psychological theories; Multiplex personality; Hallucination and
illusion in dreams; Romance and fairie; Phantasy; Ecstasy; The
eternal.
=CONTEMPORARY= verse anthology; with an introd. by C: W. Stork.[2] *$3
Dutton 811.08
20–19666
“The editor of Contemporary Verse has selected from the pages of that
magazine devoted exclusively to poetry the representative
contributions printed during the past four years as examples of a
style and quality of poetic expression ‘broadly devoted to the needs
and interests of the general reading public.’ Among the contributors
are found such well-known names as Louis Untermeyer, Witter Bynner,
Clement Wood, John Hall Wheelock, William Rose Benet, Lizette
Woodworth Reese, Sara Teasdale, Mary Carolyn Davies, Margaret Widdemer
and Ruth Comfort Mitchell. Among the lesser known contributors are
Amory Hare, Stephen Moylan Bird, Gertrude Cornwell Hopkins, Elinor
Wylie, Winifred Welles, Phoebe Hoffman, Dorothy Anderson, Amanda B.
Hall, William Baird, Berenice K. Van Slyke, Leonora Speyer and many
another.”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
=Bookm= 52:560 F ’21 600w
=Boston Transcript= p9 D 1 ’20 340w
“It has a little that is very good, more that is very bad, and very
much that is mediocre.”
− + =Nation= 112:188 F 2 ’21 50w
“The selections which appear in this volume, are, in the main, chosen
with discrimination and taste.”
+ =Outlook= 126:768 D 29 ’20 40w
“Throughout there is an undercurrent of sane vitality, that spirit of
healthy restlessness and inquisitiveness that more than anything else
distinguishes the work of so many of the present American poets from
that of their quieter, more smoothly flowing British brothers.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p5a Ja 2 ’21 250w
=CONYNGTON, THOMAS.= Business law; a working manual of every-day law. 2d
ed 2v $8 Ronald 347.7
20–7362
A two-volume edition of the work published in 1918. Volume 1 covers:
The law of the land; Contracts; Sales; Agency; Negotiable instruments;
Insurance; Employment; Partnership; Corporations. Volume 2: Real and
personal property; Wills and inheritance; Personal relations;
Suretyship; Debts and interest; Bankruptcy; Bailments and common
carriers; Patents, trademarks, and copyrights; Taxation; Arbitration;
Law and lawyers; Forms. Appendixes to volume 2 contain: Chart showing
jurisdiction of state courts; A professional law library; Glossary,
and there is an index.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:355 Jl ’20
“It is a valuable handbook; it can be referred to by the ordinary
citizen because nontechnical terms are used and the statements of law
are plain and concise.”
+ =N Y P L Munic Ref Lib Notes= 7:55 N 17 ’20 180w
“It is well arranged and clearly written for the business man.”
+ =R of Rs= 62:336 S ’20 80w
=COOK, CARROLL BLAINE (DIXIE CARROLL, pseud.).= Goin’ fishin’; with an
introd. by Leonard Wood, and a foreword by Wright A. Patterson. il
*$2.75 (1½c) Stewart & Kidd 799
20–16782
“Weather and feed facts; the fresh-water game fish: the natural and
artificial baits and their use.” (Sub-title) Besides this information
the book contains the infectious exuberance of spirit which comes from
the love of out-o’-doors and which, says the author, has burned like
an unquenchable volcano within him from the earliest moments of his
life. The motor boat in fishing, footwear and the camp commissary also
receive attention and a list of recommended fishing waters—in
Wisconsin, Minnesota, Pacific Northwest and Canada—concludes the book.
=COOK, SIR EDWARD TYAS.= More literary recreations. *$2.75 Macmillan 824
20–4043
“About half the book is devoted to three charming papers on Pliny’s
letters, the classics in daily life, and the Greek anthology. Other
essays are on travelling companions, the art of editing, the changes
and corruptions of words, and on ‘single poem poets.’”—Brooklyn
* * * * *
=Brooklyn= 12:102 Mr ’20 50w
“The essays in this second volume of literary recreations, composed in
the intervals of leisure snatched from his official duties during the
war, are now published for the first time, and only serve to heighten
the regret caused by the premature death of their author. Reserved and
restrained with strangers, he here reveals a geniality and sympathy of
which only the few who knew him intimately were aware.”
+ =Spec= 123:659 N 15 ’19 1550w
“There will be a good many readers of this book who, after listening
to Sir Edward Cook, will take down the Greek anthology or the
half-forgotten Virgil or Homer from its shelf, and so thank him in the
way he would have best liked to be thanked.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p580 O 23 ’19 900w
=COOK, W. VICTOR.= Grey fish. *$2 Stokes
“In the Shetland Islands they have a toast which they drink on New
Year’s day, ‘Health to man and death to the grey fish.’ In this novel
both name and toast are applied to a grim sort of hunting and of prey,
the German submarines off the coast of Spain during the war. The story
consists of twelve connected episodes in which two of the characters
are always in the centre of interest, a few others come and go, and
still more appear only in single tales. The two chief actors are a
young Scot ostensibly in the employ of a British firm of wine
merchants with offices at various Spanish ports. The other is a
middle-aged Spaniard, a stevedore, once a peasant and an ex-smuggler.
A double motive urges him into the grey fish hunting, a love of
dangerous adventure for its own sake and a passionate hatred of the
Germans because his brother’s boat had been sunk and his brother
drowned by a German submarine.”—N Y Times
* * * * *
+ =Ath= p30 Ja 2 ’20 120w
“The author of ‘Grey fish’ has provided a series of fascinating, well
spiced tales so closely connected that they deserve to be called a
novel, into which he has put not a little of the atmosphere and color
of the Spanish coast.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:28 Jl 18 ’20 400w
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
=Review= 3:254 S 22 ’20 130w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p754 D 11 ’19 70w
=COOKE, GEORGE WILLIS.= Social evolution of religion. *$3.50 Stratford
co. 201
20–4088
“The author is dominated by one thought throughout his work, and that
is ‘all religion is essentially communal or social.’ Primitive man,
like the child, he asserts, does not know himself apart from the
group; and he adds: ‘It must be recognized that all the evidence is in
favor of the conclusion that the earliest manifestations of religion
were those of a group, and not those of individuals.’ And the
conclusion is drawn that man has been religious from the beginning.
After a few chapters in which are described the social transmission of
human experience, the creative genius of social man, and communal and
tribal religion; feudal, national, international and universal
religion are described; and the closing chapter is on religion as
cosmic and human motive. Two fundamental points underlie and color
this entire work, namely, that religion is a natural phenomenon and
that it is primarily social.”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:48 N ’20
“He has collected a great mass of facts, and his interpretation of
those facts, while evidencing a vigorous mind, is but the judgment of
a human being; and there will be no lack of dissent on the part of
readers.” F. W. C.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 7 ’20 800w
“The author has drawn heavily upon writers of his own way of thinking.
Nowhere is there evidence of any scientific discernment.”
− =Cath World= 111:258 My ’20 500w
“The author tells us that this book contains fifty years’ study of
religion but there is not the slightest suspicion in it of an old
man’s conservatism. Few books about religion are more radical, more
fearless, more resolutely faced toward the future than this one.” A.
W. Vernon
+ =Nation= 112:187 F 2 ’21 780w
=R of Rs= 62:447 O ’20 60w
=COOKE, RICHARD JOSEPH, bp.=[2] Church and world peace. *$1 Abingdon
press 261
20–8658
“After discussing the demand for a League of nations and answering the
question whether or not such a league is possible, and after stating
the political difficulties in the way of such a league, the author
concludes that the league will need all the spiritual power of the
church to make it effective. He says that ‘while the League of nations
may do much to prevent war, it cannot eradicate the desire for war. It
would seem, therefore, absolutely essential that the physical power of
the League shall be supplemented by a spiritual power, some mighty
generating influence which, by its appeal to the souls of man, shall
be able to cool super-heated passions, and for treasured wrong
substitute desire for justice and not revenge, for peace and not war.’
