE SAUNDERS.Pets; their history and care. il*$2 (2½c) Holt 636 17-13515
This book on pets and their care is divided into four sections: Mammals; Birds; Reptiles and batrachians; The aquarium. As this division will indicate, the term pet has been given a rather wide interpretation. The author says, “To give, in a single volume, full and efficient directions for the treatment of so many diverse creatures, means that the space devoted to each must be no greater than necessary. For this reason rare or particularly delicate members of the various groups have been excluded. ... On the other hand, many of the birds, such as the pheasants, cranes and waterfowl, cannot be considered as pets in the sense that they may be fondled, but they are widely kept for ornamental purposes, and their proper treatment is a matter often not well known.” (Preface) Theories of breeding are discussed in an appendix. There are many illustrations from photographs, a bibliography and index.
“It covers about the same number of animals as Comstock and is, therefore, fuller in treatment than Verrill. Has fifteen more illustrations than Comstock and a general bibliography at the end of the book instead of the references for each animal discussed in Comstock.”
“As an introduction to the practical knowledge of pets, Mr Crandall’s book will well serve. As assistant curator of birds in the New York zoological park he speaks with the weight of an authority behind him. ... There are nearly 100 excellent illustrations.”
CRANE, FRANK.[2]Christmas and the year round.*$1 (2c) Lane 170.4 17-29490
“Christmas means the supreme fact about life, namely: that it is joyful,” writes Dr Frank Crane in the first of these essays. Others in an equally optimistic vein follow. The art of quietness, Life an adventure, The man who keeps his word, Democracy, The postponement of life, The delusion of safety, are some of the titles.
“Dr Crane puts a great deal of common sense philosophy into his essays in a spirited, readable form and this newest product is packed with optimistic humanism and wisdom.”
“He is always brisk, and the ideal of life to which he calls his readers is always democratic, independent, contented, and sturdy.”
CRANE, FRANK.Looking glass.*$1 (2c) Lane 170.4 17-13215
A book of short essays on such subjects as: The secrecy of goodness; The art of being cheerful; The higher probabilities; Keeping young; Amusements; The fear of deciding; The new teacher; The theatre and morals; The immorality of fear; A consumer’s views on salesmanship; Democracy and organization, etc.
“Dr Crane’s devoted admirers will receive with joy a new contribution to his list of books. Like his other offerings, this volume is crammed with spicy essays in tabloid form.”
“Brisk, wholesome, direct, this spicily served advice is all the better for not taking itself too seriously.”
“His short essays express, in terse phrase, the brisk American optimism. It is not mawkish or spineless; on the contrary, it is vigorously upstanding. But it is determined to see ‘good in everything.’ But we cannot all agree in finding cause for happiness in the ‘number of things’ of which the world is full today. And there is something more than irritation—there is something ghastly—in Dr Crane’s exuberant cry of all-inclusive gladness: ‘Thank God for now!’”
CRANE, UTLEY EDWIN.Business law for business men.*$3.50 Winston 347 17-1500
A work on business law, “covering all the states and territories in the Union, with abstracts of commercial law in every state and territory and legal forms for many transactions.” (Title-page) The author, a judge of the municipal court of Philadelphia, says, “Recognizing that the average business man has neither the opportunity nor inclination to pursue a systematic study of business law, this work has been specially prepared to meet the requirements of the busy man of affairs. Omission of any citation of authority and all legal technicalities has been for the purpose of rendering the work interesting as well as instructive.” Contents: Contracts; Partnerships; Corporations; Negotiable instruments; Real estate and conveyancing; Bankruptcy; Insurance; Common carriers; Patents; Trade-marks; Copyrights; Sales; Business crimes; Domestic relations; Building and loan associations; Architects and builders; Money; Executors and administrators; Constitutional law; Banks and banking.
“It is a practical book for practical business. It will also be of ‘handy reference’ value to lawyers. It is easy to read and well arranged, so that the layman will have no difficulty in finding the information which he desires.”
“One of the commendable features of the work is its national application. ... As an exposition of the legal principles involved in ordinary mercantile transactions, the work can be commended as sufficiently simple and untechnical to meet the requirements of the busy man of affairs.”
