Chapter 27

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One of the compiler’s excuses for offering this selection from the writings of Mark Twain to the public is to show that the latter was something more than a fun-maker. “The examples have been arranged chronologically, so that the reader, following them in order, may note the author’s evolution—the development of his humor, his observation, his philosophy and his literary style. They have been selected with some care, in the hope that those who know the author best may consider him fairly represented.” (Foreword)

“Well-chosen selections from his works chronologically arranged to show evolution of style and thought as well as characteristic humor. Useful for quotation hunters.”

CLEVELAND, FREDERICK ALBERT, and BUCK, ARTHUR EUGENE.Budget and responsible government. (American social progress ser.) *$3 (2½c) Macmillan 353

20–8814

“A description and interpretation of the struggle for responsible government in the United States, with special reference to recent changes in state constitutions and statute laws providing for administrative reorganization and budget reform.” (Sub-title) The preface by Mr Cleveland states that the work was begun as a report to the National budget committee. Later its scope was expanded and Mr Buck of the New York Bureau of municipal research, who had been preparing a report dealing with administrative reorganization in the several states, was asked to collaborate. In addition to the editor’s note by Samuel McCune Lindsay, there is an introduction by ex-President Taft, who during his term of office urged the adoption of the budget system. The book is in five parts: Historic background and interpretation of the recent movement for administrative reorganization and budget procedure; Detailed accounts of proposed plans and recent legal enactments for administrative reorganization in state governments; Detailed accounts of the characteristics and operation of recent state enactments providing for a budget procedure; Proposed national budget legislation; Conclusion. There is no index, a want partly supplied by the analytical table of contents.

Reviewed by A. C. Hanford

“Sound, careful work for students and those interested in problems of government.”

“Mr Cleveland states very plainly the facts regarding the necessity of a national segregated budget and no one reading his book can fail to realize that if the government of this country is to be administered in an efficient and responsible manner some form of segregated budget must be adopted.” G. B.

“For the student of budget legislation and administration in the technical sense, the chapters by Mr Buck will be especially welcome.” C: A. Beard

“The book is an eloquent plea for more effective democracy, a powerful argument against political bossism, and a valuable contribution to the cause of the ‘independent’ voter. It should prove of informative value to women.” C. E. Rightor

CLOSE, EVELYNE.Cherry Isle. *$1.90 (2½c) Doran

20–20001

Anthea Argent is just a young struggling singer when the famous tenor, Charles Garston, meets and falls in love with her in cherry-blossom time. Altho she realizes she cares more for her art than she does for him, she consents to marry him. Her voice develops until her fame matches her husband’s, but with the coming of their baby she loses it entirely. Her coldness to her husband increases to bitter hatred and they finally separate, but not before she has realized that her child was born dumb. The other passion of her life beside her voice is for revenge on the man who had wrecked her mother’s life—her own unacknowledged father. She sets herself to ruin him and accomplishes it in a dramatic way. But, having done so, she realizes that the fulfilment of this ambition, as of her earlier one, turns to ashes in her grasp. She sees herself as the selfish, hard woman that she is, and the close of the story finds her pride breaking as she tries to pick up the pieces of her life and patch them together again.

“The novel, though readable, has elements of artificiality.”

“For a piece of sensational fiction this novel is decidedly readable. The opening chapters in the cherry orchard are charming bits of description.”

CLOW, FREDERICK REDMAN.Principles of sociology with educational applications. (Brief course ser. in education) $1.80 Macmillan 301

20–3277

“Mr Clow, who teaches in the State normal school at Oshkosh, Wisconsin, believes that sociological theory can be made, to a far greater extent than has hitherto been done, an instrument for the solution of practical and technical problems. The present text-book, which is divided into three parts, ‘The factors of society,’ ‘Social organization,’ and ‘Social progress,’ is intended to provide students with a basis upon which they can apply sociological principles to groups and institutions of which they form part or with which they are familiar. Each chapter of the exposition is followed by a list of ‘Topics’ to be assigned to individual students for special study, a series of ‘Problems’ for discussion and an elaborate table of bibliographical references. This careful work contains in addition a select list of books generally useful for further reading in the subject and indices of authors, books, periodicals and subjects.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

“The book is encyclopedic rather than systematic. It treats in succession a great variety of topics, but one is left at the end of the book with a confused idea and without any view of a general systematic theory of society or of school organization. It would be very difficult to put this book into the hands of elementary students unless the author himself were so thoroughly inspired by the importance of sociology that he could carry the student far beyond the compass of the text itself.”

