Addressed to children—but surely children of an older growth—this book
discusses interestingly and reproduces some dozen and more famous
paintings of children. Who painted them and what kind of people they
were painted for are questions that are answered in the text.
* * * * *
“If the title of the book be ignored, it will be realised that, though
its author is not gifted with the rare power of appealing to a juvenile
audience, she has no little insight into the qualities differentiating
the work of one painter from that of another.”
+ − =Int. Studio.= 39: 170. D. ’09. 140w.
“Sir Martin Conway and his daughter have done a real service both to the
world of art and to the world of children.”
+ =Outlook.= 93: 645. N. 20, ’09. 280w.
=Conway, Moncure Daniel.=^{[9]} Moncure D. Conway; addresses and
reprints, 1850–1907; published and unpublished work representing the
literary and philosophical life of the author. **$3. Houghton.
9–16468.
Representative specimen addresses which show the argument “that
influenced the early action of the anti-slavery contingent in the war.”
Some of the articles are: Free schools in Virginia; Golden hour; Gospel
of art; Sunday opening of exhibitions; Public service; Dogma and
science; William Penn; and Ellen Dana Conway. A brief biographical
introduction and an eight-page bibliography add to the value of the
collection.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 38. O. ’09.
“The volume will be valued by all who cherish the memory of our old
contributor.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 2: 291. S. 11. 1000w.
“As a reverent free-thinker, a sane and safe radical, and an ardent
lover of and seeker for truth at any cost, Mr. Conway deserves the
widest possible reading.”
+ =Dial.= 47: 102. Ag. 16, ’09. 270w.
+ =Ind.= 67: 481. Ag. 26, ’09. 400w.
=Lit. D.= 39: 536. O. 2, ’09. 120w.
“It was a good idea to publish these selections from a body of work that
reflected so many phases of the great period of change through which he
lived, and to give the public a quickened memory of a courageous and
warm-hearted personality.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 260. S. 16, ’09. 230w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 466. Jl. 31, ’09. 730w.
“It is impossible to be silent when our admiration is asked for such
crude utterances as are to be found in this volume.”
+ =Spec.= 103: 284. Ag. 21, ’09. 240w.
=Conwentz, Hugo Wilhelm.=^{[8]} Care of natural monuments with special
reference to Great Britain and Germany. *$1. Putnam.
9–27586.
“The term ‘natural monument’ may be best explained by illustration. A
rock which has been brought say by an ice-drift, to a locality remote
from its place of origin is such; a spot covered with some unusual
flower—wild lilies-of-the-valley, for instance—is another; an eyot in
the Thames, or such uncommon animals as the badger or the wild cat, may
be so described. Now we all know how these and like things are
threatened as a country becomes more thickly populated. Our author tells
us what has been done for the preservation of such things in Great
Britain and Germany (to which countries his book mainly refers), and
gives us hints as to what might be done in the same line.”—Spec.
* * * * *
“An excellent and praiseworthy volume. By directing attention to what
has been done and what remains to be done, the appearance of the volume
will doubtless serve to awaken renewed interest in the subject.” R. L.
+ =Nature.= 80: 275. My. 6, ’09. 300w.
“The book calls for attention from corporations and individual
proprietors.”
+ =Spec.= 102: 386. Mr. 6, ’09. 200w.
=Cook, Albert Stanburrough=, ed. Concordance to the English poems of
Thomas Gray. *$2.50. Houghton.
8–33143.
The first volume to appear under the auspices of The concordance
society, which was organized at Yale university December, 1906. The
basis of this concordance is Gosse’s edition of Gray.
* * * * *
“The omissions are such as are reasonable, and we fully approve of the
abundance of cross-references.”
+ =Ath.= 1909, 1: 254. F. 27. 220w.
“Unfortunately, the book is marred by omissions, errors, and
inconsistencies, due in the main not so much to lack of scholarship and
care as to the bad mistake made at the outset in the selection of
Gosse’s edition (1884) as the basis for the text and the collation of
the manuscripts and early editions.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 228. Mr. 4, ’09. 950w.
=N. Y. Times.= 13: 699. N. 28, ’08. 70w.
=Cook, Ernest Thomas.= Gardens of England. *$2.50. Macmillan.
9–15051.
A garden book whose descriptive chapters have been inspired by twenty
paintings by Miss Beatrice Parsons. “As in most cases of this kind, the
text prepared for general reading does not describe the pictures, but,
for all that, the chapters on the herb-garden, and on lavender and
rosemary are pleasant reading for the winter, and are about as good as
if they had illustrations to match; while, on the other hand, the
pictures are very good without any specific description.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“The volume before us is attractive in its style and sound in its
advice.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 578. D. 10, ’08. 180w.
“It is not easy to guess at first sight what kind of reader is aimed at
by books of the type of ‘Gardens of England.’ If, as seems probable, its
twenty illustrations are its raison d’être, they might surely have been
presented in some likelier way than that of sandwiching them between the
chapters of a stout volume of miscellaneous garden ‘description.’ Its
chapters consist largely of rather gushing descriptions, with a
proportion of slipshod fine writing.”
+ =Sat. R.= 106: 180. Ag. 8, ’08. 460w.
=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. *$2.50 Doubleday.
