“Here are 266 fair pages concerning Chesterton’s opinions, fancies,
impressions, and whims as they are derived from or founded on the
contemplation of art and letters, religion and public affairs, and here
are also likenesses of the protagonist to illustrate the text, including
one at thirteen years, a likable boy with a book, who looks as if he
would rather be out in the open with a good frisky dog, and another at
the age of seventeen, representing a purposeful youth with inherent
capacity for making his way in the world.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 2: 365. S. 26. 260w.
“This book is almost as diverting as one of Mr. Chesterton’s.”
+ =Lit. D.= 38: 559. Ap. 3, ’09. 700w.
“Chesterton is worth while, and so is this anonymous book about his life
and his prejudices.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 44. Ja. 23, ’09. 1250w.
“We must own that we are among those who think ‘that this book demands
an apology,’ and we would say further that such an apology cannot in the
nature of things be forthcoming. Still, to be candid, we have found it
good reading.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 451. S. 26, ’08. 210w.
=Cheyney, Edward Potts.= Readings in English history, drawn from the
original sources, intended to illustrate A short history of England.
*$1.80. Ginn.
8–31971.
Intended to serve as a close companion to the author’s “Short history of
England.” The order of arrangement of material follows the order of
subjects in the text-book, illustrating and supplementing it. “It
differs from previous collections in drawing on a somewhat greater
variety of historical material, and in being, it is believed, the result
of a more extensive and prolonged search for suitable illustrative
passages.” (Preface.)
* * * * *
“It is indeed a most interesting and valuable collection of illustrative
material. The introductory paragraphs to the various selections are all
that could be asked, clear, concise and instructive. Several minor
criticisms may be made. The date when the sources used were written
ought to be given in every instance and words not now in common use
should be defined. Professor Cheyney quotes from Howell’s ‘Letters’ as
if they were authentic sources, which they are not.” R. C. H. Catterall.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 639. Ap. ’09. 200w.
“An admirable collection. It will make a useful library tool, especially
where translations of early English texts are not available.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 74. Mr. ’09.
“The work is well done and we are glad to see that the social,
industrial, and the bibliographical aspects of English history are not
neglected.”
+ =Educ. R.= 37: 314. Mr. ’09. 50w.
=Ind.= 67: 302. Ag. 5, ’09. 100w.
“The collection is especially noteworthy for its illustration of the
life of various periods.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 412. Ap. 22, ’09. 80w.
“Mr. Cheyney has a wide and scholarly knowledge of the material from
which the narrative history of England is drawn and has chosen wisely
from this abundant store.” Dora Wells.
+ =School R.= 17: 578. O. ’09. 480w.
=Chittenden, Lucius Eugene.= Lincoln and the sleeping sentinel: the
true story. **50c. Harper.
9–3197.
A true version of the story of Lincoln in his quick action of suspending
the execution of William Scott, a young Vermonter, who fell asleep while
on sentinel duty. On the one hand are shown Lincoln’s human kindness and
sense of justice, on the other, his ability to inspire patriotism,
loyalty, and manhood courage in young men.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 74. Mr. ’09. ✠
=Ind.= 66: 261. F. 4, ’09. 470w.
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 54. Ja. 30, ’09. 300w.
=Chitty, J. R.= Things seen in China. (Things seen ser.) lea. *$1.
Dutton.
9–5229.
“Mr. Chitty’s little book is packed full of interesting, intimate things
about the life, customs, manners, habits of the Chinese which he learned
during a residence in various parts of China.... The general reader ...
will find a multitude of observations which will enable him to
understand better the inner conditions, local and national, of the
Chinese empire, as well as some of the puzzling characteristics of the
nation in its dealings with the western world.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“There is little excuse for the appearance of the present work, since
the information which it contains appears to be eminently commonplace.
We exclude from this remark the photographs with which the volume is
adorned, and which are excellent.”
− + =Ath.= 1909, 1: 40. Ja. 9. 650w.
“Mr. Chitty’s knowledge is limited and sounds in places suspiciously
second hand.”
− =Ind.= 66: 325. F. 11, ’09. 40w.
“It is all told very simply and directly, with no words wasted on
rhetoric.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 20. Ja. 9, ’09. 210w.
=Cholmondeley, Mary.=^{[5]} Hand on the latch. †$1.25. Dodd.
9–9254.
“Four stories from the author of ‘Red pottage’ are prefaced by a rather
witty rehearsal of the trials of authorship. Each story shows a woman
and analyses her with skill. The lonely prairie home, where the wife
waits her husband’s return, having disobeyed his last injunction to let
no one in, by allowing a miserable wounded tramp to lie by the fire, is
a sombre picture wonderfully done. The dramatic stir all through the
story reaches the climax with such true artistic feeling that even the
hardened novel-reader will feel a thrill. The amusing and witty contrast
between true and false sentiment, in the tale of a fugitive convict
woman, arouses alternately smiles and sober thought. ‘The understudy’
and ‘St. Luke’s summer’ are in no way inferior to the other
two.”—Outlook.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 185. Je. ’09.
