Chapter XVII: Part 2: opens with a general diagram that, with proper study, makes (1)

clear the relationship of the cost records to the main books of
account and explains means for unifying the general accounts and the
cost system into a consistent whole. The separate features of
manufacturing accounts, as outlined in part 1, are then taken up in
greater detail. ... Cost system reports and returns for the foreman,
superintendent and general executive are suggested and described in
part 3. The four chapters making up this part are revised from a
series of articles published in the American Machinist in September,
1915.”—Engin News-Rec

“Some question may be raised as to the wisdom of attempting to teach
or explain the theory of double entry bookkeeping in the small amount
of space allotted to this subject by the author in part one. The book
is a notable addition to a library on cost accounting, and to the
student who is well grounded in the basic principles of accounting it
will prove of considerable value in treating of cost accounts.” A. T.
Cameron

+ — =Ann Am Acad= 74:294 N ‘17 390w

=Cleveland= p96 Jl ‘17 20w

“It is sufficiently elementary in treatment to be recommended as a
general textbook on accounting and cost keeping for the use of
engineers needing instruction in those subjects.” R. R. Potter

+ =Engin News-Rec= 78:150 Ap 19 ‘17 450w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:58 Ap ‘17

“Mature minds ... will find in it suggestion, explanation, and
direction obtainable so far as the reviewer knows, nowhere else.” C:
B. Going

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:447 My ‘17 80w (Reprinted from Journal of the
American Society of Mechanical Engineers p369 Ap ‘17)

=Pratt= p24 Jl ‘17 30w

=St Louis= 15:113 Ap ‘17

=CHURCHILL, MRS MATILDA (FAULKNER).= Letters from my home in India; ed. and arranged by Grace M. Rogers. il *$1.35 (2½c) Doran 16-22790

The author has spent a lifetime in India. She went to that country as
a missionary in 1873 immediately after her marriage. The letters cover
the period from that time to the present. In the last letter, written
from Nova Scotia, the author’s native home, she expresses her deep joy
at the prospect of returning to her labors in the mission field.

“The appeal of sincerity is universal. Hence, however divergent, anent
foreign missions, may be the views of the readers of Mrs Churchill’s
letters, they will be unanimous in respect to the writer’s unselfish
and heroic service.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p9 N 18 ‘16 250w

+ =Dial= 61:542 D 14 ‘16 120w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:14 Ja ‘17

=CHURCHILL, WINSTON.= Dwelling-place of light. il *$1.60 (1c) Macmillan 17-25746

Mr Churchill’s latest novel deals with, but makes no attempt to solve,
the industrial problem. “The Massachusetts mill city of Hampton ...
appears to be Holyoke to a hair, until an industrial crisis involving
the I.W.W. and a dynamite plot on the part of the manufacturers
convinces us that we are in Lawrence, with its neighboring Andover.”
(Nation) The central figure in the story is Janet Bumpus, whose
father, “a racial failure who worships the Bumpus genealogy,” is
gate-keeper in the Chippering mill. Janet becomes stenographer and
confidential secretary to Claude Ditmar, the manager of the mill, but
later joins his enemies, the I.W.W. workers who are handling the
strike. Janet’s personal relations with Ditmar, with Rolfe, the I.W.W.
leader, and with Brooks Insall, the humanitarian author, are recounted
with much detail. Lise, Janet’s sister, who has the temperament of a
courtesan, and is “all for easy street,” forms a strong contrast to
Janet.

“Though we did not close the book satisfied that we had learnt how and
where the mind might be sure of being environed by wisdom, we felt
that some of the ways and means of approach had been indicated.”