8–7371.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
* * * * *
“The one marring feature of the whole story appears in the astonishingly
cruel and needless abandonment of the worn-out horses, to whatever fate
they might find in an Arctic winter on the frozen tundra. Aside from
this one unpleasant aspect of the narrative, the book as a whole makes
decidedly interesting reading, at times affording powerfully impressive
word pictures of the marvels of nature revealed to the party.” W. S.
Tower.
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 33: 208. Ja. ’09. 630w.
“In the present work ... he sometimes rises to eloquence. The
appendixes ... are important from a scientific point of view, though the
ordinary reader will probably skip them.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 102. Jl. 24. 650w.
=Cook, William Wallace.=^{[6]} Quarter to four. †$1.50. Dillingham.
9–10647.
A story of hidden treasure concealed in a sea-cavern on the shores of an
island in the Pacific. Instructions for finding the treasure are written
on a card which is cut into four parts and a quarter given to each of
four persons entitled to a share, all of whom must meet and join cards
before the way to the gold is clear. Love, adventure and intrigue offer
their usual course of uncertainties.
* * * * *
“The adventures are not ill-devised—though the execution is too much for
the writer’s skill—and the initial idea is original enough to raise
hopes of a sense of humor—hopes which are presently blasted.”
− + =N. Y. Times.= 14: 328. My. 22, ’09. 300w.
=Cooley, Charles Horton.=^{[5]} Social organization: a study of the
larger mind. **$1.50. Scribner.
9–9510.
The author says: “In a former book (Human nature and social order) I
tried to see society as it exists in the social nature of man and to
display that in its main outlines. In this one the eye is focussed on
the enlargement and diversification of intercourse which I have called
social organization, the individual, though visible, remaining slightly
in the background.” The divisions of his study are: Primary aspects of
organization; Communication; The democratic mind; Social classes;
Institutions; Public will.
* * * * *
“In his two volumes ‘Human nature and the social order’ and ‘Social
organization’ Professor Cooley has given to the public the best
statement of the newer social philosophy that has yet been written.” G:
E. Vincent.
+ =Am. J. Soc.= 15: 414. N. ’09. 1900w.
“A work of admirable ideals and temper and one that will interest many
educated laymen, as well as the students of sociology.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 134. My. ’09.
“I do not know when I have read a book marked by such even quality. The
author’s thought is on a high plain. His insight clear, his attitude
very fair and unprejudiced. There is no striving for bizarre effects in
language or style. It is not brilliant. It is a serious and thought
provoking study which escapes being heavy or monotonous. The author is
to be complimented.” Carl Kelsey.
+ =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 432. S. ’09. 700w.
“Probably the best portion of the book is the third which is devoted to
a discussion of ‘The democratic mind.’” I: A. Loos.
+ =Econ. Bull.= 2: 171. Je. ’09. 570w.
“This is a notable book, full of discriminating insight and freighted
with well-canvassed and hopeful forecasts for democracy.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 165. Ag. 19, ’09. 900w.
“Dr. Cooley, in ‘Social organization,’ develops a philosophy not only
social but universal, almost a religion of society, and in dealing with
our so materialistic, complex modern conditions, upholds an idealism and
a faith in primeval human nature that make his plain prose and bare
facts take on the color of poetry.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 353. Je. 5, ’09. 750w.
“Notable contribution to the literature of sociology.” J. P.
Lichtenberger.
+ =Survey.= 22: 683. Ag. 14, ’09. 650w.
=Coolidge, Archibald Cary.= United States as a world power. **$2.
Macmillan.
8–19878.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
* * * * *
“Of course there are particular statements scattered throughout the
book, which the reviewer would like to challenge, did space permit. This
attractive volume deserves a conspicuous place in our libraries by the
side of such works as Latané’s ‘America as a world power,’ Moore’s
‘American diplomacy,’ Hart’s ‘Foundations of American foreign policy,’
Foster’s ‘Century of American diplomacy,’ and Reinsch’s ‘World
politics.’” A. S. Hershey.
+ − =Am. Hist. R.= 14: 372. Ja. ’09. 800w.
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 286. D. ’08. ✠
“It is distinctly to be hoped that it will command the attention which
the temper, perhaps more conspicuously than the scholarship, of the
volume so abundantly deserves.” F: A: Ogg.
+ =Dial.= 46: 43. Ja. 16, ’09. 1500w.
“It has substance as well as symmetry and form; it is void of dogmatism
or special pleading, but it moves the reader to thought; it handles
serious and complicated questions with a light touch, but the impression
of its solid qualities is the impression that remains.”
+ =Nation.= 87: 606. D. 17, ’08. 1050w.
“A work which will be found of the greatest helpfulness by all who would
improve their knowledge of present-day problems in the national life as
well as the international relations of the United States.” H. A. Bruce.
+ =Outlook.= 91: 796. Ap. 3, ’09. 1600w.
“Professor Coolidge has a direct and lucid style, and has made a very
useful and illuminating monograph on our foreign relations.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 39: 381. Mr. ’09. 50w.
“Altogether, this is a highly interesting volume.”
+ =Spec.= 102: 347. F. 27, ’09. 130w.
=Coolidge, Mary Roberts.=^{[9]} Chinese immigration. (American public
problems ser.) **$1.75. Holt.
9–23245.