“Remarkably finished stories.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 56. Jl. 15, ’09. 350w.
“The preface which has been written for the book is perhaps the most
delightful part of it. Its only crying fault is its brevity. One wants
more.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 256. Ap. 24, ’09. 270w.
“An exceptional quartet of entertaining and well-conceived stories.”
+ =Outlook.= 92: 20*. My. 1, ’09. 140w.
=Church, A. Hamilton.= Proper distribution of expense burden. (Works
management lib.) $1. Eng. mag.
8–27359.
“The two common methods of distribution—hour rate and labor cost
rate—are discussed and the weak points revealed. The author then takes
up the machine and supplementary rate and gives figures and data
illustrating its use and closes with a good argument for the general
adoption of this combination system as the proper way.”—Engin. Rec.
* * * * *
+ =Engin. D.= 4: 417. O. ’08. 280w.
“One could hardly wish a clearer or more suggestive little dissertation
on the ‘unproductive expenditures’ of a manufacturing organization. For
the benefit of the less informed reader, however, the author might
profitably have given some direct illustrations of the unhealthy
conditions which may prevail when the cost distribution among different
classes of work is known very imperfectly.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 61: sup. 44. Ap. 15, ’09. 230w.
“The book is a good one for those interested in the subject and who know
enough about accounting to appreciate the arguments and the fine points
made by the author.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 58: 679. D. 12, ’08. 200w.
=Church, Irving Porter.= Mechanics of engineering; comprising statics
and kinetics of solids; the mechanics of the materials of
construction, or strength and elasticity of beams, columns, shafts,
arches, etc.; and the principles of hydraulics and pneumatics, with
applications; for use in technical schools; rev. ed., partly
rewritten. $6. Wiley.
8–19874.
A new edition “partly rewritten and improved by the addition of new
sections on reinforced concrete beams, the determination of the flexure
of beams by a geometrical method, modern column formulas and a great
many notes in most of the chapters.”—Engin. Rec.
* * * * *
“It is primarily a text-book for students, with the rare characteristic,
an adaptability to the practicing engineer.”
+ =Engin. N.= 61: sup. 30. Mr. 18, ’09. 260w.
“The author’s painstaking care and critical spirit in the revision are
shown on a very large proportion of the pages, and the volume deserves a
continuation of its popularity among engineers.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 59: 35. Mr. 20, ’09. 100w.
“In any further re-issue of this work, it would be a distinct
improvement if the indices were made more thorough and complete.” T. H.
B.
+ − =Nature.= 80: 34. Mr. 11, ’09. 400w.
“It is needless to say that the emendations and revisions have added
greatly to the value of the book by the introduction of much new matter
now necessary to the engineer. As a whole the book is singular for its
clear, lucid treatment, wise selection of subjects and subordination of
mathematical to mechanical considerations.” H: T. Eddy.
+ =Science=, n.s. 29: 185. Ja. 29, ’09. 750w.
=Churchill, Winston Spencer.= My African journey. *$1.50. Doran.
9–8731.
The story of what Mr. Churchill saw and did in his recent visit to
Africa. “It contains many shrewd and suggestive remarks, and certainly
sets before us in clear and attractive form a number of facts about
which most minds are hazy. He has a robust faith in the civilizing power
of railways and cotton-mills, and the value of a civilization so
produced.” (Ath.)
* * * * *
“Besides its interest as a recital of hunting adventures, it is a
careful study of the physical, political, and racial conditions of a
region that promises to be of considerable importance to Great Britain
and is of immediate interest to Americans.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 101. Ap. ’09. ✠
“Mr. Churchill has a graphic touch and a practised pen; and considered
as letters to a newspaper, written in the midst of the scenes they
describe, his chapters could hardly be better.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 99. Ja. 23. 180w.
Reviewed by H. E. Coblentz.
+ =Dial.= 46: 364. Je. 1, ’09. 800w.
“The main charm in this work lies in the freshness imparted to a
somewhat hackneyed subject by the personality of its author.”
+ =Lit. D.= 38: 473. Mr. 20, ’09. 300w.
+ =Nation.= 88: 366. Ap. 8, ’09. 1000w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 151. Mr. 13, ’09. 750w.
“Mr. Churchill’s new book is a delightful literary performance, a
tribute to British imperial achievement in savage lands, a statesmanlike
forecast of the needs of the immediate future, and a monument to
Churchillian self-sufficiency.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 106: 761. D. 19, ’08. 1050w.