+ — =Ath= p679 D ‘17 90w

“Somewhat oddly, perhaps, our author is a good deal more chary of
laying down the law about industrialism than he was about religion. It
almost seems indeed that, three-quarters through his narrative, he
gradually withdraws from the problem he has so thoroughly stated, and
takes refuge in the personal human story of the girl Janet.” H. W.
Boynton

+ — =Bookm= 46:339 N ‘17 360w

“With ‘The dwelling-place of light’ Mr Churchill begins what appears
to be his third epoch as a novelist. It contains something of each of
his earlier manners, but it also involves an archaic tale of
unrequited love such as hitherto he has never attempted to tell. He
combines this with an ultra-modern portrayal of the sordid conditions
of life among the poor, and a tedious account of a strike whose
details are very obviously drawn from the activities of a notorious
labor organization in a New England manufacturing city a few years
ago. ... Doubtless the novelist has written it in a mood of conviction
and sincerity, but it does not convey that impression.” E. F. E.

– + =Boston Transcript= p6 O 10 ‘17 1450w

“Frankly, we believe that this novel merits severe condemnation. Any
man who, at this stage of our national life, with a war on our hands
and many internal dangers and problems to cope with, will publish such
a defence of the propaganda of syndicalism and mob-rule, deserves a
reprimand.”

— =Cath World= 106:694 F ‘18 330w

“He is apparently trying to show Theodore Dreiser the high honor of
imitation. He has not Dreiser’s savage equipment, and lacks the
ponderous sledge-hammer stroke that makes its effect by heavy
iteration of details. He lacks, too, the evident sincerity of Dreiser,
who, however unpleasant he may be, is always unmistakably in earnest.
Mr Churchill is a sheep in wolf’s clothing, and the costume suits him
not at all.”

— =Ind= 92:385 N 24 ‘17 280w

“To the reader of Mr Churchill’s new novel, bewildered and curious at
such long-continued philosophizing and analyzing of apparently
ordinary characters, will suddenly come a conviction that, under an
apparent sameness, there is something entirely new, something
intensely vital.”

+ =Lit D= 55:48 D 29 ‘17 480w

“Mr Churchill has rendered with extraordinary breadth and sympathy the
New England manufacturing city, with its enterprise and its squalor,
its huge industrial ‘plants’ driving always remorselessly for
increased dividends, its polyglot hordes kept within bounds, for the
most part, by the slender but steely filaments of necessity. Claude
Ditmar, manager of the Chippering mill, is a striking portrait of the
successful American. ... One closes the record with the impression
that, as Mr Churchill has solved Janet’s knot by cutting it, he is
fain to dispose of the industrial problem by retiring from it, as
Janet has done, to some kindlier, mellower atmosphere.”

=Nation= 105:403 O 11 ‘17 650w

Reviewed by H. W. Boynton

+ — =Nation= 105:600 N 29 ‘17 200w

“Mr Churchill will never escape from gentility. He has achieved his
position as its favorite interpreter. But the vitality shown in the
‘Dwelling-place of light’ proves how persistent is his faith in its
tenets. He can make a place for the I.W.W. in his tradition rather
than give up an American mill or an American girl.” F. H.

+ — =New Repub= 12:306 O 13 ‘17 1750w

“The picturing part of the book is an excellent performance, but the
preachment of the after effects of freedom in love, and against
socialistic and syndicalistic ideas, smacks of that mid-McKinleyan
conservatism and prudery out of whose somber shadows America has
stepped, for once and for all.” Clement Wood

+ — =N Y Call= p18 D 15 ‘17 800w

“He has never hitherto depicted a woman character with quite so much
insight, skill, and surety as he portrays Janet Bumpus. ... It is a
pleasure to bear witness to the finer, truer taste with which Mr
Churchill now writes. Scarcely anywhere in the book does one find any
of those occasional lapses which offended so much in his earlier work.
But this does not hold true of the ending of the story. Not since the
deathbed of Little Eva has there been anything more banal than the
last pages of this novel.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:393 O 14 ‘17 1250w

“Mr Churchill is not afraid to present life as it is, and that with
unsparing frankness, but also with a spirit of idealism and desire for
future national and social advance.”

