“It is the history of the irregular growth of open spaces with which
Mrs. Evelyn Cecil deals, beginning with Hyde, Green, and St. James’s
parks, and so through the municipal parks, the commons and open
spaces, to end among the squares and private gardens. But she has
written more than a mere history; she describes the parks and gardens
themselves, and especially deals with their horticultural
possibilities. This is the distinctive feature of the book.” (Spec.)
The illustrations are from water colors done by Lady Victoria Manners.
* * * * *
“It contains everything one could reasonably wish to know on the
subject, together with some details that seem unlikely to be of the
slightest possible interest to anyone.”
+ − =Dial.= 44: 353. Je. 1, ’08. 370w.
“Altho written for English readers there is a fascination in the
perusal of the volume for us who have but the rare chance of seeing
the famous places here described.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1200. My. 28, ’08. 200w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 104. F. 22, ’08. 70w.
“There was room for a writer who should look at London apart from
streets and houses, and Mrs. Evelyn Cecil has filled the gap with an
engaging book.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 1097. D. 28, ’07. 680w.
=Cena, Giovanni.= Forewarners; tr. by Olivia Agresti Rossetti;
preface by Mrs. Humphry Ward. †$1.50. Doubleday.
The story of a poor proof-reader in Turin. “Sorrow, toil, injustice,
all force the hero to brood upon a solution of the problems about him.
Some of the scenes are marvelously vivid, notably a company in the
etcher’s room, made up of the pathetic figure of the drunkard’s wife
and her imbecile child, a mad cobbler, a woman called the Salamander,
and the two men. One conclusion is reached by the author. The first
imperative duty of society is to favor and watch over birth—death
should not be the all-absorbing point of the thought of mankind.”
(Outlook.)
* * * * *
“The novel possesses little narrative interest, but holds the
attention by virtue of its compelling sincerity, and many of its
scenes and episodes are rich in artistic beauty. We should add that
the translation is excellent.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 123. Ag. 1. 240w.
“It is well worth reading; it quickens thought, widens the horizon,
gives a living value to the ideal, and, best of all, it touches the
heart.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 577. O. 17, ’08. 230w.
“It moves on with irresistible force, carrying one away by its
picturesque and real power.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 503. O. 31, ’08. 330w.
“It presents a vivid picture of a part of the body politic in Italy
that has not been presented, at least to the outside world, by any
previous novelist.”
+ =Putnam’s.= 5: 366. D. ’08. 530w.
“As a close and poignant study of the life of the poor in an Italian
town the book is remarkable and depressing.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 337. S. 12, ’08. 170w.
“Signor Cena has described brilliantly the episodes of preternatural
gloom ... which he proposed to himself, but we ourselves can hardly
read the philosophy of Stanga as such with patience.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 63. Jl. 11, ’08. 1150w.
=Chadwick, William Edward.= Pastoral teaching of St. Paul: his
ministerial ideals. *$2.50. Scribner.
8–19131.
“The principles, methods, and spirit of the great Apostle are
submitted to careful examination with a view to securing counsel for
ministerial, activity in the present day. The temptation in this sort
of essay is to let one’s feeling for present needs dominate his
research into the work of the exemplar, but Dr. Chadwick has evidently
studied Paul first, and subsequently applied conscientiously to
present needs the principles discovered.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“It is refreshing to see a book on the pastoral teaching of Paul,
sounding a note that has long been wanting.” H. P. J. Selinger.
+ =Am. J. Theol.= 12: 515. Jl. ’08. 400w.
“Though there is a taint of prolixity in the style, the book is to be
praised for the high conception of ministerial work which it reveals
and for its earnest treatment of that work. It may be safely commended
to men who desire to be helped in their spiritual labours by wise
advice and an assurance of their high calling.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 189. F. 16. 340w.
“A sympathetic inquiry into the pastoral aims and methods of the great
missionary ... which will help the pastor, or Christian worker, who is
in need of inspiration for his task.” H: B. Carré.
+ =Bib. World.= 32: 145. Ag. ’08. 460w.
“The treatise is none the less practical because it is in the first
instance a careful piece of Christian biography.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 149. F. 13. ’08. 130w.
=Chaffers, William.= Keramic gallery. rev. ed. *$12.50. Scribner.
A pictorial supplement to the author’s “marks and monograms on pottery
and porcelain.” “In the present edition [the illustrations] have been
reproduced by the half-tone process, and are inserted with the
letterpress referring to them.... It has been found possible also,
notwithstanding the inclusion of a hundred additional illustrations
from important collections, to make one volume serve in place of two
bulky ones which were required for the first edition, and as this one
volume is not inconveniently large, the usefulness of the work is
increased.” (Int. Studio.)
* * * * *
“Mr. Cundall’s letterpress is hopelessly antiquated: to enumerate the
inaccuracies which Mr. Cundall has not corrected would be practically
to re-write the book, and Mr. Cundall’s additions are mere unskilled
botching. But it is by sins of omission that Mr. Cundall’s inadequacy
is most clearly exposed.”
− + =Acad.= 73: 265. D. 21, ’07. 1650w.
“It includes both historical and descriptive matter, and it is both
exact and exhaustive.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 423. D. 16, ’07. 200w.
+ =Int. Studio.= 33: 168. D. ’07. 160w.
“A well-made and valuable, if somewhat colorless book.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 563. Je. 18, ’08. 600w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 834. D. 14, ’07. 220w.
“Unfortunately, the index is not ample enough for so exhaustive a
work.”
+ − =Outlook.= 87: 616. N. 23, ’07. 150w.
* =Chamberlain, Arthur Henry.= Conditions and tendencies of technical
education in Germany. 50c. Bardeen.
8–13346.
“A brief but very complete classification and account of the
industrial and technical continuation schools of Germany. The chief
function of the schools is viewed as vocational training. The
commercial demand for such training is naïvely accepted as the
sufficient reason for their being and the psychology of manual work in
the schools is not considered.”—El. School T.
* * * * *
“Mr. Chamberlain has brought together in small compass a great deal of
valuable material.”
+ =Educ. R.= 36: 424. N. ’08. 50w.
“While we may not agree with Mr. Chamberlain in the very few
deductions which he makes, and though the book is very poorly printed,
it is an exceedingly valuable report of existing conditions in the
home of vocational schools.” W: C. Payne.
+ − =El. School T.= 9: 218. D. ’08. 100w.
“Not only those interested in technical education, but all who are
interested in fundamental questions of education should read
Chamberlain’s little book.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 319. Ag. 6, ’08. 40w.
=Chamberlain, Esther, and Chamberlain, Lucia.= Coast of chance;
pictures by C. F. Underwood. †$1.50. Bobbs.
8–13722.
A story of love and intrigue with an adorable heroine and two lovers
who are mysteriously involved in the theft of a famous ring. One is
the real thief, the other the owner of this remarkable craftsman’s
conceit; the two are made to change places, and upon the attending
confusion hangs the plot.
* * * * *
“Much better than most of the modern mystery tales.”
+ =Arena.= 39: 733. Je. ’08. 160w.
+ =Ind.= 64: 1038. My. 7, ’08. 70w.
“It is new, vital, well written, and so crisp yet smooth of motion,
that it carries the most unwilling reader pell-mell to the finish.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 308. My. 30, ’08. 470w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 336. Je. 16, ’08. 100w.
* =Chamberlain, Jacob.= Kingdom in India. **$1.50. Revell.
8–16957.
“No man did more with his life than did Jacob Chamberlain, who was for
many years a missionary of the Reformed church in India. A great
preacher, an accomplished scholar, a business man of ability, a
medical practitioner of no mean skill, all his talents were devoted
with tremendous enthusiasm to the evangelization of India.” (Ind.)
“The volume itself consists of addresses, &c., on various aspects of
Christian work in India. In the first there is an appreciation of
Indian religions under the title of ‘The religions in the Orient:
their beauties and their fatal defects.’ Then comes a paper on the
Bible in India, followed by others on missionary topics, medical
missions and the work of women among them. Under this last heading
comes an interesting account of the high-caste Hindu girls’ schools.”
(Spec.)
* * * * *
“All the papers and addresses are interesting, but more so after
reading Dr. Cobb’s appreciation of the veteran.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 782. O. 1, ’08. 120w.
“Dr. Chamberlain was a diligent worker and a keen observer, and he
knew how to describe what he did and what he saw.”
+ =Spec.= 101: sup. 813. N. 21, ’08. 270w.
=Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar.= Ifs of history. **$1. Altemus.
7–42024.
Twenty-two “ifs” constitute a novel discussion, one which suggests a
process of construction that bears resemblance to the process of
restoration engaged in by sculptors who fashion arms for the Venus de
Milo and heads for the Samothracian Victory. If Charles the second had
accepted the kingship of Virginia, and If the Confederates had marched
on Washington after Bull Run, are two of the propositions fitted to
the then-existing structure of government and war, with the
well-rounded conclusions which a sense of proportion demands.
* * * * *
“The volume is well written and is a valuable work especially to place
before young people to stimulate a further interest in history.”
+ =Arena.= 39: 491. Ap. ’08. 250w.
“Mr. Chamberlin writes agreeably and suggestively.”
+ =Educ. R.= 35: 313. Mr. ’08. 70w.
“It would be wearisome, and would spoil the romantic flavor of the
book, to point out all the technical inaccuracies in the different
chapters. The author writes with a charming disregard of all
probabilities, and limits his speculations by possibilities only.” S.
E. Thomas.
− + =El. School T.= 8: 465. Ap. ’08. 100w.
=Chambers, Robert William.= Firing line. †$1.50. Appleton.
8–23561.
Palm Beach furnishes the setting for nearly all of the scenes in this
love drama. The heroine, clever, beautiful, with a heart and head
struggling with each other for mastery, finds at twenty that her heart
is in the ascendency and that she is hopelessly in love. A simple
enough fact had she not two years before in a moment of despondency
over the discovery that she was a foundling, secretly married a young
college student, whom she did not love, he returning the same day to
college and she to her foster-parents’ home. This secret lying at the
foundation of her happiness to menace it directs the course of the
story thru which run the anguish and heroism of two lovers who could
meet only as comrades on the firing line.
* * * * *
“The story, like other good stories, suffers from the fact that it is
based on a rather ancient situation.” Ward Clark.
+ − =Bookm.= 28: 151. O. ’08. 1050w.
“The best thing about this rather cheap book is its semi-tropical
setting, which is the author’s opportunity for a great deal of
observant and loving description. The worst part of it is the slangy
talk of most of the characters.” W: M. Payne.
− + =Dial.= 45: 214. O. 1, ’08. 320w.
“Is not so good a novel as ‘The fighting chance’ because it lacks the
uplift of a great moral victory.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 553. S. 3, ’08. 330w.
− =Nation.= 87: 235. S. 10, ’08. 360w.
“It is hard to forgive a hundred pages of introductory drivel, but
Louis Malcourt more than atones even for that.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 494. S. 12, ’08. 350w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 741. D. 5, ’08. 180w.
“The book may be best described as having in certain parts humor,
lively dialogue, and some charm, but as lacking compactness and a
continuously single situation.”
+ − =Outlook.= 90: 134. S. 19, ’08. 300w.
=Chambers, Robert William.= Some ladies in haste. †$1.50. Appleton.
8–13948.
In which a New York man of leisure discovers that he has hypnotic
power and exercises it upon a few of his acquaintances with the hope
of turning them from their frivolous society inanities to nature and
the open. Most astonishing things happen,—whimsical, curious,
surprising ones, not the least fantastic of which is the wooing of a
society girl by a club man in a tree-top.
* * * * *
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 210. Ap. 11, ’08. 30w.
“A vastly amusing bit of whimsicality, of the recognized Chambers
variety.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 280. My. 16, ’08. 350w.
“The adventures have the Chambers spice, the adventurers—unreal as is
their world in many respects—have always nevertheless a certain warm
suggestion of being really human and delightfully alive.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 336. Je. 13, ’08. 270w.
“Only a light touch would carry off this preposterous fun, but here,
as in ‘Iolanthe,’ Mr. Chambers has a fantastic fancy and the
suggestion at least of poetic feeling.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 85. My. 9. ’08. 100w.
“Quite delightful, even if improbable.” Charlotte Harwood.
+ =Putnam’s.= 4: 622. Ag. ’08. 130w.
=Champney, Elizabeth.= Romance of Roman villas (the renaissance).
**$3.50. Putnam.
8–25384.
Here is given the most important chapter of the every day happenings
that history records concerning each of the following villas of the
great cardinals of the renaissance: Vatican, Villa of the Belvedere;
Villa Farnesina; Villa Madama; Villa Aldobrandini; Villa d’Este;
Villas Borghese and Mondragone; Villa Medici; Collona palace and
castle of Palliano; and Hadrian’s villa. The book deals with the life
more than the art of these villas. It is profusely illustrated with
photogravures and reproduced photographs.
* * * * *
“Mrs. Champney is not equal to the occasion, and is altogether at the
mercy of the difficult form she has adopted. Her English is careless,
and full of Americanisms; her Italian is inaccurate; and her book
exhibits a romanticism of speech that in truth was never heard on sea
or land.”