There must then be a Christian league, a league of Christendom
supplementing the political League of nations.”—Boston Transcript
* * * * *
=Bib World= 54:652 N ’20 280w
“The book is a strong one, well argued, clearly written, and
exceedingly timely. It closes with an inspiring note of optimism.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 28 ’20 240w
=COOLEY, ANNA MARIA, and SPOHR, WILHELMINA.= Household arts for home and
school. 2v il v 1 *$1.50; v 2 *$1.60 Macmillan 640.7
20–4147
These volumes are intended for the use of household arts classes in
school and as a help in home work. Volume 1 describes how the girls of
the Ellen H. Richards school chose the furniture and all accessories
for the Sunnyside apartment of five rooms, to be occupied by two of
the teachers, and to be used as a practice house for the school. The
girls made all the curtains, couch covers, dresser scarfs, table
doilies, towels, etc., and while doing so learned all about the
decorations and furnishing of a home, its management and up-keep, the
use of the sewing machine, the making, mending and cost of clothing
and the care of the baby. Volume 2 is more especially devoted to the
daily work in the home. The storing and canning of fruits and
vegetables, cooking, cleaning and laundering, the preparation of
breakfasts and dinners, keeping well and happy are discussed. Each
volume has an appendix and an index and many illustrations.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:333 Jl ’20
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 My 5 ’20 260w
“The lessons are selected with discrimination, and suitable balance is
maintained between the various topics. The book does not make adequate
provision for the development of thought and initiative on the part of
the pupil and fails to give opportunity for the understanding of
principles through experiments.”
+ − =El School J= 21:75 S ’20 370w
=St Louis= 18:221 S ’20 30w
=COOLEY, ANNA MARIA, and others.= Teaching home economics. *$1.80
Macmillan 640.7
19–15655
“The authors took upon themselves a large task as indicated in the
statement of their aim, namely, to ‘offer suggestions for the
organization, administration, and teaching of home economics
subjects.’ The authors say, ‘It is taken for granted that the students
who will use it will be familiar with the scope of the field,’ and
that ‘the book is intended for use primarily in normal schools and
colleges’ though they ‘hope that the social workers, vocational
advisors, and lay readers will find in this book suggestions of
value.’ They specially stress the fact that they wish to ‘attack the
subject in the light of the new vision of education as a factor in
social evolution.’ The attempt to cover in outline the whole field is
treated under four different divisions: (1) Home economics as an
organized study in the school program; (2) Organization of courses in
home economics; (3) Planning of lessons; (4) Personnel, materials, and
opportunities; (5) Addenda.”—J Home Econ
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:57 N ’20
=Brooklyn= 12:99 Mr ’20 40w
“One of the good features of the book is the list of questions after
each chapter and the suggested references for collateral reading.
While the authors have succeeded in bringing together in one volume
material which will be very helpful to the discriminating teacher of
home economics, the undertaking was so great as almost to prevent
adequate treatment of the various parts.” Isabel Bevier
+ − =J Home Econ= 12:137 Mr ’20 550w
“One finishes the reading of the book with the realization that
innumerable statements as to existing conditions have been given, but
a feeling akin to bewilderment is not cleared away by any definite
conclusion as to wise selection of material, clear emphasis on
abilities to be developed, or teaching methods to be used.”
+ − =School R= 28:311 Ap ’20 360w
=COOLIDGE, DANE.= Wunpost. *$2 Dutton
20–10766
“‘Wunpost’ was the nickname bestowed on John C. Calhoun, who, though
he came from a good old southern family and had ‘the profile of a
bronze Greek god,’ was nevertheless so illiterate that, when he found
a gold mine and decided to call it the ‘One post,’ he spelled the name
‘Wunpost.’ He had a habit of finding gold mines. During the course of
the narrative he discovers no less than three, but he is cheated out
of two of them by the wickedness and ingenuity of old Judson Eells and
his ‘yaller dog,’ Lapham, the lawyer who thoroughly understood how to
draw up a contract of the most deceptive kind. ‘Wunpost’ went to work
to get even with Eells, with Lapham, and with ‘Pisenface’ Lynch, who
was Eells’s ‘hired mankiller and professional claim-jumper.’ Of course
he succeeded. But meanwhile he learned something about the dangers of
boasting, had any number of adventures, including one with an Indian
scout whom he outwitted and made a trip across the famous Death
valley, besides falling in love.”—N Y Times
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:31 O ’20
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 1 ’20 320w
“The best of this book is the descriptions.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:23 Jl 11 ’20 390w
“The work is an excellent specimen of the better class of western
fiction, glowing with local color, featured by continuous and well
sustained action and containing an abundance of its own variety of
love and adventure.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a S 12 ’20 100w
=COOPER, HENRY ST JOHN.= Sunny Ducrow. *$1.90 (1½c) Putnam
20–6635
The story of a little girl of the London slums who leaves a pickle
factory to go on the stage. Her name is Elizabeth Ann but everybody
calls her Sunny and it is as Sunny Ducrow that she rises to fame.
Later she buys an interest in the pickle factory and moves it to the
suburbs where she establishes a model village called Sunnyville. A
noble lord falls in love with her and for a time Sunny thinks she is
in love with him, but she finds out that she is not and gives her hand
to a less distinguished suitor in her own profession.
* * * * *
“The book is brightly and vivaciously written, and many people will be
glad to become acquainted with Mr Cooper’s heroine.”
+ =Ath= p1138 O 31 ’19 60w
“Sunny Ducrow is an amusing impossibility.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 D 11 ’20 300w
“In ‘Sunny Ducrow’ Henry St John Cooper barely escapes unwittingly
surpassing the ‘novels’ that first established Stephen Leacock’s
reputation. His heroine outglads Pollyanna and outbunks Bunker Bean.”
− =N Y Times= 25:31 Jl 18 ’20 380w
=Outlook= 125:223 Je 2 ’20 70w
“There is much that is good in the book and much that is interesting.
Good types in all classes of society are here, and the writing is
sincere and simple in style. Sunny is almost too perfect, too
infallible, too easily successful, and all the various humans who come
into her life are almost too regenerated.” G. I. Colbron
+ − =Pub W= 97:991 Mr 20 ’20 350w
=Sat R= 128:sup16 N 29 ’19 170w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p613 O 30 ’19 200w
=COOPER, JAMES A.= Tobias o’ the light. il *$1.75 (2c) Sully
20–9142
Tobias is the light-keeper in one of the Cape Cod lighthouses. In
addition, he is a born matchmaker, and when Ralph and Lorna declare
they will not marry each other, although—or perhaps because—their
families urge it so strongly, he tries to patch up their difficulties
by telling each that the other is in financial difficulties. Their
pity and chivalry aroused, all might have gone well, had it not been
for the bank robbery, of which Ralph is suspected. When Lorna believes
Ralph to be the thief because of his need of money, Tobias feels that
perhaps he may have overreached himself in his stories. But
fortunately the discovery of the part Conny Degger, Ralph’s enemy, has
played in the whole affair, puts the matter to rights, and the
prospect is bright for Ralph and Lorna, financially and sentimentally.
* * * * *
=Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 25 ’20 180w
=COPE, HENRY FREDERICK.= Education for democracy. *$2 (2c) Macmillan 370
20–8371
“Democracy is more than a form of government: it is a social ideal, a
mode of life and a quality of the human spirit; therefore it cannot be
imposed on a people; it must be acquired.” How it can be acquired and
how our educational plans and ideals can be made to express
personal-social values and a common good will in all phases of life is
the subject of these essays. A partial list of the contents is:
Education in a democracy; Democracy as a religious ideal; The
spiritual nature of education in a democracy; Beginning at home; the
public schools and democracy’s program; Spiritual values in school
studies; Organizing the community; Democracy in the crucial hour.
* * * * *
“This little volume contains many excellent suggestions on the subject
of education for democracy, and is worth reading both by teachers and
by parents. But it is not always self-consistent, nor does it seem to
us well grounded in fundamental principles.”
+ − =Outlook= 126:334 O 20 ’20 270w
Reviewed by J. K. Hart
+ =Survey= 45:136 O 23 ’20 160w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p571 S 2 ’20 70w
=COPPLESTONE, BENNET.= Last of the Grenvilles. *$2.50 Dutton
20–1693
“Another story of naval adventure by the author of the widely read
tale entitled ‘The lost naval papers.’ Plot and war romance abound.
The area of activity covered is, as before, purely naval, and, like
the former book, this not only includes stories of spies and their
detection but also furnishes a true and amusing picture of the British
sailor in wartime.” (Outlook) “The hero is a descendant of Grenville
of the ‘Revenge,’ and his life is related from boyhood till he enters
the naval service and goes through the great war.” (Ath)
* * * * *
“The experienced author makes ‘history repeat itself’ in excellent
fashion for the youthful reader.”
+ =Ath= p1083 O 24 ’19 40w
Reviewed by M. E. Bailey
=Bookm= 51:208 Ap ’20 280w
“Mr Copplestone knows the sea and ships as few writers know it, and
‘The last of the Grenvilles’ is a stirring example of his storytelling
power.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:23 Jl 18 ’20 320w
+ =Outlook= 124:291 F 18 ’20 60w
“No one who has read one of Mr Copplestone’s books will allow another
of them to pass him unread.”