+ =Outlook= 117:386 N 7 ‘17 170w

“One feels that the straight and logical working out of the plot has
been distorted in order to furnish the author with vehicle for some of
his own social theories. This, however, does not rob the final tragedy
of its poignancy, nor detract from the merit of the masterly analysis
of a certain type of feminine temperament embodied in Janet.” F: T.
Cooper

+ — =Pub W= 92:1371 O 20 ‘17 1050w

“Mr Winston Churchill has been moved to picture the rapidly changing
conditions of American social and industrial life in a story of great
earnestness and power.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:556 N ‘17 400w

“It is with thanksgiving that the serious English reader hails the
work of those American authors—a select few—whose mental standpoint
differs little from his own. Of these writers, sprung from the old
American stock, our near relations, Mr Winston Churchill is perhaps
the nearest to us. His point of view is indistinguishable from that of
a well-educated and large-minded Englishman, and his language is, with
a few comprehensible variants, our own. In the course of the story we
get a wonderfully clear impression of the heterogeneous mob of workers
in an American manufacturing town; and of the dismay with which the
old American regards these hordes of foreigners.”

+ =Sat R= 124:374 N 10 ‘17 580w

“In his plot Mr Churchill is less successful than usual. He has
evidently taken great pains with Janet’s complex personality; but
though every woman, and every man too, may be a bundle of
inconsistencies, a heroine, to be credible and sympathetic, must have
a more definite character than she seems to possess.”

+ — =Spec= 119:497 N 3 ‘17 560w

“Recently we had the melancholy spectacle of the gifted Mr Galsworthy
floundering in the miasma of sex, and now comes Winston Churchill with
a story which treads dangerously near the distressing phases of the
same theme. There is doubt whether Mr Churchill is marking time, or
entering a new epoch in his literary life. For his own well-being, it
is to be hoped that the former is the case, for, notwithstanding
abundant evidences of his graceful narrative style and ability at
vivid portraiture of character, the story adds little, if anything to
his achievements.”

– + =Springf’d Republican= p17 O 21 ‘17 900w

“It is a long book and closely thought out; but it is always
interesting to read, because Mr Winston Churchill writes with a
discernment which is based on knowledge.”

+ =The Times [London]= Lit Sup p540 N 8 ‘17 570w

=CLADEL, JUDITH=, comp. Rodin: the man and his art; with leaves from his notebook; tr. by S. K. Star; with introd. by J. Huneker. il *$5 Century 17-29347

“Mr Huneker opens the book with an introduction in which he says
practically all that need be said of Rodin. He tells us in a few
paragraphs what is significant in his career; that he mastered the
technique of his art by the sweat of his brow, working for other
sculptors as an anonym, that he worked for the Sevres porcelain works,
[etc]. ... In the biographical chapters the events of Rodin’s life are
elaborated and a reasonable perspective is kept, bringing into relief
the important moments [of his career]. ... The pages devoted to
Rodin’s own notes cover a wide field of comment. Throughout he raises
a hymn to work. ... Besides these comments, written from the intense
interest of the artist in the reasons and sources of what he observes,
there are other notes that are casual or lyric as the spirit prompts.”
(N Y Times) “The text is illustrated by about forty beautiful
photographs of Rodin’s work.” (A L A Bkl)

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:83 D ‘17

Reviewed by Kenyon Cox

* =Nation= 105:574 N 22 ‘17 2200w

“Much of the text is touched by the generous but blighting spirit of
special pleading and resentment against criticism of Rodin, but
biographical information is given of the kind that alone is important
in the case of an artist; and the quotations from the note-books have
the great value of original and direct expressions upon a subject
thoroughly known and deeply felt.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:557 D 16 ‘17 1600w

=CLAPHAM, CHARLES BLANCHARD.= Arithmetic for engineers. (Directly-useful technical ser.) il *$3 Dutton 620.8 17-14150