A work of economic importance which gives the complete history of
Chinese immigration from the days when the Pacific coast welcomed these
yellow men as a helpful solution of the local labor problem. The study
painstakingly sets forth what the Chinese have wrought as social and
economic factors in our commonwealth; what has been their influence, and
what it will be in the future; their business methods, home life,
ideals; the menace of numbers and non-assimilation; and the effect of
exclusion upon China.
* * * * *
“This is one of the best studies of a race problem we have seen. It is
optimistic, perhaps too optimistic at times, but the statements made are
discriminating and the conclusions generally sound.” C. L. Jones.
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 617. N. ’09. 380w.
“If ever a book contained a damning arraignment of a governmental policy
and its administration, Mrs. Coolidge’s volume is such an one. Painful
and humiliating as is the story which Mrs. Coolidge has to tell, the
book must nevertheless prove a powerful agent for good.”
+ − =Nation.= 89: 574. D. 9, ’09. 1250w.
=R. of Rs.= 40: 511. O. ’09. 100w.
=Copeland, Charles Townsend, and Hersey, Frank Wilson Cheney=,
eds.^{[10]} Representative biographies of English men of letters.
*$1.25. Macmillan.
9–25200.
A collection of biographies designed primarily to illustrate the
varieties of biographical writing. It includes: first, extracts from
notable autobiographies, among which are those of Lord Herbert of
Cherbury, Colley Cibber, Gibbon, and Ruskin; second, examples of the
method and style of such famous biographers as Isaak Walton, Dr.
Johnson, Boswell, Lockhart, Southey, Macaulay, and Carlyle; and third,
many complete lives from the “dictionary of national biography” which
represent the work of accomplished literary historians.
* * * * *
“This makes a useful collection of material for the student of
biographical technique, but the selection is too haphazard to be of much
use to the student of the history of English literature.”
+ − =Dial.= 47: 340. N. 1, ’09. 170w.
“Both the autobiographic and the biographic selections are in themselves
well worth the prominence given to them.”
+ =Educ. R.= 38: 426. My. ’09. 70w.
=Copus, Rev. John Edwin.= Son of Siro: a story of Lazarus. *$1.50.
Benziger.
9–561.
A story of the period of Christ’s ministry dwelling especially upon the
development of Lazarus, Mary and Martha.
* * * * *
“The story is a fine piece of imaginative construction, directed by good
taste. Persons unfamiliar with the gospel-history cannot but read it
with more intelligence and interest after they will have read this
attractive story.”
+ =Cath. World.= 89: 256. My. ’09. 220w.
=Corelli, Marie.= Holy orders: the tragedy of a quiet life. †$1.50.
Stokes.
8–23928.
A story which exploits the evil wrought in rural England thru the
adulterated drink traffic. It seeks its audience among “church people,
prohibitionists, anti-saloon league adherents and journalists.”
* * * * *
“The treatment of the theme is artificial and strained.”
− =Ind.= 66: 148. Ja. 21, ’09. 250w.
“The demonstration is conducted with the usual exultant ingenuousness,
and as usual the book will be made tolerable in not a few eyes because
of one or two human figures in it, which do not care whether they help
Miss Corelli demonstrate anything or not.”
+ − =Nation.= 87: 363. O. 15, ’08. 270w.
“A little too highly dramatic, perhaps, is ‘Holy orders,’ but still
undoubtedly a good story.”
+ − =R. of Rs.= 39: 121. Ja. ’09. 250w.
=Cornish, Vaughan.=^{[6]} Panama canal and its makers. **$1.50.
Little.
9–35588.
“The work of a British geographer, who has taken the pains to get the
most authoritative information, to supplement and vivify it by personal
observations and to put it into a clear and compact form. The diplomatic
history of the enterprise, the rival plans and engineering difficulties,
the success in sanitation, the labor question, and the commercial
possibilities are all briefly and competently discussed, without the
sensationalism and bias that vitiate much of the current literature of
the subject.”—Nation.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 159. Je. ’09. ✠
“It must be confessed that his work compares more than favorably with
the matter published by most American newspapermen and book writers who
have visited the Isthmus.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 61: sup. 69. Je. 17, ’09. 850w.
“There is no better book for the general reader who wants to know just
what is being done in Panama.”
+ =Ind.= 67: 41. Jl. 1, ’09. 200w.
“A concise and complete account of the great work now being carried on
there.”
+ =Lit. D.= 38: 851. My. 15, ’09. 210w.
“For the general reader, there is no better book on the subject.”
+ =Nation.= 88: 485. My. 13, ’09. 300w.
“Vaughan Cornish is the fair critic who comes with a chip on his
shoulder, but is quite pleased, even delighted, to have it knocked off.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 486. Ag. 14, ’09. 500w.
=R. of Rs.= 40: 121. Jl. ’09. 70w.
+ =Sat. R.= 107: 634. My. 15, ’09. 370w.
“‘The men on the Isthmus’ is one of the most interesting chapters in the
book.”
+ =Spec.= 102: 618. Ap. 17, ’09. 500w.
=Cosgrove, John Joseph.=^{[5]} History of sanitation. $1.50. Standard
sanitary mfg. co.
9–14192.
A story of sanitation from the days of primitive man down to the present
time of perfection in the manufacture of plumbing fixtures and
approaching perfection in sewage systems. The slight volume of some 125
pages is in its broad sense a history of the world’s struggle for an
adequate supply of wholesome water and of its efforts to dispose of the
resultant sewage without injury to health or offense to the sense of
sight and smell.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 159. Je. ’09.