− =Ath.= 1908, 2: 506. O. 24. 130w.
+ =Dial.= 45: 415. D. 1, ’08. 140w.
“She has told the stories of Raphael and Pauline particularly well.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 782. O. 1, ’08. 240w.
+ =Nation.= 87: 360. O. 15, ’08. 220w.
“To turn its handsome pages and catch the names on them, to glance at
the illustrations is to make the least adventurous long to behold the
grandeur that was Rome’s.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 514. S. 19, ’08. 320w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 741. D. 5. ’08. 160w.
“Mrs. Champney is always an agreeable writer, and she has made in her
new volume excellent use of the abundant material in the field
indicated by the title.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 229. S. 26, ’08. 200w.
=Chancellor, William Estabrook.= Theory of motives, ideals and
values in education. *$1.75. Houghton.
7–33579.
“A really philosophical and ethical reflection upon the fundamental
bases of life, society, and education.... [The author] devotes himself
principally to the study of civilization—its nature, its institutions,
its tendency towards degeneracy under urban conditions, the requisites
for a stable and progressive civilization, and so on. For his
principles he draws on a large group of sciences—upon history,
psychology, physiology, anthropology, social science, theology, mental
development, pathology, biology, logic, ethics, aesthetics, philology,
and education in its history, theory and practice.”—Psychol. Bull.
* * * * *
“A stimulating, scholarly discussion of education as an integral part
of civilization.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 8. Ja. ’08.
“The book is not for all readers, but rather for those who can bring
to it some knowledge of philosophical as well as educational thought.
To such it will prove a stimulus and inspiration. Every teacher may
well feel a deep satisfaction in the production of so strong and able
a work on the deeper problem of his profession.” E: O. Sisson.
+ + =Dial.= 44: 275. My. 1, ’08. 1000w.
“Is rich in suggestion and on the whole is a broad and philosophic
treatment of the subject.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 318. Ag. 6, ’08. 90w.
“While it is stimulating and will doubtless be read by many teachers,
it will have little influence upon the course of education.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 399. Ap. 30, ’08. 120w.
“The topics chosen for discussion, the point of view taken in treating
them, the extraordinary quality of the style, the absence of current
and conventional educational terms and phrases—all make this volume an
exceptional one in educational literature. Dealing in general
conceptions and in ideals as the book does, it is not likely that any
reader will endorse without question all that he reads, though I
believe that in the large it is in accord with contemporary scientific
thought.” M. V. O’Shea.
+ + − =Psychol. Bull.= 5: 16. Ja. 15, ’08. 1000w.
=Chandler, Frank Wadleigh.= Literature of roguery. (Types of English
literature ser.) 2v. **$3. Houghton.
7–31996.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“Valuable to the special student, and probably interesting but not
valuable to the general reader of more than average education.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 8. Ja. ’08.
“A very complete and admirable piece of synthetic work.” G: H.
Casamajor.
+ + =Forum.= 39: 533. Ap. ’08. 1900w.
“On the whole his book must be considered mainly as a collection of
materials never before gathered into one place, and, as such, a
useful, indeed, an indispensable, preliminary to further work in this
field.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 754. Ap. 2, ’08. 250w.
“The book is one big bibliography; and as such it is not without its
value.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 196. F. 27, ’08. 1020w.
“Mr. Chandler’s work is a very comprehensive and generally excellent
study.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 28. Ja. 4, ’08. 350w.
* =Chapman, Frank Michler.= Camps and cruises of an ornithologist. **$3.
Appleton.
A volume of over four hundred pages which contains in text and
illustration the results of the author’s field study in preparation
for a series of “Habitat groups” of North American birds for the
American Museum of natural history. These groups including certain
birds from the West Indies to western Canada are designed to
illustrate not only the habits and haunts of the birds shown, but also
the country in which they live. The reproduced illustrations contain
in the foreground the birds and nests with from sixty to one hundred
and sixty square feet of the locality in which they are found; while
sketches of the surrounding country have been painted from nature for
a background.
=Chapman, John Jay.= Four plays for children. **$1. Moffat.
8–18062.
Four plays in blank verse which lend themselves readily to children’s
acting. They are The lost prince, King Ithuriel, The hermits, and
Christmas in Leipsic.
* * * * *
“[Three of] the stories are in themselves sufficiently juvenile, but
the dialogue, written with a magniloquence often approaching
rhodomontade—in which all the little fishes talk like whales—is, as a
rule, quite unsuitable for childish entertainment.”
− + =Nation.= 87: 19. Jl. 2, ’08. 540w.
“One may read thru many books of verse without the enjoyment to be
found in the perusal of these four brief plays. All the plays are
written in a blank verse that is decidedly worthy of comment, not for
great brilliancy, but for its almost classic simplicity and charm.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 465. Ag. 22, ’08. 200w.
=Chapman, Sydney John.= Work and wages; in continuation of Lord
Brassey’s “Work and wages” and “Foreign work and English wages.” 2
pt. ea. $4. Longmans.
=pt. 2.= Wages and employment; with an introd. by Lord Brassey.
“The present instalment is ‘largely in the nature of a report,’ but
‘attempts have been made to sum up evidence and to frame independent
judgments.’ These independent judgments cover some of the most
important controversies of the day.... Chapters deal with the
organisation of labour; the policy of trade-unions; industrial peace,
with some interesting information on arbitration and wage boards in
the Australasian colonies; unemployment; and lastly, workmen’s
insurance and old-age pensions.”—Spec.
* * * * *
“Able, scientific in spirit, moderate in tone.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 257. N. ’08. (Review of pt. 2.)
“Granted the scope of the inquiry undertaken in this second volume, it
is difficult to see how it could have been made more exhaustive than
it is.” J: Cummings.
+ + =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 462. Jl. ’08. 460w. (Review of pt. 2.)
=Nation.= 87: 72. Jl. 23, ’08. 160w. (Review of pt. 2.)
“For a long time it will remain the chief storehouse of co-ordinated
facts regarding employment and unemployment, the organization of
labor, and the policies of trades unions, industrial insurance, and
pensions. Prof. Chapman writes in the scientific spirit, without bias
or faddism, seeking rather the true thing than the forwarding of any
hobby.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 228. Ap. 18, ’08. 1100w. (Review of pt. 2.)
“Unfortunately the very qualities that should commend it to English
readers render it of little value to readers in other lands. For them
its treatment of English conditions is, if anything, too full and its
treatment of the experience of other countries too meager and, it must
be added, not up-to-date.” H: R. Seager.
− + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 727. D. ’08. 700w. (Review of pt. 2.)
“By reason of its fulness of information and moderation of tone is not
unworthy of the honourable traditions of the Brassey family.”
+ + =Spec.= 100: 834. My. 23, ’08. 370w. (Review of pt. 2.)
=Charlton, Randal.= Virgin widow. †$1.50. Dillingham.
8–9522.
A colorless, stolid, withal sensitive cripple, the brother-in-law of
the “virgin widow” tells the story. He stands between the woman and
the traps which her temperament sets for her. He shields her from a
blackmailing Italian with the same quality of patience that he uses in
protecting her from the agonies of her unrequited love. His is a work
of love, unappreciated, unrewarded. The book abounds in weird
atmosphere.
* * * * *
“Is as improbable and uncomfortable as the title suggests, but there
is no denying that he has a gift for inventing ingenious and dramatic
situations. His handling of these is as clumsy and unfinished as his
style; but he has a rude force that overrides improbability, and holds
the reader’s interest.”
− + =Ath.= 1908, 1: 505. Ap. 25. 170w.
=Cheetham, Samuel.= History of the Christian church since the
reformation. *$2.60. Macmillan.
8–15779.
“Gives the history of three centuries and a half, to speak in round
numbers; it includes the great churches of the East and the West, the
Anglican church, and the dissident communities here and abroad.”—Spec.
* * * * *
“The book is learned, readable, and honest.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 2: 572. N. 7. 140w.
“Is full of miscellaneous information, carefully and accurately
compiled. The whole is written in so reasonable and sympathetic a
spirit that its merits as an interpretation add greatly to its value
as a narrative.” E. W. W.
+ =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 827. O. ’08. 420w.
“A very valuable book. It is impartial and it is comprehensive.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 648. Ap. 25, ’08. 350w.
* =Chesson, W. H.= George Cruikshank. (Popular lib. of art.) *75c.
Dutton.
A sketch of Cruikshank’s career which was continued thru seventy-six
working years. More than fifty illustrations show the development of
his art.
* * * * *
“Any who are interested will wish for a more straight-forward and less
affected book.”
− =Nation.= 87: 533. N. 26, ’08. 80w.
“Mr. Chesson shows that he appreciates the artist, sees his merits,
and is aware of his limitations. But we have found the style in which
he sets forth his knowledge distinctly fatiguing.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 374. S. 12, ’08. 180w.
=Chester, George Randolph.= Get-rich-quick Wallingford: a cheerful
account of the rise and fall of an American business buccaneer.
†$1.50. Altemus.
8–12804.
“This is a buoyant and blithesome account of the life and deeds of one
who would probably describe himself as the past grand master of the
gentle art of separating the gullible from their coin.” (N. Y. Times.)
It “shows an astonishing knowledge of the ways and tricks of American
‘financiers’ and swindlers of the class indicated by the title, and
the narrative is lively and amusing.” (Outlook.)
* * * * *
“This is a story that cannot fail to do good.”
+ =Arena.= 39: 732. Je. ’08. 550w.
=Educ. R.= 36: 422. N. ’08. 30w.
“Behind ‘Get rich quick Wallingford’ is a larger significance than
that usually conveyed in a good yarn well told. Mr. Chester has put
his finger on a phase of our life that demands treatment.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 288. My. 23, ’08. 570w.
“The narrative is lively and amusing.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 314. Je. 6, ’08. 30w.
* =Chesterton, Gilbert Keith.= All things considered. *$1.50. Lane.
8–34727.
Thirty-five essays upon topics ranging from fairy tales to phonetic
spelling from the death of Francis Thompson to the Communal kitchen.
* * * * *
“‘All things considered’ has, in its incoherence and scrappiness and
in its unrelieved joltiness of style, the Chestertonic quality
distilled to quintessential strength.”
− =Dial.= 45: 347. N. 16, ’08. 400w.
“It is true that these sparkling diatribes have a kind of journalistic
and temporal appositeness; but all will never be so well that they
will lose their point.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 527. N. 26, ’08. 270w.
“Coming into competition with ‘Orthodoxy’ it loses its raison d’être
altogether, so much is it overshadowed by its more vital fellow.” J.
B. Rittenhouse.
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 589. O. 24, ’08. 60w.
“Whatever were the merits of his earlier writing, they are here
overlaid; whatever the faults, they are here accentuated.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: sup. 5. O. 24, ’08. 120w.
“Sincere, enthusiastic, endlessly witty little essays. He is so witty,
one must simply refuse, in sheer self-defence perhaps, to acknowledge
that he is always wise.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: sup. 709. N. 7, ’08. 420w.
=Chesterton, Gilbert Keith.= Man who was Thursday: a nightmare.
†$1.50. Dodd.
8–7893.
A story of fantastic fears, of “the huge devils that hide the stars,
yet fall at a pistol shot.” The chasers of evil are seven members of a
central anarchical council, mainly detectives in disguise, who are
named for the days of the week. “The actual change from the horrible
to the burlesque is happily contrived; but unluckily, once the transit
is completely effected, every semblance of realism is abandoned, and
we are committed to a carnival of incredible absurdity, out of which,
by an abrupt jerk of the kaleidoscope, we are suddenly projected into
an atmosphere of exalted allegory, in which the demon-Falstaff of the
plot assumes a role of mystical benevolence.” (Spec.)
* * * * *
“A fantasia faithfully modelled on Stevenson’s ‘New Arabian nights.’
Mr. Chesterton has not produced the eerieness or awesomeness of
Stevenson, and perhaps had no desire to do so. On the other hand, he
is very witty and amusing.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 350. Mr. 21. 150w.
Reviewed by F. M. Colby.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 452. Jl. ’08. 1600w.
“A highly entertaining yarn.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 45: 89. Ag. 16, ’08. 280w.
“Is consistent with nothing but its author’s freakish inclination of
the moment.” E: C. Marsh.
− =Forum.= 40: 400. O. ’08. 330w.
“Mr. Chesterton pays the penalty of the wit in not being taken
seriously, even when most serious.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 869. Ap. 16, ’08. 400w.
“Although the work is negligible as a piece of fiction, it has the
interest of Mr. Chesterton’s essays—a vivacious and clever style that
glitters with paradox, sometimes almost silly, and sometimes shrewd
and suggestive.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 380. Ap. 23, ’08. 180w.
“This story is told as Mr. Chesterton tells things, with wit and
paradox nudging you into frequent smiles, with felicitous phrase and
apt simile—quotable from page to page.” Hildegarde Hawthorne.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 253. My. 2, ’08. 800w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 336. Je. 13, ’08. 170w.
“Mr. Chesterton is, in short, a master of fantastic fiction.”
