Chapter 30

7–21320.

A memorial of the fiftieth anniversary jubilee of the Convent of the Good Shepherd of New York city. “Besides telling the story of the convent’s growth, Miss Conway gives an interesting account of the rule of life practiced by the Sisters, and their methods of treating their charges, with many touching illustrations of the divine efficacy of the Good Shepherd’s power.” (Cath. World.)

Conway, Moncure Daniel.My pilgrimage to the wise men of the East. **$3. Houghton.

6–38349.

“This volume which forms a supplement to Mr. Conway’s autobiography, published last year, contains an account of his travels in India and recounts conversations with leading Buddhists, Brahmins, Parsees, and Mohammedans. The religious side of the author is thus brought into unusual prominence, with the result of considerably enhancing the interest of the volume.” (Lit. D.)

“His peculiar views upon Christianity may repel or offend some readers, but the kindly spirit in which he writes of all men and almost all creeds is attractive, and he deals in loving reverence with the secrets of the underlying religious life of India.”

“The work shows him in the ripeness of his powers, and in the enjoyment of his fearless independence as a free-thinker, but never playing the part of a scoffer. His perceptions have lost nothing of their keenness, his hand has not forgot its cunning and literary craftsmanship.” Percy F. Bicknell.

“Mr. Conway ... is a seer with a vivid poetic imagination, with an irreverent reverence of his own, and goes through the religions of the Far East with little concern for anything but what appeals to his own sense of truth and beauty.”

“Mr. Conway’s acquaintance with Hindu literature is so very vague that the reader must be warned of the valuelessness of such literary criticism as his fertile mind offers, for in this respect ignorance is no bar to his daring. The one note that jars in these recollections of a venerable teacher is that teacher’s too evident pride in his own mental superiority.”

“This résumé of his religious beliefs and unbeliefs will appear as shocking to some of his readers as it will appear illuminating to others. The seasoned reader and thinker will like it for its evident sincerity and its suggestiveness, but will not be sufficiently affected by it one way or another to lose any sleep on account of it.”

“What value his book has lies in his ability to tell a story, certainly not in his estimate of conditions.”

“Any one interested in questions of morality and religion may profitably read this volume, if he does not mind having his toes trodden, even trampled on.”

Conway, Sir William Martin.No Man’s land. *$3. Putnam.

W 6–184.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“A model of painstaking research.”

Conybeare, Frederick Cornwallis, and Stock, St. George.Selections from the Septuagint according to the text of Swete. *$1.65. Ginn.

5–36804.

“Brief introductions and copious notes fit these easy historical selections from the Septuagint for use by college students. The book should be useful in extending the knowledge of the Old Testament in Greek.”—Bib. World.

“It is not only scholarly and clever, but also bright and attractive.”

“The book is welcome as filling a gap in our list of text-books, but it is in some respects ... disappointing, and it may well be doubted whether, as the publishers claim, it is a valuable contribution to a better understanding of the language of the New Testament.” Clarence H. Young.

Cook, Albert E.Bright side and the other side: what India can teach us; with introd. by J. G. Haller and W. F. Oldham. *75c. West Meth. bk.

7–13927.

In which the fruits of Mohammedanism are discussed. The study is based upon a knowledge of the religion’s influence on the life and manners of its devotees.

Cook, Albert S.Higher study of English. *$1. Houghton.

6–38399.

“The aims of the higher study of English rather than the methods is the purport of Prof. Cook’s recent treatise, and it addresses itself rather to the advanced and eager student than to the established teacher.” (Forum.) The book consists of four addresses, The province of English philology, The teaching of English, The relations of words to literature, and The aims of graduate study of English. “Yet the obvious note in all four is a general elevation of standards, both ethical and aesthetic, throughout the entire curriculum of English—a broadening and deepening of our national culture through an intensive appreciation of the best that has been handed down to us in literature.” (Dial.)

“Does not solve any problems or reveal any startlingly new point of view, but it is thoughtful and readable and therefore to be commended.”

“As a presentation of an ideal the book could scarcely be surpassed.” William T. Brewster.

“His work appeals to the general reader as well as the teacher.”

“The book is not only richly suggestive to teachers of English, but to us of the present generation it is especially interesting for its historical placing of our subject.” Franklin T. Baker.