CRANMER-BYNG, LAUNCELOT ALFRED, tr. Feast of lanterns; rendered with an introd.*80c Dutton 895 (Eng ed 17-6225)
“In ‘The wisdom of the East series,’ edited by L. Cranmer-Byng, and Dr S. A. Kapadia, there is now published a treasure for students of poetry, ‘A feast of lanterns,’ translations from the work of twenty Chinese poets. The introduction explains the tenets of Chinese poetic art, their reverence and love for flowers, symbolism in poetry, and the lore of the dragon, one of the four spiritually endowed creatures of China. There are also interesting comments on the epochs of Chinese poetry, and on the great storehouse of verse that remains untranslated into western tongues.”—R of Rs
“The reader of these graceful relics of the thought of an alien race in by-gone centuries echoes the sentiment of Sir John Davis, quoted on the title-page of this volume, ‘As our gardens have already been indebted to China for a few choice flowers, who knows but our poetry may some day be under a similar obligation?’”
CRAVATH, PAUL DRENNAN.Great Britain’s part.*$1 (8c) Appleton 940.91 17-7951
These “observations of an American visitor to the British army in France at the beginning of the third year of the war,” were written first for the New York Times. They are republished in the hope that they may “aid a few Americans to a better appreciation of the greatness of England’s achievements in the European war.” The author says, “The British people and press have so liberally exercised the Englishman’s inalienable right to abuse the government that we in America often hear more of England’s mistakes than of her achievements. As a result, there is, I find, real misapprehension among Americans as to England’s part in the war.”
“Hardly more than a magazine article, Paul D. Cravath’s little book makes clear methods of organization and the way work is done behind the British lines.”
“A thin book of not two hours’ reading, which is far too sketchy and meagre to justify a defiance of the high cost of paper by adding another pebble to the mountain of war-books. But one conviction strongly and instinctively held by Mr Cravath catches our interest. The conviction is that England will win, that nothing can stop the new army. Since we have ourselves entered the war, we have been glad of any reassurance, however uncritical or dogmatic. Mr Cravath’s conviction is both, yet he has the power to convey his conviction to his readers.”
“His account of the businesslike methods by which a modern battle is fought makes good reading.”
“Largely a reiteration of what we already know. But it makes an interesting reiteration because it is the result of personal, inexpert observation.”
CREAGER, WILLIAM PITCHER.Engineering for masonry dams. il $2.50 Wiley 627 17-17759
“A concise handbook treating first of dams in general, choice of location, preliminary and final investigations, choice of type, and forces acting on dams with tables and equations for computing them; second, of particular types with examples of each and the calculations for their construction. The three final chapters are concerned with the preparation and protection of the foundation, flood flows, details and accessories.”—N Y P L New Tech Bks
“The 229 pages of the volume are full of valuable information, made easy of access by the methodical arrangement of the material. The assumptions and recommendations are consistent with good conservative practice. ... If the reader feels any regret it is because he does not find treated one of the difficult problems of engineering of masonry dams—outlet control.” F. Teichman
CREELMAN, HARLAN.Introduction to the Old Testament; with a foreword by Frank K. Sanders.*$2.75 Macmillan 221 17-12733
“After about thirty pages of discussion of questions of general introduction the outline of biblical material is given chronologically, and divided into ten periods. The materials of four of these periods are found in the Hexateuch; and they are the primitive, the patriarchal, the exodus and the conquest of western Palestine periods. Then follow successively the periods of the judges, of the united kingdom, of the divided kingdom, of the exile, of Persian rule and of Grecian rule. All of this mass of material is analyzed, dated and described. Each section, paragraph, verse and part of a verse is carefully marked, so that the student of the English Bible may test for himself the data upon which the modern view of the Old Testament rests.”—Boston Transcript
“Its general point of view, of course, is that of the historical school, and the author’s conclusions, in so far as they are indicated, are of the cautious type represented by such scholars as Driver and the contributors to Hastings’ ‘Dictionary of the Bible.’ But the critical literature so abundantly cited, if used by the inquiring reader, will bring him into touch with every shade of opinion.” J. M. P. Smith
“There are three indexes which will prove very helpful to the student. For those who wish to study the Old Testament as an original source this is the best volume that has been published in English.”
