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“Mr Cole’s book is a restatement of the humanity of labour; a rescue of labour from the dismal penumbra of abstractions which have prevailed in industrial theory since the industrial revolution of the last century. ‘Labour,’ which the economists have loved to contrast with ‘capital,’ is an abstraction, he believes which has vitiated thinking and perverted economic science from its proper function. Mr Cole, therefore, who is one of the few members of the English intelligenzia who have gained the full confidence of the labour party, writes not of abstract labour as a ‘thing’ but of individual men and women forming the majority of the people in any commonwealth; and gives us his personal theory of labour’s place in the commonwealth and what labour and the labour movement are like. This theory is that labour should have control in the industrial sphere.”—Int J Ethics
“Of particular interest is Professor Cole’s analysis of the state. He avoids very carefully the mistake which is so often made of confusing the state and the commonwealth as a single entity.” G. S. Watkins
“A notably interesting book.”
“Mr Cole’s new volumes may be heartily recommended to all who search for an understanding of the mainsprings of labour policy and of the groundwork of labour organization.”
“A pungent review of the whole range of present industrial and social life in the spirit of a revolutionary critic.”
“We could wish that Mr Cole would confine himself more rigorously to plain and straightforward explanation. His excursions into satire and humor are unfortunate. The book includes a chapter upon Labour and education which is of real importance. Mr Cole’s discussion of the state in this volume is on the whole better than anything he has previously written on this subject; and a chapter on The organization of freedom, in which there is an exposition of the guild idea from the angle of personal liberty, is an exceedingly fresh and suggestive piece of work.”
“Against theories he regards as outworn Mr Cole’s attack, through all his book, is spirited and resourceful. At times Mr Cole’s imaginative style seems less telling than the steady hammering with facts which such a writer as Sidney Webb uses. But there are times enough when Mr Cole drives his sword’s point through a dogma and out its farther side.” C. M.
“There is no attempt in this book to equivocate or to win a decision by finesse. In following Mr Cole’s argument many queries cannot fail to occur to the reader, no matter how unprejudiced he may try to keep his mind. In the first place, has Mr Cole been absolutely fair in depicting present industrial conditions?”
“Adds nothing further to the philosophy of the national guildsmen, its object being merely to give a birdseye view of the social relationships to the outsider who wants to know the A B C’s, not of guild socialism but of the industrial problem as a whole. This purpose it fulfills admirably.” H. W. Laidler
“By the test of fact Professor Cole is in places inadequate. But his book is spirited, and the drift of his argument is sound. It is, furthermore, entertaining—which alone would justify it. It is finally a key to the state of mind of many of that younger generation to whom it is principally addressed.” W: L. Chenery
COLE, GEORGE DOUGLAS HOWARD.Social theory. (Library of social studies) *$1.50 (2½c) Stokes 301
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The book is a study of the actions of men in association, in supplement and complement to their actions as isolated or private individuals, and its object is to ascertain the essential principles of social organizations and the moral and psychological problems upon which their structure and functioning must be based if they are to be in real harmony with the wills of the men and women of whom they are composed. It is the author’s conviction that our existing structure of society is not responsive to human needs, does not allow of the full self-expression of all its members and is doomed to a radical reconstruction. One of the social theories placed on the superannuated list is that of state sovereignty. Contents: The forms of social theory; Some names and their meaning; The principle of function; The forms and motives of association; The state; Democracy and representation; Government and legislation; Coercion and co-ordination; The economic structure of society; Regionalism and local government; Churches; Liberty; The atrophy of institutions; Conclusion; Bibliographical notes and index.
“On the whole candor compels the report that the author has brewed a few familiar concepts and some scattered observation into a turgidity against which adequate familiarity with the sociological analyses of the past two decades and a consistently observed purpose might have been a protection.” A. W. Small
“Very able and pregnant little book. His book must be taken very seriously, not only by teachers, but by politicians and reformers. It will rouse keen discussion and hot dissent. Mr Cole will welcome both. For though his manner is dogmatic, his method is tentative and moulds itself on facts. His French logic has been grafted on an English mind.” G. L. Dickinson
Reviewed by Ordway Tead
“For my own part I take little exception to Mr Cole’s general conclusion as based on the ideas of self-government and function. It is only Mr Cole’s methods of reaching his conclusion which seem to me inadequate. Human association is based not on will but upon necessity.... Mr Cole’s book is exceedingly valuable nevertheless.” Ordway Tead
“The book is compact and closely reasoned, detached, and even academic in manner and revealing, as do Mr Cole’s other works, an acute and masterly handling of his material.” M. J.