=Engin. N.= 61: sup. 66. My. 13, ’09. 200w.
=Cosgrove, John Joseph.=^{[5]} Sewage purification and disposal. $3.
Standard sanitary mfg. co.
9–13289.
A timely handbook for engineers and communities wrestling with the
sewage problem giving in concise, ready form, rules, tables and data for
designing and proportioning purification works. Original drawings
accompany the text.
* * * * *
“The untechnical and simple nature of the text and a large number of
original drawings make it useful for municipal officers as well as the
engineer or student.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 159. Je. ’09.
=Engin. D.= 5: 664. Je. ’09. 160w.
“Considering his limitations of space and evident lack of professional
experience as a sewage-works engineer, Mr. Cosgrove has covered about
the whole field of sewage treatment in a remarkably satisfactory manner.
Here and there appear evidences, both in statements and in spelling,
which indicate unfamiliarity with the subject before entering upon the
preparation of the book.”
+ − =Engin. N.= 61: sup. 75. Je. 17, ’09. 220w.
=Costello, Frederick Hankerson.=^{[10]} Sure-dart: a story of strange
hunters and stranger game in the days of monsters. †$1.25. McClurg.
9–25176.
A story set in the Cretaceous epoch of the Secondary geological period.
In order to enhance the interest of the tale, and the monster animals of
that period, the author has introduced human beings, a liberty warranted
only by imagination.
=Cotes, Hornor.=^{[12]} Counterpart. $1.50. Macaulay co.
9–25629.
A civil war story of which a young Northerner is the hero. At the
beginning of the war he is fooled by a Southern girl who, on pretence of
sympathy for the North, obtains from him information which brings an
expedition to a disastrous end; after which, his lesson learned, he
becomes a shrewd soldier and runs the gamut of war adventure. Thruout
the love element is interwoven deftly with the war episodes.
* * * * *
“The book is written with unusual care and considerable skill, and
brings in many of the notable figures of that time, both civil and
military. And if the author has not quite the emotional power to
reproduce the thrills of the period, he at least has the philosophical
ability to describe them very well.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 750. N. 27, ’09. 330w.
=Coulter, John Merle; Coulter, John G.; and Patterson, Alice
Jean.=^{[11]} Practical nature study and elementary agriculture; a
manual for the use of teachers and normal students. *$1.35.
Appleton.
9–10812.
A discussion of nature study, its field, and its principles in which the
subject is combined with elementary agriculture. Three helpful outlines
are supplied: (1) for the training school with typical lesson plans, (2)
for the lower grades, and (3) for elementary agriculture for seventh and
eighth grades.
* * * * *
“Differs considerably from Holtz’s ‘Nature study’ in method and subject
matter, and is more helpful for teachers of rural schools or those
having insufficient preparation.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 38. O. ’09.
“Coulter and Patterson have packed into their book a large amount of
useful material, but some of it is not approved nature-study.”
+ − =Ind.= 67: 302. Ag. 5, ’09. 140w.
=Coulton, George Gordon.= Chaucer and his England. (Memoir ser.)
*$3.50. Putnam.
8–33921.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
* * * * *
“A useful book for the student of literature or medieval history, though
not without prejudices.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 4: 286. D. ’08.
“The book is well illustrated, and in every way most desirable as an
account of mediaeval England.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 41. Ja. 9. 750w.
“When the author ventures far from the beaten path of biography into the
attractive by-ways of conjecture, he is not to be taken too seriously.
The chief value of the book lies in the fresh and lifelike pictures it
affords of society in town and country.” C. S. Northup.
+ − =Dial.= 46: 185. Mr. 16, ’09. 1400w.
“An abundance of historical and personal incident is wrought into Mr.
Coulton’s text, and, with many plate and other illustrations, gives
interest and charm to it throughout.”
+ =Outlook.= 91: 584. Mr. 13, ’09. 250w.
=Courtney, William Leonard.=^{[5]} Literary man’s Bible: a selection
of passages from the old Testament, historic, poetic and
philosophic, illustrating Hebrew literature; arranged with
introductory essays and annotations. *$1.25. Crowell.
8–3644.
A fourth and popular edition of a book which considers the literary
rather than the theological aspect of the Bible.
* * * * *
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 12. Ja. 4. 340w.
=Bib. World.= 34: 70. Jl. ’09. 50w.
“Such a book as this does inestimable service to the cause of religion.”
+ =Dial.= 46: 408. Je. 16, ’09. 100w.
“Mr. Courtney’s work is scholarly and judicious in the extreme, and his
selections from the Bible, as well as his classification of them and his
form of printing, are admirable and most helpful.”
+ =Educ. R.= 38: 202. S. ’09. 100w.
+ − =Nation.= 89: 159. Ag. 19, ’09. 300w.
“Fault may be found with the main title of this work. The term ‘Bible’
includes the Old and the New Testament. Yet Dr. Courtney considers only
the Old Testament literature. With this exception the work may be
cordially commended.” E. S. D.
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 670. O. 30, ’09. 390w.
“Possibly this volume may induce those who are too conceited or too
stupid to read an ordinary Bible to become familiar with portions of its
glorious literature.”