CREEVEY, CAROLINE ALATHEA (STICKNEY) (MRS JOHN KENNEDY CREEVEY).Daughter of the Puritans. il*$1.50 (2c) Putnam 17-6643
The author of “Recreations in botany,” “Harper’s guide to wild flowers,” and other books, writes here of her girlhood. The years covered are those from her childhood up to her marriage in 1866 at the age of twenty-three. Of particular interest is her account of the religious training of New England children in her day and of its effect on the child mind. She herself, she says, lived two lives “one natural and childlike, the other terrified and unnatural.”
“The childish attitude towards religion and God as it existed more than a half century ago could not be better epitomized.” E. F. E.
“Mrs Creevey is not only a botanist and a writer on botany, with several handy and useful books to her credit on our native flora and the pleasures of its study, but also an agreeable chronicler of events in the animate world of human beings. ... Her account of her education and her school-teaching is good reading—truthful and richly human, with a spice of humor.”
“All except the very young will find in this autobiography their own experiences mirrored.”
“There are three chapters on Wheaton seminary (now college) at Norton, Mass.”
CREHORE, ALBERT GUSHING.Mystery of matter and energy. il*$1 (6c) Van Nostrand 530.1 17-28773
In the first chapter of this little book the author says, “One of the purposes of the following lines will be fully accomplished if we succeed in presenting to those who have given little thought to this subject some conception of what is implied by the words ‘the problem of the structure of matter.’ Among scientists this problem has gradually increased in importance to such an extent that it may now be said to be the problem of problems.” Discoveries of recent years have advanced the problem to a point where its solution becomes a possibility. “The improbability of its solution in the eyes of a former generation has, it may be said, been changed into a probability in the eyes of the present generation.” The problem is stated, recent steps in its development traced, and the field for future effort outlined.
“A fascinating little volume. ... The book is written without algebra, but it contains some beautiful geometrical drawings and atomic-model pictures. The volume is to be recommended to all educated persons possessing some general knowledge of physics who are interested in the most recent investigations within the microcosmic world.”
CREIGHTON, LOUISE (VON GLEHN) (MRS MANDELL CREIGHTON).[2]Life and letters of Thomas Hodgkin. il*$4.50 Longmans
Thomas Hodgkin, an English banker, historian and antiquary who died in 1913, is allowed to tell his life story largely in his own words, Mrs Creighton having drawn on his extensive correspondence and his private journals and diaries. She says, “My object has been to give a portrait of a man, not an account of the various causes in which he was interested, nor even, in the first place, of the work which he actually achieved.” Thomas Hodgkin was a Quaker and the record of his association with the Society of Friends is given in the words of fellow members of that faith. A bibliography, giving a list of all Dr Hodgkin’s writings is included in the appendix. Mrs Creighton is also author of the “Life and letters of Mandell Creighton.”
“The record of a life such as Dr Hodgkin’s belongs among the notable biographies of men of thought and action.” E. F. E.
“The portrait she presents is serene but a trifle monotonous. There are too many birthday letters, written in a tone of affectionate retrospect, and a superabundance of religious discussions with Sir Edward Fry and other intimates.”
“It is natural that to Mrs Creighton, who so admirably revealed the many-sided powers of the bishop [Bishop Creighton] who ‘tried to write true history,’ should be given the opportunity of preserving for posterity the lovable character of his friend. In this she has succeeded. ... There is no criticism, no endeavour to analyse his purpose, or assign him rank among the great historians.”
Crime, The, by a German: tr. by Alexander Gray.[2]2v v 1*$2.50 (1½c) Doran 940.91 17-26980
A book called forth by the criticisms of the author’s earlier book “J’accuse,” with answers to the objections of German critics, among them Dr Karl Helfferich, Dr Theodor Schiemann, Paul Rohrbach, and Houston Stewart Chamberlain. The author’s chief aim has been to bring new evidence to bear on the thesis of the first book.