“Mr Cole has intellectual power of high order. He knows well what he is aiming at and where he wants to stand. One of the most commendable traits of his book is its candor in confessing that it is prompted by a preference.” T: R. Powell
“A brilliant piece of relentless reasoning. Not often is sociology made so easy, even enticing, as in this book.”
“Guild socialism has hitherto lacked a reasoned theory of social organization. In this book Mr Cole makes a brave and wonderfully successful effort to grapple with its difficulties.” H. J. L.
“The entire book is abstract to a degree. It cannot be recommended for easy reading, but it should be read with care, if half the world is to know what the other half is thinking about. As a flight of fancy and project of reform Mr Cole’s idea has some attractive features, but we would rather see it tried in some other country.”
“‘Social theory’ is a book worth while. It is reasoned and temperate; despite a too frequent reliance upon abstract terms where concrete example is most needed, it is clearly expressed; and it presents a coherent set of principles. One may disagree with all of it and yet acknowledge that the author has ably stated his argument.” W. J. Ghent
“This is a most irritating little book. No text-book has a right to be quite so dull as this; particularly from Mr Cole one had looked for something more original.”
“Mr Cole’s book is worthy of and will receive study. While it will not pass unchallenged upon its constructive side, its criticism of old conceptions is surely trenchant and significant.”
“It is an illuminating book. For one I confess to have wished that Mr Cole could have avoided his rather lengthy definition of the terms he used.” W: L. Chenery
“He is so anxious to convey an attitude of philosophic detachment that he sometimes writes in what is for him a rather stilted and commonplace style. Still, Mr Cole has after all an extremely acute and very well trained mind. His analysis of social theory is nothing if it is not acute.”
“As far as he goes, the author is an independent thinker, and neither his knowledge of the labor movement nor his grasp of current social theories can be questioned. The critical and destructive part of his work is therefore fresh and highly suggestive. But both his admirers and his opponents will expect something more, some revolutionary and creative thought.” W: E. Walling
COLE, GRENVILLE ARTHUR JAMES.Ireland the outpost. il *$2.50 Oxford 941.5
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“Mr Cole believes that ‘a realization of the physical structure of Ireland, and of her position as an outpost of Eurasia, may lead to a wider comprehension, not only of the land, but of its complex population.... If the presentation is a true one,’ he adds, ‘the nine sections should lead to one conclusion.’ This conclusion is anticipated in the first sentence of the book: ‘Nature allows no “self-determination” to any point on the surface of the globe.’ If the geology, flora, fauna, and ethnology of Ireland show that it is closely united to the British island, it should not seek to go off on its own politically.”—Nation
“Professor Cole’s ‘Ireland the outpost,’ has a beauty of style rare even among those who make belles-lettres their profession. With the knowledge of a scientist the author combines the feeling of a poet, and an acquaintance with the contemporary poetry of his country.” N. J. O’C.
“As an argument, ably presented, this one is peculiarly liable to be reduced to the absurd.” Preserved Smith
COLERIDGE, ERNEST HARTLEY.Life of Thomas Coutts, banker. 2v il *$10 Lane
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The subject of this biography, one of the founders of the banking house of Coutts & Co., was born in 1735 and died in 1822. Business, financial, political and social events of his time enter into his life story. He was one of those who opposed the war with America and the subject is referred to frequently in his correspondence during that period. The biography is based on a large collection of mss which came to light in 1907 and it tells for the first time in full the story of Thomas Coutts’s romantic attachment for Harriet Mellon, whom he married in his eightieth year. The volumes are very fully illustrated and volume 2 has an index.
“Mr Coleridge’s two volumes are skilfully written and able documents.” E. F. E.
“The biography before us is indebted for its attraction more to the author than the subject. The personality of Tom Coutts does not strike us as original or impressive: his letters are pompous, prosy, and frequently ungrammatical. On the other hand, the prefatory chapters of Mr Hartley Coleridge, the ‘callidæ juncturæ’ with which he stitches together his bundles of letters, are quite delightful; and his historical vignettes are perfect in their lightness of touch and fairness of judgment.”