“It would be just to say of Mr. Churchill’s book, that it is capital,
and in places brilliant journalism. It has all the touches, and all the
graces that are possible in the circumstances, of the man who knows how
to keep his readers thoroughly entertained although he writes in a
hurry.”
+ − =Spec.= 101: 1056. D. 19, ’08. 1600w.
=City history club of New York.=^{[11]} Historical guide to the city
of New York; compiled by Frank Bergen Kelley from original
observations and contributions made by members and friends of the
City history club of New York. **$1.50. Stokes.
9–25287.
“Contains a series of excursions to all the spots of historic interest
within the limits of the greater city. It has maps and plans, and
bibliographies (and these last might be a little fuller). It calls
attention to all the historical tablets, and to all the commemorative
statues and paintings. It seeks to record the houses where famous men
were born or lived or died. It brings together an immense mass of facts
not otherwise easily accessible: it presents these facts in their proper
places.”—Forum.
* * * * *
“It is certain to be a valuable incentive to the continued study of the
city’s history—a study likely to bear fruit in determined resolve to
better present conditions.” Brander Matthews.
+ =Forum.= 42: 477. N. ’09. 340w.
“One can not too much respect the conscientious nature of the work which
has gone into this compilation.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 781. N. 6, ’09. 340w.
“The volume will be a useful addition to the library of every citizen of
New York who is interested in its development and is able to appreciate
the things that are not obvious.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 790. D. 11, ’09. 230w.
=Clark, Ellery H.= Loaded dice. †$1.50. Bobbs.
9–9251.
A man who concludes that life is a gamble chooses to disregard any moral
law, and murders, steals, cheats and betrays his friends to win the
fortune that can lead him straight to the realization of his towering
political ambitions. There is no betrayal of friend or foe too heinous
for his brutality to cope with. His cleverness in covering up the tracks
of his treachery stands him in stead for a time and then come the
reckoning, the confession, and the bitter cry of one who had made a
gamble of life and lost.
* * * * *
“A poor and unpleasant book.”
− =Ind.= 66: 764. Ap. 8, ’09. 180w.
“The incidents that develop the plot are of the tinsel-theatric order,
while in characters, style, and method the story follows conventional
lines.”
− =N. Y. Times.= 14: 162. Mr. 20, ’09. 170w.
=Clark, Francis Edward, and Clark, Harriet A.=^{[5]} Gospel in Latin
lands: outline studies of Protestant work in the Latin countries of
Europe and America. (United study of missions ser.) *50c. Macmillan.
9–12891.
Deals with the rise and progress of missionary work first in Latin
Europe and second in Latin America. There are twenty-four distinct
nations treated from the missionary point of view, “separated from each
other not only by seas and continents, but by the wider gulfs of
different languages, customs and traditions.” The work is historical
rather than picturesque.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 37. O. ’09.
“It is worth reading. It brings a very important question to a direct
issue.”
+ =Spec.= 103: 566. O. 9, ’09. 220w.
=Clark, Imogen.=^{[10]} We four and two more. †$1.25. Crowell.
9–24964.
“We four” are the Egertons, Philip and Judy, twins, and Margery and
Gilbert the little brother and sister, who come to live with their
grandmother while their father and mother are in the Philippines. The
“two more” are Jack and Sheila who also come to stay at Granny’s house
while their father is in Europe. Philip tells the story of their good
times thru one happy summer.
* * * * *
=Lit. D.= 39: 1027. D. 4, ’09. 60w.
=Clarke, Helen Archibald.= Browning’s England: a study of English
influences in Browning. *$2. Baker.
8–31681.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 37. F. ’09.
+ =Dial.= 45: 415. D. 1, ’08. 180w.
“If somewhat desultory, the work will aid in making Browning more
agreeable and in some way more real to the ordinary reader.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 38: 104. Ja. 16, ’09. 120w.
“Is hardly a study, but rather a cursory glance at some of the English
influences to be discerned in that poet’s work. The book’s criticism and
comment are all of the most obvious kind.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 13: 769. D. 12, ’08. 150w.
=Clarke, Helen Archibald.= Child’s guide to mythology. **$1.25. Baker.
8–33422.
An introductory chapter answering the query “What is a myth?” is
followed by legends grouped according to subject containing myths about
plants, trees, animals, sky and air, the sun, moon, and stars,
mother-myths and child-myths.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 28. Ja. ’09. ✠
“Is well fitted for the work she has undertaken in the preparation of a
volume of this kind.” K. L. M.
+ =Bookm.= 28: 502. Ja. ’09. 110w.
“A collection of folk-tales of an unusually wide range.”
+ =Ind.= 65: 1568. D. 24, ’08. 40w.