+ =Sat R= 129:70 Ja 17 ’20 90w
“In the sentimental episode entitled ‘The warm haven’ the author
challenges comparisons with ‘Bartimeus’ and without success; a lighter
touch is needed. But with this deduction the book is a spirited and
enjoyable performance.”
+ − =Spec= 124:214 F 14 ’20 380w
=CORBETT, ELIZABETH F.= Puritan and pagan. *$1.75 (1c) Holt
20–20188
Nancy Desmond is the puritan, Mary Allen the pagan. Nancy is a painter
with a studio on Washington Square. Mary Allen is a distinguished
actress. Max Meredith, who has married one of Nancy’s college friends,
comes to New York on business and looks her up. They see much of one
another during his stay and find to their dismay that they have fallen
in love. True to her instincts and her ideals Nancy sends Max away
from her. In the meantime, Roger Greene, Nancy’s friend and teacher,
has become infatuated with Mary and between these two there is no
question of renunciation. They accept their love as a fact altho Mary
refuses marriage. When Nancy learns of the affair she is crushed and
finds how much Roger has meant to her. Later after a long separation,
after she has seen Max again and after the other love has run its
course, Nancy and Roger come together.
* * * * *
“Her picture will prove fascinating to those who do not know that it
is not faithful.”
+ − =Bookm= 52:552 F ’21 90w
“There is a palpable unevenness in ‘Puritan and pagan.’ It is so
surprisingly good in spots that we should not expect that an author
could maintain that high level everywhere. The novel very frankly
contrasts the puritan and the pagan, but it is a contrast,
fortunately, which possesses no element of didacticism, no hint of
moral purpose.” D. L. M.
+ − =Boston Transcript= p7 D 4 ’20 1050w
“The author has vividly portrayed several phases of New York life and
analyzed skilfully several original characters, without forgetting
that her main purpose was to tell a very old and very human story.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p18 D 4 ’20 180w
“The plot is sound, the dramatis personae consistently interesting,
and the action logical and generally swift.”
+ =N Y Times= p25 D 26 ’20 340w
“All the plans, hopes, fears, regrets and dreams of three young lives
find their expression between the covers, and while there is much that
is bitter-sweet in the reading, the sympathetic reader will follow
with unflagging interest to the end.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a D 26 ’20 200w
=CORBETT, SIR JULIAN STAFFORD.= Naval operations. *$6.50 Longmans 940.45
20–8648
“In the official history of the great war prepared by direction of the
historical section of the British committee of imperial defense, this
is the first volume devoted to naval operation, and concludes with the
battle of the Falklands in December, 1914. It gives a detailed account
of all the activities of the British navy during the first five months
of the war, and this account is entirely based on official reports and
other documents. Besides the maps, plans and diagrams inserted in this
volume, there is a separate case containing eighteen maps and
charts.”—R of Rs
* * * * *
“The pictures presented are consecutive and clear. The efforts of the
author to produce a plain and interesting narrative are ably seconded
by the publishers; for the make-up of the book is admirable in the
highest degree, and presents a model that makes the work of most
American publishers seem crude. In comparison with this book, any
other book, even though it deal with mighty armies, seems modelled on
microscopic lines.” B. A. Fiske
+ =Am Hist R= 26:94 O ’20 1150w
“Sir Julian Corbett had a moving tale to tell, and he has told it
well. It is not altogether impossible to imagine it better written.
But the story is at least clear and objective. His judgments err in
being a little over-kind.”
+ =Ath= p412 Mr 26 ’20 1850w
“Scrupulous care in the presentation of facts and reticence in
criticizing them characterize this very detailed, well documented
history.”
+ =Booklist= 17:64 N ’20
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 S 1 ’20 420w
Reviewed by Reginald Custance
+ =Eng Hist R= 35:460 Jl ’20 2600w
“Sir Julian Corbett is a master of naval lore; he is deeply versed in
the strategy and the tactics of the great captains of the old days.
The maps are of the highest value and importance.”
+ =Nature= 105:546 Jl 1 ’20 250w
“Sir Julian’s style is clear and concise, his treatment of the subject
admirable in every way. A more thrillingly interesting book would be
hard to find, or one more valuable.”
+ =Review= 4:36 Ja 12 ’21 1150w
=R of Rs= 62:223 Ag ’20 90w
“The chief merit of Sir Julian Corbett’s volume consists in its
exposition of the interplay of naval and military considerations.”
+ =Sat R= 129:370 Ap 17 ’20 1250w
“The author’s lucid and dispassionate works on the past history of our
navy had shown that he was specially qualified to record its greatest
undertaking, and his new book is all that we had expected it to be as
a narrative, even if some of his occasional remarks and deductions may
provoke dissent.”
+ =Spec= 124:348 Mr 13 ’20 1250w
“Sir Julian S. Corbett reveals himself a student of detail, a
scholarly narrator, and a man who is not impatient of research. These
virtues, together with an ability to retain throughout a comprehensive
view of the worldwide field of operations and the political or
military necessity governing many moves that were unavailing, give
this history an uncommon value.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a Ag 15 ’20 170w
“In our judgment Sir Julian has accomplished his extremely difficult
task with very great skill. The difficulty of the task is, indeed, in
large measure concealed by the skill of its accomplishment. No naval
historian has ever had to paint on so large a canvas. None has ever
had such intricate and far-reaching operations to describe.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p206 Ap 1 ’20 3200w
=CORIAT, ISADORE HENRY.=[2] Repressed emotions. *$2 Brentano’s 130
20–19840
“Defining emotional repression as ‘the defense of conscious thinking
from mental processes which are painful’ the author goes on to explain
the nature of repression, its relation to the unconscious, the part it
plays in mental disorders and the manner in which it may be treated
through psychoanalysis. He gives a description of the unconscious,
emphasizing its importance in the light of the new psychology, and
states that it ‘originated not only in the childhood of man but in the
childhood of the world,’ and that in it ‘is condensed and capitulated
the cultural history of mankind.’ The process of psychoanalysis is
outlined, and its value, not only in the treatment of neuroses, but
also for the insight it furnishes into certain character defects, is
pointed out. The author lays special stress on the fact that
psychoanalysis is largely educational since it serves to further the
development of character.”—Survey
* * * * *
=Nation= 111:694 D 15 ’20 30w
“Dr Coriat has made good his promise of adding to the knowledge of the
race. A simpler vocabulary would sublimate the complexities of his
thought.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p12 D 31 ’20 110w
“On the whole the book is very well written, avoiding terminology
which might confuse the lay reader, and while it contains nothing
especially new, it does help to clarify one’s ideas on the subject and
is well worth reading.” J. J. Joslyn
+ =Survey= 45:546 Ja 8 ’21 270w
=CORNELL, FRED C.=[2] Glamour of prospecting. il *$6 (6c) Stokes 916
The volume is a record of the “wanderings of a South African
prospector in search of copper, gold, emeralds, and diamonds.”
(Sub-title) The book was written before the outbreak of the war, and
the country has since undergone many changes and many of the waste
places, difficult of travel, can now be reached by rail. But this
still leaves vast untapped spaces for the lover of adventure. It was
the love of adventure more than the mineral riches that tempted the
author and his book is, therefore, no handbook for the would-be
prospector, neither is it intended to discourage him with discomforts
and hardships, for these “were richly compensated for by the glorious
freedom and adventure of the finest of outdoor lives, spent in one of
the finest countries and climates of the world.” (Preface) The book is
well illustrated from photographs and contains an insert map.
* * * * *
+ =Ath= p612 N 5 ’20 640w
“The author has a keen sense of humor and an equally marked facility
in description. And his experiences furnish him ample opportunity to
give full play to both of these powers.”