Charlotte Harwood.
+ =Putnam’s.= 4: 622. Ag. ’08. 300w.
“An ingenious fabric of topsy-turvey, written with all the dexterous
play of phrase and wit that might be expected from the author.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 764. Je. ’08. 100w.
“The story, viewed as a mere piece of narration, is up to certain
point quite first-rate. Mr. Chesterton cannot be blamed for failing to
achieve the impossible—to graft spiritual ecstasy on to riotous
extravaganza—but it is a pity that he should be so wanting in
self-criticism as to have made the attempt.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 465. Mr. 21, ’08. 550w.
=Chesterton, Gilbert Keith.= Orthodoxy. **$1.50. Lane.
8–28073.
Essays which “are concerned only to discuss the actual fact that the
central Christian theology (sufficiently summarized in the Apostles’
creed) is the best root of energy and sound ethics.”
* * * * *
“Lest any one should be tempted again to rediscover Christianity after
Mr. Chesterton’s fashion, we should like to point out that before
proceeding upon his explorations he should acquire a more satisfactory
equipment than Mr. Chesterton has had time to do.”
− =Ath.= 1908, 2: 534. O. 31, 1000w.
“You may be startled, even shocked, by this novel book; but you must
admit that the heart of this witty Philistine is in the right place.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 527. N. 26, ’08. 500w.
Reviewed by J. B. Rittenhouse.
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 588. O. 24, ’08. 2400w.
“This book is as funny as Punch, and it is a new and unusual type of
humorous theology.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 842. D. 12, ’08. 560w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 638. N. ’08. 70w.
=Sat. R.= 106: sup. 4. O. 24, ’08. 900w.
=Childs, Mary Fairfax.= De namin’ ob de twins, and other sketches
from the cotton land. *$1. Dodge, B. W.
8–14809.
In prose and rime these dialect sketches portray the old time negro
with his loyalty, irresponsibility, and humor truthfully accentuated.
The title piece depicts a grandmother’s indecision over selecting
names for her dead Ceely Ann’s twins, with the final choice of
“Neu-ral-gy” and “Hom-i-cide.”
* * * * *
“Embraces a sentiment so tender as to endow it with altogether a rare
and charming quality.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 304. My. 30. ’08. 250w.
=Chisholm, Louey=, comp. Golden staircase: poems and verses for
children. il. *$2.50. Putnam.
W7–200.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“A well-selected anthology.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 21. Ja. ’08.
“There is a random choice and a random arrangement: some inclusions of
historic interest, other inclusions of undoubted beauty; but between
them there is a depression of the mediocre.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 495. N. 28, ’07. 110w.
=Churchill, Winston.= Mr. Crewe’s career. †$1.50. Macmillan.
8–13723.
A state, presumably New Hampshire, is under the political domination
of a railway. Hilary Vane, chief counsel for the corrupt machine, has
a son, a young attorney, who dares to espouse the people’s cause and
to defend them against the corporation. Mr. Crewe, a bachelor
millionaire, uses the people’s newly aroused demand for rights as an
entering wedge into politics. The railroad president and his daughter,
a charmingly drawn heroine, play important parts in the story; but the
chief interest, in spite of the title, centers in the career of Austin
Vane as he stands unflinchingly for clean politics, and, not without a
struggle, quickens his father’s conscience to the point of resigning
his office.
* * * * *
“The tale possesses vitality and interest.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 218. Je. ’08. ✠
“It will hasten the great awakening that shall save democracy from the
night of reaction and despotism.”
+ =Arena.= 40: 122. Jl. ’08. 1900w.
“The human interest is even more poignant than in previous novels by
this author, whose present work marks a distinct advance.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 723. Je. 13. 250w.
“His book is too long, is rather loosely put together, and the manner
of its setting forth is almost slovenly at times, but it is a story
that has vitality, is informed by a fine idealism, and is possessed of
an interest that does not pall.” W: M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 44: 349. Je. 1, ’08. 550w.
“Mr. Crewe is a unique creation in American fiction.” James MacArthur.
+ =Forum.= 40: 60. Jl. ’08. 1650w.
“The book has the accent of reality rather than fiction.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 1400. Je. 18, ’08. 800w.
“On the whole, it is clear that this popular novelist is growing in
power. His style is still quite without distinction, and often
slovenly. But his people are people (Humphrey Crewe being exaggerated
as the irony of his conception demands), and the atmosphere in which
they move is that of a ripened and really admirable humor.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 447. My. 14, ’08. 600w.
“The book is not devoid of a fine tone of inspiration for the new
generation of voters, but, however steadily there may burn in it the
splendid determination of the author to do what he can to purify
politics, it lacks the fire of imagination.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 261. My. 9, ’08. 900w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 336. Je. 13, ’08. 200w.
“All Mr. Churchill’s novels have been American to the core; none more
than this. As a story there are defects in its construction.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 323. Je. 13, ’08. 450w.
“The novel belongs to the minority that call into play the reader’s
mental faculties and provide agreeable exercise for them.” E. L. Cary.
+ =Putnam’s.= 4: 618. Ag. ’08. 200w.
“A certain real phase of American life is exhibited, and, from many
points of view, it is a near approach to the American novel.”
+ + =R. of Rs.= 37: 763. Je. ’08. 350w.
“That one should thus criticise it as a pamphlet rather than as a work
of art is inevitable from the author’s almost avowed partiality.”
− =Sat. R.= 105: 698. My. 30, ’08. 670w.
“The excellence of Mr. Churchill’s analysis of American politics is
shown by his refusal to label all those concerned in them as either
angels or devils.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 870. My. 30, ’08. 1000w.
=Clark, Francis Edward.= Continent of opportunity: the South
American republics. **$1.50. Revell.
7–39011.
Their history, their resources, their outlook, together with a
traveler’s impressions of present day conditions. Of Dr. Clark’s
observations regarding the possibilities for intellectual and material
development in South America he says: “In all material matters, ... in
her mines and manufactures, in her forests and fisheries, in her
commerce and agriculture, in her schools and churches, in her politics
and business, South America is to-day pre-eminently the continent of
opportunity.”
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 76. Mr. ’08. ✠
“Dr. Clark’s descriptions are never dull and are often relieved in the
most pleasant way by a touch of humor; only as the author had no time,
in the course of his trip, to wander away from the beaten tracks and
to get a glimpse of the byways, those descriptions seldom reveal any
new aspects of life or of nature.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 531. Mr. 5, ’08. 150w.
“He has an entertaining style, albeit his writing is sometimes
deplorably careless, and he has tried to consider justly both the
faults and the virtues of South American character.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 118. F. 29, ’08. 450w.
=R. of Rs.= 36: 756. D. ’07. 120w.
* =Clark, Henry W.= Christian method of ethics. **$1.25. Revell.
8–25722.
The ultimate ideal of Christian ethics as stated by Mr. Clark is “an
automatic right adjustment to every circumstance, an instinctive right
bearing toward every question of duty and every temptation to wrong.”
“The presentation of religion as something worthy of supreme effort,
rather than the easing down and popularizing of Christianity which is
now the fashion of many churches, is Mr. Clark’s message, and such a
message makes a really far stronger appeal to young men and women than
can be made by any easy-going demands on their spiritual natures.”
(Ind.)
* * * * *
“It is perhaps unfortunate that the title of Mr. Clark’s new book is
one that is not likely to appeal to many who might find its chapters
most helpful.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 1067. N. 5. ’08. 330w.
“This is largely a helpful book, partly an unhelpful.”
+ − =Outlook.= 90: 551. N. 7, 08. 240w.
=Clark, John Bates.= Essentials of economic theory as applied to
modern problems of industry and public policy. *$2. Macmillan.
7–36896.
“Consists, first, of a set of chapters restating ‘Economic statics’
and giving in summary form the doctrines already set forth in the
‘Distribution of wealth.’ A second part then gives the contributions
to ‘Economic dynamics.’ The chapters in this second part deal largely
with matters such as are sometimes grouped under the head of ‘applied
economics.’ As a whole the volume is expected by the author to be
‘available for use in classrooms not as a substitute for elementary
textbooks, but as supplementary to them. It omits a large part of what
such books contain, presents what they do not contain, and tries to be
of service to those who wish for more than a single introductory
volume can offer.’”—J. Pol. Econ.
* * * * *
“The book is written in readable style, being much less drawn out than
the author’s earlier work, ‘The distribution of wealth.’” F. D.
Watson.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 31: 515. Mr. ’08. 300w.
“An original and very able treatment of the more theoretical aspects
of his science. Some of the [special points in his treatment] require
further criticism before his exposition can be accepted, but all are
well worth study and show a sound theoretical and scientific genius.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 179. Ag. 15. 950w.
“Whether the style will be found simple by the persons whom the book
is designed to reach, I am not so sure.” F. W. Taussig.
+ − =Econ. Bull.= 1: 20. Ap. ’08. 1000w.
=Ind.= 65: 156. Jl. 16, ’08. 300w.
“It need hardly be said that in this volume Professor Clark shows
again the qualities which have won him so distinguished a place among
living economists. He is original and ingenious, and does not fear to
pioneer boldly into new fields of thought. Those who so adventure
deserve high praise, and not the less so if they themselves prove
sometimes to have made a start in the wrong direction. His style
retains all its grace and finish, his courtesy is unfailing, and a
fine personality shines through the pages.” F. W. Taussig.
+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 38. Ja. ’08. 1850w.
“Modern political economy is a study in dynamics rather than statics,
and the levels reached are the resultants of forces, rather than of
adjustments under the calm persistence of gravity. There is need for a
new political economy, designed to meet these conditions, and Prof.
Clark makes an illuminating attempt to supply the need.” E: A.
Bradford.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 90. F. 8, ’08. 1200w.
“To the general reader, unacquainted with the complicated terminology
and finely drawn distinctions of most writers of modern economic
treatises, much of Professor Clark’s book will prove uncommonly hard
reading. Comprehensive and stimulating as his treatise is, it
necessarily fails to discuss in detail all of the many topics of
present-day interest on which it touches.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 323. F. 8, ’08. 780w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 383. Mr. ’08. 200w.
“The student ... will find much that is acute and interesting in
Professor Clark’s presentment of the subject. He must, however, be
prepared to face mathematical diagrams, algebraic signs, and a few
cryptic headlines.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 541. Ap. 4, ’08. 450w.
“It can hardly be denied that, in certain respects, the work is
disappointing, and in the short space available here attention will be
mainly confined to some of the points as to which the reviewer takes
issue with the author.” A. W. Flux.
+ − =Yale R.= 17: 228. Ag. ’08. 1250w.
* =Clark, L. Pierce, and Diefendorf, Allen Ross.= Neurological and
mental diagnosis. *$1.25. Macmillan.
8–19607.
“A brief outline of essentials suited to the need of the practitioner
dealing with diseases of the nervous system or the mind.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“It would perhaps have aided the student, especially, if the various
tests for determining the state of the motor functions had been placed
together, for the reason that all such tests, in a case where it is
necessary to use them, are more apt to be recalled if they are
associated in the student’s mind.” J. G. Fitzgerald.
+ − =J. Philos.= 5: 666. N. 19, ’08. 730w.
“As a whole the presentation is good and helpful.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 529. N. 26, ’08. 100w.
=Clarke, Sir George Sydenham.= Fortification: its past achievements,
recent development, and future progress. 2d ed. *$4.50. Dutton.
War 7–141.
A revision after seventeen years which includes the lessons bearing
upon national defence supplied by the four great contests between
nations which have occurred since the book first appeared. “Therefore
in this edition, [the author] has been enabled to start from the
ground which it had formerly been necessary to capture, to omit
certain passages which have become obvious, and to apply himself to
the fresh aspects of the problem which the flux of time has brought
with it.” (Sat. R.)
* * * * *
“Contains some new matter which will be found of interest both by
military and by naval students.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 39. Jl. 13. 370w.
“Another edition should correct the few misprints, especially in the
French quotations. The work naturally appeals directly to the officer,
and especially to the artilleryman and the engineer, but it should do
more than this in helping to shape an intelligent public opinion.”
+ + − =Nation.= 86: 40. Ja. 9, ’08. 1100w.
“This book should be in the possession of every United States senator
and representative, as well as of all persons interested in our
national legislation. It is written by the greatest living authority
on the subject, the secretary of the imperial defence committee, from
whose views one may dissent only on grounds which will bear the most
rigorous investigation.”
+ + =No. Am.= 187: 289. F. ’08. 2650w.
“The later portions of the book, which to a large extent deal with
gun-mountings and other adjuncts, will be less appreciated.”
+ + − =Sat. R.= 104: 116. Jl. 27, ’07. 1200w.
“A most learned and intricate treatise on cupolas, reduits, enceintes,
gun-mountings, and explosives, while his study of the evolution of
modern battleships, as presented in pedigree form, is the most
illuminating guide to the mysteries of naval classification that has
ever delighted the eyes and understanding of a layman.”
+ + =Spec.= 99: 334. S. 7, ’07. 770w.