CLUTTON-BROCK, ARTHUR.Essays on art. *$1.75 Scribner 704

20–6951

“In the preface of this volume, Mr Clutton-Brock asks, ‘How are we to improve the art of our own time? After years of criticism I am more interested in this question than in any other that concerns the arts.’ He believes that art, like other human activities, is subject to the will of man, and that the quality of art in any age depends chiefly upon the attitude of the public towards it. His insistence on good workmanship and sound construction in the things we see and handle every day is a continuance of the gospel of William Morris, and it was never more needed than it is now. He pours irony and ridicule on the idea of art as a luxury; on the craze for cheap machine-made reproductions of expensive ornaments; on professors of art who live in hideous drawing-rooms; on the exalting of processes above persons; and on the professionalism of artists, in whom an arrogant skill and accomplishment take the place of genuine expression. One of the best of the essays is a ‘Defence of criticism,’ occasioned by an outburst of Sir Thomas Jackson lamenting that art criticism could not be made penal for ten years, so that people might think for themselves.”—Sat R

“Mr Clutton-Brock is safer as a thinker on conscience and duty than on æsthetics, though he portrays the artist—Leonardo, Mozart, or Poussin—with admirable insight.”

“It is so pregnant with genial wisdom, and without being unduly dogmatic, so sincerely genuine in its viewpoints, that it is bound to give real pleasure.”

“These essays are vigorous, informative, and often very well written.”

“His is a book worth thinking about, very straight and sober and sincere, discussing one of the most serious of all subjects in a manner worthy of the subject.” F. H.

“With the strong ethical perceptions, Mr Brock combines sensitiveness.”

“He writes with a refreshing absence of superiority, as one of the public with a natural and human interest in art.”

“A better little book of ‘aesthetics for beginners’ could hardly be imagined than Mr Clutton-Brock’s ‘Essays on art.’”

“Possessed of a finely perceptive and reflective nature, he sets forth truths that might be called spiritual were not the word spiritual in some minds held to denote a lack of common sense. Perhaps it is Mr Clutton-Brock’s distinction that he makes spiritual truths appear to be common sense.”

CLUTTON-BROCK, ARTHUR.What is the kingdom of Heaven? *$1.75 Scribner 230

(Eng ed A20–528)

“‘Is the universe a fraud?’ is the question which Mr Clutton-Brock asks and tries to answer in this book. Is life as we know it a welter of pain and evil, a vast and stupid joke; or is there some sense, some moral principle, behind this seeming chaos? We all desire to believe that our private virtues rhyme with something in the universe. We can be convinced that they do, and we can make the conviction come true in fact, says Mr Brock, by believing in the Kingdom of Heaven. The Kingdom of Heaven is a relation of man to the universe analogous to the relation of man to art—a relation at once passionately intimate and disinterested. The Kingdom of Heaven in politics means the disappearance of struggle and competition, in the individual the beginning of happiness.”—Ath

“Mr Brock writes in such a way that it is often possible to wonder whether his words have any very exact meaning, or whether they are merely symbols fluttering in the void, searching vainly for some solid reality on which to repose themselves.”

Reviewed by Bertrand Russell

“It is a passionate and beautiful treatment of Jesus and his chief doctrine, bearing the mark of the artist and the prophet. This book must be read slowly, reflected upon earnestly; it is a significant discussion of a supreme subject.”

“Mr Clutton-Brock’s book has a fresh, arresting quality; it detains the reader. It is worthy of attention as representing the highminded and persuasive modernism that is working in the church.”