“She herself has evidently gone profoundly deep into the subject, but it
is to be feared that children’s minds will confound the nationalities of
these tales, which one should prefer to tell them without tracing their
origin or paternity. The book is well written.”
+ − =Lit. D.= 37: 983. D. 26, ’08. 100w.
“A book of information which may be safely recommended. Miss Clarke
tells the old stories in simple and good English.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 601. D. 17, ’08. 60w.
=Clarke, John Henry.=^{[12]} Vital economy; or, How to conserve your
strength. *50c. Wessels.
9–29494.
Seeking its audience mainly among people who have just enough vitality
to enable them to get thru their duties by exercising due economy and no
more, this little book discusses the bath—in which the author makes the
paradoxical statement that one “may wash themselves dirty,” by removing
too much of the protecting surface and thus allowing dirt to get into
their skin—fresh air, exercise, stimulants, tea, coffee, worry, and
visiting the sick.
* * * * *
“Dr. Clarke’s volume, while entertaining in its way, contains nothing
new save his so-called ‘plea for an acknowledgment of a Science of vital
economics.’”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 784. D. 11, ’09. 280w.
“Altogether, this is a book worthy of attention.”
+ =Spec.= 101: 888. N. 28, ’09. 120w.
=Clarke, William Newton.=^{[6]} Christian doctrine of God.
(International theological lib.) **$2.50. Scribner.
9–6858.
“The volume falls into the following divisions: (1) Introduction,
setting forth the theme, the method, and the sources of information; (2)
God, expounding his character, personality, goodness, love, holiness,
wisdom and unity; (3) God and Men, in his relations as Creator, Father,
Sovereign, moral Governor, Providence, Savior, Trinity, and in human
life; (4) God and the Universe, wherein the commonly accepted attributes
of God are treated, e. g., self-existent, eternal, infinite, omniscient;
(5) Evidence, in which the author seeks to show the reasonableness of
the Christian conception of God, as he has thus far interpreted it. The
volume departs widely from the usual type of discussion of the doctrine
of God in that Dr. Clarke eschews absolutely all metaphysical and
philosophical questions and furnishes us instead a persuasive and
winsome exposition of the religious content of the God-idea as held by
the Christian church.”—Bib. World.
* * * * *
“An instructive book, full of clear thought and independent insight; but
it is something better; it is a live book, dealing with realities and
not with words merely, and relying for its appeal upon the assent of the
reader’s own experience. Passing to the doctrine of freedom, one notes a
certain lack of clearness in the definition of terms.” W: A. Brown.
+ − =Am. J. Theol.= 13: 466. Jl. ’09. 1000w.
“An extensive and scholarly exposition.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 134. My. ’09.
“This important volume has long been eagerly awaited.”
+ =Bib. World.= 33: 358. My. ’09. 170w.
“It is a book which will enter current religious life as a sweetening
and purifying influence, revealing to many the truths by which they have
lived, but which they knew not how to state.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 707. S. 23, ’09. 600w.
“The book in hand is easily Dr. Clarke’s ‘magnum opus.’”
+ =Nation.= 89: 258. S. 16, ’09. 870w.
“Perhaps the main lack in the book as a whole is its failure to bring
out strongly the essentially social element in the Christian belief of
God. As a whole the book is valuable, sound, and attractive. It should
be widely read by all who want a thoroughly sympathetic and modern
expression of the Christian belief.” E: S. Drown.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 367. Je. 12, ’09. 920w.
“Apart from these serious disadvantages of method, there is much clear
and readable exposition of these great themes.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 108: 50. Jl. 10, ’09. 1200w.
=Clarke, William Newton.=^{[12]} Sixty years with the Bible: a record
of experience. **$1.25. Scribner.
9–26003.
The author tells the story of his “own progress from the dim and
unsatisfying light of a book mechanically inspired to the clearer vision
which historical appreciation of the ancient records have made
possible.... Dr. Clarke has made it possible for even a timid and
hesitant inquirer, humble as to his own measures of knowledge and
intellectual power, to acquire a modern, informed and reverent
conception of the Bible without the paroxysms of a revolution, and it
may be hoped that his gentle pages will fulfil this purpose for large
numbers.”—Ind.
* * * * *
“An exceedingly persuasive book, especially for the many who still
require, for their spiritual good, to be persuaded on this subject.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 1208. N. 25, ’09. 400w.
“This frank recital of his experience will serve admirably as a guide to
less thorough and discerning minds.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 578. D. 9, ’09. 220w.
=R. of Rs.= 40: 761. D. ’09. 80w.
=Cleaves, Margaret Abigail.=^{[12]} Autobiography of a neurasthene; as
told by one of them and recorded by Margaret A. Cleaves. $1.50.
Badger, R: G.