+ =N Y Times= p22 Ja 16 ’21 550w
“His story may be taken as a treasure hunt; but it is something more
permanently satisfying than fiction, for it treats of real things.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p533 Ag 19 ’20 1750w
=CORWIN, EDWARD SAMUEL.= Constitution and what it means today. $1.50
Princeton univ. press 342.7
20–26748
“Within the compass of only one hundred fourteen pages, Professor
Corwin has combined with the full text of the Constitution of the
United States a series of concise explanations elucidating as far as
necessary every paragraph of this document. In a brief introduction he
states his purpose to be, not merely to explain the original
intentions of the founders of our government, but to show what in the
course of time the constitution has come to mean and does actually
mean today.”—Review
* * * * *
=Am Pol Sci R= 14:738 N ’20 40w
=Booklist= 17:11 O ’20
“The task set for this volume has been performed skillfully,
concisely, and unostentatiously. There is in this book no citation of
cases or decisions, which would deflect its purpose, and no intrusion
of private opinion.” D: J. Hill
+ =Review= 3:212 S 8 ’20 1000W
“The idea of the book is excellent. A greater proportion of quotations
from decisions of the supreme court would be welcome. And the comment
on the question whether the president should pay an income tax savors
of personal opinion.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Jl 10 ’20 130w
=CORY, GEORGE EDWARD.= Rise of South Africa. 4v v 3 il *$9 (*25s)
Longmans 968
“Professor Cory in the new volume of his excellent history of South
Africa, deals fully with the critical era that followed the abolition
of slavery and that saw the great trek. The author states with much
force the case of the colonists, and especially the Dutch farmers,
against a most unsympathetic and tactless government.” (Spec) “What
was said and written and done at this particular critical time shaped
and coloured the whole subsequent history of South Africa; and the
mischief then wrought never has been, and possibly never will be,
wholly eliminated. As Professor Cory shows, the great trek did not
take place because the Dutch did not like their British neighbors, but
because they wanted to be quit of the British government, as that
government was directed from England.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)
Descriptive note for volume 1 will be found in the Book Review Digest
for 1910; for volume 2 in 1914.
* * * * *
“Allowing for the restricted scope of the treatment, both in time and
area, the author has made a valuable contribution of far more general
interest than the particular incidents he actually describes.” A. L.
Cross
+ =Am Hist R= 26:357 Ja ’21 500w
=Brooklyn= 12:69 Ja ’20 30w
“The conclusions reached by Mr Cory are those already familiar; but,
assuredly, they have never before been based on such a background of
well-digested and well-marshalled authority. In more than one instance
the author has been able to interview survivors of the events
narrated; whilst, throughout, the best evidence available is
dispassionately put forward. Undoubtedly the author’s extreme
moderation renders more impressive the judgment at which he arrives.”
H. E. Egerton
+ =Eng Hist R= 35:289 Ap ’20 460w
+ =Spec= 123:663 N 15 ’19 200w
“It is a book of high merit, clearly written, attractively
illustrated, bearing evidence of tireless research and of information
derived from first-hand sources, so far as such sources still exist.
For South African readers it provides a reasoned and whole-hearted
defence of a past generation of colonists, both British and Dutch.
From the point of view of a wider public it lends itself to some
criticism, on the double ground that the author, as is natural from
his surroundings, is over much an advocate, and that his book, from
its minuteness and wealth of detail, is too much of a chronicle and
too little of a history.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p703 D 4 ’19 1500w
=CORY, HERBERT ELLSWORTH.= Intellectuals and the wage workers. $2
Sunwise turn 304
20–1365
“Mr Herbert Ellsworth Cory’s ‘The Intellectuals and the wage workers’
is an attempt to present the terms upon which intellectuals and wage
workers should unite in the task of social reconstruction. But Mr Cory
sees modern society, the labor movement, and the purpose of revolution
in psychoanalytic terms. He states his purpose thus: ‘I have been
trying to make some forecast of the processes by which intellectuals
and wage workers will unite to break down rationally those
institutions which are but hysterical symptoms, compromises, bad
habit-formations from competitive random activities, morbid complexes
and inertia.’”—Nation
* * * * *
“His apparently easy references to the most diverse contributors in
half a dozen fields of human knowledge, philosophy, psychology,
education, the labor movement, economics, the physical sciences, are
amazing. Yet a full integration seems to be lacking. The members of
the proletariat, to whom, it is evident, he dedicates his volume, will
be least likely to grasp Mr Cory’s message because it is so heavily
weighted with scientific terms.”
+ − =Nation= 110:338 Mr 13 ’20 350w
“He has revealed the tragedy of modern thought, but has lacked the
force to bring it into touch with the tragedy of modern life, and has
produced half a book instead of a whole one. The half book that he has
written could hardly be done better.” Gilbert Cannan
+ − =N Y Times= 25:2 Mr 7 ’20 1650w
“I hope that it will be widely read; for there is need for all to know
what fantastic speculation is constantly issuing from the
revolutionary fold. Among thinking persons the book will prove its own
best antidote.” W. J. Ghent
− =Review= 2:229 Mr 6 ’20 260w
“It is to be hoped that Professor Cory will work out his theory in
more detail in its relation to the labor union movement. He sometimes
gives the impression of a man seeing it through a golden haze. In
avoiding the cocksure pedantry of the typical college professor he has
now and then fallen into an uncritical acceptance of unprofessional
things.” W: E. Bohn
+ − =Socialist R= 8:247 Mr ’20 900w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p91 F 5 ’20 200w
=COSTER, CHARLES THEODORE HENRI DE.= Flemish legends. il *$3 Stokes
398.2
20–26992
These legends, translated from the French by Harold Taylor and
supplied with eight woodcuts by Albert Delstanche, are taken from the
folk-lore current in the middle ages in Brabant and Flanders. The
translator’s note contains a brief survey of De Coster’s career as a
writer. The first tale of “The brotherhood of the cheerful
countenance,” tells how the inn-keeper Pieter Gans, of Uccle, was
tempted by the devil to set up the image of Bacchus in his hall and
form the above brotherhood, whereupon there were nightly carousings by
the male population of Uccle; and how, therefore, it fell to the lot
of the women of Uccle, to form themselves into an archery club, under
the protection of the Virgin Mary, and save the city from brigands.
The other tales are: The three sisters; Sir Halewyn; Smetse Smee.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:93 D ’20
“They are Rabelaisian in form but without the coarseness and
rollicking humor of the great French satirist. There is much of somber
beauty in the stories, but also much of the blood-lust of the period.”
+ =Outlook= 126:378 O 27 ’20 50w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p638 S 30 ’20 60w
“If, like Rabelais, and Balzac after Rabelais, he uses his mastery in
that old French the richness and breadth of which were not yet shorn
by the correct and academical, he is wholly Belgian, and comparable at
most and best with Jordaens, or rather with Rubens, who to robust
sensuousness could add the heroic, lavish the while of colour and
exuberance.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p663 O 14 ’20 1450w
=COTTER, WINIFRED.= Sheila and others. *$2 Dutton
20–18386
“Subtitled ‘The simple annals of an unromantic household,’ this
unpretentious little volume relates some of the experiences of a
Canadian family, experiences principally concerned with dogs and
servants. There are some fourteen sketches in the volume, several of
them being concerned with the parrot and the dog who were the pets of
the household. The succession of ‘wash ladies,’ the peculiar behavior
of the seamstress, the ‘Suppression of a cuckoo clock,’ the point of
view maintained by the vacuum cleaner agent ... these and others of
the kind provide the author with themes.”—N Y Times
* * * * *
“Most of the papers are very mildly humorous, and all of them are
pleasantly written.”
+ =N Y Times= p16 N 28 ’20 320w
“Sketches of merit, but menaced as a collection by a certain excess of
‘brightness.’ On the whole the whimsies of housekeeping are relatively
wearisome to the male; I suspect this volume will fare best as read
aloud in purely feminine circles.” H. W. Boynton
+ − =Review= 3:502 N 24 ’20 110w
=COTTERILL, HENRY BERNARD.= Italy from Dante to Tasso (1300–1600). il
*$5 Stokes 945
20–2716
This volume follows “Medieval Italy during a thousand years,”
published in 1915. It is a review of the political history of Italy
from 1300–1600 “as viewed from the standpoint of the chief cities,
with descriptions of important episodes and personalities and of the
art and literature of the three centuries.” (Subtitle)
* * * * *
“We should be inclined to trust Mr Cotterill further in art than in
literature. His style improves noticeably as he proceeds, and he lays
aside to some extent his irritating habit of breaking into the
historic present on the slightest provocation. As a whole the book is
thoroughly sound and useful. The photographs are suitably chosen, and
there are good chronological tables, lists of artists and genealogies
of the chief reigning houses.” L. C.-M.
+ − =Ath= p1254 N 28 ’19 1600w
“The great mass of materials relating to a disorganized country and to
the achievements in art are so interwoven as to form a scholarly,
clear whole.”
+ =Booklist= 16:198 Mr ’20
=Brooklyn= 12:106 Mr ’20 30w
“The author has adopted an excellent and satisfactory plan for
compassing his enormous field and clarifying the immense detail that
goes to make up the history of these perhaps most significant
centuries in the world’s history. The book was evidently written
during the war and the author is frequently rather amusingly, pleased
to find German authorities in error.” B. B. Amram
+ =Review= 2:544 My 22 ’20 1300w
“The author’s bias in favour of republicanism is unfortunate in its
results upon his work.... It is useless, however, to discuss
differences of opinion in a book the subject of which is so immense;
we can only repeat our conviction that a reader who expects to find a
general book on the art, literature and history of all the Italian
states during their most important period will find Mr Cotterill’s
book useful, though he will be well advised to supplement its
judgments with other and more detailed works, and to make free use of
the historical lists and tables provided at the end of the book, and
of the useful index.”