COAKLEY, THOMAS FRANCIS.Spiritism; the modern satanism. *$1.25 Extension press 134

“Dr Coakley finds what he calls ‘the present craze for spiritism’ to be in substance much the same as those waves of hysteria and necromancy that have occasionally swept the earth since the most ancient times. He opposes it especially in its claim to be, as Sir Conan Doyle calls it, ‘a new revelation,’ and finds spiritistic practices to be full of danger of many sorts, while he thinks that a future life filled with the sort of spirits that are chiefly in evidence at séances would offer few attractions. He sets forth the attitude of the Catholic church upon the subject and makes clear the reasons why it prohibits its members from taking any part in spiritistic or psychical research inquiries.”—N Y Times

COBB, IRVIN SHREWSBURY.Abandoned farmers. *$3 (6½c) Doran 817

20–19071

In this “humorous account of a retreat from the city to the farm” the reader accompanies the author on a long search for an abandoned farm, and, when it is found at last, assists in every detail of taking possession, of digging a well, planning, building and furnishing the house and, at last, takes leaves of him with the impression that, although the feat was not accomplished without membership in the Westchester county despair association, it was all worth while. Contents: Which is really a preface in disguise; The start of a dream; Three years elapse; Happy days for Major Gloom; In which we bore for water; Two more years elapse; “And sold to—”; The adventure of Lady Maude; Us landed proprietors.

“Written with the usual Cobb humor. Described by one reader as ‘a bit thin with an occasional raisin.’”

“‘The abandoned farmers’ represent Mr Cobb at his happiest.”

“It is a tale all of which lies in the telling, and with Cobb in the role of Tusitala no one can go wrong in expecting that every phase of humor in the subject will be brought forth.”

COBB, IRVIN SHREWSBURY.From place to place. *$2 (1½c) Doran

20–2846

“Stories about ourselves” is the sub-title of this collection of character sketches. The choice of subjects is unusual. In “The gallowsmith” we have a sympathetically drawn picture of a self-appointed hangman who plied his trade with the pride of a good craftsman till suddenly one day his dormant imagination awoke and—killed him. The other sketches are: The thunders of silence; Boys will be boys; The luck piece; Quality folks; John J. Coincidence; When August the second was April the first; Hoodwinked; The bull called Emily.

“These stories make interesting reading, though they are remote from any trace of realism.” Alvin Winston

“Here we have Mr Cobb in all his varying moods of farce and pathos, reminiscence, stern logic, and ironical tragedy. The tale which opens the book, ‘The gallowsmith,’ manifestly belongs to him who wrote ‘The escape of Mr Trimm’ and the wonderful narrative of ‘The bell buzzard.’”

COBB, IRVIN SHREWSBURY, and RINEHART, MARY (ROBERTS) (MRS STANLEY MARSHALL RINEHART).Oh, well, you know how women are! and Isn’t that just like a man! *$1 (8c) Doran 817

20–4128

Mr Cobb, at one end of the book, enlarges on the foibles of women—their narrow skirts, their high heels, their habits of impeding the traffic and getting off street cars backward, and then ends with a tribute to their work for the war. Mrs Rinehart, at the other end, reciprocates with comments on the inherent conservatism of men, and their sex clannishness, and then pats them gently on the head for their eternal boyishness and confesses that “we do like them, dreadfully.”

“While some of the jokes will seem trite, there are enough good laughs to compensate.”

“The tone of both little essays is delightfully urbane.” Joseph Mosher

“It is all good fun, and neither writer could be dull if he (or she) tried.”

“That clever novelist [Mrs Rinehart] gives us very much better reading. She is full of shrewd remarks, and shows much more sympathetic insight into man than Mr Cobb does into woman.”

COBB, THOMAS.Mr Preston’s daughter. *$1.75 (2½c) Lane

20–19510

Monica Dasent, in love with Godfrey Raymond, becomes jealous when Essa Maynard, a girl of doubtful past, begins to pay him marked attention. Godfrey’s sole interest in Essa is because his uncle Hugh has confessed a “certain responsibility” for the girl. After the uncle’s death, it is discovered that he left Essa a large legacy, and Godfrey tries to prove exactly what “responsibility” Uncle Hugh had felt. This involves him in a family quarrel of long standing between his uncle and his cousin Anthony, the cause of which he finds to be the paternity of Essa. Anthony, the real father, is anxious to conceal the fact from his wife, but it all turns out to be a tempest in a teapot since his wife had known the circumstances even before their marriage.