“A far better appreciation of the present work is possible to those who have studied ‘J’accuse’ than to readers imperfectly acquainted with its subject-matter. ‘The crime’ will be widely read, and will deepen the impression made by the author’s previous book.”
“Had his first chapter been written without epithets, declamation, and self-laudation, the whole work would have gained in dignity and force. It is unnecessary explicitly to damn opponents whom your sober arguments render so ridiculous as this author renders the Teutonic apologists. Apart from this blemish the book is unanswerable.”
“The author lays no claim to be in possession of any material which is not universally accessible, but in very patient and thoroughly German fashion he has made the most of what is available. It must be admitted that his method becomes at times wearisome. Those chapters which are freshest and will be most read deal with the relations between Lord Grey of Fallodon and Count Lichnowsky, the German ambassador in London, before the actual outbreak of war, and discuss the German claim that Russia, by being in so great a hurry to mobilize, was really the European ‘incendiary.’”
CROFT, TERRELL WILLIAMS.[2]Electrical machinery; principles, operation and management. il*$2 McGraw 621.31 17-19176
“Avoiding the use of difficult mathematics, this well known author aims to explain to the ‘average’ man the theoretical principles and the essential operating facts relating to alternating-current and direct-current generators as well as to motors and similar machinery, with consideration of control apparatus. Design is not discussed. There are chapters on troubles, testing, and the determination of motor drive requirements. [There are] clear cut illustrations and practical examples with solutions.”—N Y P L New Tech Bks
CROFT, TERRELL WILLIAMS.Wiring for light and power. il*$2 McGraw 621.31 17-11353
“The ‘National electric code’ which this book explains and illustrates is a set of rules prepared by the National board of fire underwriters for the purpose of insuring safe electrical installation. The aim of the author of the present book is to make plain just how the work should be performed to meet the requirements of the ‘Code.’ The ‘Code’ itself may be had gratis from the National board of fire underwriters, 76 William st., New York city.”—Quar List New Tech Bks
“Valuable reference manual. Covers outside and theater lighting which Cook does not, is better illustrated and a little less technical.”
“Exceptionally well illustrated and indexed.”
“Valuable reference manual.”
“Mr Croft, who has several other excellent handbooks to his credit, has in this practicaland clearly written work supplied the desirable explanations and elaborations.”
CRONAU, RUDOLF.German achievements in America. il $1 R. Cronau, 340 E. 198th st., N.Y. 325.7 16-16931
“Written as an answer to what the author terms ‘unwarranted insinuations questioning the loyalty of the German-Americans toward the land of their adoption,’ this book brings together brief records of German achievements in America, from the days of the Palatines to the present, and covers achievements in pioneer life, war, politics, industry and commerce, science and engineering, literature and the press, music and drama, philanthropy and women’s work, including also a chapter on the National German-American alliance and its purposes, and The future mission of the German element in America.”—Cleveland
CROSS, HÉLÈNE (FODOR) (MRS C: E: CROSS).Soldiers’ spoken French.*60c Dutton 448 17-22899
This book is a “short-cut to the amount of French which it is necessary that our men who go to France should be able to speak.” It has been “compiled from a real course of spoken lessons as given to New Zealand’s soldiers.” The author states: “The approximate pronunciation of each word will be found, as the sound would be spelt in English, in brackets beside it.” The binding is said to be waterproof and the book will fit the pocket of a uniform.
“It was an oversight, however, on the part of the American publishers not to give the equivalent of the French money in American, as well as in English currency.”
CROSWELL, JAMES GREENLEAF.Letters and writings. il*$2 (3c) Houghton 17-13972
James Greenleaf Croswell became in 1887 head-master of the Brearley school for girls in New York city. His letters fill a little more than half of the present volume. “Many are written to relatives; some to literary and other friends; the majority, perhaps, to present and former pupils.” (Nation) These are followed by about one hundred pages of the author’s writings in prose and verse. Then come some seventy pages of “Recollections and appreciations” of Mr Croswell. The book is illustrated with three portraits of the author, a picture of his summer home and a facsimile of a letter to a child.