“The author has had the good fortune to use for the first time the family papers, including the banker’s correspondence, which relates to affairs of the heart as well as to Mammon and to politics. Thus the book gives an intimate portrait of a successful man of business and throws new light on the history of his times.”
“Lord Latymer is to be congratulated on having chosen Mr Coleridge to edit these papers and Mr Coleridge on the scholarly way in which he has carried out his task.... We must mention, in conclusion, an extremely characteristic series of letters from Lady Hester Stanhope, expressed with all her vivacious spirit. In spite of all the other riches in this book these should on no account be missed.”
COLERIDGE, STEPHEN.[2]Idolatry of science. *$1.25 Lane 501
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“Mr Coleridge’s book is really not so much a protest against the idolatry of science as a general onslaught on the influence and on the achievements of science. His theme is that the vital things of life are feeling, thought, conduct, and that with them science has nothing to do. It cannot therefore raise the human mind or play the chief part in education. But he goes much further than that, and avows that science deprives man of beauty and magnanimity; that few of its ‘trumpeted triumphs’ have really brought benefits to mankind; and that it was in an evil hour that ‘James Watt and George Stephenson between them gave railways and factories to mankind.’”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
“It is an amusing performance, even the scientists will admit that if they have sense and humour enough not to take the book too seriously.”
“The book is sharp in wit and often delicious in its humor, but its mistakes are so obvious that they scarcely need to be pointed out.” R. E. B.
“Mr Coleridge’s effusions make us agree with him to the extent of wishing that science had never invented the art of printing or even the alphabet.”
“A little more of the spirit of impartial investigation which is the method of science would have saved him from much foolish exaggeration about the exaltation of ugliness in ‘poetry, painting, sculpture, and all forms of human expression.’ There is much half-truth in the book, much restatement of the obvious. But it makes good reading, and the very narrowness of its survey adds to its piquancy.”
COLLINS, ARCHIE FREDERICK.Farm and garden tractors. il *$2.25 Stokes 631.37
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The author claims that the tractor is by all odds the most important factor in solving the farming problem of today, viz: reducing the number of men and lowering the cost of production. The book proposes to tell all about how to buy, run, repair and take care of one. Every kind of tractor and every part and detail is shown in the illustrations and diagrams, there is an appendix and an index, and the contents are: About tractors in general; The parts of a tractor; The mechanism of a tractor; Garden and truck farm tractors; Tractors for small farms; Tractors for average farms; Tractors for big farms; Draw-bar and belt power applications; How to take care of your tractor; Tractor troubles and how to fix them; Tractor repairs and how to make them; The kind of tractor you want.
COLLINS, ARCHIE FREDERICK.Motor car starting and lighting. il *$1.50 Appleton 629.2
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In a note on “How to use this book” the author says, “This books tells you (1) how to keep out of starting, lighting and ignition troubles, in so far as this is possible, and, what’s more to the point, (2) how to find and fix troubles when they crop out, which they are bound to do even in the best of systems.” The book is composed of four parts: The electric power plant; The electric starting system; The electric lighting system; The electric ignition system. There are eighty-one illustrations and an index.
COLLINS, ARCHIE FREDERICK, and COLLINS, VIRGIL DEWEY.Putnam’s handbook of buying and selling. il *$1.90 Putnam 658
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This book “telling in a simple and practical way how to succeed in business” (Sub-title) is the result of long years of experience in the merchandising field. “It is so simple that however little you know about business you can understand it, and it is so practical you can use it at once and with telling effect.” (Preface) It falls into four parts: Successful selling: Expert buying; Commercial confidence; and Business wisdom. Some of the chapters are: First principles of selling; How to pick live wire salesmen; Selling over the counter; Selling to the retail trade; Selling to the wholesale trade; Making your sales through the mails; The essentials of shrewd buying; Inside credit information; Raising and investing money. There are thirty-two illustrative charts and diagrams and an index.