“Here are the ingredients of excitement. But somehow or other the creator of these elements lacks the proper recipe for the most effective mixing. His atmosphere sags; his stride is feeble: he never swings into the long and winning pace that comes so easily to the authors of American best sellers.”

“The author has a fluent pleasing style, and he knows his London thoroughly. Can be commended to that large class which buys a novel because the purchaser wants ‘something to read.’”

“Mr Cobb builds up a very good story with his accustomed skill.”

“The book is written with Mr Thomas Cobb’s usual lightness of touch.”

COBB, THOMAS.Silver bag. *$1.75 (2c) Lane

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During an absence from London Valentine Brook turns his flat over to his friend Derrick Chalmers. On the morning after his return a pretty girl calls to ask for a silver bag left there during his absence. It is made clear that it is not her bag, that she is calling for it for another woman. The mystery of the story revolves about the owner of the bag. Lionel Windermere suspects his wife, Valentine reluctantly suspects Evelyn Stainer. Mrs Tempest calmly states that it is hers, but there is reason to believe she is shielding one of the others. But which one? The tangle is straightened out finally with no reputations lost and no hearts broken.

“The mystery takes so long to clear up that the reader gets a bit tired of it all, and begins to grew impatient at a point where he should, by the rules of the mystery game, be so absorbed as to take no account of time.”

“The style is sometimes crude, but the plot is ingeniously constructed, and certainly has an unexpected solution. Yet our interest is not always maintained at a high level, possibly because none of the persons concerned makes any strong appeal to our sympathy.”

“Mr Cobb writes his new drawing-room comedy with his usual detachment and accomplishment.”

“While not melodramatic or sensational, ‘The silver bag’ contains mystery and amusing situations. The book will please those with a weakness for delving into society scandals and near scandals.”

COCKERELL, THEODORE DRU ALISON.Zoology, il *$3 World bk. 590

20–7593

A work by the professor of zoology in the University of Colorado, published as one of the New-World science series of which John W. Ritchie is general editor. It is designed as a text book for colleges and universities but has several elements of popular appeal. One of its unusual features is the interposition of biographical chapters, the author believing that it is well for the students to know more of the men who have contributed to scientific knowledge. Consequently he has provided sketches of Darwin, Linnæus. Henri Fabre, Pasteur and others. The book has good illustrations including a series of animal photographs taken under the author’s direction in the New York zoological park. References follow the chapters and there is an index.

CODY, HIRAM ALFRED.Glen of the high north. *$1.90 (2c) Doran

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Tom Reynolds finds himself at odds with life after his four years at the front. The vision of a beautiful face in a crowded street remains his grip on reality. On top of this comes the suggestion of a friend that he go in search of a Henry Redmond who, with his little girl, had mysteriously disappeared fifteen years previous. Ostensibly Tom goes in search of Redmond, but in reality his quest is for the face. More casual glimpses of it intensify his zeal. It takes him into the mining camps of the far north, plunges him into adventures in which figure the girl, an old philosophic prospector, a villainous miner, and a mysterious landed proprietor lording it in his stronghold behind the Golden Crest. In the end the girl proves to be the daughter of the landlord and the latter, the old prospector and the lost Henry Redmond to be one and the same person. The girl is won, gold is found in the bargain, the villainous miner is made harmless and life is once more real to Tom.

“A commonplace, crudely written melodrama of the most obvious motion-picture type.”