+ − =Sat R= 128:561 D 13 ’19 1050w
=COUPERUS, LOUIS MARIE ANNE.= Inevitable; tr. by Alexander Teixeira de
Mattos. *$2 (2c) Dodd
20–18761
The title of the story indicates its fatalism. At the age of
twenty-three Cornélie de Retz van Loo was a divorced woman. She had
passionately loved the handsome Baron Brox when she married him, but
their temperaments had clashed from the beginning. He had gone so far
in his masterful, brutal way, as to beat her and she had run away. She
went to Italy to be alone and to reconstruct her life. She became a
feminist and achieved some fame in the woman movement by her pamphlet
on “The social position of divorced women.” Also she met Duco van der
Staal, the painter and dreamer and formed a free union. They were a
most harmonious couple, complementing and stimulating each other;
helping each other to find their “line of life.” But Cornélie will not
hear of marriage. She is through with marriage. Impecuniosity enjoins
a temporary separation. Cornélie takes a position as companion. There
she meets her former husband who at once exerts hypnotic power over
her and commands her to return to him. Cornélie flees and returns to
Duco, but even in his arms and knowing that she loves only him, her
inexorable fate is upon her. She follows the call of him whom she does
not love, but whose property and chattel she is because she was once
his wife.
* * * * *
“Of the four other Couperus novels which have now been published in
this country, ‘The inevitable’ is decidedly the best from the mere
standpoint of novel writing.” D. L. M.
+ =Boston Transcript= p4 N 6 ’20 1250w
“Taken as a whole, it is rich in beauty, rich in passion, has much of
gentle dreaming and superb awakening; yet it contains a certain
sadness which oftimes borders close to melancholy—a splendid woof
woven together with a warp of morbidity.” M. D. Walker
+ =N Y Call= p5 Ja 9 ’21 1050w
“There are many chapters in ‘The inevitable,’ aside from the
concluding one, which mark the book as an exquisite example of the
fictionist’s art. The author’s touch is always delicate and sure in
handling the lights and shades of thought and emotion. The author’s
powers of characterization are excellent.”
+ =N Y Times= p20 N 21 ’20 1300w
“‘Inevitable’ is decidedly well written and translated; it is
extremely attractive in its pictures of Rome, of Italian society, and
of the foreign colonists.” R. D. Townsend
+ − =Outlook= 127:31 Ja 5 ’21 130w
“As in ‘The tour,’ the author’s interest in antiquity and in art finds
very full expression in these pages, as well as his sense of racial
contrasts and interplay among those who chance to meet on alien soil.”
H. W. Boynton
+ =Review= 3:650 D 29 ’20 400w
=COUPERUS, LOUIS MARIE ANNE.= Tour; tr. by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos.
*$2 (2c) Dodd
20–10054
In this book Louis Couperus, the Dutch novelist, tells a story of
ancient Egypt. Publius Lucius Sabinus, a young Roman lord, is touring
the Nile seeking diversion and forgetfulness of his lost love, whom he
believes drowned. This is the outward reason. Actually he has come to
visit all the various oracles to learn what he can of her whereabouts.
One after the other they reveal to him the thoughts that are in his
own mind and bring him to admit what others have all the time known,
that the girl has shamelessly deserted him and run off with a common
sailor. At the end of the tour news meets him that the Emperor
Tiberius has confiscated all his property, but Lucius, who has now
found solace with the Greek slave Cora, is impervious to the stings of
fortune and faces a life of poverty with gaiety. The story is told
lightly and with humor.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 17:31 O ’20
“‘The tour’ adds much to the Dutch novelist’s laurels, for it achieves
the unusual success of being totally unstrained by ‘melodrama,’
‘conflict,’ ‘passion,’ ‘revenge,’ or any other of the common
characteristics of a modern novel, and yet it is enthrallingly
interesting.” G. M. H.
+ =Boston Transcript= p9 Je 12 ’20 300w
=Cleveland= p70 Ag ’20 120w
“Although passages of fictional interest reward the more
frivolous-minded reader occasionally, and although there is a love
scene toward the end, there is much Baedeker between. The work is
unmistakably Couperus, delicate and suggestive, yet precise.” F. E. H.
+ − =Freeman= 1:574 Ag 25 ’20 230w
“His style is exquisite, delicate, unusual, and beautifully
translated.”
+ =Ind= 104:382 D 11 ’20 140w
“This book, even more perhaps than the stories that deal with his
Dutch contemporaries, exhibits his frugal ease and grace, the strength
and delicacy of his execution, the conscious but always finely
restrained melodic structure of his prose.” Ludwig Lewisohn
+ =Nation= 111:191 Ag 14 ’20 420w
“A certain degree of relief is given to the otherwise sombre picture
by the two figures of Uncle Catullus and of the Sabaean guide Caleb,
the latter being a convincing presentment of a type which has changed
but little with the passing of time. Those who are interested in the
lives of the rich as they were some couple of thousands of years ago,
and in the decay of the oldest and at one time the most powerful
civilization upon earth, will find ‘The tour’ a fascinating book.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:307 Je 13 ’20 800w
+ =Outlook= 125:507 Jl 14 ’20 40w
“It is, at all events, a gay little affair. It is a romantic comedy in
the vein of ‘Twelfth night’—which, with its disconsolate young lord
and the manner of his comforting, it vaguely resembles.”
+ =Review= 3:110 Ag 4 ’20 320w
“Told with light, ironic humor and exquisite artistry.”
+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:237 D ’20 40w
=COURNOS, JOHN.= Mask. *$1.90 (2c) Doran
20–262
“This is the story of the making of a human mask.” (Overture) It is
the story of John Gombarov’s childhood and youth, as he told it years
afterward to a friend in London. Born in Russia, into a family of
“emancipated Jews,” he spends his early childhood there and tells of
the quaint customs and the kind of people he remembers. Then, the
family fortune being hopelessly ruined by his stepfather, a man with
the soul of a child and the mind of an inventor, they come to America,
the land of promise. The process of Americanization that Vanya, now
John, goes through in ‘The city of brotherly love’ is not a pretty
picture to contemplate. There the “wretched little foreigner” is run
“through a mangle” to “wring Europe out of his flesh and bones like
dirt out of a garment.” Only a heroic soul of the type of John
Gombarov’s could survive uncrushed. But it put the mask on his face.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:243 Ap ’20
* * * * *
“The charm and power of the book lie in its welding of substance and
form,—its ‘style,’ in the only sense that matters. Its pictures are
conveyed as if by indirection. Yet they are as clear-cut as the work
of a lapidary.” H. W. Boynton
+ =Bookm= 51:76 Mr ’20 1100w
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 23 ’20 900w
“The embarrassing predicament of ‘The mask’ is that it is a reasonably
good book. Now a reasonably good book is peculiarly elusive. One
cannot tumble all over himself with praise of it, nor can he object to
it without a futile qualification of every statement. Mr Cournos, like
so many of our present-day writers, goes about his work with
intelligence, an impeccable keenness of vision, and some thoroughly
arrived attitudes. Consequently, one cannot get at him. He is
impregnably aware. Such people are skilled in the art of giving just
as much as can be endured, and no more.” Kenneth Burke
+ − =Dial= 68:496 Ap ’20 1700w
“If ‘The mask’ does no more than picture the struggle of an immigrant
family in ‘The city of brotherly love’ it is a rich contribution to
American literature. But it certainly does much more than that.” Alvin
Winston
+ =N Y Call= p10 Mr 14 ’20 650w
“It is the poetry in this novel that makes its starkness endurable.
Behind the welter of life that it presents is an irresistible impulse
to live with mastery, with beauty, with meaning.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:85 F 8 ’20 550w
+ =N Y Times= 25:190 Ap 18 ’20 50w
Reviewed by H. W. Boynton
=Review= 2:231 Mr 6 ’20 480w
“‘The mask’ is a great book, curiously Elizabethan in spirit, a cry of
joy and life that existence cannot quench.”