“This is a comprehensive, practical treatment of the most elementary
arts of mathematics, including simple algebra, mensuration,
logarithms, graphs and the slide rule. It is written for students of
most limited training; in fact, in the endeavor to make all points
perfectly clear to this class of readers the explanations and
practical examples are given with most comprehensive care.”—Engin Rec

=Engin N= 77:436 Mr 15 ‘17 100w

“The most important feature of the text is the use of at least one
practical example to illustrate every principle or procedure
described. This results in a fully illustrated volume, filled with
stimulating exercises using engineering subjects, presented in a
satisfactory form typographically. It should be emphasized, however,
that the text is written for elementary students and is in no sense a
handbook for reference.”

+ =Engin Rec= 75:475 Mr 24 ‘17 130w

“The clear detail of the work should commend it wherever a text or
home study is desired.”

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:447 My ‘17 60w (Reprinted from Scientific
American p364 Ap 7 ‘17)

“Author is lecturer in engineering and elementary mathematics,
University of London.”

+ =Quar List New Tech Bks= Ap ‘17 50w

=CLARK, ALEXANDER GRAHAM.= Text book on motor car engineering. 2v v 2 il *$3 Van Nostrand 629.2

=v 2= Design.

Volume 1 dealing with Construction was published in 1912. The subject
matter of the present volume is based on the author’s lectures to
students in the Polytechnic, London, and it is intended “for the use
of engineers, designers, draughtsmen, students and others whose work
entails a knowledge of design.” The illustrations number over sixty
and there are also numerous tables.

“We cannot praise too highly the clearness of diction and simplicity
of expression which prevail throughout the work. Were it not for the
illustrations, we should have been at some trouble to find any cause
for criticism of the work at all. ... A little more discrimination in
regard to the scale of the drawings as reproduced, and the preparation
of an entirely new set of half-tones from original photographs, would
have enhanced the value of the book to a degree which would be out of
all proportion to the additional expenditure involved.”

+ — =Nature= 100:102 O 11 ‘17 1200w

=CLARK, BARRETT HARPER.= How to produce amateur plays. *$1.50 Little 792 17-15178

“A practical handbook whose aim is to demonstrate how dramatic
pieces can be produced in an inexpensive, artistic and effective
manner. Discussions of the choice of play and cast are followed by
three chapters on rehearsing, with detailed consideration of the
stage, lighting, scenery and costumes. Selective lists of amateur
plays are added. The appendices include a statement on the workings
of copyright and royalty and a note on make-up embodied in an
article by Miss Grace Griswold. Mr Clark is qualified to discuss his
subject and does so in a lucid manner that makes his instructions
clear and comprehensible.”—Springf’d Republican

“Covers much the same ground as Taylor but is more direct in method,
has a chapter on lighting, and is illustrated both with diagrams and
photographs.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:12 O ‘17

“Such a handbook as Mr Clark’s has often been called for. Its teaching
is practical and its doctrine admirable.” Algernon Tassin

+ =Bookm= 46:347 N ‘17 80w

+ =Cleveland= p105 S ‘17 50w

+ =Ind= 91:77 Jl 14 ‘17 40w

+ =R of Rs= 56:444 O ‘17 100w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 S 2 ‘17 120w

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 13:218 Jl ‘17 30w

=CLARK, BARRETT HARPER=, ed. Masterpieces of modern Spanish drama; tr. from the Spanish and Catalan. *$2 Duffield 862 17-8763

The three plays presented in this book are “The great Galeoto,” by
José Echegaray; “The duchess of San Quentin,” by Benito Pérez-Galdós;
and “Daniela,” by Angel Guimerá. The first and third have appeared in
English in earlier translations, the third under the title “La
pecadora.” A biographical sketch of the author precedes each play. In
his preface Mr Clark says, “As may be seen after a cursory reading of
the three plays contained in this collection, the Spanish drama of
to-day cannot easily be summed up in a few words; the attempt here
made is largely with a view to showing something of the genius of a
nation whose dramatic products have as yet scarcely begun to receive
the attention they so well deserve.”