CODY, LOUISA (FREDERICI) (MRS WILLIAM FREDERICK CODY).Memories of Buffalo Bill; in collaboration with Courtney Ryley Cooper. il *$2.50 (3½c) Appleton

20–2278

From the time he first courted her, to his death, Mrs Cody records the career of her husband, one of the most picturesque and adventuresome of human careers. Adventure was thrust upon him when a mere child it became a part of his environment and was later sought with the keen relish of the actor in him. “One thing had been borne to him, through the never failing worship of youthful America, that he was an idol who never could be replaced, that as long as there were boys, and as long as those boys had red blood in their veins, they would thrill at the sight of him they loved, and cheer the sounding reverberation of his great booming voice as he whirled into the arena on his great, white horse, came to a swinging stop before the grandstand, and raised his hand for the famous salute from the saddle.” (Chapter 15)

“The book under review may not be a literary masterpiece, but it has a merit which many so-called literary masterpieces lack—the merit of presenting a real man and an admirable character. It is written in a lively and entertaining style, with restraint, and in good taste.” J: Bunker

“Her tale is rambling at times, and at times inclined to the sentimental; however, it is not entirely out of character to know that the Indian-killing scout was a lively lover, as well as a dead shot with the rifle. This story becomes more human on that account. It is evident that the real biography of Colonel William F. Cody, ‘Buffalo Bill,’ is yet to be written, and Mrs Cody has contributed her part in good season.” J. S. B.

“It may be that the closeness of the author to the scenes of which she writes has marred the perspective. In any case, the present volume very largely fails both in color and adequacy.... By way of compensation, the concluding chapters exhibit a good deal of dramatic power. Indeed, we have seldom read a story more pitifully fascinating than that of the massacre at Wounded Knee, as told by the aged Short Bull in his tepee on the blizzard-swept prairie near Pine Ridge. It is worth knowing, for it is history.”

“In addition to its personal interest the book gives a stirring picture of early western life.”

CODY, WILLIAM FREDERICK (BUFFALO BILL, pseud.).Autobiography of Buffalo Bill. il *$3 (3c) Cosmopolitan bk. corporation

20–7661

In this story of his life Colonel Cody touches upon his life as a showman only as the final rounding out of his career after the great wild west, of which he had been so integral a part, had become a thing of the past. But in its pages live again and go down to history the thrilling last days of Indian warfare, buffalo hunting and stage-coaching. The book is illustrated by N. C. Wyeth.

“The volume is a brisk, vivid and authentic picture of a departed era, so rich in detail and so bold in outline that it leaves most of our purely fictional wild West stories in total eclipse.” L. B.

“Buffalo Bill’s own story does not rank with ‘Treasure Island,’ but it is the boys’ own book, for it holds all that can live of the life its hero led on the plains and afterwards preserved under canvas; and it was written by a boy who actually did the thing every boy resolves to do, stayed a boy in defiance of time and fate for more than seventy years.”

“His autobiography well deserves a place on the library shelf devoted to western history.”

“It is well to have a life of such varied adventures written at length, the more so since the setting of so much of that life has passed beyond duplication.”

“Interesting to everyone, for it is an important phase of our history graphically told by the one who knew it best.”

COFFIN, HENRY SLOANE.More Christian industrial order. *$1 (4c) Macmillan 330

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The author does not hold that the fragmentary sayings of Jesus can be pieced together to form a basis for a new industrial order. What he believes is that the spirit of Jesus furnishes a guide for conduct in any given situation and his purpose here is to ask “what the spirit of Jesus would create out of the existing social system in order that we may be led into a more Christian industrial order.” Contents: The Christian as producer; The Christian as consumer; The Christian as owner; The Christian as investor; The Christian as employer and employee; Conclusion—democracy and faith. The author is minister in the Madison avenue Presbyterian church, New York city, and associate professor in Union theological seminary.

“It is a very quiet book, a book whose tread is muffled, as if it fell upon a thickly carpeted church aisle. Mr Coffin’s book on the social order seems to take us far away from the industrial struggle.”

COHEN, OCTAVUS ROY.Come seven. il *$1.75 (1½c) Dodd

20–16928

A volume of negro stories by the author of “Polished ebony.” Contents: Without benefit of Virgie; The fight that failed; The quicker the dead; Alley money; Twinkle, twinkle, movie star; The light bombastic toe; Cock-a-doodle-doo!

“They approach the burlesque in their fun, but they never fail to amuse.”