Cook, E. Wake.Betterment, individual, social and industrial. **$1.20. Stokes.

6–40953.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

Reviewed by W. B. Guthrie.

Cook, Theodore A.Eclipse and O’Kelly. *$7. Dutton.

Agr 7–2179.

Eclipse is a horse that has won repeated race-course honors, and O’Kelly is his owner. Everything is set down “that could possibly be found out concerning Eclipse, his ancestors, his birth and education, his achievements, his appearance and measurements, the fate of his skin and his hoofs and his skeleton, his descendants and what they in turn have accomplished.” (Acad.)

“The book is a monument of thoroughness—also of energy.” G. S. Street.

“We must not hunt for small inaccuracies in a big book. Let us rather acknowledge frankly that the compiler has put together a standard work of reference concerning the subject.”

“A volume, with a good deal of information that is quite new and some stimulating suggestions. Even the smaller sporting library can hardly dispense with it.”

“Mr. Cook has discharged his task entertainingly well, and there is plenty of enjoyment waiting in his pages.”

“The task of attempting the visualisation of the manners and the men of the latter half of the eighteenth century has occupied Mr. Cook with enthusiasm, and the result is some admirable work. He has pursued figures and statistics with immense energy and thoroughness. His figures will doubtless prove of great value to the biologist and breeder; but the best part of the book has to do with the heroic horse and the men who saw him race.”

Cooper, Francis, pseud.Financing an enterprise: a manual of information and suggestion for promoters, investors and business men generally. 2v. $4. Ronald press, New York.

7–485.

“The work treats of financing an enterprise that is either merely a development, proposition, or that is a growing concern, or that demands liquidation. The importance of proper preparation and presentation of such an enterprise is pointed out and attention called to the fact that without proper presentation, it is often extremely difficult to finance an enterprise, while with proper presentation, enterprises utterly devoid of merit have frequently been financed. The conditions and methods of financing are lucidly stated and illustrated with succinct examples.”—Technical Literature.

“This is a book on a subject concerning which few, if any, books have been written and very little published anywhere. Engineers who have to do with patented inventions and their commercial exploitation will also find much instructive and helpful matter in this treatise.”

“The writer of this work displays an intimate knowledge of his subject, evidently, at least considerably, acquired through experience. His attitude is well balanced, and his discussions take both sides of the question. He appears to pay equal attention to advantages and disadvantages, and not to be carried to unjustifiable extremes in any of his discussion.”

Cooper, Lane, ed. Theories of style with especial reference to prose composition: essays, excerpts and translations. *$1.10. Macmillan.

7–27343.

Written from a conviction that the link between substance and form, between knowledge and expression ought never to be broken, this volume includes a body of literary models, for the most part by masters of expression, illustrating and reiterating the salient principles of most good handbooks on English prose composition. The work is suggestive and of wide scope.

“An interesting contribution to the apparatus for the teaching of rhetoric.”

Corbin, John.Cave man. il. †$1.50. Appleton.

7–14254.

“Specifically, Mr. Corbin’s story concerns a great motor trust and a rivalry in love, with a pretty opening scene on class day in the yard at Harvard. The desired and desirable lady names one of the men (who is old-fashioned enough to be honest) the ‘cave-man.’ The story, which has many really dramatic moments, shows how love modernized this ‘cave-man’—how he ceased, in the old-fashioned sense, to be honest and acquired the new higher or financial morality. Mr. Corbin suggests sardonically that it’s all right—and perhaps it is.”—N. Y. Times.

“A love-story that has depth and strength, that means more than the usual pretty, unconvincing obligatory romance in most of the current novels of this genre.”

“It is a cleverly handled novel portraying a phase of genuine American life. Ultramodern novels of this type are apt to be disfigured by smartness, that sin of up-to-date fiction; and it must be said that ‘The cave man’ is not wholly immune from the fault. The habit of adopting the raw slang in vogue into the pages of a novel ought not to be encouraged.”

“Piquánt, interesting and readable from first to last. The book is a rarely perfect example of what may be achieved when an able critic turns novelist at second hand.”

Cornford, Francis Macdonald.Thucydides Mythistoricus. *$3. Longmans.