− =Sat. R.= 105: 304. Mr. 7, ’08. 860w.
“It would be difficult to praise too highly the literary discrimination
displayed in each half of the book. To be a little too long is always a
good fault in an anthology, and we think it is the only fault which
could reasonably be brought against this one. A large portion of the
reading public owe a debt of gratitude to Mr. Courtney, who in reopening
their Bibles has done them a service.”
+ =Spec.= 99: 1094. D. 28, ’07. 1500w.
=Cowen, Benjamin Rush.= Abraham Lincoln: an appreciation by one who
knew him. *$1. Clarke, R.
9–5872.
An addition to the Lincoln literature which is the first appearance in
book form of a lecture delivered frequently by General Cowen in Ohio and
the adjoining states. It is a just estimate and sympathetic appreciation
of the work and character of the great War President which grew out of
intimate relations during the closing years of the civil war.
* * * * *
=Ind.= 66: 985. My. 6, ’09. 50w.
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 242. Ap. 17, ’09. 90w.
=Crabtree, Harold.=^{[10]} Elementary treatment of the theory of
spinning tops and gyroscopic motion. *$1.50. Longmans.
9–29876.
“Practical applications of the gyroscope, including the monorail car and
the steering device used in torpedoes, are taken as examples for
analysis by the methods developed in the earlier chapters. The author
has aimed to bring the subject within the range of first-year
undergraduates.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“The theoretical explanation of gyroscopic action is very well presented
in this volume. A book which will be readily comprehended by anyone at
all conversant with the methods of theoretical mechanics.”
+ =Engin. N.= 62: sup. 19. Ag. 12, ’09. 100w.
“The subject is a large one for so small a book, and this necessitates a
brevity and brusqueness that in certain chapters almost amounts to a
defect.”
+ − =Engin. Rec.= 60: 56. Jl. 10, ’09. 170w.
“The method by which the theory is introduced is admirable. While
criticism is misplaced, the writer would suggest that those diagrams,
such as Fig. 20, in which bent arrows are intended to show a direction
of rotation round an axis indicated by a line, are, as drawn, ambiguous,
for it is impossible to tell whether the arrow is intended to be in
front of or behind the line.” C. V. Boys.
+ − =Nature.= 81: 182. Ag. 12, ’09. 630w.
=Craddock, Charles Egbert, pseud. (Mary Noailles Murfree).= Fair
Mississippian. †$1.50. Houghton.
8–29332.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
* * * * *
“A story of moderate interest.”
+ − =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 26. Ja. ’09.
Reviewed by W: M. Payne.
− + =Dial.= 46: 86. F. 1, ’09. 230w.
“The fly in the amber is a habit of bow-wow in the language which sits
with curious artificiality on a story absolutely clear-cut in device.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 42. Ja. 14, ’09. 220w.
“Novels like ‘The fair Mississippian’ are not common. They are very
welcome, though.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 8. Ja. 2, ’09. 270w.
=Cradle= of the rose. **$1.50. Harper.
8–30708.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
* * * * *
“The characteristics and traditions of the fisher-folk of Brittany are
treated understandingly.”
+ =Lit. D.= 38: 385. Mr. 6, ’09. 200w.
“The lavish descriptive impulse is allowed to run riot and overpower the
narrative. In the end, one feels that the work is too heavy for an idyll
and too static for a novel.”
− + =Nation.= 88: 67. Ja. 21, ’09. 240w.
+ =R. of Rs.= 39: 121. Ja. ’09. 120w.
=Craig, Robert S.=^{[5]} Making of Carlyle. *$4. Lane.
9–18716.
An “experiment in biographical explication.” “The author has undertaken
his task less with the hope of disclosing new facts than with the
intention of showing how the various events which befell Carlyle in his
struggle to gain the attention of the world were inseparable from the
‘making’ of him, and recognisable in the finished product. To this
‘making’ there went, says Mr. Craig, ‘not only the old Scots Calvinism
and all hereditary traits, not only his genius ... but also the faithful
and generous friendship of men and women.’... A large part of the book
is concerned with making clear Carlyle’s indebtedness to these friends.”
(Spec.)
* * * * *
“Mr. R. S. Craig has become dominated by a theory, which is allowed some
more or less full expression on almost every page, at least of the
latter part of the work.” C. S. Northrup.
− =Dial.= 47: 283. O. 16, ’09. 1150w.
“Considering the real cerebration shown in this book, it is one of the
most badly written valuable works that ever came to a reviewer’s table.”
W: L. Phelps.
+ − =Forum.= 41: 597. Je. ’09. 1600w.
“The repetition is incessant, and the moralizing often flat, even at its
first appearance. By far the best part of the book is that which dilates
on the strength of the clannish spirit among the Carlyles, and shows how
much of the style and ideas of the writer came to him with his
Calvinistic inheritance. We must account Mr. Craig’s volume as among the
‘haud desiderata.’”
− + =Nation.= 88: 360. Ap. 8, ’09. 210w.
“Mr. Craig interests the reader from the first. His style is clear and
nimble, his sympathy is perfect.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 286. My. 8, ’09. 530w.
“While there is a conscientious effort to be absolutely just his methods
remind one of the gentle caress of softly furred cats’ paws, suddenly
discovering sharp claws for the laceration of poor Mrs. Carlyle.”