COLLINS, ARCHIE FREDERICK, and COLLINS, VIRGIL DEWEY.Wonders of natural history. il *$2.25 Stokes 590
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It is the purpose of this “comprehensive account of man in the making and of prehistoric and present day animals” (Sub-title) “to put into simple language an authoritative account of the chief branches of natural history, namely, zoology, geology, palæontology and mineralogy. Finally it explains the accepted idea of evolution from the lowest protoplasmic matter, through unthinkably long ages, into the highest living forms as we know them today.” (Foreword) The book is indexed, has numerous illustrations and the contents are: Prehistoric animals; Man in the making; About the aborigines; Contemporary mammals; Birds of today; Present-day reptiles; Modern fishes; Living insects, millipedes, crustaceans and spiders; Lower forms of animal life; Minerals and gems; Some other wonders; How the exhibits are prepared.
COLLINS, JOSEPH.Idling in Italy; studies of literature and of life. *$3 Scribner 850
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“Literary Italy of today is presented by Joseph Collins in his recent book, to which is given the misleading title, ‘Idling in Italy.’ Of particular importance and interest is the long array here presented of Italian writers of prose and verse who are almost entirely unknown in this country, but who in their native land are the apostles of a new movement in Italian literature. An entire chapter is devoted to the futurist movement. His criticism of Giovanni Papini, chief exponent of the futurist movement, is comprehensive. Dr Collins spares neither praise nor scathing criticism of Gabriele D’Annunzio, Italy’s most romantic figure. A number of essays in the book have no relation to Italy. The author dissects W. Somerset Maugham’s ‘The moon and sixpence’; he gives an interesting chapter on Samuel Butler; there is a chapter on feminism and a good pen picture of Wilson.”—Springf’d Republican
“The pages are filled with all those qualities which make the perfect essayist.” W. S. B.
“The study of President Wilson, as it is published in this book, proves to be an appreciation, perhaps the broadest Wilson has called forth. I find this study the best piece of writing about Wilson I have seen, with the one exception of that chapter of Maynard Keynes’s, and what superiority the Keynes essay has in brilliance Dr Collins makes up for in conviction and depth.” J. H. Dounce
“There are far too many names, followed in each case by brief critical notes, for the reader to gain a clear impression of any one author to whom he has been introduced. When, however, Dr Collins pauses in his swift flight to linger for a while in contemplation of a single author he reveals an appreciative understanding and an acute critical faculty.”
“The reader gets from the volume ideas, not suggestions: stimulus, not charm. He who picks up the book to be lulled, may lay it down sleepless or enraged. It is a real book, not a piece of literary exquisiteness or a series of agreeable conversational discourses.”
“Dr Collins’s chapters are entertaining as well as keen and illuminative. Some of his themes are in lighter vein, but scarcely any would suggest ‘idling’ except to a gormand for work.”
“Perhaps Dr Collins comments too briefly on the many names which he considers. The book is not organic. It seems that Dr Collins had a number of essays on hand and decided to give them to the public under a pleasing but irrelevant title.”
COLMAN, SAMUEL, and COAN, CLARENCE ARTHUR.Proportional form. il *$3 Putnam 740
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“Further studies in the science of beauty, being supplemental to those set forth in ‘Nature’s harmonic unity.’” (Sub-title) “Nature’s harmonic unity,” published in 1912, was based on the thesis that in nature “a few fundamental and major rules work in concert for the government of the whole scheme,” and on the relation between this universal harmony and art. The present work represents a continuation of studies in the same field presented in a simpler form. Certain fundamental principles have been repeated in order to obviate constant reference to the first book. The volume has 156 drawings and designs and is indexed. A note on the title page states “The drawings and correlating descriptions are by Mr Colman. The text and mathematics are by Capt. Coan.”
COLUM, PADRAIC.Boy apprenticed to an enchanter. il *$2.50 (8½c) Macmillan
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Mr Colum has written a new fairy story for children, the story of Eean the fisherman’s son who was caught stealing the horses of King Manus. He was brought bound into the king’s hall doomed to die at sunrise. But first the king asked him to tell how it came about that he had risked his life in attempting so dangerous a thing. “And I declare,” said the king, “if he shows us that he was ever in greater danger than he is in this night I shall give him his life.” So Eean the fisherman’s son tells the story of his apprenticeship to Zabulun the enchanter.
“With the Celt’s instinct for magician’s tricks Colum has taken Greek, Egyptian, Biblical, and Arthurian tales, and made a simply-constructed patch-work of enchantment.”
Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne
COLUM, PADRAIC.Children of Odin. il *$4 Macmillan 293
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“In ‘The children of Odin’ Padraic Colum has given a free rendering of the myths of the poetic and the prose Eddas. Mr Colum tells us that he has done his work directly from the Eddas and in consultation with Norwegian scholars. Mr Colum had boys and girls above twelve years in mind when preparing his text.”—Bookm.
“Told in a connected narrative that flows in a simple, rhythmic prose sometimes poetic. Expensive for many libraries.”
Reviewed by A. C. Moore
“Not the least part of the beauty of this telling of them is that, for all his Norse subject, Mr Colum is as usual invincibly Irish.”
Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne
COMERFORD, FRANK.New world. *$2 Appleton 335
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The author has made a tour of Europe to study our present day world problems. He claims to have made a thorough study from every conceivable point of view. He blames bolshevism and socialism for all the chaos. He sympathizes with labor but fears its methods of redress and is absolutely opposed to everything that threatens law and order. Among the contents are: Problems facing a stricken world; The problem of Europe’s poverty; A tragedy of politics; Russia out of balance; The soviet machine; Clash of fact and theory; The failure of the socialization of industry; The third international; Intermeddling in Russia; Bolshevism in the United States. There are appendices consisting of various documents.
“Frank Comerford’s ‘The new world’ combines a sane and temperate judgment with a firm, intellectual grasp of his subject.”
COMFORT, WILL LEVINGTON, and DOST, ZAMIN KI (WILLIMINA LEONORA ARMSTRONG).Son of power. *$1.90 (2c) Doubleday
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His name was Sanford Hantee, but the boys of the Chicago streets called him “Skag.” It was at the Lincoln Park zoo that he first began to know animals, and their fascination for him was so keen that he ran away from home and became a circus trainer. His power over animals seemed to come from his absolute control of himself and from the fact that he knew no fear. It was old Alec Binz of the circus who gave Skag his desire to go to India and know for himself the animals of the jungle. In India he very soon achieved the title Rana Jai—Son of power. The book is really a series of short stories telling of Skag’s exploits with various jungle beasts. Among the titles are: The good grey nerve: The monkey glen; Jungle laughter; The hunting cheetah; Elephant concerns; Blue beast, and Fever birds. Skag made some human friends, too, in India, among them Carlin Deal, a girl half-Indian and half-English who becomes almost as important as Skag himself in the narrative.
“Men and boys especially will like it.”
“Interesting and colorful, these stories, though written with a collaborator, are thoroughly characteristic of Mr Comfort. Though parts of the volume make rather too great demands upon the reader’s credulity, it is, on the whole, a fascinating piece of work, vivid, picturesque, full of color and the glamour and mysticism of India.”
COMMITTEE ON THE WAR AND THE RELIGIOUS OUTLOOK.Church and industrial reconstruction. *$2 Assn. press 261
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This volume is the third in a series of reports that is being issued by the Committee on the war and the religious outlook. In these times of industrial unrest and uncertainty following the world war, says the introduction, the spirit of God “moves on the face of the waters” challenging the church “to reconsider its own gospel, to redefine its attitude toward the present social order, and to interpret for our time the way of life involved in Christian discipleship.” After defining the Christian interest in and approach to the industrial problems the volume takes up: The Christian ideal of society; Unchristian aspects of the present industrial order; The Christian attitude toward the system as a whole; The Christian method of social betterment; Present practicable steps toward a more Christian industrial order: The question of the longer future; What individual Christians can do to Christianize the industrial order; What the church can do to Christianize the industrial order. The appendices are: I, The historic attitude of the church to economic questions; II, Selected bibliography on the church and industrial reconstruction; III, The Committee on the war and the religious outlook. There is an index.
Reviewed by G: Soule
“Within the compass of no other single volume can be found such a summary of the churches’ experiences in the present industrial age, backed by a valuable historical study of the successive attitudes of the church to economic questions.” Graham Taylor
COMMITTEE ON THE WAR AND THE RELIGIOUS OUTLOOK.Missionary outlook in the light of the war. *$2 Assn. press 266
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This volume is one in a series of studies that is being brought out by the Committee on the war and the religious outlook. It is the report prepared by a special sub-committee with Dr Robert E. Speer as its chairman and Rev. Samuel McCrea Cavert as its secretary and contains the evidences collected and the conclusions arrived at, on the religious outlook, by a great number of competent men. The contents fall into three parts: Part 1—The enhanced significance and urgency of foreign missions in the light of the war; Part 2—The effect of the war on the religious outlook in various lands; Part 3—Missionary principles and policies in the light of the war. The appendices contain a synopsis of the contents and a selected bibliography.