A physician’s story based upon the experiences of a neurasthene. It is
told with the definite purpose “of removing, if possible, the sting and
opprobrium which the essential neurasthene bears because of the long
continued pose of the neurasthene who does not exhaust neuronic energy,
but poisons it by his way of living.”
=Clegg, Thomas Bailey.=^{[8]} Joan of the hills. †$1.50. Lane.
A story of Australia which “concerns the fortunes of a very
uninteresting and weak-kneed Englishman—a briefless barrister who has
taken to the colonies and counter-jumping for the living the law failed
to afford him. But it depends for its dramatic and romantic appeal upon
a handsome Australian girl aided and abetted by a youngster, the
weak-kneed person’s son, and for its special favor upon a sort of David
Harum of the bush, a shrewd old Australian general storekeeper and money
lender.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“Mr. Clegg takes his hero and enlists a good deal of sympathy and
interest before the curtain falls on an uneven tale.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 641. My. 29. 120w.
“Though it deals with topics pleasantly far from modern clatter, this
novel lacks, in its swing and briskness, nothing either of originality
or modernity.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 279. S. 23, ’09. 210w.
“The book is readable and even exciting, in spite of the shortcomings of
the hero.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 428. Jl. 10, ’09. 550w.
=Spec.= 103: 136. Jl. 24, ’09. 180w.
=Clemens, Samuel Langhorne (Mark Twain, pseud.).=^{[11]} Extract from
Captain Stormfield’s visit to heaven. †$1. Harper.
9–27263.
A humorous account of a celestial journey which, on account of thirty
years of whirling thru space, ended at a gate millions of leagues from
the one that usually admitted earth’s inhabitants. Stepping on the
wishing carpet and wishing himself in the booking office of his own
section the narrator speeds thru space and realizes that he is in the
proper quarter when he hears some one shout out “A harp and a hymn-book,
a pair of wings and halo, size 13, for Cap’n Eli Stormfield, of San
Francisco!—make him out a clean bill of health and let him in.” The
experiences that follow are above all else practical and quite out of
the run of what is supposed to happen in an orthodox heaven.
* * * * *
“His humour is still of the brand labelled American, and consisting in
the juxtaposition of obvious incongruities.”
+ =Bookm.= 30: 323. D. ’09. 160w.
“Underneath the drollery of Captain Stormfield’s forms of expression
there is an immense lot of philosophy of a shrewd and homely sort
concerning the future life.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 689. N. 6, ’09. 130w.
=Clemens, Samuel Langhorne (Mark Twain, pseud.).=^{[5]} Is Shakespeare
dead? From my autobiography. **$1.25. Harper.
9–9664.
In his well known jocular style, Mark Twain attempts to show that
William Shakespeare could not have written the plays and poems
attributed to him. By a similar process of reasoning it is claimed that
Bacon and no other person living in Shakespeare’s time could have
written them. Incidentally a good deal of Mark Twain’s life on the
Mississippi is included.
* * * * *
“Not recommended except where demand necessitates.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 158. Je. ’09.
“He is not even funny when he loses his temper.” E: Fuller.
− =Bookm.= 29: 633. Ag. ’09. 1250w.
=Ind.= 67: 90. Jl. 8, ’09. 200w.
“The humor, however, it must be confessed, is occasionally somewhat
forced.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 422. Ap. 22, ’09. 150w.
“Even in such meagre quantity the quality of Mark Twain’s writing is
always assured of a wide welcome.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 272. My. 1, ’09. 300w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 379. Je. 12, ’09. 230w.
“So far as Shakespeare is concerned, this volume is a thing of naught.
There are occasional entertaining passages, descriptions of life on the
Mississippi; there is also a great deal of dreary reading.”
− + =Outlook.= 92: 69. My. 8, ’09. 260w.
“The argument abounds in humor, but it is not for that reason the less
convincing.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 39: 767. Je. ’09. 140w.
“The little volume before us ... does, indeed, make a strong demand upon
our indulgence. His only serious arguments are ‘lifted’ avowedly from
Mr. Greenwood’s pages. Happily Mark Twain from time to time puts off the
harness which so ill becomes him, and we get glimpses of the author of
the ‘Mississippi pilot,’ of the creator of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry
Finn.”
+ − =Spec.= 103: sup. 716. N. 6, ’09. 900w.
=Cléry, Jean Baptiste C. H.=^{[11]} Royal family in the Temple prison
(journal of the imprisonment). (Court ser. of French memoirs.)
**$1.50. Sturgis & Walton.
9–28241.
An impressionistic account, kept in the journal of Jean Baptiste
Cant-Hanet, called Cléry, of the life of Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette and
the Dauphin during the five months of their confinement in the Temple.
=Cleveland, Frederick Albert.=^{[8]} Chapters on municipal
administration and accounting. **$2. Longmans.
9–14716.