“Good translations.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:120 Ja ‘18

“Echegaray’s ‘The great Galeoto’ is already known through previous
translations and public readings; ‘The duchess of San Quentin,’ by
Galdós, seems a little facile, theatrical, and old-fashioned. ...
Guimerá’s ‘Daniela’ alone, translated from the Catalan by John Garrett
Underhill, comes to us with all the force of a new sensation, and this
by virtue of the profound and tragic poetry of its theme. ... It is of
the great order.”

+ — =Dial= 62:530 Je 14 ‘17 250w

+ =Ind= 91:135 Jl 28 ‘17 50w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:74 My ‘17 30w

“The splendid technique shown in the structure and dialogue of these
Spanish dramas is an answer to the slovenly and ill-fitting
constructors of plays in other countries. One learns that correctness
and certainty of emphasis are not altogether lost arts in the theatre,
and one wishes good fortune to the influence of these Spanish
playwrights.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:300 Ag 12 ‘17 250w

=Pittsburgh= 22:747 N ‘17 50w

“Should have a hearty welcome from the public. ... By some slight
oversight, Mr Barrett Clark, who has edited the plays and written a
most agreeable introduction, states that only ‘The great Galeoto’ has
been previously given an English translation. An excellent version of
‘Daniela,’ rather freely translated by Wallace Gillpatrick, was
included among the publications of the Hispanic society (Putnam) in
1916.”

+ =R of Rs= 55:662 Je ‘17 140w

=Springf’d Republican= p10 Ap 5 ‘17 110w

=CLARK, CHARLES EDGAR.= My fifty years in the navy. il *$2.50 (3½c) Little 17-28674

Rear-Admiral Clark was born in Vermont in 1843, graduated from the
United States naval academy at Annapolis in 1863, and was retired from
the navy in 1905. In this book, he tells the story of his public life
up to the time of his retirement. During the Civil war, he served on
board the “Ossipee” in the West Gulf blockading squadron for nearly
two years, taking an active part in the battle of Mobile bay. In the
Spanish-American war, he commanded the “Oregon” on her memorable trip
around the Horn to play her part in the battle of Santiago, July 3,
1898. Some thirty pages of chapter twelve are devoted to a log of the
“Oregon” as written by an unlettered sailor, who was one of her crew.
The addenda include diagrams showing the positions of the American and
Spanish ships at the battle of Santiago. There are three portraits of
Rear-Admiral Clark and a number of other illustrations.

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:93 D ‘17

“The author is a prince of raconteurs. The style is simple and direct.
The book is well made up; the illustrations few, but good; its index
fairly complete. It should be read by all who seek to comprehend the
spirit of our navy during the transition from sail to steam.”

+ =Nation= 105:693 D 20 ‘17 800w

“A straightforward narrative of interest to all who love the American
navy.”

+ =Outlook= 117:350 O 31 ‘17 30w

Reviewed by F: T. Cooper

+ =Pub W= 92:2027 D 8 ‘17 330w

=CLARK, FRANCIS EDWARD.=[2] In the footsteps of St Paul. il *2 (2c) Putnam 915.69

An account of the life and labors of St Paul in the light of a
personal journey to the cities visited by him. The author has gone
over and identified the Apostle’s routes of travel thru Tarsus,
Jerusalem, Damascus, Antioch, Iconium, Ephesus, Salonica, Athens,
Corinth, and a score of other cities. In reconstructing, as far as
possible, the physical background and the scenery of St Paul’s labors,
the writer makes his activities more real and vivid. The book seeks
its audience among Bible students, Sunday school teachers—all who
study the Bible for public or private use.

+ =Boston Transcript= p10 D 19 ‘17 710w

“This book is a boon to many unlikely to have heard of such a
masterpiece as Sir William Ramsay’s ‘Paul the traveller and Roman
citizen.’”