“The papers are uniformly by men who possess first-hand knowledge of the subjects on which they write.”
“This volume is not simply for so-called church people but has much suggestion for all who are facing the problems of our time. Such readers may have to do some skipping, for there are pages here reminiscent of the missionary tract of our childhood, and they will have to do a good deal of translating.”
COMMITTEE ON THE WAR AND THE RELIGIOUS OUTLOOK.Religion among American men, as revealed by a study of conditions in the army. *$1.50 Assn. press 261
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“This volume is one of a series of studies that is being brought out by the Committee on the war and the religious outlook. The committee was constituted, while the war was still in progress, by the joint action of the Federal council of the churches of Christ in America and the General war-time commission of the churches and was an expression of the conviction that the war had laid upon the churches the duty of the most thorough self-examination.” (Editorial preface) The book, which corresponds in aim and method to the British work “The army and religion,” is based on answers to questionnaires, personal interviews, letters, articles in the religious press, etc. It is in three parts: The state of religion as revealed in the army; The effect of the war on religion in the army; Lessons for the church.
“These pages ought to be before every church or convention that is planning to serve the nation through the organized church.”
Reviewed by H. A. Jump
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CONE, HELEN GRAY.Coat without a seam, and other poems. *$1.25 Dutton 811
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“‘The coat without a seam, and other poems,’ by Helen Gray Cone, though not an unusual book of verse, is significant for its strong, impressive faith and its whole-hearted optimism. More than half of the poems concern the war, and are brimming with war’s idealism. The remainder, collected under the title ‘The quiet days,’ are lyrics on various themes. Miss Cone has been best known in the past few years as the author of a ‘A chant of love for England,’ the answer to the German ‘Hymn of hate.’”—Springf’d Republican
“Time was, and not long since, these counters had a brave ring; now, without the mixture and fusion of noble metals, the poor alloy predominates. Even the shrill notes sound flat.” L: Untermeyer
“Among the poetesses in the larger mood, Helen Gray Cone, though palpably not the least ambitious, is destined least to survive the present hour for the reason that her ardors have been lighted at unsubstantial altars, those of the late war and the late peace. A poetess of the flag, she seems stale now as well as strident.” M. V. D.
“It is well conceived and the rhetoric is of a high quality, but the pulse of authentic poetry is too often missing.”
“Miss Helen Gray Cone has a substantially perfect technique. The highest originalities are not open to her, but her feeling is delicate and true, and, in all the agitations of the late war, there is no tremor in the mounting flame.” O. W. Firkins
“Miss Cone’s diction is simple, unaffected, and tinted rather than colored. Her style is good.”
CONKLING, MRS GRACE WALCOTT (HAZARD).Wilderness songs. *$1.50 Holt 811
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This collection of poems, reprinted from various magazines, show nature and life reflected in the poetic soul of a woman. The poems are grouped under the headings: Songs of New England roads; Songs of war; Seven interludes; Songs of places—old Mexico; Nocturnes; and a concluding poem: The wilderness.
“It is conspicuous that ‘Wilderness songs’ should follow ‘Afternoons of April.’ The fragile, tremulous art of the earlier book has taken on a firm, ripe quality of mood and expression.” W. S. B.
“Mrs Conkling feels platitudes snugly and sweetly. Her cadences, like her attachments, are the generally accepted. Her mood and meter seem all too neat, with seldom a sign that their creation brought thrusts of pleasurable pain.” M. V. D.
“Few indeed are the books of lyrics as well made as these. The melodies are light, but lovely; the diction shows an exquisite discretion; and there is always a sense of proportion in design.” Marguerite Wilkinson
“Delicate perception expressed with quiet charm is characteristic of the poems. The volume in general satisfies the craving for nature in her gentler moods.”
CONKLING, HILDA.Poems by a little girl. *$1.50 Stokes 811