“Evidently we have to do rather with a somewhat miscellaneous collection than with a book. Yet it contains enough interesting matter to give the reader no little insight into Mr Croswell’s character. Most interesting, naturally, to teachers are the letters exhibiting Croswell’s views on his own profession, as shown by allusions here and there in them—rarely by more elaborate or formal statement.” E. D. Perry
“Even to one who had never before heard of Mr Croswell or of the Brearley school, the book would be sure to be interesting, because there is a man in it. ... The more formal ‘Writings’—a couple of addresses, a fable or two, and a few translations and poems—add little to the picture, but do nothing to injure it. In the letters especially, which fill rather more than half the volume, one meets a personality of genuine and most winning humility, of entire unselfishness and a kind of appealing wistfulness, yet not without subtlety; and this conjoined with a mind of extraordinary keenness, flexibility, and refinement. ... It would be impossible to imagine better letters to young girls than many of these.”
CROW, MRS MARTHA (FOOTE), comp. Christ in the poetry of today: an anthology from American poets. $1 Woman’s press 811.08 17-21868
The compiler of this volume, aroused by Dr Josiah Strong’s allusion to “the return to Christ that is now taking place,” decided to try out the truth of his statement in modern poetry. In fifty volumes of poetry of about 1890, she found few or no poems about Jesus; in 1895, a few; in 1900, many more; while in 1910, times had distinctly changed. In her introduction the compiler says: “Selecting, then, from the super-abundant wealth of poetical material on this theme, written by the poets of the United States of America, since about 1900, and arranging them in the order of the events of his life, we have here a sort of new biography of Jesus, each chapter of which consists of a poem written by a different author, and the whole forming the poetic reaction of our time to the thought of Jesus. ... Jew and Gentile, Protestant, Roman Catholic, Neo-Pagan, Socialist, Emersonian—all sorts and conditions of lovers and admirers of Jesus are represented in this collection.”
“A most useful book for all having to do with programs for church, schools and societies.”
CROWELL, BERTHA.Wings of the cardinal.*$1.35 (1½c) Doran 17-25289
Ferol Rankin, a beautiful red-haired, seventeen year old Texas country girl, to get money for her mother, became the mistress of Berry Ward, a rich New Yorker, with tuberculosis, who was seeking a divorce from a cheap actress whom he had married when he was drunk. Ward promised to marry Ferol when he got his divorce, and kept his word. After spending some time in Kansas City, in California and in New York, the Wards settled in San Vincente, New Mexico. Here Ward had an affair with Julia Brace, a married woman, though he was still in love with his wife. Meanwhile James Sanger, a sculptor, fell in love with Ferol and tried to make her go away with him, but although she loved Sanger, she decided that she couldn’t “be a quitter” and elected to stay with her husband. Ward, however, divined the state of the case, told Sanger that he would “play to lose” and that Ferol would be free in six months. He stayed alone in a hunting camp and died of hemorrhage. The “Texas Cardinal” then cabled Sanger, who was in Algiers, that he might return in a few months.
“The novel reads very like a first book, but though it is deficient in artistry and in interest, it has some clever bits, usually descriptions of places and environments. Especially good is the sketch of San Vincente and its health colony, outwardly so light-hearted and careless, really engaged in a plucky fight against the one real enemy, tuberculosis.”
CROY, MAE SAVELL.1000 hints on flowers and birds.*$1.50 Putnam 716 17-17297
Uniform with “1000 hints on vegetable gardening.” Treats of The art of growing flowers, Essentials in gardening, Special features of the garden, The lawn, Shrubbery and trees, Insects and sprays, Color scheme, List of common and botanical names of flowers mentioned in the text, List of flowers arranged according to the blossoming period, List of perennials, also annuals, arranged according to colors, Flowers for cutting, Flowers requiring little sunlight, Flowersthat thrive in damp places, Flowers for the old-fashioned garden, and a List of evergreen shrubs and trees. The last thirty pages are concerned with “A plea for the birds.”
“The indexing of the helpful information is scholarly and invaluable.”