Discusses the question of what and how much the normal human being ought
to eat. The author disagrees with frugality notion in nutrition
maintained by Fletcher and Chittenden, and believes that more emphasis
should be placed on economy in the selection and preparation of food
than upon the process of lopping off of proteid.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 156. Je. ’09.
=Ann. Am. Acad.= 34: 602. N. ’09. 210w.
“The present work is closely reasoned, and though some poems are open to
criticism, the major contention, if certain basic claims are admitted,
seems to be sound.”
+ − =Arena.= 41: 607. Ag. ’09. 370w.
+ =Ind.= 67: 1091. N. 11, ’09. 200w.
“It is a learned, attractive and valuable brochure.”
+ =Lit. D.= 38: 560. Ap. 3, ’09. 150w.
“Is well worthy of careful reading, particularly by such laymen as have
been attracted by the doctrines associated with the names of Fletcher
and Chittenden.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 190. Ag. 26, ’09. 330w.
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 147. Mr. 13, ’09. 460w.
=R. of Rs.= 39: 508. Ap. ’09. 60w.
=Crockett, Samuel Rutherford.=^{[9]} Men of the mountain. †$1.50.
Harper.
9–22183.
The French-Swiss frontier in the “French year terrible,” 1871, is the
scene of this tale in which the quiet ministry of the pastor of the
Evangelical church of Geneva is outlined against carnage and warfare.
There are portrayed a David and Jonathan friendship; the whip hand rule
of a grim, determined châtelaine, the pastor’s mother; and the vital
love affairs of the friends and two loyal-hearted young women.
* * * * *
=A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 54. O. ’09.
“The author has, on the whole, done better in this book than in most of
his others, and we must not be too severe upon his indulgence in the
sentimental.” W: M. Payne.
+ − =Dial.= 47: 385. N. 16, ’09. 260w.
“The book is a pot-boiler, the evident effort it has cost its author to
put it together fatiguing the reader.”
− =Ind.= 67: 549. S. 2, ’09. 50w.
“The story is well told, there is plenty of incident, the characters are
excellently portrayed, and at the end one lays down the book with the
sense of having read something worth while.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 578. O. 2, ’09. 250w.
“A bright and pretty little double love-story. The book is a pleasant
one and there is but one unkindly word to say of it. No reproof could be
too severe for a writer who sends pronouns wandering aimlessly down his
pages without antecedents, who invariably chooses the wrong preposition
and who cannot distinguish between a noun and a verb.”
+ − =No. Am.= 190: 710. N. ’09. 200w.
“Shows more careful work than he has done for a long time, and is free
from the fantastic sensationalism which often mars otherwise good
stories from his pen.”
+ =Outlook.= 93: 361. O. 16, ’09. 50w.
“We have never seen anything better from his pen.”
+ =Spec.= 103: 693. O. 30, ’09. 200w.
=Crockett, Walter Hill.=^{[9]} History of Lake Champlain: the record
of three centuries, 1609–1909. 75c. Hobart J. Shanley co.,
Burlington, Vt.
9–20252.
A book made timely by the tercentenary celebration of the discovery of
Lake Champlain. “For those who did not see the celebration this book
will bring a surprise in the fulness of incident it chronicles. The
picturesque discovery by the French explorer, the first attempts of the
French missionaries to settle the country, seem remote, but the
conflicts of Howe and Montcalm are well within the borders of our
history, and Ethan Allen’s raid and Arnold’s naval operations against
the British are among the most stirring revolutionary campaigns. The war
record of the lake closes with Macdonough’s victory at Plattsburgh, in
1814, but its shores have gathered tradition since, as Mr. Crockett’s
book shows.” (Nation.)
* * * * *
“A good volume for reference in reading Parkman’s histories.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 9. S. ’09. ✠
“For a reproduction of the romantic atmosphere of the lake one must
still go to the pages of Parkman and Cooper; this book is occupied with
matters of fact. But a complete record of these particular matters of
fact could hardly be better done.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 118. Ag. 5, ’09. 250w.
=N. Y. Times.= 14: 478. Ag. 7, ’09. 80w.
=Crockett, William Shillinglaw.= Footsteps of Scott. **$1.25. Jacobs.
8–36155.