A suggestive work by a leader in the movement for reform in American
municipal accounting. Dr. Cleveland is connected with the New York city
Bureau of municipal research and has had full opportunity to study the
accounting system of that city. “As to the book as a whole, it may be
noted that, while it takes up many phases of municipal administration,
it centers for the most part in accounting and related problems. At the
same time, the need for physical and other operative statistics, as well
as accounting figures and conclusions, is always kept in mind by the
author, and often forcibly presented.” (Engin. N.)
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 37. O. ’09.
“It is true that for consecutive reading there is a large amount of
repetition in the volume, but until the underlying principles set forth
by the author are more generally understood and appreciated they will
bear repeating.”
+ =Engin. N.= 62: sup. 4. Jl. 15, ’09. 650w.
“His work is valuable in its constructive as well as its destructive
criticism.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 483. Ag. 26, ’09. 450w.
“It has the weaknesses which are necessarily found in a work of this
sort: It is loosely constructed, full of repetition, and in some
respects out of date. However, its constant reiteration of fundamental
principles will prove not to be a fault if it results in driving home
the indisputable propositions so clearly and convincingly set forth.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 407. O. 28, ’09. 530w.
“A book almost unique in its sphere.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 593. O. 9, ’09. 1300w.
“Some extremely suggestive chapters.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 254. Ag. ’09. 140w.
=Spec.= 103: sup. 825. N. 20, ’09. 170w.
=Cleveland, Frederick Albert, and Powell, Fred Wilbur.=^{[8]} Railroad
promotion and capitalization in the United States. **$2. Longmans.
9–12091.
“The present work is not speculative, nor is it commentary on things as
they are or ought to be. It is pure fact and history from title-page to
finis.... The authors begin at the beginning, and in the first chapter
give an account of the transportation equipment and condition of the
highroads during the revolutionary period.... It contains a history of
the origination, financing, and completion of every important railroad
on this continent.”—Lit. D.
* * * * *
“On the whole the merits of the work are such that it must be regarded
as a valuable addition to the literature of American industrial and
financial history.” H. S. Smalley.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 15: 166. O. ’09. 580w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 38. O. ’09.
“Every library and student of railway history should have a copy as a
bibliographical reference and as an excellent history of railroad
construction.” G. G. Huebner.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 615. N. ’09. 730w.
“The book is written in most entertaining style. It ought to be included
in every engineering reference library and the library of every
engineering school; in fact, we may go further and say that in the
development of courses of business engineering in our engineering
schools, this book may well be placed upon the list of works which the
student should be required to read.”
+ =Engin. N.= 62: sup. 3. Jl. 15, ’09. 230w.
“Some few exceptions may be taken; but the narrative is on the whole a
good brief account, covering well-trodden ground. The book is distinctly
serviceable, and can be recommended.” Stuart Daggett.
+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 17: 475. Jl. ’09. 700w.
“A most valuable work of reference. In its own particular line it is a
monument of erudition and should find its way into the library of every
college, polytechnic, and professional railroad man in the country.”
+ =Lit. D.= 38: 1069. Je. 19, ’09. 270w.
“Much detailed information concerning the general history of railways is
given, some of it not heretofore published.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 309. S. 30, ’09. 230w.
“A condensed survey of American railroad finance.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 384. S. ’09. 80w.
=Cleveland, Grover.=^{[6]} Letters and addresses; ed. by Albert Ellery
Bergh. 72c. Unit book pub.
9–11525.
Includes a collection of the addresses, state papers and letters of
Cleveland, besides a brief life, a story of the book, notes on the text,
list of authorities and an index.
=Clews, Henry.= Fifty years in Wall street. *$3. Henry Clews, 15 Broad
st., N. Y.
8–18389.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
* * * * *
“The book should not be taken too seriously, however. The original
edition was not intended for the well-informed reader, and there is
little in the additional chapters which will add to its value, or extend
its range of appeal.” F. W. Powell.
− =Econ. Bull.= 1: 322. D. ’08. 400w.
=Clouston, J. Storer.=^{[11]} Prodigal father. †$1.50. Century.
9–25631.
A thoroly amusing tale in which the straitlaced father of a family of
five children takes some sort of cell-renewing treatment which reverses
the aging process and starts him back over the ground to youth. The
story is concerned with his astonishing antics and capers, accompanied
by leniency in place of the former harsh treatment of a son and daughter
in relation to their love affairs. He is censored and thwarted by an
imperious prig of a son who finally gives him his choice between the
insane asylum and exile. The father chooses the latter only for the
purpose of freedom in which to plan the obnoxious son’s downfall.
* * * * *
“An amusing book.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 653. O. 23, ’09. 40w.
“It is a well-told, bizarre, and amusing tale.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 689. N. 6, ’09. 90w.