* =Clarke, Helen Archibald.= Browning’s England: a study of English
influences in Browning. **$2. Baker.
A review of the English influences that may be found reflected in the
poetry of Browning. The chapters are as follows: English poets,
friends and enthusiasms; Shakespeare’s portrait; A crucial period in
English history; Social aspects of English life; Religious thought in
the nineteenth century; and Art criticism inspired by the English
musician, Avison. The author studies separate poems and analyzes them
to show the direct poetical inspiration. An indispensable book for
classes in Browning.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 741. D. 5, ’08. 160w.
=Clarke, Helen Archibald.= Browning’s Italy. **$2. Baker.
7–37032.
Miss Clarke discusses Browning’s Italian interests in five chapters as
follows: “The dawn of the renaissance, Glimpses of political life, The
Italian scholar, The artist and his art, and Pictures of social life.
For each she supplies the needed background of history, connecting it
with the poetry by liberal quotations.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“A conscientious piece of work which will undoubtedly prove helpful to
many students.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 77. Mr. ’08.
“It is a conscientious piece of literary scholarship rather than a
book for travel lovers. The book ought to serve as a good introduction
to a knowledge of the poet.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 26: 511. Ja. ’08. 180w.
“The historical studies are complete enough to interest students of
Browning, because of the new light they cast on the sources of his
love for Italy and on the relation between the historic facts of the
records and his poetic interpretation of them.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 384. D. 1, ’07. 220w.
“It will be a great help to the reader by putting the poems into their
historical framework.” W. G. Bowdoin.
+ =Ind.= 63: 1468. D. 19, ’07. 100w.
“We must, in justice, confess that Miss Clarke’s compilation is
admirably adapted to minds which have not yet thought for themselves;
and as there are many such minds, her book ought to be popular. We
have noted several misprints and solecisms. It lacks an index, which
is necessary, especially to the many extracts from Browning.”
+ − =Nation.= 85: 567. D. 19, ’07. 330w.
+ =Outlook.= 87: 877. D. 21, ’07. 130w.
=Clarke, T. E. S.= Life of Gilbert Burnet, bishop of Salisbury: 1,
Scotland, 1643–1674, by T. E. S. Clarke; 2, England, 1674–1715,
with bibliographical appendices, by H. C. Foxcroft; with an
introd. by C. H. Firth. *$4.50. Putnam.
8–18697.
Three writers have co-operated in producing this life of Bishop
Burnet. C. H. Firth contributes an introduction, discussing Burnet’s
place “not as a moralist or a divine or a politician, but as an
historian.” T. E. S. Clarke describes his family, education, work at
Saltoun as parish minister, and at Glasgow as professor of divinity,
until in 1674 he began his work in the south. Miss Foxcroft carries
the history from his settlement work in London in 1674 to his death in
1715.
* * * * *
“This biography of Burnet is one of such substantial merit that it
will doubtless take its place as the final authority on the subject.”
A. L. Cross.
+ + =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 857. Jl. ’08. 1000w.
“As regards the main theme Mr. Clarke’s work is in all respects
satisfactory. Throughout the forty years of incessant activity which
compose the second portion of Burnet’s career, through every phase and
into every cranny, we are guided by Miss Foxcroft’s industry and deft
treatment. Prof. Firth’s [part of the work] is elaborately and
conclusively discussed. There is no side of this part of the subject
which is not treated with fullness and with his usual lucidity.”
+ + − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 121. F. 1. 1550w.
“The Scottish section has been ably and judiciously handled. Miss
Foxcroft’s work is a model for interesting fulness combined with
precision.” J. K. Hewison.
+ =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 582. Jl. ’08. 1850w.
“This life of Burnet will remain the permanent authority on the
subject; it is a great addition to our information, and it is a sound
and convincing defence of Burnet, when defence is necessary or
possible.”
+ + =Lond. Times.= 6: 388. D. 20, ’07. 1560w.
“The joint authors have accomplished their task admirably; they have
produced a book that is at once documented at every step, and
thoroughly interesting. They have both faced the weaknesses of
Burnet’s character without flinching, yet have avoided party
prejudice.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 150. F. 13, ’08. 2180w.
“Professor Firth has contributed an admirable introduction. The Rev.
T. E. S. Clarke ... contributes a careful and well-informed account of
Burnet’s early life. Miss Foxcroft’s work has the same solid and
enduring qualities as that of Mr. Clarke. It is admirably
well-informed, is commendably free from the lues Boswelliana which is
the besetting disease of the biographer, and treats a large subject on
an adequately large canvas. Perhaps it may be objected to both writers
that their work is now and then lacking in brightness and literary
sparkle.”
+ + − =Sat. R.= 104: 729. D. 14, ’07. 1680w.
“The whole picture of Burnet in this book gives just the right
impression of Shakespearean rotundity to the Bishop’s personality,
and, though it may seem paradoxical to say so, recalls that suggestion
of British vigour and directness which underlies all the amiable
foibles even of a Falstaff. Miss Foxcroft’s only fault comes from the
fact that she is so bubbling over with knowledge and sense of fun that
she sometimes makes allusive references to facts not so well known to
the uninstructed reader as to herself.”
+ + − =Spec.= 100: 150. Ja. 25, ’08. 1550w.
=Claude, chef de la police de surete=, 1807–1880. Memoirs of
Monsieur Claude, chief of the police under the second empire; tr.
by Katharine P. Wormeley. **$4. Houghton.
7–36947.
“Miss Wormeley, well known as the translator of Balzac, has selected
from these memoirs for this volume those chapters and parts of
chapters which seem likely to have at this day a real interest for
English readers. She has rejected an immense amount of what must be
very dull reading indeed relating to police regulations, prisons, and
ephemeral subjects. But the episodes here described have to do with M.
Claude’s connection with political intrigues, and with mysteries and
remarkable crimes.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“The translation is admirable but the book has no value for the
student of French history, though it may be of mild interest to the
lover of detective stories. The selections have evidently been made
with an eye to the picturesque. The style is melodramatic and
ejaculatory.”
− + =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 644. Ap. ’08. 280w.
“A curious and uncommonly interesting book.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 46. F. ’08.
“Miss Wormeley ... shows that she is capable of good work; but her
sceptical faculties should have been more frequently brought into play
in editing the ‘Memoirs.’”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 207. Ag. 22. 930w.
“The translation, as might be expected from Miss Wormeley, is spirited
and idiomatic.”
+ =Dial.= 44: 77. F. 1, ’08. 550w.
“After carefully reading this book, the reviewer can use the hackneyed
phrase in its literal sense, ‘There is not a dull line to be found in
it.’”
+ + =Lit. D.= 36: 95. Ja. 18, ’08. 550w.
“There is no view more authentic and more interesting than that given
in these pages of the progress and the operations of the conspiracy of
which for twenty years France was the victim.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 34. Ja. 18, ’08. 550w.
“The book is certainly good reading, and makes one wish for more, if
more material as good as this may be drawn from the French original.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 876. D. 21, ’07. 160w.
“His revelations have but little value except in relation to the spy
work of Germans before the war.”
− + =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 175. Mr. ’08. 100w.
“The narrative is told in the simple, direct style of the diary of a
simple, direct man of the world who yet has retained something of the
naïvete of the old-time soldier.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 511. Ap. ’08. 100w.
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 444. Ap. 4, ’08. 200w.
“This volume will be found very interesting reading by every one who
cares for the byways and the wrong side of history.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 750. My. 9, ’08. 450w.
=Clay, Grover.= Hester of the hills. $1.50. Page.
7–31284.
A tale of the Ozarks in which a northerner finding among the
“crackers” a physically perfect type of young woman, educates and
marries her. His failure to consider the question of love in a union
which should insure him against frail posterity results in various
surprises for him which play havoc with his plans.
* * * * *
“As a photograph of life among the cracker farmers and hunters of
Missouri, the book is not without significance. As a ‘romance’ it is
singularly uncouth.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 515. Je. 4, ’08. 250w.
“If the treatment of the theme of this novel were as novel as the
theme itself, the result would be a noteworthy piece of fiction
instead of one but mildly interesting.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 12: 720. N. 9, ’07. 200w.
=Clegg, Thomas Bailey.= Bishop’s scapegoat. †$1.50. Lane.
8–14664.
An English vicar takes it upon himself to end the life of a French
scoundrel in Paris. He chokes him and leaves him for dead. A physician
whom the dying man had wronged, comes in upon him, but will not
resuscitate him. The physician is tried for murder, convicted and
transported to a penal colony in the South Pacific, where he is
ministered to by a devoted daughter. The vicar’s son, now a bishop of
the See of Capricornia, loves the daughter, but hesitates to marry her
because she is the child of a murderer. Explanations finally bring
events to a happy issue. “The story is inspired with a deep sense of
the beautiful in nature, the instinctive goodness of the human heart,
and the divine meaning of life.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“The chief characters appear in telling situations, and we find for
the most part a fine balance and sense of proportion.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 757. Je. 20. 130w.
“One is irritated by a series of rather inartistic surprises. The book
is worth reading; it is fresh, wholesome, and entertaining.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 12. Jl. 2, ’08. 360w.
“There are passages of description and narrative in this novel of
sufficient merit to raise it considerably above the average level.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 1036. Je. 27, ’08. 200w.
=Clergue, Helen.= The salon: a study of French society and
personalities in the 18th century. **$3. Putnam.
7–36984.
“Beginning with a careful study of the origin, growth, and influence
of that peculiarly French social development, the _salon_, Mrs.
Clergue proceeds to paint portraits of the better-known among those
women who were famous in the eighteenth century as the hostesses and
directing heads of these gatherings; Madame du Deffand, Madame
d’Epinay, Mlle. de Lespinasse, and the ‘Queen of the Rue St. Honoré’
and Madame Geoffrin.”—Spec.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 132. My. ’08.
“It cannot be said that these studies add any facts to those already
known. They are marked, however, by a spirit of sympathetic
intelligence, and, on the whole, by a laudable regard for accuracy.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908. 2: 363. S. 26. 280w.
+ =Nation.= 86: 239. Mr. 12, ’08. 250w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 333. Je. 13, ’08. 100w.
“All of the studies are decidedly interesting both from a
psychological and a sociological point of view.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 746. N. 30, ’07. 140w.
“All of Miss Clergue’s characterizations are interesting.” E. J.
Putnam.
+ =Putnam’s.= 4: 365. Je. ’08. 450w.
“She is a diligent student of the period and her bibliography is
well-nigh exhaustive, but she does not tell us much which has not
already been said as well, and sometimes better, by others.”
− + =Sat. R.= 105: 238. F. 22, ’08. 1220w.
“These bright and impartial sketches are very helpful towards
realising the nature and effect of the various ‘salons’ in which the
Revolution, one may say, was talked into being. They also suggest
amusingly, with a clear and uncommon wideness of view, the
extraordinary changes of a hundred years.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 186. F. 1, ’08. 1500w.
=Clews, Henry.= Fifty years in Wall street. *$3. Henry Clews, 15
Broad st., N. Y.
8–18389.
Brings to date the author’s “Twenty-eight years in Wall street.” It is
a history of financial events told in conversational style by one who
in his long career has known personally the Wall street leaders. Pt.
1, Wall street; pt. 2, Speculation; pt. 3, Capitalists and
financiers—U. S.; pt. 4, Business.
* * * * *
“The new chapters add little of importance. It is not creditable for
an author or publisher, in re-issuing a book under a new title, to
neglect all changes in the older chapters.”
− =Nation.= 86: 543. Je. 11. ’08. 280w.
“It is difficult to name any other single book which gives the
narrative of financial affairs so well as Mr. Clews’s.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 460. Ag. 22, ’08. 230w.
=Clifford, Lucy Lane.= Proposals to Kathleen. †$1.50. Barnes.
8–7894.
A young woman pauses on the eve of her marriage to “a clever,
well-off, fairly well-off, that is, well-connected, well-placed” man
with whom she is not in love, and indulges in reminiscences, aided by
letters which she is about to destroy, of past lovers, their
love-making and proposals. It is her farewell to maidenhood and its
dreams.
* * * * *
“It is the clever portrayal of the heart of a woman whose idea is to
become entirely worldly, although she has not yet reached that state.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 267. My. 9, ’08. 100w.
“Her original whimsical ideas and forms of expression give the book a
piquant relish not to be found elsewhere.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 336. Je. 13, ’08. 180w.
=Clouston, R. S.= Sir Henry Raeburn. (Newnes art lib.) il. *$1.25.
Warne. W 8–53.
The seven pages of biographical and critical text are followed by
forty-eight full page reproductions of the more notable paintings of
this artist who is the pride of Scotland.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 101. Ap. ’08. ✠
=Nation.= 86: 362. Ap. 16, ’08. 30w.
+ =Outlook.= 88: 279. F. 1, ’08. 200w.
=Clouston, R. S.= Sir Thomas Lawrence, P. R. A. (Newnes art lib., no.
27.) il. *$1.25. Warne.
W 8–69.