+ − =Outlook.= 92: 427. Je. 26, ’09. 500w.
“Hyperbole ... is a small defect in a valuable analysis of the
influences which played so large a part in helping Carlyle to win his
hardly won triumph.”
+ − =Spec.= 102: 135. Ja. 23, ’09. 500w.
=Cramp, William, and Smith, Charles F.=^{[5]} Vectors and vector
diagrams, applied to the alternating current circuit with examples
of their use in the theory of transformers, and of single and
polyphase motors, etc. *$2.50. Longmans.
9–18463.
“As the name implies, this work on vectors is a book in which the
branches of mathematics necessary in the study of electric circuits are
explained and illustrated. It contains a synopsis of the algebra and
geometry which are directly applicable to the solution of
alternating-current problems and no more. A working knowledge of this
material is absolutely essential to an electrical engineer who expects
to understand the theory of electrical circuits and machines and who
desires to read intelligently the more theoretical discussions in the
technical press.”—Engin. N.
* * * * *
“Should be of value as a textbook for electrical engineering students.”
+ =Elec. World.= 53: 1042. Ap. 29, ’09. 130w.
=Engin. D.= 5: 418. Ap. ’09. 140w.
“While the title is formidable the treatment is not so. It can be
readily followed by a reader who is familiar with higher algebra and
geometry and who has a practical acquaintance with electrical circuits
and machines.” H: H. Norris.
+ =Engin. N.= 61: sup. 49. Ap. 15, ’09. 700w.
“A textbook which is decidedly good. The authors have succeeded in
giving a very clear presentation of the meaning of vectors and their
algebra with the exception noted above.”
+ − =Engin. Rec.= 59: 615. My. 8, ’09. 380w.
“The imperfections do not affect the purpose of the authors, who are to
be congratulated on having enriched our technical literature with a
clear and systematic exposition of the vectorial graphics of
alternating-current phenomena.”
+ − =Nature.= 81: 93. Jl. 22, ’09. 950w.
=Crandall, Charles Henry.=^{[5]} Songs from sky meadows: poems of
nature and of nature’s children. *$1. Outing pub.
9–8989.
A sheath of poems of field and fen, moor and weald, of love and life in
the open, whose keynote is mergence into the “all-life.”
* * * * *
+ − =Nation.= 89: 55. Jl. 15, ’09. 160w.
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 503. Ag. 21, ’09. 230w.
=Crane, Walter Richard.= Gold and silver. *$5. Wiley.
8–20033.
Comprises an economic history of mining in the United States, the
geographical and geological occurrence of the precious metals, with
their mineralogical associations, history, and description of methods of
mining and extraction of values, and a detailed discussion of the
production of gold and silver in the world and the United States. “The
book is geological rather than economic; and was prepared for the
economic history of the United States under the charge of Carroll D.
Wright for the Carnegie institution.” (J. Pol. Econ.)
* * * * *
“Its interest and value is mainly of a historical nature, but, since in
all cases the records are brought up to this year, it presents
considerable information on present distribution, methods of mining and
extraction of values. Taking into consideration the necessity of
employing terms peculiar to the mining industry in much of the
descriptive matter, the book as a whole is clearly written and as
intelligible, even to the non-technical reader, as could be expected.”
+ =Engin. N.= 60: sup. 318. S. 17, ’08. 480w.
=J. Pol. Econ.= 16: 711. D. ’08. 100w.
“There are typographical errors in proper names of the west, some
displeasing errors in grammar and rhetoric and other literary blemishes.
As a convenient hand-book for ready reference by busy practitioners, the
statistics and much of the technical matter quoted may be in useful
form, and probably the whole will fill a want among the untutored who
require pre-digested nutriment. The compiler has rendered good service
faithfully and conscientiously, according to a plain apparently dictated
by others.” T. B. Comstock.
+ − =Science=, n.s. 29: 389. Mr. 5, ’09. 1350w.
=Craven, Priscilla, pseud.=^{[10]} Pride of the Graftons. †$1.50.
Appleton.
9–29366.
The Graftons’ pride was of the kind that goes before a fall, and as it
rested upon unpaid bills and precarious credit great was the fall
thereof. The crash, which shook London society, taught the heroine, a
Grafton débutante, to love for the sake of his loyalty and kindness the
rich American whom she had all but married for his money. But the plot
is not the main concern of the story which is cleverly amusing
throughout, and unblushingly shows how much more interesting are the
people with indifferent morals than those who are piously commonplace.
Real wickedness meets its own reward, however, and virtue, where blended
with a proper sense of humor, triumphs; but the whole is an unsparing
picture of the gambling, flirting, dissipated upper social circle and
there is some good character drawing of the leaders of this set.
* * * * *
“Miss Craven has developed the love story with not a little skill, and
has written a most diverting and interesting novel.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 643. O. 23, ’09. 230w.
=Crawford, Caroline.=^{[10]} Folk dances and games. $1.50. Barnes.
A book for the use of school children in which the author “indicates the
educational use and value of the dances as a form of exercise, and has
prepared with extraordinary skill her material to accomplish that end.”
(Educ. R.)
* * * * *
“A truly admirable volume.”
+ =Educ. R.= 37: 208. F. ’09. 50w.
+ =Ind.= 65: 322. Ag. 6, ’08. 40w.