+ =Outlook= 118:67 Ja 9 ‘18 110w

=CLARK, JOHN SCOTT.= Study of English and American writers, v 3 $2 Row, Peterson & co. 820 16-16560

=v 3= The books that have preceded this are “A study of English prose
writers” and “A study of English and American poets.” In these three
volumes the author has developed a “laboratory method” for use in
teaching English literature. The preface to this volume says, “The
method consists in determining the particular and distinctive features
of the writer’s style (using the term style in its widest sense), in
sustaining this analysis by a consensus of critical opinion, in
illustrating the particular characteristics of each writer by
carefully selected extracts from his works, and in then requiring the
pupil to find, in the works of the writer, parallel illustrations.”
About sixty-five authors are included. Professor Clark died before the
book was ready for publication and his work has been completed by John
Price Odell, professor of English in Occidental college, Los Angeles,
California.

“Teachers who have not become familiar with the methods of these
volumes have missed valuable training.” G: Sherburn

+ =School R= 25:63 Ja ‘17 580w

=CLARK, JOHN SPENCER.= Life and letters of John Fiske. 2v il *$7.50 Houghton 17-27754

“This is the long-awaited official life of the most eminent and the
most interesting of later American historians, the work of one of John
Fiske’s lifelong friends, who was associated with him in his
philosophical studies, and as a member of the publishing house of
James R. Osgood & Co. Mr Fiske’s career was a crowded one, and Mr
Clark was in touch with it at every point. He tells the story of the
famous historian’s New England boyhood, his early literary struggles,
his close association with the famous Darwin-Huxley-Spencer group, his
life as a lecturer on American history, his friendships, and his
contributions to philosophy and literature.”—Lit D

“Mr Clark’s two-volume life shows just why such rich quality of
thought and variety of knowledge filled to overflowing all that John
Fiske wrote and why he was able to present his great stores to his
readers with never failing clarity, simplicity, and impressiveness.”
F. F. Kelly

+ =Bookm= 46:327 N ‘17 450w

“The story of John Fiske’s life is told by Mr Clark by means of
numerous letters with connecting links of a narrative which is
frequently verbosely labored and repetitious. It succeeds in giving,
however, a faithful account of a notable career and remarkable
intellectual achievements, although little revelation is made of the
personality of the man.” E. F. E.

+ — =Boston Transcript= p2 D 15 ‘17 1350w

“No book of more general interest to a thoughtful reader is likely to
appear in a long time; certainly no book presenting a more engaging
personality.”

+ =Lit D= 55:39 D 8 ‘17 130w

“These two imposing volumes and their subject are mutually worthy of
each other. If one is tempted to criticize the amount of space given
to the childhood and youth of young Fiske, he soon learns that the
subject is worthy of it.”

+ =Lit D= 56:30 Ja 26 ‘18 980w

“A wealth of personal letters and memoranda has been skilfully
utilized, and reveals in attractive light the scope of Fiske’s
intellectual activities and the warmth of his friendships. Rarely has
the home life of a man of letters shown itself possessed of greater
simplicity or sincerity than these pages display. In all these
respects the work is an addition of permanent value to American
biography. As a piece of constructive criticism, on the other hand, Mr
Clark’s work is somewhat less satisfactory.”