“In returning to the vein of his early success ‘The lunatic at large,’
Mr. Clouston makes a considerable draft upon the charity of the reading
public. There are times and seasons for everything, even for humour, and
‘The prodigal father’—after the manner of champagne at breakfast—strikes
us as decidedly outside the fitness of things.”
− =Sat. R.= 108: sup. 8. O. 16, ’09. 270w.
=Clow, W. M.=^{[7]} Cross in Christian experience. *$1.50. West. Meth.
bk.
A series of addresses which are arranged so as to present the atonement
“as a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation.” The essential
feature is the study of the Christian consciousness.
=Cobham, Claude Delaval=, tr. Excerpta cypria. *$6.30. Putnam.
9–2022.
Descriptive note in December, 1908, under “Excerpta cypria.”
* * * * *
“They will be convenient as a work of reference to the few who are
interested in Cyprus, and will certainly prove most useful to any
student who undertakes to write on the mediæval or modern history of the
island.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 288. Mr. 6. 430w.
“The authorities for the history of the Levant are so scattered, and at
times so difficult of access, that it is extremely convenient to have
them collected within the compass of a single volume. It may be doubted
however whether it was worth while to devote space to an author so easy
to obtain as Paruta, who wrote moreover in a language with which every
student of this subject must be familiar.” W. M.
+ − =Eng. Hist. R.= 24: 183. Ja. ’09. 380w.
“The book is valuable as far as it goes, but as he says, it is material
for a history, not the history itself.” C: R. Gillett.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 13. Ja. 9, ’09. 1800w.
“It is to be regretted that Mr. Cobham has left unnoticed the long,
interesting period preceding the birth of Christ. The volume will
undoubtedly prove of great value to all who wish to make themselves
acquainted with Cyprus.”
+ − =Pol. Sci. Q.= 24: 177. Mr. ’09. 200w.
=Codd, Margaret Jane.=^{[9]} With Evans to the Pacific: a story of the
battle fleet. 60c. Flanagan.
9–24658.
A travel story of the great cruise told for young readers. The route of
the fleet has been closely followed; typical experiences have been
introduced to give an idea of life on shipboard; sketches of the life of
Admiral Evans are given; while the matters of general interest in regard
to the principal countries of South America add value to the book.
=Coerne, Louis Adolphe.= Evolution of modern orchestration. *$3.
Macmillan.
8–21540.
Touches only lightly upon the ground covered in Lavoix’s “Histoire de
l’instrumentation,” but lays special emphasis upon the nineteenth
century. The author says that his purpose has not been that of writing a
treatise on instrumentation or to prepare a pedagogical analysis of
orchestration only, but rather to trace the evolution of the orchestra
and of orchestration in connection with the history of music proper.
* * * * *
“The book shows wide reading and experience.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 50. Ja. 9. 620w.
“It is not a treatise in any sense, but a history of the orchestra, and
from this point of view is unique.”
+ =Dial.= 46: 407. Je. 16, ’09. 160w.
“The book was written to prove Dr. Coerne’s erudition; it was not
written to instruct others. There is much fragmentary information about
the composers of Russia, the Scandinavian and other countries, that
might escape him unless he read many books not published in English.” F:
R. Burton.
− + =Forum.= 42: 269. S. ’09. 1250w.
“The book is one which no musical library can afford to do without.”
+ =Ind.= 66; 1299. Je. 10, ’09. 160w.
“America is not forgotten in this volume; indeed, Dr. Coerne accords it
more honor than it deserves.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 72. Ja. 21, ’09. 560w.
“A useful book to keep on hand for reference. A good many statements are
made in a pragmatic and final form which any critic would be likely to
call into question, and musical estimates are there in abundance which
cannot be held in very high regard.”
+ − =No. Am.= 190: 266. Ag. ’09. 180w.
“A scholarly piece of work.”
+ =Outlook.= 91: 292. F. 6, ’09. 100w.
“In spite of infelicities of manner and of the hovering between the too
technical and the vaguely general, there is much solid research and much
luminous criticism in Dr. Coerne’s book.” D. G. Mason.
+ − =Putnam’s.= 6: 112. Ap. ’09. 300w.
=R. of Rs.= 39: 255. F. ’09. 60w.
“In spite of some excellent qualities, Dr. Coerne has only achieved a
partial success. He is handicapped by a ponderous style and a fatal
fondness for polysyllables. Again, his laudable desire to be fair and
generous to everybody results too often in undiscriminating praise.” C.
L. G.
+ − =Spec.= 101: 836. N. 21, ’08. 1950w.
=Cohen, Alfred J. (Alan Dale, pseud.).=^{[7]} Great wet way. **$1.50.
Dodd.
9–9225.