+ =Sat R= 129:192 F 21 ’20 750w
“There is a vein of poetry in the telling.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a F 29 ’20 220w
“A book like this cannot be read lightly as an amusement. It is
closely written, with an intensity of feeling (usually hatred,
particularly of America) which will be a little startling to
Englishmen. John Gombarov is a fine character; the book is created for
him; he is the central interest which holds this discursive narrative
together. If he is not precisely a lovable character, he is a real and
living one.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p610 O 30 ’19 550w
=COURSAULT, JESSE HARLIAMAN.= Principles of education. (Beverley
educational ser.) *$2.50 Silver 370
20–20531
“The purpose of this book is to make simple, definite, and clear, a
body of principles which should guide in educational thought and
practice. Every student of education has certain fundamental beliefs,
or principles, which he uses as standards in judging the truth or
falsity of educational ideas and practices, upon which, as an
explanatory basis, he organizes his knowledge of educational matters,
and in the light of which he sees new difficulties to be overcome and
new problems to be solved.... To deal intelligently with these
educational problems, to deal intelligently with any educational
problems, even where scientific measurement is made use of, one must
have some fundamental ideas as to the nature of education and the part
which education plays in the drama of life.” (Chapter I) The contents
fall into three parts: The individual process; The social process; The
educational process. There is a bibliography and an index.
* * * * *
“A preliminary statement of suggestions for using the book as a text,
together with a graphic outline of the book itself, found in one
chapter, add to the usefulness of the volume.”
+ =El School J= 21:312 D ’20 680w
“The book is excellently organized for teaching purposes. The
reinterpretation of the contributions of the great educational
philosophers is clear and concise, and is interwoven most
appropriately with the unfolding of the theme.”
+ =School R= 29:70 Ja ’21 350w
=COURTNEY, MRS JANET ELIZABETH (HOGARTH).= Freethinkers of the
nineteenth century. il *$6 Dutton 274.2
(Eng ed 20–12144)
“A cross section of English intellectual life as it reflected the new
tendencies is presented in a biographical study of seven outstanding
personages of the period by Janet E. Courtney in ‘Freethinkers of the
nineteenth century.’ The seven are Frederick Denison Maurice, Matthew
Arnold, Charles Bradlaw, Thomas Henry Huxley, Leslie Stephen, Harriet
Martineau and Charles Kingsley, the last included rather as an
associate of free thinkers and a sympathizer with them than as one
actually of their number. The author in a preface explains the
selection as promoted by recollection of youthful impressions of the
controversies in many fields of intellectual activity.”—Springf’d
Republican
* * * * *
=Ath= p634 My 14 ’20 780w
“Her book reads a little as if Matthew Arnold, Leslie Stephen and the
others were files of old newspapers, from which she has been
diligently and judiciously clipping. But the clippings, it is only
fair to add, are connected by a well-informed and easy narrative, and
each whole is a story told with tolerance and humor and a pleasant
contagious gratitude.”
+ − =New Repub= 23:313 Ag 11 ’20 1350w
+ =No Am= 213:139 Ja ’21 580w
“Miss Courtney has done her work well; her brief biographies are
intelligent, sympathetic, and discriminating, and are interesting
reading.”
+ =Outlook= 126:111 S 15 ’20 130w
+ − =Review= 3:322 O 13 ’20 500w
“Mrs Courtney’s book is well worth reading. We regret its omissions,
and it does not go very deep; but as a record of facts and of
sympathetic interpretation it is interesting.”
+ − =Sat R= 129:435 My 8 ’20 900w
“Their stories are intelligently and interestingly told.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ag 1 ’20 520w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p184 Mr 18 ’20 880w
=COUSINS, FRANK, and RILEY, PHIL MADISON.= Colonial architecture of
Salem. *$8 Little 728
19–19769
“The chapter headings [of this book are:] The gable and peaked-roof
house; The lean-to house; The gambrel-roof house; The square
three-story wood house; The square three-story brick house; Doorways
and porches; Windows and window frames; Interior wood finish; Halls
and stairways; Mantels and chimney places; Public buildings; Salem
architecture of today. The first five chapters trace a definite
development in Salem architecture by periods in a more thorough manner
than has before been attempted. The last chapter deals with modern
houses designed and built with rare good taste along historic lines
since the disastrous Salem fire of 1914.”—Bookm
* * * * *
“It is not a chatty book like Miss Henderson’s; it is rather a
serious, analytical, descriptive, and semi-technical study.” W. A.
Dyer
+ =Bookm= 51:243 Ap ’20 280w
“The most valuable as well as the most complete study of the subject.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 F 25 ’20 650w
=COUTTS, FRANCIS BURDETT THOMAS MONEY-.= Spacious times and others.
*$1.25 Lane 821
20–7868
A book of poems by an English writer, author of a number of volumes of
essays and verse. Part 1 consists of war poems with such titles as:
The new Pisgah; To the Belgians; To America aloof; To America at war;
To an anticompulsion demagogue; To the strikers; The conscientious
shirker; To Lord Kitchener of Khartoum. The second part contains poems
of other days. Notes on some of the war poems come at the close.
* * * * *
“For all their fourteen lines and their Petrarchan rhyme-system, they
have the quality of newspaper articles.”
− =Ath= p384 Mr 19 ’20 150w
Reviewed by R. M. Weaver
+ − =Bookm= 52:64 S ’20 40w
=Boston Transcript= p4 My 26 ’20 450w
“Much better than most of the lyrics of the war is a quiet poem about
a woman, called ‘Her character.’” Marguerite Williams
+ − =N Y Times= p24 Ag 22 ’20 90w
“They have eloquence; but it is rather the stilted eloquence of a
sententious publicist than poetry; and it is lost when the writer
drops to political abuse. On the whole the inspiration runs thinly
throughout.”
− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p110 F 12 ’20 120w
=COX, HAROLD.= Economic liberty. *$2.75 Longmans 330
20–12900
“Mr Harold Cox has collected and reprinted from the quarterlies a
number of his recent articles on economic and political questions. Mr
Cox rightly lays stress on the importance of economic liberty which is
obtainable only under our existing system. There is much truth in Mr
Cox’s chapter on socialist ethics. He devotes a chapter to the special
fallacy of ‘Nationalisation,’ involving the state control under which
enterprise withers and individual initiative ceases. There are some
essays, too, on the question of free trade or protection, and an
eloquent paper on ‘The two paths of empire’—the old protectionist
methods which we abandoned deliberately last century, and the modern
creed of freedom under which the dominions and the crown colonies and
protectorates have developed very rapidly and successfully.”—Spec
* * * * *
=Am Econ R= 10:852 D ’20 70w
“Will be appreciated by those who distrust state control and by
radical thinkers who wish seriously to consider opposing points of
view.”
+ =Booklist= 17:140 Ja ’21
“One would, in fact, like to see these essays expanded into a general
political philosophy, and we believe there would be a welcome for such
a book, and that it would have considerable influence.”
+ =Sat R= 130:180 Ag 28 ’20 1000w
“Mr Cox’s general line of reasoning is sound.”
+ =Spec= 124:830 Je 19 ’20 1200w
“In dealing with present day problems, Cox is academic and aloof from
realities. Nevertheless, this is a good book for reformers of all
schools who sincerely desire to consider their cause in the light of
every genuine opposing argument.” B. L.
+ − =Survey= 45:288 N 20 ’20 270w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p376 Je 17 ’20 670w
=COXON, MURIEL (HINE) (MRS SYDNEY COXON).= Breathless moment. *$2 (2½c)
Lane
20–13346
Sabine Fane, brought up in luxury, was left destitute after her
father’s death. Nothing daunted, she accepts a position as housekeeper
and eventually falls in love with her mistress’ nephew. But Mark is
already married to a worthless woman and just before he leaves for the
front, Sabine decides on a desperate step. She will have her
breathless moment before it is too late. During the war Mark’s wife
dies and he is not only crippled but becomes a victim of shell shock.
He has completely forgotten the episode with Sabine, but such is her
charm that he falls in love anew on seeing her. The illegitimate child
arouses his moral indignation and once more he turns from her. An
operation on an old scalp wound restores his mental balance and all
difficulties are cleared up except a lurking regret on both sides for
what has happened before the war.
* * * * *
“In ‘The breathless moment’ Miss Muriel Hine is perhaps at her best.”
+ =Ath= p619 N 5 ’20 100w
“A sound piece of work, interesting, well balanced, with characters
whose deeds and personalities are alike plausible, and a story which
develops clearly and logically, it is a better book than any one of
hers which we have previously read.”
+ =N Y Times= p26 Ag 1 ’20 700w
“The story is readable but unconventional.”
+ =Outlook= 125:647 Ag 11 ’20 70w
+ =Spec= 125:675 N 20 ’20 30w
“Muriel Hine shows herself, as always, a capable story-teller. If only
she were something more than capable, and did not show her capability
quite so unblushingly! If only her chapter openings and endings were
not quite so pat; her little nature paragraphs not so obviously put in
for atmosphere.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p685 O ’20 260w
=CRABB, ARTHUR, pseud.= Samuel Lyle, criminologist. il *$1.90 (2c)
Century
20–17409
Samuel Lyle was the ablest criminal lawyer that Alden boasted. He
seemed to have an almost uncanny insight into human psychology that
enabled him to put his finger on the weak spot of any criminal intent.