Presents the principal facts of Scott’s life and describes intimately
the Scott country—the “storied castles, ancient abbeys and the beauty of
natural scenery”—which gave background to the Waverley novels.
* * * * *
“Libraries not possessing this author’s ‘Scott country’ or Hunnewell’s
‘Lands of Scott’ may prefer this because of its smaller price, lesser
volume and larger value for young people’s use.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 37. F. ’09. ✠
+ − =Ath.= 1908, 1: 541. My. 2. 600w.
“This is a delightful book to read anywhere. He knows his subject well.
He knows the man and the places where Scott wandered or dwelt, and he
has a very keen appreciation of the beauties of his literary work.”
+ =Spec.= 100: 69. Ja. 11, ’08. 120w.
=Croly, Herbert.=^{[12]} Promise of American life. *$2. Macmillan.
9–28528.
A reasonable interpretation of the American future, entirely without the
work of prophecy, but based upon the salient dynamic conditions of
American life. Preliminary to a presentment of the new conditions that
must grow out of the old, the author examines the earlier economic and
social conditions and the ideas and institutions associated with them;
with such a ground work he leads up to a “more consistent and edifying
conception of the Promise of American life.”
* * * * *
“It is not necessary to agree in every point with the conclusions
reached by Mr. Croly to feel that he has made an important contribution
to our knowledge of the underlying principles of American democracy.”
+ =Outlook.= 93: 788. D. 4, ’09. 190w.
=Cronau, Rudolf.= Our wasteful nation: the story of American
prodigality and the abuse of our national resources. $1. Kennerley.
9–145.
Wakens the reader to an understanding of the enormous waste of which the
American people are guilty. From a brief contemplation of this land as
one of “inexhaustible resources” the author passes to a discussion of
the destruction of forests; the waste of water, soil and mineral
resources; the extermination of game, fur and great marine animals; the
vanishing of birds; the decreasing fish supplies; and the waste of
public lands, privileges, public money, property, and human lives.
* * * * *
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 5: 75. Mr. ’09. ✠
“The book, which is written for the general reader, contains an
interesting though miscellaneous lot of facts and extracts gathered from
magazine articles, government reports, etc. The more fundamental
economic aspects of the problem are not touched upon.”
+ − =J. Pol. Econ.= 17: 309. My. ’09. 110w.
“Mr. Cronau’s book itself will serve its best use in checking his own
predictions.”
+ − =N. Y. Times.= 14: 85. F. 13, ’09. 1200w.
=R. of Rs.= 40: 127. Jl. ’09. 70w.
=Cross, Wilbur Lucius.=^{[6]} Life and times of Laurence Sterne.
*$2.50. Macmillan.
9–14130.
Presents the personal history of this great humorist of the middle
eighteenth century with some account of the men and women whom he knew
at home and abroad. It tells what sort of man Sterne was, how he lived
in his obscurity and after he became famous, what he did and what he
said, what books he read, what were his pastimes and pleasures, what was
his home life, who were his friends, wherein lay the secret of the man
“whose speech and conduct filled the imaginations of all who knew him
immediately, whether in New York, London or Paris.”
* * * * *
“The most complete biography.”
+ =A. L. A. Bkl.= 6: 9. S. ’09.
“Prof. Cross writes too laboriously. His work is an example of
scrupulous but perhaps slightly undiscriminating, scholarship.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 2: 327. S. 18. 530w.
“This biography will disappoint only those who prefer entertainment to
knowledge.” W: L. Phelps.
+ − =Bookm.= 30: 253. N. ’09. 2300w.
“This curious life we have now an excellent opportunity to know, as we
have not known it hitherto.”
+ =Dial.= 47: 22. Jl. 1, ’09. 370w.
“A brave and splendid achievement, an enduring monument to the author’s
industry, and worthy tribute to that unique and whimsical genius, to
whom we owe one of the very few perfect and indispensable things in
English literature, ‘The sentimental journey.’” F: T. Cooper.
+ =Forum.= 42: 94. Jl. ’09. 2300w.
“Professor Cross has produced the fullest and most complete life of
Sterne which has been published. In more than one way it is exhaustive.
Is written in an interesting and entertaining manner.”
+ =Lit. D.= 38: 1070. Je. 19, ’09. 800w.