As the son of an easygoing innkeeper, the early talents of this
self-taught painter had comparatively little guidance tho plenty of
encouragement. The biographical portion of the volume sketches the
steps that led to membership in the Royal academy, to a knighthood,
and finally to the presidency of the Academy. Forty-eight
reproductions of his pictures illustrate his range as well as his
“technical and temperamental” limitations.
* * * * *
“Valuable mainly because of the illustrations.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 173. Je. ’08. ✠
“The text is of little importance.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 452. My. 14, ’08. 100w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 243. Ap. 25, ’08. 450w.
“Compact but suggestive estimate.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 883. Ap. 18, ’08. 170w.
=Cody, Grace Ethelwyn.= Jacquette: a sorority girl. †$1.25.
Duffield.
8–3429.
Whether secret societies in schools help or harm development on broad
lines is the problem dealt with in this story of high school life.
* * * * *
“While the appeal of the book must necessarily be somewhat limited,
its atmosphere is wholesome.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 174. F. 20, ’08. 150w.
“A charming tale told with simplicity.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 69. F. 8, ’08. 50w.
“An excellent story for girls and boys.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 839. Ap. 11, ’08. 100w.
=Cody, H. A.= Apostle of the North: the life and memoirs of William
Carpenter Bompas, D. D., first bishop of Athabasca, 1874–1884,
bishop of Mackenzie river, 1884–1891, bishop of Selkirk,
1891–1896; with an introd. by Rev. S. P. Mattheson. *$2.50.
Dutton.
The story of a devoted missionary’s hard work and self-sacrifice in
the wilderness of the far northwest. The sketch reveals strength,
purpose, steadfastness and great power of love.
* * * * *
“The tone of the book cannot be called quite broad and tolerant.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 216. S. 3, ’08. 500w.
“A saintly man, and a sympathetic, clearly drawn portrait of him.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 355. Je. 20, ’08. 470w.
=Spec.= 100: 506. Mr. 28, ’08. 430w.
=Coghill, Stanly.= Hathor. *75c. Robertson.
7–2749.
The work of a young western writer who died recently. An introductory
note contributed by a friend tells the reader that the poems are “the
overtone of a strangely beautiful soul that was always seeking for a
half-remembered and perhaps, in this world at least, unattainable
glory.”
* * * * *
“This little book is distinctly worth while. Its ideas are mostly
echoes, and it is too much tinged with the melancholy in which youth
is apt to revel, but it has harmony, and flowing rhythm, and something
of the historical imagination.” W: M. Payne.
+ =Dial.= 43: 94. Ag. 16, ’07. 370w.
=Nation.= 85: 589. D. 26, ’07. 90w.
=Cohen, Emily Solis-, jr.= David the giant killer, and other tales
of Grandma Lopez. $1.25. Jewish pub.
8–16561.
Bible stories retold for a group of story-hungry little people. They
are as follows: David the giant killer, In Shushan the capital, The
sacrifice at Modin, The hidden smithy, The fall of Michmash, At the
fork of the roads, Carmel, Amid the alien corn, How Daniel became
judge, and The golden image.
=Coke, Henry John.= Open hatchways. †$1.50. Lane.
“The development of character in a girl, vain, passionate, with a
taste for French novels, but at heart pure and true, under the stress
of being wooed by three typical lovers—the good prig, the stupid
guardsman, and the clever, fascinating adventurer—is the study which
has engaged Mr. Coke’s attention.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“A curiously incongruous book. Well and carefully written, it is
interesting enough to carry the reader to the end of the thirty-four
chapters. There is a touch of George Meredith in the characters (as
well as the names) of Mrs. Boadle and Sir Ralph Wychard, though they
are, unfortunately, too slightly drawn to contain more than a very
faint hint.”
+ − =Acad.= 73: 170. N. 23, ’07. 200w.
“He has not succeeded in chaining the attention of his readers. He
strikes no new note. The plot is threadbare; the characters are of a
well-known type; they act as we all know they will, and are not
endowed with any real individuality. The mild philosophy of the
heroine’s father, irrelevant to the action, is not a little boring.”
− =Ath.= 1907, 2: 763. D. 14. 180w.
“Distinguished by a fresh and sincere handling.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 15. Ja. 11, ’08. 160w.
“Mr. Coke knows something of Harrow and Cambridge life, and has
apparently read Schopenhauer and Kant, but such experience and
information are not uncommon, nor in themselves sufficient
justification for writing a novel.”
− =Sat. R.= 104: 733. D. 14, ’07. 80w.
=Colby, Charles W.= Canadian types of the old régime, 1608–1698.
**$2.75. Holt.
Against a wilderness background into which crept historical interest
with the coming of Jacques Cartier, are set, each in turn, types of
the old régime, which stand for aspects of French colonisation. There
are Champlain, the explorer; Bribeuf, the missionary; Hébert, the
colonist; D’Iberville, the soldier; Du Lhut, the coureur de bois;
Talon, the intendant; Laval, the bishop; Frotenac, the governor; and
The woman.
* * * * *
“No one could call this book heavy, and yet even the erudite might
find much in it that would repay perusal.” L. J. Burpee.
+ =Dial.= 45: 291. N. 1, ’08. 840w.
“The volume is written in light and graceful style, but with due
regard for firm historical bases. It not only makes interesting
reading, but gives perhaps as clear a notion of what the old régime in
Canada was at its best as may be found anywhere in a single volume.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 561. O. 17, ’08. 180w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 513. S. 19, ’08. 700w.
“Sympathetic and illuminating studies of old-time Canadian worthies.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 636. N. ’08. 200w.
* =Cole, William Morse.= Accounts, their construction and
interpretation. *$2. Houghton.
8–31984.
A handbook for business men and students of affairs prepared by the
assistant professor of accounting in Harvard university. It is not
meant for an encyclopaedia of book keeping forms and practice but it
is comprehensive for principles. Part 1 discusses book keeping
practice and the philosophic basis upon which it rests. Part 2 deals
with the analytical side of accounting, the last chapters making
general principles more concrete by applying them to the problems of
different lines of business in which they may be best illustrated.
=Coleridge, Samuel Taylor.= Biographia literaria; ed. with his
aesthetical essays by J. Shawcross. 2v. *$2.75. Oxford.
8–28959.
A reprint of the original text with a valuable introduction and a
quantity of notes by Mr. Shawcross, to which have been added a few of
the lesser-known Coleridge essays on the principles of aesthetics.
* * * * *
“[Mr. Shawcross is] an artist who has made of that meat [Coleridge’s
prose] a savoury and wholesome dish to tempt the languid palate....
Plainly, Mr. Shawcross shuns all controversy, choosing rather to give
the fruits of a patient and expert study of Coleridge’s prose than to
enter into minute and, for his purpose, idle disputes.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 247. F. 29. 2700w.
“Mr. Shawcross shows himself intimately in touch, not only with all
that Coleridge has written, and others have written about him, but
with most of what he read.” Basil de Sélincourt.
+ =Hibbert J.= 6: 944. Jl. ’08. 900w.
“Mr. Shawcross’s introduction repays a careful reading; it not only
fulfils its first intention of clearing up the relation of Coleridge
to Kant and Schelling, but throws light on the whole international
movement of romanticism.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 174. F. 20, ’08. 850w.
“Its excellence lies in the variety of interesting subjects with which
it deals, in the mass of curious information it contains, in the
acuteness and originality so abundantly scattered over its pages.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 376. Mr. 7, ’08. 1600w.
=Collins, Varnum Lansing.= Continental congress at Princeton (1783).
*$3. University library, Princeton, N. J.
8–13283.
“A special study of the coming of the Congress to Princeton, New
Jersey, after the revolt of the Pennsylvania troops drove its members
from Philadelphia.... The chapter on Princeton in 1783, that on the
reception given the Congressional visitors, and on the presence of the
members of Congress at the annual commencement exercises of the
college, present a true picture of the accustomed quiet of the Jersey
village, broken by momentous incursion. Monotony of narrative is
prevented by the description of the visits of General Washington to
Congress, of the arrival of the Dutch minister, and of the theft from
the village postoffice of a mail-bag which contained the official
correspondence of the members of Congress.”—Dial.
* * * * *
“Has fashioned his material into a readable narrative. The volume is
one that will appeal to the general reading public, and is yet of
value to the student.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 92. Ag. 16, ’08. 320w.
“Well fills a vacant niche in the history of the confederacy.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 437. Ag. 20, ’08. 260w.
“The interest lies mainly in three directions: the story itself, with
its vivid portrayal of the personages concerned at work and at play;
the official activities of Congress and the business actually
transacted at Princeton; and, lastly, the significance of the events
from the point of view of our national development. Each of these
aspects is amply and admirably worked out.”
+ + =Nation.= 87: 441. N. 5, ’08. 1200w.
=Colvill, Helen Hester.= Lady Julia’s emerald: a novel. †$1.50.
Lane.
A story with a London background. The emerald of the title with its
copper setting and its mystic charm enters into the plot of the tale
whose interest is centered about a wonderful girl of struggles and
dreams. “The story of Lesley’s cramped childhood, of her longed-for
and finally realized three months of work and freedom as an artist,
together with her love story have the same charm of freshness and
conviction which are inherent in herself, although one cannot but
doubt that such a girl would have evolved from a parentage and
up-bringing of the sort she suffered.” (N. Y. Times.)
* * * * *
“The writer’s shifting attitude as to the mysticism surrounding Lady
Julia and her emerald is disconcerting. All the characters are
convincing except the widow who pursues her formerly rejected suitor.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 39. Jl. 11. 100w.
“Miss Colvill is the mistress of a firm and pleasant style through
which glimmers an agreeable humor.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 404. Jl. 18, ’08. 200w.
=Comstock, Harriet T.= Janet of the dunes. †$1.50. Little.
8–975.
Mrs. Comstock has woven about her unafraid, dream-filled heroine of
the dunes a story of simple shore life. It is interrupted only by the
inevitable summer boarder who with palette and brush attempts to catch
the glow of the hills and the deep beryl of the waves. Janet, the
adopted daughter of “Captain Billy” of the Life saving crew learns
from these same city folk the lesson that awakens her from childhood
to womanhood. A young artist teaches her the lesson of love, and a man
of the world who, she discovers, is her father, shows her some of the
tragedies of love. She comes thru her experience sane and unspoiled.
* * * * *
“It is quite an unpretentious story. But the book is worth reading,
not only for the sake of the story, but also because it contains a
dozen memorable characters of an unfamiliar type, whose acquaintance
it is a pleasure to make and to retain.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 101. Mr. ’08. 420w.
“But from the delighted reader’s point of view Janet is adorable and
logical, and most refreshing after the sophisticated heroines that
belong to modern fiction as fever belongs to the sick man.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 694. Mr. 26, ’08. 450w.
“There is enough true sea charm in her descriptions to make one wish
that she had had the courage to celebrate her shore and her shore
worthies without recourse to the form of fiction.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 129. F. 6, ’08. 260w.
“Janet is quite a likable person in her own way. If her creator has
not managed to draw her after a very original pattern, still she is
likable.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 90. F. 15, ’08. 90w.
“While some of the conversations and situations fail to ring true, the
heroine is a spirited and lovable girl, the surroundings and manners
of the life-savers on our coasts are described with the vividness that
comes from personal association, and the climax of the story rouses
real interest in the reader.”
+ − =Outlook.= 88: 280. F. 1, ’08. 140w.
“A story of refreshing interest.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 761. Je. ’08. 100w.
=Conant, Charles Arthur.= Principles of banking: being the second
part, separately issued, of The principles of money and banking.
**$1.75. Harper.
8–15781.
The financial crisis of 1907 has made particularly opportune the
appearance of this second part of a work published three years ago.
The author’s hope in presenting the work is that it “will contribute
something to the development of sound financial knowledge and do its
share towards removing the fetters imposed by a defective currency
upon American commerce in its conquest for supremacy in the world’s
markets.” He treats the subjects under the following heads: The
principles of banking currency, The evolution of commercial banking,
and The co-operation of the factors of exchange.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 267. N. ’08.
“We think that even in these hard times the needed capital should have
been secured for providing a new index.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 42. Jl. 9, ’08. 140w.
“Mr. Conant’s books are as well qualified for rereading as for
reprinting.”
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 307. My. 30, ’08. 230w.
=R. of Rs.= 38: 124. Jl. ’08. 100w.
=Conant, Martha Pike.= Oriental tale in England in the eighteenth
century. (Columbia univ. studies in comparative literature.) *$2.
Macmillan.
8–3276.
A doctoral monograph which brings together in convenient form “brief
characterizations of the Oriental apologues, satires, and letters that
run all through the eighteenth century and form an integral part of
the romanticism of the nineteenth. Miss Conant makes this connection
with the romantic movement the guiding thread of her book, and in her
concluding chapter, ‘Literary estimate,’ deals with this theme
directly and convincingly.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“No adequate study of the influence of the Oriental tale in England
was ever compiled until Miss Martha Pike Conant, Ph. D., of Columbia
university, wrote her elaborate, yet thoroughly interesting little
volume.”
+ + =Ath.= 1908, 2: 261. S. 5. 1350w.
“We will note but two questions concerning Dr. Conant’s conclusions.”