In this book of eleven short stories his methods are revealed and
illustrated. The titles are: A pleasant evening; Among gentlemen; The
greatest day; A story apropos; Perception; The alibi; Number 14 Mole
street; The raconteur; Juror no. 5; “Compromise, Henry?”; Beyond a
reasonable doubt.
=Booklist= 17:115 D ’20
“Entertaining detective stories, neither bloody nor complicated.”
+ =Cleveland= p107 D ’20 50w
“Unlike so many mystery stories, the author does not emphasize the
sordid and brutal, but relies, rather, for his thrills upon clean-cut
and ingenious plot-weavings.”
+ =N Y Times= p24 Ja 16 ’21 290w
“They are scarcely less ingenious than Sherlock Holmes, but they are
much more probable. There is, indeed, not one of the mysterious
incidents which might not quite naturally have occurred, and the
explanation is as natural as it is surprising when it is furnished.”
+ =Outlook= 126:600 D 1 ’20 80w
=CRADDOCK, ERNEST A.= Class-room republic. *$1 Macmillan 371.3
“Modern civics teaching is demanding much participation on the part of
the pupil. One way to get this desirable activity is through the
introduction of student self-government into a class or a school. Some
English experiments with this sort of thing have been published quite
recently. Besides narrating his experience in introducing classroom
republics into his school the author of this little book discusses in
some detail the advantages of the system and some objections to it.
Some attention is also given in the last two chapters to the subject,
‘The school republic.’”—School R
* * * * *
=Ath= p589 Ap 30 ’20 120w
“The book is well written and presents with fairness both the merits
and defects of the scheme proposed.”
+ =El School J= 21:75 S ’20 200w
+ =School R= 28:550 S ’20 120w
“The book is, besides being a genuine contribution to the science of
pedagogics, extremely amusing even to the non-professional reader. It
is indeed delightful to read such a book as Mr Craddock’s, well
written, conceived with gusto and treating of a subject so
interesting.”
+ =Spec= 124:761 Je 5 ’20 900w
=CRAM, MILDRED.= Lotus salad. il *$1.75 (2c) Dodd
20–10732
A story of love and adventure in a South American state. Pug
Fairchild, son of his father, after exhausting the pleasures of New
York, goes down to South America to look after the Fairchild interests
in Magella. Before leaving, he asks a girl to put on her hat, marry
him and go too, but as a practical minded young miss, she refuses the
tempting proposal. A few hours after arrival he meets the real girl,
daughter of Diego, Magella’s president for the moment, and the real
romance begins. He also runs into a full-sized revolution and his
adventures begin almost immediately. The author adopts a movie
technique in telling her story.
* * * * *
“Anyone who wants to be really beguiled from tedium, without the
faintest intellectual struggle, who wants to feel just a little warmer
and younger and chirpier than he has felt lately, may risk a reading.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p9 S 18 ’20 350w
“It is a Richard-Harding-Davis sort of story, set in a
Richard-Harding-Davis kind of scene. ‘Lotus salad’ is meant only to
serve as an hour’s merry entertainment and it is cleverly worked out
for that purpose, even if its colors are high and glaring.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:28 Jl 25 ’20 330w
“Here is romance and adventure with a swing and a sparkle that will
entertain the reader admirably.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Ag 22 ’20 340w
=CRAM, RALPH ADAMS.= Gold, frankincense and myrrh. *$1.25 Jones,
Marshall 252
20–445
“The title of the three addresses, explained in the preface, sums up
their substance: ‘Gold is the pure, imperishable quality of the
monastic ideal, Frankincense the supreme act of worship through the
Blessed Sacrament, Myrrh the saving quality of a right philosophy of
life ... the three gifts that must again be offered by a world once
more led ... to worship and fall down before the Incarnate God so long
and so lightly denied.’ They have been published in The American
Church Monthly.”—Booklist
* * * * *
=Booklist= 16:163 F ’20
“The lectures are original and suggestive. Their scope is far wider
than the small groups for which they were written.”
+ − =Cath World= 110:833 Mr ’20 850w
+ =Survey= 44:121 Ap 17 ’20 350w
=CRANE, AARON MARTIN.=[2] Ask and receive. *$2 Lothrop 248
20–22091
A collection of the unpublished papers of the author, who died in
1914. The subject is prayer, with particular reference to the
teachings of Jesus. Among the chapter titles are: How to pray, The
prayers of Jesus, The rule for all praying, The need of forgiving,
Prayer and healing.
* * * * *
=Springf’d Republican= p5a Ja 2 ’21 130w
=CRAWFORD, MARY CAROLINE.= In the days of the Pilgrim fathers. il *$3
(4c) Little 974.4
20–9735
The author points out in the foreword that the name Pilgrim was not
applied to the Plymouth pioneers until late in the eighteenth century
and that it was first used by Thomas Paine. The name of Puritan was
repudiated by the settlers themselves, who were not really Puritans
but Separatists. In view of the many books already written on the
Pilgrim fathers, the author says: “Yet I hold it to be true that
however well the history of any epoch may have been written, it is
desirable that it should be rewritten from time to time by those who
look at the subject under discussion from the point of view of their
own era.” Contents: The college that cradled the Puritan idea; In
which certain Puritans become “Pilgrims”; The first migration: The
formative years in Leyden; The England from which they fled; How they
sailed into the unknown; How they set up a home in the new world: How
they met and overcame the Indians: How they made their laws and tried
to live up to them; How they established “freedom to worship God”;
Some early books about Plymouth; Social life in the Pilgrim colony;
Appendix, index and illustrations.
* * * * *
+ =Booklist= 16:340 Jl ’20
“Gives as vivid and complete a picture of the life of the Pilgrim
fathers as any I have seen.” W. A. Dyer
+ =Bookm= 52:122 O ’20 2350w
Reviewed by Margaret Ashmun
+ =Bookm= 52:345 D ’20 120w
“If the reader is looking for historical accuracy he can but feel a
sentiment of disappointment. But nevertheless there is very much of
deep interest. But for some evidences of haste in its preparation,
causing many minor but annoying errors, this book about the Pilgrims
must be regarded as one of the most readable which have yet appeared.”
+ − =Boston Transcript= p8 Je 5 ’20 340w
+ =Ind= 104:249 N 13 ’20 30w
=N Y Times= 25:5 Jl 25 ’20 340w
“Will have a lasting value as an admirable account of the
personalities and the times that were pregnant with the New England of
today.”
+ =Outlook= 125:507 Jl 14 ’20 50w
+ =R of Rs= 62:335 S ’20 50w
“A book that is not merely authoritative but interesting.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 Je 2 ’20 750w
=CREEL, GEORGE.= How we advertised America. il *$5 (3½c) Harper 940.373
20–10648
“The first telling of the amazing story of the Committee on public
information that carried the gospel of Americanism to every corner of
the globe.” (Sub-title) Mr Creel charges Congress with intent to keep
any final statement of achievements from the public, and says “It was
to defeat this purpose that this book has been written. It is not a
compilation of incident and opinion, but a record and a chronicle.”
The book is in three parts: The domestic section; The foreign section;
Demobilization. Newton D. Baker’s address delivered at a dinner in
honor of Mr Creel is printed as a foreword and various letters and
other documents, including a list of the publications of the
committee, are given in an appendix. The book is fully illustrated
with portraits and is indexed.
* * * * *
=Booklist= 17:24 O ’20
=Freeman= 2:89 O 6 ’20 1550w
“Of course he writes in journalese; he would not be Creel if he did
not; but his story of the committee’s work has the rush of a bullet,
the direct and convincing quality of journalese when it is written by
a man who knows the art.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:24 Jl 4 ’20 3150w
Reviewed by F: Moore
=Review= 3:211 S 8 ’20 1000w
=CREEL, GEORGE.= War, the world, and Wilson. *$2 (2c) Harper 940.373
20–11585
A book written as a defense of President Wilson and as a plea for the
ratification of the peace treaty and the acceptance of the league of
nations. It was our pledges that won the war, the author states, and
our repudiation of those pledges that is losing the peace. Among the
chapters are: The man and the president; Neutrality; “Strong men”;
“The Roosevelt divisions”; The case of Leonard Wood; America’s moral
offensives; Why the president went to Paris; “The big four”; What
Germany must pay; Shantung and hypocrisy; The Adriatic tangle; Were
the fourteen points ignored? How the treaty was killed; The great
American tradition.
* * * * *
“Often makes a good case, but weakens its effect by trying to prove
all the reason on one side.”