This volume contains not only “a study of the Greek historian who was a contemporary of Pericles ... but also a theory of history, a study of the historian’s art from the modern and sophisticated point of view.”—N. Y. Times.

“Able and brilliant.” R. Y. Tyrrell.

“A book that is easy, even fascinating reading. It did not need his words of acknowledgment to let us into the secret of Dr. Verrall’s influence upon his ideas and methods. There is the same evidence of careful work and profound meditation; there is an approach to Dr. Verrall’s characteristic brilliancy of presentation; but there is left in the end the same impression of special pleading.”

“A very delightful book.”

“The challenge implied in Mr. Cornford’s title is maintained in his book in a fashion which will be stimulating and suggestive even to those who cannot accept its conclusions.” Paul Shorey.

“Mr. Cornford’s brilliant and suggestive study provides material help ... towards revising the traditional estimate of Thucydides. Mr. Cornford does not always carry conviction. In particular, a cautious student will hesitate to trust himself to the insecure Icarus-flights of a higher-criticism which treats the sequels to the careers of Pausanias and Themistocles as ‘rationalized Saga-history influenced by drama.’”

“An inspiriting and commendable book.”

“The strong side of Mr. Cornford’s book is as an analysis of Thucydides’ mind.”

“With this objection to his title, criticism of Mr. Cornford ends and admiration begins. We can only indicate Mr. Cornford’s view, and recommend all students to examine his arguments for themselves. They will find everywhere much that is instructive, and, however his apparent paradoxes may at first startle, the substantial truth of his position will in the end, we think, appear not less remarkable than its novelty.”

Cornill, Carl H.Introduction to the canonical books of the Old Testament; tr. by G. H. Box. (Theological translation lib.) *$3. Putnam.

A translation of Professor Cornill’s fifth revised edition. The volume renders to the reader “knowledge which will enable him to understand the problems of the Old Testament and value the solutions which scholars have offered.” (Ath.)

“There is in our language no single volume on the subject which contains so much material, and especially which gives such full lists of relevant writings, as does this book by Prof. Cornill. There is always danger, however, that the limitations of a short work on a long subject may make an author dogmatic, and in this respect Prof. Cornill is not above suspicion.”

“The clearness and conciseness of the original are preserved in the translation, but it is to be regretted that the translator has made references to previous passages by sections only, which are not noted at the top of the page and are therefore difficult to find in the text.”

“While primarily designed as a handbook for critical students, it is serviceable in the main points and general lines for intelligent readers, though unacquainted with Hebrew, in its presentation of Old Testament critical science at this date, both as to its closed questions and remaining problems.”

Cornish, Charles John.Animal artisans and other studies of birds and beasts; with a prefatory memoir by his widow; 2 pors. from photographs and 12 drawings by Patten Wilson. $2.50. Longmans.

7–28981.

“These papers, now for the first time gathered in book form ... present many interesting phases of animal life, particularly from what might be called the industrial side, the underlying current being the existence among other animals than man of distinct arts and crafts by which they either gain a mere living or provide themselves with shelter.”—N. Y. Times.

“The single defect of the book is the absence of an index.”

“One receives the impression that the natural history here recorded is the outcome of an avocation. It lacks the tension, and the critical point of view, of the trained scientist.” Charles Atwood Kofoid.

“Several of these articles display a lamentable want of knowledge of scientific zoology on the part of the author. After all, the volume is perhaps sufficiently accurate to suit the requirements of the readers to whom it is likely to appeal.”

“If the papers in the volume before us are distinguished in any way from others that went before, we should say that the observation of the author is more ingenious than ever.”

Corthell, Elmer L.Allowable pressure on deep foundations. *$1.25. Wiley.

7–28847.

This work is an amplified form of a paper to the Institution of civil engineers brought about by Dr. Corthell’s investigation of the subject relating to the construction of a port at the city of Rozario on the Panama river.

“The admirable form of the compilation, and the thoroughness with which the abstracts of published articles have been made, make the book one of great value.”

Cory, Vivian (Victoria Cross, pseud.).Life’s shop window. $1.50. Kennerley.

7–4158.

With the frankness of Zola, Victoria Cross presents in this novel “the passions and the emotions and the part they play in the life of a young girl.” (N. Y. Times.) Imagination substitutes experience in the delineation of character.