+ − =Dial.= 45: 17. Jl. 1, ’08. 400w.
“On the whole, her work is useful, though pedestrian in tone.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 260. Mr. 19, ’08. 170w.
“Dr. Conant’s book will be attractive, not only to students of
literature, but to those who enjoy the occasional quaint and unusual
tale.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 392. Jl. 11, ’08. 520w.
“An interesting by-product of literary scholarship.”
+ =Outlook.= 88: 840. Ap. 11, ’08. 100w.
=Conder, Claude Reignier.= Rise of man. *$3.50. Dutton.
“It is mainly the political and religious progress of the race that is
described in this volume. There is a brief sketch of the development
of mathematical, astronomical, geographical, chemical, biological, and
archaeological knowledge; an account of early man (prehistoric
remains, language, race); a history of civilization, ancient,
mediaeval, and modern; and a description of the religions of the
world, more than half the book being devoted to this last
topic.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“The scheme is defective in that it omits sociological and ethical
history, which was, perhaps, passed over from lack of space. The
immense mass of facts is handled with considerable skill: the points
described are in general wisely chosen, the style is easy and clear.
We miss in his exposition a clear statement of the ideas that have
controlled the progress of civilization.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 190. Ag. 27, ’08. 900w.
“Occasionally Col. Conder demonstrates an amazing ingenuousness and
naïveté. His book is one for scholars, by a scholar, but it is also
one for the general public, thanks largely to the lucidity and
elegance of its style.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 314. Je. 6, ’08. 740w.
“This bird’s-eye view of a vast field gives interesting distinctness
to a large variety of important details. It may be accepted in the
main as sufficiently accurate, though more recent research and
criticism occasionally correct it.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 816. Ag. 8, ’08. 180w.
=Conley, Rev. John Wesley.= Young Christian and the early church.
(Christian culture courses. Baptist young people’s union of
America.) **50c. Am. Bapt.
8–20485.
A sketch of the history and literature of the apostolic age designed
for Baptist young people.
* * * * *
“The young people require a more modern treatment of the apostolic age
than Dr. Conley offers them.”
− + =Bib. World.= 32: 222. S. ’08. 100w.
=Connolly, James Brendan.= Olympic victor. †$1.25. Scribner.
8–23917.
“An expanded short story, having for hero the winner of the Marathon
race at the first revived Olympic games at Athens a few years ago. Mr.
Connolly was a member of the American team which took part in the
games, and he has evidently taken the incidents of the race as he saw
them and added enough of a romantic motive to make a story.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
“Alive with a fine Greek spirit of ancient and modern sport, which
will make it interesting to boys.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 244. O. ’08. ✠
“It is a well written and appealing story.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 898. O. 15, ’08. 160w.
“It is quite as delightful as any of his Gloucester stories, though it
is of an entirely different sort.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 486. S. 5, ’08. 270w.
“Mildly entertaining.”
+ − =Outlook.= 90: 135. S. 19, ’08. 70w.
=Conrad, Joseph.= Point of honor: a military tale. †$1.25. McClure.
8–27098.
A tale of the times of Napoleonic warfare which follows the private
contest of two officers in different regiments of hussars. A series of
duels, started upon a trifling provocation, is fought thru years of
military service, at intervals, according to military rulings when the
rank of the combatants was the same. The murderous hot-headedness of
the one is made but the more diabolical by the calm, reasoning honor
of the other who off the dueling ground never fails to do his
adversary a good turn.
* * * * *
“The charm of the tale consists in the lightness and humor with which
it is told.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1066. N. 5, ’08. 150w.
“The tale is swifter in movement and holds the attention better than
‘The secret agent’ or ‘Nostromo.’ The characters of the principals are
well delineated, with touches of quiet humor.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 364. O. 15, ’08. 160w.
“The pleasure of the acquaintance of the hero of this little tale is
worth making at the expense of an hour’s agreeable reading.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 612. O. 24, ’08. 230w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 616. O. 24, ’08. 60w.
=Cook, Frederick Albert.= To the top of the continent: discovery,
exploration and adventure in sub-arctic Alaska; the first ascent
of Mt. McKinley, 1903–1906. il. **$2.50. Doubleday.
8–7371.
The entire story of Dr. Cook’s two expeditions, the one that failed
and the later one that was successful. Thousands of miles of trackless
wilderness were covered in reaching the foot of this Alaskan mountain,
then began an ascent “over glaciers, up almost perpendicular slopes of
crusted snow down which avalanches were continually thundering. Torrid
heat and polar cold were at times combined: for the bright burning
sunbeams caused to fall ‘from our faces big beads of perspiration
which froze in icy pinnacles on our garments.’” (Nation.) See
Cumulative book index for contents of appendices.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 132. My. ’08. ✠
Reviewed by H. E. Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 44: 346. Je. 1, ’08. 350w.
“The book is beautifully illustrated, and if a folding map in colors
had been added the volume would be beyond reproach.”
+ − =Ind.= 65: 44. Jl. 2, ’08. 270w.
“The appendices prove that Dr. Cook is no amateur, for his geological,
biological, and economic notes on Alaska are of high scientific value
and enhance immensely the practical worth of the book.”
+ =Lit. D.= 36: 489. Ap. 4, ’08. 350w.
“Uniqueness of adventure constitutes the special interest of this
account. It is to be regretted that there is no index, and that the
routes of the expeditions are not marked on the map, as it is
difficult from the narrative alone to trace them.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 405. Ap. 30, ’08. 600w.
“For the general reader the book is of great interest, not only
because of its record of heroic struggles against discomforts,
dangers, and appalling obstacles and final achievement, but also
because Dr. Cook had time and skill to note by the way so many
fascinating things.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 206. Ap. 11, ’08. 700w.
=R. of Rs.= 37: 509. Ap. ’08. 150w.
“This is one of the most remarkable mountaineering narratives which we
have seen. The story is most graphically told, the descriptions of
scenery show considerable literary art.”
+ + =Spec.= 101: 590. O. 17, ’08. 1550w.
=Cook, Joshua Flooce.= Old Kentucky; with papers by Theodore
Roosevelt, Champ Clark, and Reuben T. Durrett. *$3. Neale.
8–19876.
Based upon well authenticated facts this study portrays characters of
Kentucky, from the negro and poor white people to the makers of the
state; the mode of life, superstitions and peculiarities of the
humblest as well as the first citizens of the state.
=Cooke, George Willis=, comp. Bibliography of Ralph Waldo Emerson.
*$5. Houghton.
8–14938.
“Prepared upon the same general plan as the same author’s
‘Bibliography of James Russell Lowell.’ The alphabetical list of
single titles giving the place and date of first appearance and
subsequent reprints, fills fifty pages. This is followed by the
chronological list of separate works, with their various editions;
lists of works edited by Emerson; collected works; volumes of
selections, or compilations containing poems or essays by him;
biographies, notices, poems addressed to Emerson, etc.”—Nation.
* * * * *
“A notable piece of work.”
+ + =Lit. D.= 34: 841. My. 25, ’08. 130w.
“From the point of view of the collector of first editions it is
unfortunate that there is no list of books and pamphlets such as make
up a set of first editions.”
+ + − =Nation.= 87: 283. S. 24, ’08. 480w.
“As a piece of pure craftsmanship Mr. Cook’s ‘Bibliography’ is
admirable, making no claim to completeness, but arranged in an orderly
manner, covering a large amount of information, unchoked by mere
pedantic detail, in all respects what an intelligently constructed
book of reference should be.” E. L. Cary.
+ + =N. Y. Times.= 13: 481. S. 5, ’08. 1250w.
=Cooke, Jane Grosvenor.= Interrupted honeymoon. †$1.50. Barnes.
7–34774.
A honeymoon quarrel is followed by a separation. “The behavior of this
misguided pair is a fine example of the good old New England trait of
‘cussedness’: and the convalescence of their happiness is attended by
an exhausting number of relapses.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“This story begins pleasantly—so pleasantly that for the sake of the
beginning one wades in exasperation through sloughs of despond,
doggedly determined to unearth the reason why Sarah left William on
their wedding journey.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 16. Ja. 2, ’08. 110w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 653. D. 19, ’07. 40w.
“The author of this story, has a pleasant style and the knack of
personality.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 44. Ja. 25, ’08. 110w.
=Coolidge, Archibald Cary.= United States as a world power. **$2.
Macmillan.
8–19878.
A volume which has grown out of a series of lectures delivered at the
Sorbonne during 1906–07 as the Harvard lectures on the Hyde
foundation. It is a controversial study of the part which the United
States plays in the great drama of world politics. The author
discusses Formation and growth, Nationality and immigration, Race
questions, The Monroe doctrine, The Spanish war, The acquisition of
colonies, The Philippine question, and the United States in relation
to France, Germany, Russia, England, Canada, Latin America, China and
Japan, The Isthmian canal, and The United States in the Pacific.
* * * * *
“The book is not intended as a purely historical discussion but as an
interpretation and appreciation of our present international position.
It fulfils its object well.”
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 32: 620. N. ’08. 250w.
“It is written with a studied moderation of statement and avoidance of
personal feeling.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 784. O. 1, ’08. 220w.
“The work of such an historian and publicist as Prof. Coolidge will be
an appreciable and grateful aid in the comprehension of the common
duty.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 555. O. 10, ’08. 1450w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 742. D. 5, ’08. 180w.
“Minor errors of fact occur, but few controversial statements are
hazarded.” J. A. Le Roy.
+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 23: 719. D. ’08. 430w.
=Coolidge, William A. B.= Alps in nature and history. *$2.50.
Dutton.
8–34201.
“In this book the author gives us the harvest of forty years’
exploration and study. There is a most interesting account of the
political history of the range from the earliest days, and special
chapters on those high-roads of history, the great passes. There are
chapters on the animals, and a paper by Mr. Yeld on Alpine flowers.
There are several delightful chapters on the customs of the villagers,
especially during the long winters when they live their life
undisturbed by tourists. Finally, there is a complete explanation of
the whole topography of the range, which even to those who know the
Alps will reveal many new facts.”—Spec.
* * * * *
“The book contains some very valuable and interesting statistics about
the mountains and passes.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 951. O. 22, ’08. 140w.
“It is a vast encyclopedia of Alpine knowledge, arranged in a
systematic, available form, and especially full in respect to
topographical detail.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 390. O. 22, ’08. 900w.
“It is a guidebook not only for the practical Alpine traveler, but for
the fireside tourist as well.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 742. D. 5, ’08. 200w.
“The maps and illustrations in this volume are very helpful.
Particularly interesting are the chapters on ‘The Alpine folk,’ their
political allegiance, mother tongues, and religion.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 38: 509. O. ’08. 60w.
“No other writer has the same intimate knowledge of the whole Alpine
mountain system. Not the least of the merits of Mr. Coolidge’s book is
the comprehensive appreciation which it shows for every phase and
season of the life of the mountains.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 406. S. 19, ’08. 1550w.
=Cooper, Edward Herbert.= Marquis and Pamela; pictures by Julia
Roper. †$1.50. Duffield.
8–8092.
A story whose scenes are enacted in the “smart set” of British
society. “‘Reading one day a novel of Ouida’s’ is the way in which Mr.
Cooper opens one of his chapters; and it is manifest under whose
influence he has written this lurid tale.... It is full of mistresses,
gambling, swindlers and vices of varying kinds; and its heroine is not
Ouida’s ingenue, but a very soiled and selfish young person.... There
are many lords and baronets in his pages; but the worst enemies of
that society have never painted it so black.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“It is compact of what is designed to be sordid realism. We do not,
however, think it convincing in this respect.”
− =Ath.= 1908, 1: 380. Mr. 28. 150w.
“A good deal of sentimentality, some preaching, and a few French puns
masquerading as humor tend toward making a very dull piece of reading
matter.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 13: 255. My. 2, ’08. 150w.
=Copping, Arthur E.= Gotty and the guv’nor. $1.50. Kennerley.
Gotty is a fisherman of the Thames estuary and the “Guv’nor” is a
middle-aged business man who buys a fishing bawley at Leigh, appoints
Gotty its skipper, and makes a holiday cruise along the south coast of
Cornwall. Gotty is “thick-headed, but shrewd and entirely
captivating”; given to philosophical utterances, quick-witted comments
and droll humor.
* * * * *
“It is a genial light story, unstrained, effortless, wholly delightful
and without alloy.”
+ =Acad.= 73: 873. S. 7, ’07. 540w.
“His fisherfolk and water-side idlers ought to amuse many travelers at
this season; their talk is well managed, and makes good reading. The
narrator’s style is not so effective.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 92. Jl. 27. 240w.
“The book is a most delightful bit of character sketching of old Leigh
fishermen and ’longshoremen as the dramatis personae in a meandering
tale of mild adventure, fraught with genuine humor and beguiling
interest.”
+ =Ind.= 64: 313. F. 6, ’08. 100w.
“The text of this book is hardly worth the pictures.”
− + =Nation.= 86: 237. Mr. 12, ’08. 180w.