+ − =Booklist= 17:28 O ’20
“It is a much less effective campaign document than Ray Stannard
Baker’s account of the peace conference or Professor Dodd’s biography
of Wilson because it is too obviously prejudiced and recklessly
overstated.”
− + =Ind= 103:187 Ag 14 ’20 70w
=Review= 3:74 Jl 21 ’20 270w
“The book as a whole is a brilliant political tour de force.”
+ =R of Rs= 62:220 Ag ’20 460w
“Mr Creel is too much inclined to produce a campaign document and to
hold that the democratic departments could not make mistakes. The most
effective part of the book is that which shows how a republican clique
in the Senate aided the imperialists of Europe by undermining the
president’s influence while he was at the conference. Mr Creel is less
satisfactory in his reply to Mr Keynes. Here his temper is violent and
rhetorical.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p8 Jl 6 ’20 1050w
“Here at last is a straightforward statement of the fundamental facts
over which some controversies of the past four years have raged.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a Ag 15 ’20 1700w
=CREEVEY, CAROLINE ALATHEA (STICKNEY) (MRS JOHN KENNEDY CREEVEY).= At
random. *$1.50 (2½c) Putnam 814
20–18957
The present volume is the result of the author’s long illness, and is
a collection of opinions in the form of short essays, nature essays,
impressions of writers, stories and moods. Some of the titles are:
Literary commercialism; Prejudices; Useful lies; Heredity; Discipline;
Christian science; My vision; Traveling seeds; The beautiful orchids;
The search for truth; The hermit of Walden; Trees and their blossoms;
The sixth sense of humor; Caddis flies; An October afternoon.
* * * * *
“The various literary activities to which Mrs Creevey set her hand, in
the field of nature, won her a host of admirers, who will be
entertained with these random papers.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p8 N 6 ’20 280w
=N Y Evening Post= p26 O 23 ’20 10w
=CRESSON, WILLIAM PENN.= Cossacks; their history and country. il *$2.50
Brentano’s 947
20–1063
“An American writer’s account of that Russian people who have declared
their intention to establish ‘a federal republic like that of the
United States.’ This is the first history in English of the Cossacks
or ‘Free people’ of Russia (to most Americans the term Cossack refers
only to a branch of the old Russian cavalry service). Captain Cresson
was formerly secretary of the American embassy at Petrograd, and much
travel in the Cossack country and intimate knowledge of the sources of
Cossack history have equipped him for the task of interpreting this
interesting people to his own countrymen.”—R of Rs
* * * * *
=Ath= p560 Ap 23 ’20 100w
=Booklist= 16:273 My ’20
“Students of Russia will appreciate Captain Cresson’s volume, because
it is, so far, our most reliable account of the Cossacks in English.
He has brought within its pages information that hitherto was
scattered and difficult to collate, and he has shown, in its
presentation, a scholarly viewpoint and a ready pen.”
+ =Cath World= 111:542 Jl ’20 700w
“The book is not to be taken too seriously as a contribution to
historical literature, but vivacity of style and the wild-western
colour of the subject-matter make the pages interesting enough.”
+ − =Dial= 68:671 My ’20 50w
“Captain Cresson’s work rests on the standard researches of French
historians and the general reader can peruse it with confidence as
well as with interest.”
+ =Ind= 103:321 S 11 ’20 360w
=Lit D= p86 Je 26 ’20 1250w
+ =Outlook= 124:657 Ap 14 ’20 40w
“The most valuable part of his book is that in which, from personal
observation, he describes the organization and government of the
Cossacks. This otherwise excellent book has one shortcoming, and that
is faulty transliteration of Russian names.”
+ − =Review= 3:712 Jl 7 ’20 260w
=R of Rs= 61:335 Mr ’20 100w
Reviewed by Reed Lewis
+ =Survey= 44:52 Ap 3 ’20 160w
=CROCKETT, ALBERT STEVENS.= Revelations of Louise. il *$2.75 (6½c)
Stokes 134
20–19174
The book records the circumstances of the loss of a beloved daughter
and of the parents’ communications with her from the spirit world.
Previous to the occurrences described, the author avows, he had been a
decided skeptic on the subject of spirits. The communications came by
way of the ouija board, table tippings, levitations and
materializations, all through non-professional means. Long
conversations with Louise are recorded. Among the contents are:
Through the board; Spirit dogs, and another: The festival of
spirits—writing; The table that talked; On guides and “power”;
Manifestations; Good spirits and bad—the chart; How levitation is
done; Spirit audiences and performers; Spirits and human nature; The
seven spirit planes—and some ancient American history; Levitation
extraordinary.
* * * * *
“The chief interest of the book lies in the detail and accuracy of Mr
Crockett’s observations, and what new evidence he can bring to the
case.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p5 N 13 ’20 660w
“The book has an interest wholly apart from the question of possible
dealings with the world beyond, in that it presents a vivid picture of
a charming and lovable girl, who is sweet and natural and unchanged on
either side of the veil.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p11 N 6 ’20 150w
=N Y Times= p16 N 14 ’20 540w
Reviewed by Booth Tarkington
+ =N Y Times= p18 N 28 ’20 420w
“Quite aside from the personal matters there are descriptions of the
life in the ethereal realm that, to say the least, must commend
themselves to those who have already acquired some conceptions of the
next phase of life.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p7a N 28 ’20 360w
=CROCKETT, SAMUEL RUTHERFORD.= Light out of the east. *$1.90 (2½c) Doran
20–22156
This is not a story of the return of Christ to earth, but it is the
story of a Christ-like figure who remakes the world on the basis of
Jesus’ teachings. He is known as the White Pope, for altho only a poor
monk, Brother Christopher had been elevated to the Vatican. To the
horror of all, however, he had forsaken the papal throne to wander
about the earth teaching that God is to be found only in men’s hearts.
So Lucas Cargill of Cargillfield, Scotland, meets him and becomes his
first disciple and recorder of the events that follow. In several
respects the narrative parallels the life of Jesus.
* * * * *
“Nothing in ‘The light out of the east’ is probable or even possible,
and in addition to its manifest exaggeration, the religious element is
lugged in. This hardly makes an artistic book; in fact, it does not
even make a moderately good story.”
− =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 7 ’20 200w
“Beyond the statement that this book has an effective style, there is
little to be said about it. The book is a thinly-veiled attack upon
the Catholic church.”
− =Cath World= 112:270 N ’20 150w
=N Y Times= 25:320 Je 20 ’20 520w
“It is a message of idealism beautifully conceived and filled with
optimism for the world’s future.”
+ =Outlook= 126:507 Jl 14 ’20 20w
“This book will stir wonder and regret in those who remember and still
admire Mr Crockett’s earlier novels.”
− =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p142 F 26 ’20 280w
=CROMWELL, GLADYS.= Poems. *$1.50 Macmillan 811
19–19249
“Another book that is in the nature of a memorial volume, since it is
posthumous, is ‘Poems,’ by Gladys Cromwell. In a preface Padraic Colum
gives a just and accurate account of Miss Cromwell’s achievement as a
poet and defines her talent admirably. In a biographical note at the
end of the book Anne Dunn accounts for the tragic death that shocked
the world a year ago.... Miss Cromwell, as Mr Colum wisely suggests,
was not a poet of facile and sensational emotions. Her gift is
pensive. Her songs have a quiet music. Here is light that glows
clearly, not fire to heat us.”—N Y Times
* * * * *
“Miss Cromwell was not one of those young poets who accept without
question the traditionally ‘poetic’ themes and prattle, without a sign
of conviction, of love and springtime and the picturesque beauties of
nature. She wrote of real spiritual experiences, of what she had
herself thought and felt.”
+ =Ath= p289 F 27 ’20 140w
“In the group here entitled ‘Later poems’—the closing record of two
very noble and fervid lives brought to a tragic end—there is nearly
always a stark and shining strength in which a certain calm sweetness
is not utterly without its part.” H: A. Lappin
+ =Bookm= 51:216 Ap ’20 220w
+ =Cleveland= p73 Ag ’20 150w
“The poems of the unfortunate Gladys Cromwell betray the hidden thing
that wrecked her career. One sees, in practically all of her poems, a
fear of this life that is a kaleidoscope of beauty, belligerence, and
bestiality. The inability to adjust herself to an insecure and chaotic
world is manifested even in her earlier poems which contain some of
her finest lyrics. In poems like The mould, Definition, Dominion, and
Choice she seems a tentative and somewhat frailer Emily Dickinson,
with a less incisive and more indirect idiom.” L: Untermeyer
+ − =Dial= 68:534 Ap ’20 180w
+ =Ind= 103:54 Jl 10 ’20 300w