COHEN, OCTAVUS ROY.Gray dusk. *$1.75 (2c) Dodd

20–2646

A detective story with scenes laid in South Carolina. Stanford Forrest and his bride had gone there for their honeymoon. Four days later David Carroll receives a telegram stating that Mary Forrest has been murdered, and that Stanford is held for the crime. With his assistant, Jim Sullivan, Carroll hastens to the scene of the tragedy. From the first he is prejudiced in favor of his friend, but Sullivan maintains his professional calm and stands ready to suspect everybody. There seems however to be no one to suspect but Stanford himself, against whom the circumstantial evidence is strong. But gradually others become implicated, Bennet Hemingway, who had written a slanderous letter, Conrad Heston, the man who had so mysteriously occupied Furness Lodge before the arrival of the Forrests, Esther Devarney who loves Heston, and Mart Farnam, the “swamp angel” with a weakness for “licker.” One of these is guilty and Carroll succeeds in finding the evidence that singles out this one.

“There are some good descriptions of the South Carolina ‘back country’ and a lack of objectionable thrills and horrors. The keen reader will be able to guess the solution.”

“‘Gray dusk’ has two qualities that lift it out of the ruck into which books of its class usually fall. The first of these is a denouement that will catch five out of every six sophisticated readers off guard, and the second is the literary skill the author displays in the successful creation of an atmosphere that enhances his plot.”

“The plot is ingenious and the solution of the mystery unexpected.”

“The story is conventional, but is not without lively episodes and suspense.”

“He writes in an easy, natural manner, with an agreeable absence of that laboured smartness which so often mars American stories.”

COLE, GEORGE DOUGLAS HOWARD.Chaos and order in industry. *$2.75 (3½c) Stokes 335

(Eng ed 20–76275)

The average man, says the author, becomes conscious of our industrial and economic system only when something has gone wrong. He goes through three stages: apathy, prejudice, knowledge. The object of the book is to serve the third stage and to find out what is really wrong. After reviewing the status of the various industries he arrives at the conclusion that the cleavage in society today is between the workers by hand and by brain on the one side and the rentiers and financiers on the other and that the function of industrial reconstruction consists in devising a policy by which the former can exercise their functions not on behalf of the latter but on behalf of the whole community. Contents: The cause of strikes; Motives in industry; The reconstruction of profiteering; The guild solution; Coal; Railways; “Encroaching control” versus “industrial peace”; Engineering and shipbuilding; Cotton and building; Distribution and the consumer; The finance of industry; The real class struggle; Appendices and index.

“Mr Cole’s system may not inspire confident belief in those whose approach to economic study has been through the classical formulae. But no one can afford to dismiss it as a tissue of fallacies, an impossible Utopia.” Alvin Johnson

“The degeneracy of its tone hangs like a miasma over every page. The whole book is a gospel of greed, a hymn of hate.”

COLE, GEORGE DOUGLAS HOWARD.Introduction to trade unionism. (Fabian soc., London. Research dept. Trade union ser.) $1.65 For sale by the Survey 331.87

(Eng ed 19–2251)

“In ‘An introduction to trade unionism’ the most prominent of the younger students of the British labor problem presents to the reader an admirable survey of English trade unionism of the present day. The book estimates the strength of organized labor, analyzes trade union structure and government, discusses the unions’ attitude toward amalgamation, toward political action, cooperation, the state, the shop steward’s movement, etc., and gives the reader a forecast of the future.”—Survey

“What Mr Cole has set out to do he has done remarkably well. No student of British trade unionism—or of American trade unionism, for that matter—should pass this little book by.” D. A. McCabe

“Mr Cole is to be thanked for explaining to the outside world the growth and goal of the shop stewards’ movement. Those who will take the trouble to follow Mr Cole’s treatment of the subject and to consult the works indicated in his bibliography will realize the futility of attempting to deflect trade unionism from its course by a flood of goodwill.”

“Gives a lucid and commendably dispassionate account of the British trade union movement.”

Reviewed by H. W. Laidler

COLE, GEORGE DOUGLAS HOWARD.Labour in the commonwealth. (New commonwealth books) *$1.50 Huebsch 331

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