“The illustrations by Will Owen preserve the spirit of the story and
enhance its humor.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 30. Ja. 18, ’08. 120w.
=Coppo, Giovanni di.= Legend of the holy Fina, virgin of Santo
Gimignano, now first tr. from the trecento Italian: with introd.
and notes by M. Mansfield. (New medieval lib.) *$2. Duffield.
This legend follows the life, penance, and good deeds of a saint of
medieval Italy. “It is offered to readers appreciative more of the
poetry of past days than of the mere dry bones of history.” The book
is bound in brown leather in antique style, with clasps.
* * * * *
“Is wholly unworthy of the good paper and press work expended upon
it.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 336. O. 8, ’08. 180w.
“Students of Italian literature as well as of mediaeval history will
find much here to interest them.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 274. O. 3. ’08. 120w.
=Corbett, Julian Stafford.= England in the Seven years’ war: a study
in combined strategy. 2v. *$6. Longmans.
8–8464.
Shows that in order to understand the conduct of the war it should be
approached from the naval rather than from the military side. The war
has been viewed broadly, due care being given to the correlation of
all the elements brought into play during a campaign. “Mr. Corbett, as
far as we know, is the first to take a comprehensive view of the war,
and to disentangle the harmonious purpose running thru England’s
efforts.” (Spec.)
* * * * *
=Am. Hist. R.= 13: 682. Ap. ’08. 50w.
“The book is the result of careful investigation, offers some new
material and contains but few errors.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 174. Je. ’08.
“If it were possible to disentangle the narrative parts of the work
from the theories which Mr. Corbett advances as the result of his
investigations one would have nothing but praise for it; but as the
sub-title shows, it is quite as much a contribution to strategical
theory as to history, and on that side one feels, albeit reluctantly,
obliged to differ very considerably from Mr. Corbett.” C. T. Atkinson.
− + =Eng. Hist. R.= 23: 585. Jl. ’08. 1950w.
“The history as a whole cannot be praised without reserve, for it
falls short of the highest class. From the first to the last page
there is a perceptible preoccupation with present-day conditions, and
an anxiety to measure events by the standard of naval principles that
are often over-elaborated and far from convincing. A certain
carelessness of style detracts considerably from the value of an
otherwise excellent piece of work.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 470. My. 21, ’08. 1100w.
“Within its self-imposed limitations however, the book in its entirety
is entitled to the highest praise. It is a distinct contribution to
our knowledge, and is doubly welcome because of the attractive form
wherein it is conveyed. While perhaps occasionally unduly rhetorical,
Mr. Corbett’s style is in general forcible, and above all clear.” G:
L: Beer.
+ + − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 279. My. 16, ’08. 1300w.
“Though his book is full of lessons in the art of war he never allows
himself to dogmatise, and the same legally trained instinct which
makes him chary of drawing conclusions from events prevents him from
passing harsh sentences on men’s actions. Mr. Corbett puts plenty of
life and movement into his history.”
+ =Sat. R.= 105: 80. Ja. 18, ’08. 1450w.
“In his use of original materials the author shows himself a scholar,
but no pedant. There are a few omissions in this book. His style too,
is not always on a level quite worthy of the fine treatment of his
subject. As a whole this study is a book of great moment, and deserves
the attention, not merely of the naval officers to whom it was
originally addressed, but of all serious students of government.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 787. My. 16, ’08. 2000w.
=Corbin, John.= Which college for the boy? leading types in American
education. **$1.50. Houghton.
8–13754.
Presents the typical aims of the different colleges, shows what sort
of young men go to each, shows what its traditions are, what its
authorities aim to do and what they are actually doing. The chapter
headings are suggestive: Princeton, a collegiate university; Harvard,
a Germanized university; Michigan, a middle-eastern university;
Cornell, a technical university; Chicago, a university by enchantment;
Wisconsin, a utilitarian university; The farmer’s awakening; The small
college versus the university; and The question of expense.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 174. Je. ’08.
“So much stress, indeed, is laid upon the defects that a conscientious
parent ... would almost inevitably lay it aside with the firm
conviction, ‘At all events, not one of these six.’” R. W. Kemp.
− =Bookm.= 28: 274. N. ’08. 1100w.
“If the careful parent wishes to learn something about the peculiar
temptations his son will be exposed to at any of the universities in
Mr. Corbin’s list, the social advantages he will enjoy, the athletic
sports most in vogue, and (in a general way) the departments of
learning most successfully cultivated, he will do well to read this
attractive, well-illustrated book.”
+ =Dial.= 45: 67. Ag. 1, ’08. 230w.
“The book is all the more valuable from its frankly personal tone,
since this does not interfere with a fair appreciation of the
distinctive merits of each university.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 720. S. 24, ’08. 240w.
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 123. Jl. 25, ’08. 1300w.
“Its influence will be rather upon the colleges themselves than upon
prospective students.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 77. Jl. 23, ’08. 570w.
“A contribution of practical value to the educational problem which
must be solved by so many anxious parents and ambitious young people.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 280. My. 16, ’08. 170w.
“The book is specially to be commended because it comes from the hands
of a man who knows college life at first hand both in this country and
at Oxford.”
+ =Outlook.= 89: 351. Je. 13, ’08. 270w.
“A reading of Mr. Corbin’s book will put the inquirer in possession of
a great deal of very useful information which he could not possibly
glean from the official publications of the colleges and universities
in question, and although Mr. Corbin refrains from giving advice to
parents as to where to send their sons he certainly presents many
facts which most parents would do well to take into account before
deciding such a question.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 37: 756. Je. ’08. 300w.
=Corner, Mrs. Caroline.= Ceylon, the paradise of Adam: the record of
seven years’ residence in the island; with 16 full-page il. *$4.
Lane.
8–16439.
A book of fact and fiction well blended. “Having resided in the island
for seven years, the author writes of the many peculiar institutions,
customs, and manners of the Ceylonese. Much of the book is written in
dialogue, with comments in solution,—a method of composition which
calls the reader’s imagination into play, but which does not entirely
satisfy any desire he may have for an extended explanation of
Ceylonese life. If we are to believe the records of this volume, life
in Ceylon is more interesting and diverting than in any other part of
the world.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“Miss Corner would have pleased the general reader more if she had
been more expository and less fictional in her narrative.” H. E.
Coblentz.
− =Dial.= 44: 348. Je. 1, ’08. 150w.
“The reader is bored only by the authoress’s insistence on her own
gentility.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 10. Jl. 2, ’08. 100w.
“She has an eye for the picturesque and an unflagging wonder for the
striking and the unusual, and she has written about it all with a
constant sense of humor, a charming, whimsical vividness, and a never
failing perception of the dramatic.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 104. F. 22. ’08. 130w.
“A very amusing book, not without some seriousness of meaning.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 1008. Je. 27, ’08. 260w.
=Cortes, Hernando.= Letters of Cortes: the five letters of relation
from Fernando Cortes to the Emperor Charles V; tr. and ed., with a
biographical introd. by Francis A: MacNutt. 2v. **$10. Putnam.
8–14522.
The first English edition of five lengthy letters in which is given an
authentic account of the conquest of Mexico from the standpoint of the
conqueror and of the conquered. Full explanatory notes accompany the
text, in addition to which are a biography of Cortes, and appendices
containing bibliographical material concerning Mexicans of prominence,
and historical matter relating to the civilization, origin, religion
of the ancient race.
* * * * *
“Mr. MacNutt has edited these valuable reports with care and ability.
The printer has not been uniformly successful in coping with Spanish
names and phrases, but the blemishes on the whole are few and slight.”
+ + − =Nation.= 87: 57. Jl. 16, ’08. 500w.
“Mr. McNutt has done his work of translation in the way most
acceptable to both the special student and the general reader.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 296. My. 23, ’08. 350w.
“It is no small service that the editor has rendered to students of
history by bringing them together for the first time in an English
form.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 373. S. 12, ’08. 350w.
=Cortissoz, Royal.= Augustus Saint-Gaudens. **$7.50. Houghton.
7–40526.
A timely monograph handsomely illustrated which is in the main devoted
to criticism but which contains many a reminiscent passage. Mr.
Cortissoz pronounces Saint-Gaudens “not only our greatest sculptor,
but the first to break with the old epoch of insipid ideas and
hidebound academic style, giving the art a new lease of life and
fixing a new standard.”
* * * * *
“A brief but important monograph presenting discriminating and
authoritative criticism and slight but significant and interesting
biographical notes. Should be owned by all libraries that can afford
it, because of the importance of subject.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 77. Mr. ’08.
“Sympathetically written.”
+ =Ath.= 1908, 1: 233. F. 22. 280w.
“Altogether it must be ranked as the leading American art-book of the
year.”
+ + =Dial.= 43: 423. D. 16, ’07. 130w.
“A beautiful tribute, and yet there is a feeling of strain, of an
effort to make a book out of a monograph, and there is a suspicion of
padding in the makeup of the volume.”
+ − =Ind.= 64: 692. Mr. 26, ’08. 600w.
“There is no thought here of making a vulgar concession to the mob;
there is thought only of the sympathy, the emotion, by which the
greatest men of genius in all ages have been moved.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 34: sup. 73. Ap. ’08. 250w.
“The little monograph is as interesting as it is scholarly and
convincing, an essay that is thoroughly enjoyable.”
+ + =Outlook.= 87: 612. N. 23, ’07. 190w.
“Mr. Cortissoz has delivered himself of valuable and illuminating
criticism in a style of singular grace and distinction.” H. S. Krans.
+ + =Putnam’s.= 3: 750. Mr. ’08. 650w.
“All the illustrations in the book are excellent, and show what care
has been bestowed upon them.”
+ =Spec.= 100: sup. 644. Ap. 25, ’08. 300w.
=Cotes, Sara Jeannette.= Cousin Cinderella. †$1.50. Macmillan.
8–24455.
A Canadian girl and her brother take a flat in London and the girl
tells, after a delightful fashion, how she succeeded in “becoming a
part of it all.” From Towse, the cook, and the grocery boy to a real
live Duke “seen on a hearth rug and not in a procession,” we have
interesting pictures of people and settings. “Miss Canada” furnishes
not only fresh viewpoints of things English and American but an
elucidation of some matters of sentiment involving a lord, an American
girl and a ruined ancestral estate.
* * * * *
“The girl’s criticisms of the people, conventionalities, traditions
and precedents are not only naïve and humorous but analytical and
penetrating. A book that will interest only a small proportion of
novel readers.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 267. N. ’08.
“There is a good deal of quiet laughter in ‘Cousin Cinderella’; and
the better one knows London, the more one will be inclined to enjoy
the book.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 145. O. ’08. 180w.
“The humor of the monologue is delightful.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 415. O. 29, ’08. 100w.
“Its wit and social photography are what make the book entertaining,
as it undoubtedly is.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 135. S. 19, ’08. 200w.
“The book is delightful. The general sketches of society and the
drawings of the various personalities, great and small, are
admirable.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 451. S. 26, ’08. 200w.
=Couch, Mabel Quiller-.= Troublesome Ursula. †$1.50. Lippincott.
The story of a little girl “of the elder-sister type who is taken from
her baby charges and widowed mother to live with a stern grandmother.”
(Ath.)
* * * * *
“There is, we think, some improbability in the details of poor
Ursula’s closing adventure; but this is a trifling blemish in a
capital book.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 652. N. 23. 180w.
“A very good story.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 12: 765. N. 30, ’07. 70w.
“Is a charming little story.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104: sup. 7. D. 7, ’07. 130w.
=Coulton, George Gordon.= Chaucer and his England. (Memoir ser.)
*$3.50. Putnam.
8–33921.
“After the briefest sketch of the rude England of Edward III, Mr.
Coulton takes up Chaucer’s boyhood and youth, and traces his career as
King’s squire, ambassador, and man of affairs to his last days. Then
he has some entertaining pages on the London and Westminster
neighborhood and institutions of Chaucer’s day, and devotes three
chapters to an admirable exposition of the ‘Canterbury tales.’ The
concluding chapters relate to influences and ideals of the times, the
poverty spread by the war, the relations of the priests to the people,
and the quality of the merriment in ‘Merry England.’”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“The manner of quoting is puzzling, not to say irritating. The index
is insufficient for a book of such complexity.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 443. N. 5, ’08. 1000w.
“Mr. Coulton’s chapters on the poem are lucid and readable. His
account of Chaucer’s times is well written. This is not a profound
work but it is surely an engaging one, that well repays perusal.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 537. O. 3, ’08. 1200w.
“He really knows his sources and moves with some ease from one to
another. And we feel at the end of his book that it is bound to give
excellent food to the imaginations of numbers of unlearned readers and
to compel others to go to the fountain heads.”
+ + =Sat. R.= 106: 366. S. 19, ’08. 1250w.
“An unusually interesting book, certainly not the less so for being
occasionally provocative. Mr. Coulton has well-defined convictions,
and insists on them. He rides, a little too violently we think, a
hobby here and there.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 634. O. 24, ’08. 750w.
=Court= life of the second French empire, 1852–1870, by Le petit
homme rouge. *$2. Scribner.
7–36951.