+ =N. Y. Times.= 13: 542. O. 3, ’08. 100w.
“Miss Crawford deserves the warm thanks of all those interested in the
educational side of games and dances.” M. W. Hinman.
+ =School R.= 17: 515. S. ’09. 550w.
=Crawford, Francis Marion.=^{[10]} Stradella. $1.50. Macmillan.
9–24943.
This is the last of Mr. Crawford’s novels, the manuscript for which with
that of “The white sister,” previously published, was completed at the
time of the author’s death. From some ancient Venetian chronicles Mr.
Crawford gleaned material that bore upon the life of Stradella, a great
musician of the seventeenth century. Out of these fragments he has
constructed his story which is rich in its Italian setting. The love of
Stradella for a dowerless niece of a pompous, self-sufficient Senator
who intended to marry the girl himself, furnishes the key to the
difficult situations that crowd one upon another along the course of
their experience.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 89. N. ’09. ✠
“As it stands it is a delicate, whimsical, altogether delightful love
story, with swift transitions from scenes of real charm and pathos to
others of a humor that wisely stops just short of the grotesque.” F: T.
Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 30: 281. N. ’09. 370w.
“Nowhere has been displayed more clearly than in this last (if it be the
last) of his tales his extraordinary faculty of holding his readers’
attention by means which appear to have nothing extraordinary about them
whatever.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 329. O. 7, ’09. 330w.
“The plot of the story shows all the ease of invention and smoothness of
narrative which are universally recognized as characteristic of Marion
Crawford. We particularly commend to lovers of Dumas the two villains of
the tale, hired assassins, unsurpassed swordsmen, fertile in invention,
and not without their own peculiar sense of humor.”
+ =Outlook.= 93: 317. O. 9, ’09. 200w.
“For all its fluency the story lacks distinction.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 108: 636. N. 20, ’09. 130w.
+ =Spec.= 103: 795. N. 13, ’09. 120w.
=Crawford, Francis Marion.=^{[5]} White sister. $1.50. Macmillan.
9–10700.
A Roman setting lends appropriate coloring to this story of convent
life. A prince, an adherent of the clerical party, is killed in a motor
car accident and because of his refusal to have his marriage legally
ratified, combined with the fact that no will comes to light, his
daughter is turned out into the streets by the jealous inheritor of the
title and wealth. The tale deals with her renunciation of her love for
an artillery officer, her life as the “white sister” in a convent, her
discovery of her aunt’s theft of the will, the return of her lover and
the struggle between her obligation to the man and her allegiance to the
church, and her final release from the convent.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 186. Je. ’09. ✠
“It is precisely the antiquity of Marion Crawford’s theme which compels
one to recognize with pleasant surprise the quickening power of his
pen.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 581. My. 15. 100w.
“The book leaves you with the impression that you have read it all
before, for the facile art which neither waxed nor waned for twenty
years presents here no new achievement.”
+ − =Atlan.= 104: 679. N. ’09. 240w.
“You accept it all, the probable and the improbable alike because he
possesses that rare trick of making you see it with your own eyes.” F:
T. Cooper.
+ =Bookm.= 29: 401. Je. ’09. 550w.
“Is decidedly the work of a practised hand, though it does not measure
up to the author’s full literary power. This last chapter is, to us,
wholly disappointing.”
+ − =Cath. World.= 89: 690. Ag. ’09. 300w.
“There seems to us a touch of casuistry in the reasoning.” W: M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 47: 181. S. 16, ’09. 230w.
“This last book of his, one is tempted to say represents a maximum of
technique and a minimum of material. One hastens to add this
qualification: plenty of things happen in ‘The white sister’; but the
material of which it is built comes too near to melodrama to be material
worthy of the earlier Marion Crawford.” Philip Tillinghast.
+ − =Forum.= 41: 618. Je. ’09. 380w.
“There are two reasons for Crawford’s continued popularity: he always
had a story to tell and he knew how to tell.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 982. My. 6, ’09. 750w.
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 207. Ag. 7, ’09. 200w.
“It must be admitted that the less said about the logic of the events in
the present narrative, the better.”
+ − =Nation.= 88: 514. My. 20, ’09. 1000w.
“It is not the best of Mr. Crawford’s novels—not so good, for instance,
as the Saracinesca trilogy, but it is better than the Primadonna series,
and, on its own merits, is a remarkably interesting and well-constructed
tale.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 306. My. 15, ’09. 450w.
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 372. Je. 12, ’09. 220w.
“As a story in point of construction and character-drawing, ‘The white
sister’ is distinctly the best novel which has come from Mr. Crawford’s
hand for a number of years past.”
+ =Outlook.= 92: 99. My. 15, ’09. 300w.
“Is typical of the novelist’s work.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 39: 762. Je. ’09. 70w.
“‘The white sister,’ good up to its closing chapter, suddenly falls to
pieces. Its finish is cheap, inartistic, theatrical.”
+ − =Sat. R.= 107: 757. Je. 12, ’09. 580w.
“Mr. Crawford was never more happily inspired than in the group of Roman
novels which begins with ‘Saracinesca’ and ends in the volume before
us.”
+ =Spec.= 102: 705. My. 1, ’09. 740w.
=Crawford, Mary Caroline.=^{[11]} Old Boston days and ways. **$2.50.