“The book is not even what is known as ‘a picture of life,’ since its personages are all drawn straight from sensational melodrama and their humanity is only a semblance, far from convincing.”

“‘Victoria Cross’ writes in the feverish manner of Miss Corelli, and much in ‘Life’s shop window’ will remind the reader of that novelist.”

Cotes, Everard.Signs and portents in the Far East. **$2.50. Putnam.

7–29141.

“After a cursory glance at the Japan of today, the author tells of the Chinese question in British territory, of the situation at Canton, of missionaries and anti-foreign riots, of Hankow and Peking and other Chinese cities. Then he takes the reader north to the scene of the Russo-Japanese war. He describes Port Arthur as it is to-day, and Mukden, and other places, the names of which were so conspicuous in newspapers not long ago. Glancing at that country of problems, Korea, Mr. Cotes devotes several more chapters to Japan and the Japanese.”—N. Y. Times.

“The book is both brightly written and politically interesting, though we cannot go with the author in some of his beliefs and the recommendations based upon them.”

“The author has a gift of accurate narration which brings places and persons clearly before the mental vision of the reader. There is no attempt at effect; yet, none the less effectiveness is attained.” H. T. P.

“On missionary matters he is more sane and truthful than Mr. Weale.”

“Full of interesting information.”

“He enunciates certain theories and offers some suggestions with regard to the significance of the new activity in China that opens up an interesting field for speculation.”

Couch, A. T: Quiller-.From a Cornish window. *$1.50. Dutton.

6–35302.

Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.

“Is apparently a re-hash in book form of various magazine articles, literary criticisms and reviews.”

Couch, A. T. Quiller- (“Q,” pseud.)Major Vigoureux. †$1.50. Scribner.

7–30166.

“The major is commandant of a dismantled and half-forgotten naval post on certain inconsequent islands off the English coast. The garrison has dwindled to two, and their duties are simply to wait upon the commandant. He has lost his authority in the islands, and what with shame and apathy is in a fair way to lose all interest in life.” (Nation.) A famous singer returns to her island home and becomes the ‘dea ex machina’ of the plot. She “restores to Major Vigoureux his self-respect and teaches the Lord Proprietor his proper place” besides performing many another telling service.

“A well written amusing tale.”

“It is seldom that one can criticize ‘Q.’ in details; but there is once, if we mistake not, a discrepancy about a tide.”

“His last story is like a chalice of old wine reddened within by all the fine fires of life and beaded high with immortal love and courage.”

“In ‘Major Vigoureux’ ‘Q’ marks time. It is full of good things, we wish we could think that half the novels of the season would hold so many; but in itself it lacks the flowing beauty, the unity, what might almost be called the lyrical, singing quality with which this author, at his best, lends distinction to his novels.”

“The tale is a most agreeable literary confection.”

“On the whole, there is much to enjoy in this tale, although some readers will object to its lack of definite ending.”

“The story verges on melodrama and barely escapes tragedy: the ending lacks definiteness: but ‘Q’ is never commonplace.”

“He limits his scene, but he brings to bear upon it a mind enriched with wide reading, a pen that is scholarly yet never pedantic, and a keen eye for the rich possibilities of adventure and romance that underlie the daily round and common task of modern life.”

Couch, A. T. Quiller-.Pilgrims’ way. *$1.50. Dutton.

7–35145.

“‘The pilgrims’ way’ has a more serious purpose than is usually associated with anthologies, the selections of prose and verse which Mr. Quiller-Couch has chosen being definitely arranged with a view to their suitability to the different stages of life’s journey, beginning with childhood and ending with death. These selections are charming in themselves, and they cover a wide range of literature, extending from the Bible to the work of such very modern authors as Mr. Laurence Binyon and Maeterlinck.”—Ath.

“A delightful collection.”

“The whole makes a most attractive little volume.”

“Unerring good taste is evident throughout the collection. Not the least of the volume’s charms is the compiler’s fine little prefatory essay.”

“An agreeable little collection made with taste and a certain daintiness.”

“A very delightful book this.”

Couch, A. T. Quiller-.Poison Island. †$1.50. Scribner.

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