The author hides behind “Le petit homme rouge,” the gossipy ghost that
is made responsible for history or myth, gossip or scandal, joke or
anecdote which are included here. “Among the many items of innocent
interest with which his pages are sprinkled may be mentioned the
account of the luxury indulged in by the imperial household. While the
Empire, all unsuspected by the pampered inmates of the Tuileries, was
tottering to its fall.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“The principal defects are in matters of style, although in general
the book reaches the level of good journalistic writing.” F. M.
Anderson.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 13: 645. Ap. ’08. 300w.
“On the whole, the writer is so accurate and so well-informed that his
book makes serious claim to be treated as history. It is at least the
backstairs view of the history of a period in which the backstairs
played the leading part.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 1: 759. Je. 22. 1070w.
“The book furnishes entertainment and amusement, which is probably its
prime purpose.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 429. D. 16. ’07. 90w.
+ =Nation.= 85: 443. N. 14, ’07. 100w.
“His book is a delight to those who like their history well dashed
with the spice of personalities.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 447. Ag. 15, ’08. 800w.
=Cox, John Charles, and Harvey, Alfred.= English church furniture;
with 121 il. (Antiquary’s books.) *$2.50. Dutton.
8–5837.
In this volume “the arrangement of the text and illustrations is
strictly systematic. Chapter 1 deals with the altar, and the
accompanying rails and screens; chapter 2 with church plate, chalice,
and paten, cruets and flagons, and even the leather cases in which
such plate is kept; chapter 3, with the piscina and the sedilla; and
chapter 4, with choir-screens and rood-lofts. Thus the whole book,
divided into thirteen chapters, offers a useful account of what one
needs to know when visiting ancient churches, or when preparing to
build and adorn a church.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“It is in many ways a completion of Parker’s well-known ‘Glossary,’
and a mine of carefully ordered information.”
+ + =Ath.= 1907, 2: 487. O. 19. 680w.
“The joint authors of this most useful book have managed to invest the
driest technical details with an interest that cannot fail to appeal
even to those who have never hitherto considered church furniture from
any but the prosaic point of view.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 34: 171. Ap. ’08. 220w.
“There is a pleasant mixture of archaeology with modern criticism.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 452. My. 14, ’08. 380w.
+ =Spec.= 99: sup. 908. D. 7, ’07. 360w.
=Craddock, Charles Egbert, pseud. (Mary Noailles Murfree).= Fair
Mississippian. †$1.50. Houghton.
8–29332.
The hero of Miss Murfree’s new story is a young man who having
completed an elaborate course of study abroad is obliged to dismiss
temporarily his dream of power on account of his father’s death and
shattered fortunes. He turns to pedagogical work and engages in
preparing three Southern boys for college. The story is concerned with
his life in this home on a cotton plantation, with his thrilling
adventures with river pirates and floods, and with his romance in
which a widow ten years his senior is the altogether charming heroine.
=Cradle= of the rose. **$1.50. Harper.
8–30708.
Brittany is the scene of this story which bears upon the present
church and state crisis in France. The wife of an English ambassador,
during the latter’s absence in the Orient on diplomatic business,
returns to Brittany, the land of her birth, there receives the homage
which her wealth and ancestors command, and, aided by a young Breton
nobleman, organizes a Royalist insurrection, is betrayed by a servant,
and prefers a watery grave to capture and death at the hands of
enemies.
* * * * *
=Ind.= 65: 1183. N. 19, ’08. 40w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 615. O. 24, ’08. 60w.
“The story is developed skillfully and with constant appreciation for
whatever is beautiful or interesting in the Breton country or in its
people.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 672. N. 14, ’08. 360w.
=Crane, Walter.= India impressions. $2.50. Macmillan.
8–5823.
A book for the general reader which may serve as “an addendum to the
lately published reminiscences” (Dial.) full of anecdotes illustrated
by comic drawings.
* * * * *
“The volume may nevertheless be recommended to these who do not desire
scientific truth, but rather wish for an artist’s opinion on the
beauties of Indian landscape and architecture.”
+ − =Ath.= 1907, 2: 580. N. 9. 330w.
+ =Dial.= 43: 426. D. 16, ’07. 100w.
“The illustrations by the author could not fail in themselves to make
the book attractive.”
+ =Int. Studio.= 34: 172. Ap. ’08. 70w.
“The work is, in short, without sufficient excuse for being, but
having been written, does no harm. At any rate the pen-and-ink
sketches are new and some of them are funny.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 103. Ja. 30, ’08. 80w.
“An artist with this opportunity of travel has naturally much that is
interesting to tell us. About political matters Mr. Crane does not say
much, nor does he make us wish that he had been more copious in his
deliverances on this subject.”
+ − =Spec.= 99: 781. N. 16, ’07. 260w.
=Crapsey, Algernon Sidney.= Re-birth of religion; being an account
of the passing of the old and coming of the new dogmatic. **$1.50.
Lane.
8–1487.
Dr. Crapsey condemns the current system of religion as antiquated and
outworn and substitutes a new system entirely away from Christian
creeds. The “new dogmatic will instruct in all that concerns the
ethical life, and will seek to bring the soul in contact with that
which is good, so that the evil shall not be in the mind at all.”
* * * * *
=Am. J. Theol.= 12: 674. O. ’08. 40w.
“His work is constructive rather than destructive and is worthy of a
place in every library where there is no fear of truth.” R. E. Bisbee.
+ =Arena.= 39: 490. Ap. ’08. 1000w.
“The author is as sure of his ground as he is earnest and courageous,
and we cannot otherwise than wish him well; but at several points we
find ourselves asking whether we are not escaping from one crassness
to fall into another.” T. D. A. Cockerell.
+ − =Dial.= 44: 212. Ap. 1, ’08. 400w.
=Ind.= 64: 977. Ap. 30, ’08. 70w.
“Very little is found in these pages which is not often heard, in
somewhat less piquant style, from the more liberal pulpits of the
orthodox churches.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 125. F. 6, ’08. 170w.
“If the truth be spoken, the book is utterly devoid both of
scholarship and of theological insight. It is hardly more than a
combination of the commonplace and the untrue. The book abounds in
inaccuracies and misstatements. They show loose thinking, lack of
scholarship, and carelessness of expression. The volume would attract
no attention and would not be worthy of serious notice were it not for
the prominence in which circumstances have placed its author.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 12: 746. N. 23, ’07. 520w.
“It appears to us to be characterized in many places by inconsistency,
inaccuracy, and superficiality. There is much that is admirable in the
volume, especially in the author’s presentation of the doctrine of
social salvation, but as an interpretation of the new dogmatic it is
inferior to other volumes by other authors of the broad school who
have preceded him.”
− + =Outlook.= 87: 876. D. 21. ’67. 630w.
=Crawford, Francis Marion.= Diva’s ruby. †$1.50. Macmillan.
8–26829.
Completes the trilogy of which “Fair Margaret” is the first volume and
“The primadonna” is the second. Mr. Crawford tells a whole story in
his prologue, the while he is affording his tale an artistic
preparation. He takes the reader into a ruby mine, where is enacted a
weird drama in which an oriental maiden for the love of a
golden-bearded Englishman divulges the hidden cave’s secret of rubies,
and is deserted for her pains. The plot of the story proper grows out
of the theft of a ruby and the final struggle in which the Greek
financier, Logotheti, and the American millionaire, Van Torp, do
battle for the hand of Margaret.
* * * * *
“She remains one of Mr. Crawford’s most consistently drawn
characters.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 602. N. 14. 130w.
“Frankly, it is the best story Mr. Crawford has given us in a number
of years.” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 261. N. ’08. 650w.
“Is far and away the most readable of the three books devoted to the
lady.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1183. N. 19, ’08. 40w.
“Really, there is little to be said of such storytelling as this; an
able-bodied, intelligent, grown man ought to be in better business.”
− =Nation.= 87: 466. N. 12, ’08. 400w.
“There is mystery enough for a detective story, love within love,
murder, wealth. There are also Crawford’s shrewd and felicitous
characterizations, and his sparkling wit.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 570. O. 17, ’08. 540w.
“It is possibly the most dramatic tale in the series.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 615. O. 24, ’08. 40w.
“May be read and enjoyed independently or as a sequel to the other
members of the trilogy.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 742. D. 5, ’08. 180w.
“It is entertaining, and it holds the attention to the very end. It
does not belong, however, with Mr. Crawford’s really good work.”
+ =Outlook.= 90: 362. O. 17, ’08. 100w.
=Crawford, Francis Marion.= Little city of Hope: a Christmas story.
†$1.25. Macmillan.
7–38261.
Descriptive note and excerpts in Dec. 1907.
* * * * *
“A pretty story, obviously padded.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 18. Ja. ’08. ✠
“A pretty, graceful story.”
+ =Ath.= 1907, 2: 728. D. 7. 80w.
+ =Cath. World.= 86: 550. Ja. ’08. 70w.
“Pessimists ought to read it, and optimists will enjoy it.”
+ =Dial.= 43: 429. D. 16, ’07. 90w.
Reviewed by W. G. Bowdoin.
+ =Ind.= 63: 1465. D. 19, ’07. 50w.
“It is a story which will delight both children and grown-ups, it is
so exquisitely told.”
+ =Sat. R.= 104. sup. 8. D. 7, ’07. 40w.
=Crawford, Francis Marion.= Primadonna: a sequel to “Fair Margaret.”
†$1.50. Macmillan.
8–13275.
A well developed sequel to “Fair Margaret.” Two years have passed and
Margaret Donne who made her debut on the lyric stage has become
submerged in Margarita da Cordova, a full-fledged primadonna,
unspoiled by contact with “coarse-fibered colleagues and cynical
impressarios.” Characters of musical Bohemia and men of literary and
commercial fame unite to furnish a setting for this heroine, whose
character development is consistently drawn to its maturity with due
emphasis placed upon the value of temperament.
* * * * *
“Though a story of crime and mystery, it is not, perhaps, the kind of
mystery which gives the best scope to Mr. Crawford’s powers.”
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 505. Ap. 25. 200w.
“The book at best does not rise above the Wilkie Collins type.” F: T.
Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 27: 396. Je. ’08. 600w.
“Mr. Crawford is drawing some very real characters in this triptych of
portraits.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 101. Jl. 9, ’08. 300w.
“Mr. Crawford’s hand becomes not less deft but more nonchalant as the
years go by.”
+ − =Nation.= 86: 536. Je. 11, ’08. 650w.
“It would be impossible for Marion Crawford to write anything but a
good novel. But in the midst of his spell weaving we seem nowadays to
fall on blanks and pauses, digressions and explanations, well written
in themselves, but unworthy of the witch-stuff that we have grown to
expect from the pen of the much-loved novelist.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 268. My. 9, ’08. 500w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 336. Je. 13, ’08. 240w.
“The second half shows relaxation of grip.”
+ − =Outlook.= 89: 324. Je. 13, ’08. 160w.
“When he is not soliloquizing or moralizing he is very entertaining
and bright.” Charlotte Harwood.
+ − =Putnam’s.= 4: 619. Ag. ’08. 500w.
“There are also occasional lapses into that bad faith with his
readers, to intensify their interest or perplexity, which the writer
of the sensational should be very careful to avoid.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 105: 601. My. 9, ’08. 600w.
“‘The primadonna’ has not the charm of the best of Mr. Marion
Crawford’s novels of modern Italian life, but by its judicious
blending of sensational incident with careful character-drawing it
makes a wide appeal, and is eminently calculated to maintain the
popularity of its indefatigable author.”
+ − =Spec.= 100: 425. Mr. 14, ’08. 850w.
=Crawford, Mary Caroline.= Among old New England inns. $2. Page.
7–36234.
Here Miss Crawford tells of her visits to old New England inns and
recalls their peculiar part in the public life of “the brave days of
old.” It is a matter for special comment that colonial inns were bound
up with the church, frequently being located next door to the places
of worship. The reasons for this, the “part inns played in early
history, their social and political associations, and the odd
characters who frequented them” are set forth in chatty and informing
manner.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 38. F. ’08.
=Dial.= 43: 427. D. 16, ’07. 140w.
“The book is crowded with interesting lore.” W. G. Bowdoin.
+ =Ind.= 63: 1468. D. 19, ’07. 80w.
+ =Lit. D.= 35: 918. D. 14, ’07. 100w.
“All of which Miss Crawford puts down with good taste and
diligence.”
+ =Nation.= 86: 79. Ja. 23, ’08. 320w.
=N. Y. Times.= 12: 665. O. 19, ’07. 30w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 9. Ja. 4, ’08. 280w.
“This is one of the many interesting popular books which reproduce the
habits of life and the homes of the older America. One of the minor
foot-notes to New England history.”
+ =Outlook.= 87: 830. D. 14, ’07. 90w.
* =Crawford, Mary Caroline.= St. Botolph’s town: an account of old
Boston in colonial days. $2.50. Page.
8–28847.
A history of old Boston from the first settlement down to the
revolution which is embodied in a series of portraits of prominent men
and women.
* * * * *
“A work full of zealous research and written in an agreeable style.”