Little.
9–28413.
A thoroly informing study in preparation for which the author uncovered
a large amount of new material. It follows the growth of the city from
the point where the author’s “St. Botolph’s town” dropped it and
continues it to “the time when we blossomed into a municipality and
indulged in a mayor and aldermen.” She deals with Boston of
revolutionary days, Boston in the first flush of liberty, the
development of its literary and social life, the establishment of its
theaters, and characterizes the distinction that belongs to such men as
Copley, John Howard Payne, Edmund Keane, Samuel Shaw, Lafayette and many
another man of prominence during the time depicted.
* * * * *
“‘Old Boston days and ways’ as interpreted by Miss Crawford with
accuracy, vivacity, and the novelty due to the use of a considerable
body of new material, are certainly not wanting in interest for readers
of to-day.”
+ =Dial.= 47: 466. D. 1, ’09. 180w.
“The section about the social life of the transition period will be new
to many, especially the account of Poe’s father and actress mother; as
will the chapter about early Boston theaters.”
+ =Lit. D.= 39: 1072. D. 11, ’09. 130w.
=Crawford, Mary Caroline.= St. Botolph’s town: an account of old
Boston in colonial days. $2.50. Page.
8–28847.
Descriptive note in December, 1908.
* * * * *
Reviewed by W. G. Bowdoin.
=Ind.= 65: 1462. D. 17, ’08. 50w.
“We have never met with a volume of the like compass, which contained
fifty illustrations of such historic value and unique interest as
characterize the prints in this volume.”
+ =Lit. D.= 37: 900. D. 12, ’08. 180w.
“Like its author’s previous books, it lends itself well to desultory
reading, being divided into chapters, each with its own interesting
story, the whole forming a delightful account of life and manners in
Boston from the coming of Winthrop and his valiant followers to the
outbreak of the revolution.”
+ =Outlook.= 91: 22. Ja. 2, ’09. 220w.
=Creelman, James.=^{[5]} Why we love Lincoln. *$1.25. Outing pub.
9–5693.
“A biography designed to bring out especially those human sides of the
man Lincoln which, as a matter of fact, are so great a part of him that
not even the most formal treatment can hide the humorous mouth, the
tender heart, the shrewd eye, and the laugh by which, in fact, the great
man held (and still holds) the American people as no other man holds
them.”—N. Y. Times.
* * * * *
“Suited to the same class of readers as Morgan’s life but may interest a
larger circle because of its brevity and a decided impressionistic style
that holds the attention.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 135. My. ’09. ✠
“It sounds the proper note, and does it with conviction.”
+ =Ind.= 66: 985. My. 6, ’09. 30w.
“Mr. Creelman’s narrative is interesting.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 242. Ap. 17, ’09. 80w.
“Written in vivid, suggestive style.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 39: 507. Ap. ’09. 10w.
=Crew, Henry.= Principles of mechanics, for students of physics and
engineering. *$1.50. Longmans.
8–18295.
“This book comprises a series of lectures delivered during several years
past to second-year students in physics who have had general instruction
in the subject and in calculus. The author’s aim has been to give the
student a clear conception of the principles of dynamics in a minimum of
time, confining the treatment to that portion of the subject which is
common ground for the physicist and the engineer.” (Engin. D.) “It
covers the elements of kinematics, kinetics, friction, elastic bodies
and fluid motion, and does not contain any of those lapses from correct
and scholarly statement that are too often considered advisable for the
‘practical’ courses of engineering study.” (Engin. Rec.)
* * * * *
=Engin. D.= 4: 56. Jl. ’08. 160w.
“The method is no doubt logical, and in the sense that it seeks for
precision and conciseness it is philosophical. But there is little to be
said for a method that keeps the reader in ignorance of the term and
concept ‘force’ until the 84th page is reached.”
− =Engin. N.= 60: sup. 81. Jl. 16, ’08. 200w.
“As an introductory book on the subject it would deserve little praise
and considerable condemnation. The book has the great merit of being
scientifically correct, while free from sloppy English and pedantic
fussiness over trifles.”
+ − =Engin. Rec.= 59: 251. F. 27, ’09. 220w.
“For the general student, the purpose of the book is admirable. The book
is written in a style which is always clear and interesting. The forms
of statement are fresh, and the author has drawn on a wide range of
reading and experience for new and apt illustrations.” A. P. Carman.
+ =Science=, n.s. 29: 579. Ap. 9, ’09. 400w.
=Crichfield, George Washington.=^{[8]} American supremacy. 2v. *$6.
Brentano’s.
8–36697.
Accumulated material about laws, customs, and concessions in certain
South American states. “The author’s one thesis is that South Americans
are a set of liars and cut-throats, and his sole inference is that ‘the
United States should establish civilized governments in those countries,
which would make pillage by revolution bands impossible.’” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“The extended quotations from various works on South America give us
material not elsewhere easy of access, but lack of orderly management
and digressions covering dozens of pages swell the volumes far beyond
what should be their size.” C. L. Jones.
+ − =Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 202. Jl. ’09. 380w.
“His tone is embittered and violent, his conclusions wild. Such an
extreme of passion and unreason defeats itself.”
− + =Nation.= 88: 63. Ja. 21, ’09. 120w.
=Crichton-Browne, James.= Parcimony in nutrition. **75c. Funk.