“When all deductions are made, this Life of Sterne, which is every way
as readable as Mr. Fitzgerald’s, decidedly improves upon the latter in
fulness, accuracy, coherence, and impersonality.” S. L. Wolff.
+ − =Nation.= 89: 346. O. 14, ’09. 4600w.
“Those who, like Sterne himself, have a curious fancy in their reading
will be those who will gain the most benefit from Prof. Cross’s book as
mere reading matter.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 450. Jl. 24, ’09. 1100w.
“A book more enthralling than the whole year’s fiction.”
+ =No. Am.= 190: 557. O. ’09. 730w.
“As literary biography this work is very full and complete.”
+ =R. of Rs.= 40: 756. D. ’09. 80w.
“He shows the humourist in a light which is probably as near the true as
anyone will ever get.”
+ =Sat. R.= 108: 107. Jl. 24, ’09. 1200w.
“The most serious defect in the book as a biography is the persistent
glossing over of the more discreditable incidents in Sterne’s life.”
+ − =Spec.= 103: 310. Ag. 28, ’09. 1200w.
=Crothers, Samuel McChord.=^{[10]} Oliver Wendell Holmes: the autocrat
and his fellow boarders. *75c. Houghton.
9–26004.
Here Mr. Crothers sets down the varied and unexpectedly interesting
things that Dr. Holmes as his own Boswell sees during the excursions
that his mind took into the realms of fact and fancy, the excursions
that are recorded in his “autocrat” series. Following the essay are
eleven of Holmes’ best known poems.
* * * * *
“It takes a gentle humorist like Dr. Crothers to seize upon and set
luminously before us the distinctive traits and qualities of that
earlier master of gentle humor, the ever-delightful autocrat. A book
holding so much good in so small compass as this centennial study of the
autocrat is not met with every day.”
+ + =Dial.= 47: 239. O. 1, ’09. 350w.
“Nature intended Samuel McChord Crothers for the ideal celebrant of Dr.
Holmes’s centenary, as any one may learn by reading the little volume.”
+ =Nation.= 89: 384. O. 21, ’09. 450w.
“An admirable analysis of the autocrat, his attitude, his spirit, and
the quality of his insight.”
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 725. N. 20, ’09. 420w.
“A very clever book, by no means lacking in critical insight, and
certain to be entertaining.”
+ =Outlook.= 93: 361. O. 16, ’09. 100w.
=Crowe, Joseph Archer, and Cavalcaselle, Giovanni Battista.= History
of painting in Italy; Umbria, Florence and Siena from the second to
the sixteenth century; ed. by Langton Douglas. 6v. v. 3. ea. *$6.
Scribner.
=v. 3.= This latest instalment of the Crowe and Cavalcaselle history “is
devoted to the Sienese masters of the fourteenth century and of the
earlier years of the century following—from the time of Duccio, that is,
to that of Taddeo di Bartolo, and his immediate followers. The remaining
space is given over to the less important early painters of Umbria, the
Marches, and Northern Italy in general.”—Ath.
* * * * *
“Neither in scope nor in character do Mr. Douglas’s notes appear to
fulfil the legitimate requirements of a present-day edition of what is,
when all is said and done, one of the most important works of its kind
yet written.”
+ − =Ath.= 1909, 1: 262; 1: 294. F. 27; Mr. 6. 2300w. (Review of v.
3.)
+ =N. Y. Times.= 14: 149. Mr. 13, ’09. 270w. (Review of v. 3.)
“In reprinting Crowe and Cavalcaselle—a work of necessity—Mr. Douglas
has shown how the thing should be done.”
+ =No. Am.= 190: 262. Ag. ’09. 330w. (Review of v. 3.)
“The volume as a whole is indispensable to students of painting in
general and particularly of painting in Italy. The book sorely lacks
chronology.”
+ − =Outlook.= 92: 71. My. 8, ’09. 420w. (Review of v. 3.)
Reviewed by E. F. Baldwin.
+ =Outlook= 93: 599. N. 13, ’09. 160w. (Review of v. 1–3.)
=Crowe, Joseph Archer, and Cavalcaselle, Giovanni Battista.=^{[6]} New
history of painting in Italy from the second to the sixteenth
century; ed. by E: Hutton. 3v. ea. *$5. Dutton.