Some fifty trips across the ocean have furnished the author with the
material out of which to construct an entertaining exposé of the
“essential idiocy of humanity.” “He has pierced the deceits of shipboard
aristocracy and shipboard epicures, and has analyzed if not solved the
intricate problems of the tip. He has played with the children on
board.... He has discovered why shipboard is the ideal place for
flirtations. He has listened to the noisy boasts of the ‘tinsel
patriot,’ accompanied the ‘hustler’ while he collected talent for the
ship’s concert, and watched and meditated upon the subtle change that
comes over some of the passengers when land and the custom-house
approach.” (Dial.)
* * * * *
“Humorous descriptions of life aboard an ocean steamer.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 158. Je. ’09.
“His book is very entertaining.”
+ =Dial.= 46: 373. Je. 1, ’09. 320w.
“Mr. Dale’s style is easy and familiar.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 218. Ap. 10, ’09. 230w.
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 372. Je. 12, ’09. 140w.
=Cohu, Rev. J. R.=^{[11]} Gospels in the light of modern research.
*6s. Parker, James, & Co., Oxford.
A work whose purpose “is to demonstrate that modern criticism
substantiates the view of the church as to the age, spiritual character,
and inestimable worth of the Gospels.... The account which Mr. Cohu
gives of each of the Gospels is of value, not because of the removal of
any fundamental difficulty, but for the statement of the problems
concerning these Gospels and solutions accredited by high
authority.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“In this volume he has justified his reputation as a popular expositor.
Mr. Cohu, while undoubtedly on the side of the higher critics, is never
in the company of extremists; and his book may be commended to those
who, though they may tremble for the faith, desire to know what scholars
of repute believe and teach regarding the Gospels.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 459. O. 16. 1100w.
“The reader who wants to know what higher criticism of the sober kind
has to say about the Gospels cannot do better than study Mr. Cohu’s new
volume. We are not prepared to accept all his conclusions.”
+ − =Spec.= 103: 423. S. 18, ’09. 400w.
=Colby, Albert Ladd.=^{[11]} Reinforced concrete in Europe. $3.50.
Chemical.
9–19618.
Data collected from books, government reports, trade and government
specifications, committee reports and personal interviews “have been
collated, compacted and classified under several heads, such as
economies of reinforced concrete, endurance of concrete, foreign
systems, mechanical bond, reinforcing metal, cement, and specifications
for concrete and reinforced concrete. This portion of the report is
therefore in the nature of a symposium, in which the opinions of the
various contributors are reduced to the lowest terms.... The rest of the
book is mostly given over to lists of the various concrete systems now
in use or on the market in Europe, and of the numerous individuals,
committees, commissions, societies and laboratories engaged there in the
study of the subject.” (Engin. N.)
* * * * *
“The multiplicity of so-called systems is the bane of concrete
construction abroad and we can see no use of recording them for American
eyes. However, Mr. Colby’s clients desired this information and its
undue prominence in the book is due to that fact. The report is closed
by a very extensive and complete, but poorly arranged, concrete
bibliography.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 62: sup. 33. O. 14, ’09. 280w.
“A work which is unique in many respects and which fills a heretofore
open space in the literature of concrete-steel construction. The book is
an excellent summary of European methods, but it should be used
judiciously in a search for precedents for work on this side of the
Atlantic.”
+ =Engin. Rec.= 60: 419. O. 9, ’09. 380w.
=Colby, Charles W.= Canadian types of the old régime, 1608–1698.
**$2.75. Holt.
8–20983.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
* * * * *
“In the field of Canadian history it is the most readable book that has
appeared for many a day.” W: B. Munro.
+ =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 393. Ja. ’09. 500w.
“Authoritative, popular, attractively written.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 285. D. ’08.
+ =Ind.= 66: 52. Ja. 7, ’09. 400w.
“The lectures gain a novel and very real value because of the author’s
point of view and effective presentation.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 143. F. 11, ’09. 550w.
+ =Sat. R.= 107: 308. Mr. 6, ’09. 600w.
+ =Spec.= 102: sup. 1007. Je. 26, ’09. 180w.
=Cole, Mrs. Donna Rieta.=^{[5]} Chums: or, An experiment in economics:
ed. by Gertrude Ogden Tubby. $1.25. Gertrude Ogden Tubby. 7 West 42d
st., N. Y.
9–16.
Six stories dealing with the actual problems, hardships, reverses and
victories of a group of settlement workers.
* * * * *
“There is a great deal of good material in this work, but here again the
laborious pen of the inexperienced handler falls short of the subject.
There is, however, the sense of firsthand knowledge conveyed to the
reader’s mind.” Stephen Chalmers.
− + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 278. My. 1, ’09. 120w.
=Cole, William Morse.= Accounts, their construction and
interpretation. *$2. Houghton.
8–31984.