* + – =Nation= 106:91 Ja 24 ‘18 2100w

“His letters to his family [from England], from which Mr Clark makes
liberal quotation, afford some of the most graphic and interesting
portraitures of the famous people of that day we have had from any
source. ... But, interesting as these portraits are, they should not
obscure the story of Fiske’s remarkable career, which Mr Clark has
told with full detail and with a richness of background and vividness
of color that make it one of the notable books of the year and one of
the most notable of American biographies.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:569 D 23 ‘17 2250w

“Mr Clark has produced a faithful, comprehensive account of John
Fiske’s life. The reader would gladly spare one or two of the author’s
mannerisms. But the book, as a whole, is concrete and readable, and
there is no emphasis on questions of philosophy beyond the point to
which the average reader will care to go.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11 Ja 27 ‘18 2300w

=CLARK, KEITH.= Spell of Scotland. il *$2.50 Page 914.1 16-23814

“This is one of the interesting ‘Spell’ series. Like its predecessors,
it unites description with reminiscences of travel and appreciation of
famous sights, antiquities, and landscape beauties of the country it
treats.” (Outlook) “The chief attractions of Scotland are agreeably
brought to our attention in the eleven chapters of the book, even the
Hebrides, but apparently not the Orkney or the Shetland Islands, being
included in the author’s tour of the kingdom.” (Dial)

“It is well illustrated, has a good map, and has a four-page
bibliography. More expensive than Griffis but in the same ‘popular’
travel-book style.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:263 Mr ‘17

“Though Miss Clark succeeded admirably in ‘The spell of Spain,’ she
could hardly have hoped to achieve there what she has in her second
book. For she is Scotch of the Scotch herself, and here every page of
her writing breathes an instinctive and inherent sympathy and
understanding. To ‘see’ Scotland through such eyes is indeed to feel
its spell. To the Catholic reader Miss Clark’s book cannot fail to
recommend itself with a very special appeal.”

+ =Cath World= 105:828 S ‘17 380w

“Literary allusion and quotation, with a sufficiency of history for
popular liking, enrich the descriptions, which are made more vivid
still by frequent illustrations from photographs and other sources and
eight colored plates of much beauty.”

+ =Dial= 62:150 F 22 ‘17 230w

+ =Outlook= 115:118 Ja 17 ‘17 40w

=CLARK, VICTOR SELDEN.= History of manufactures in the United States, 1607-1860; with an introd. note by H: W. Farnam. il pa $6 Carnegie inst. 330.9 16-15333

“This is the second of the contributions to American economic history
which have been written under the auspices of the Carnegie institution
of Washington. ... Of the twenty chapters in the present volume that
deal with the history of manufactures, nine cover the colonial period,
eleven the period between 1790 and 1860. Dr Clark first describes the
colonial environment, British policy, and colonial legislation
affecting manufactures. ... The spread of the factory system Dr Clark
attributes quite as much to the growth of markets in the South as to
the invention of new processes and machines. The effects of tariff
legislation, of the development of better transportation agencies, and
of a more plentiful supply of capital and labor are treated in
successive chapters, as are the technical progress, the organization,
and the general distribution of manufactures. Some valuable appendices
conclude the volume. ... A second volume, covering the period from
1860 to date, is promised.”—Ann Am Acad

“To say that Mr Clark’s book is the best in its field would be faint
praise, for there is only one other that covers the field, and that
was written nearly sixty years ago. ... Mr Clark’s book is singularly
free from bias or prejudice. ... The quantity of facts assembled in
this framework is very great, for the writer’s researches have been
wide and laborious. But they are not always interpreted, and sometimes
several pages of specific facts are given that have little apparent
significance. ... It is far from being the ‘final word’ on this
subject, but it is the most considerable contribution to it that has
ever been made.” T: W. Page

* + =Am Econ R= 7:300 Je ‘17 1350w

“The volume under review may safely be proclaimed one of the most
important and valuable contributions to the economic history of the
United States which has appeared in recent years. ... The value of the
work is in no small degree to be attributed to the broad
interpretation and the method of treatment adopted by the author. ...
In the main the conclusions of the author, backed up as they are by
scholarly method and a broader basis of fact than has heretofore been
available, will, it is believed, be accepted. Concerning a few of the
more general statements the reviewer, however, would be inclined to
raise a question. ... The index is adequate and the bibliography
comprehensive.” C. W. Wright

+ =Am Hist R= 22:384 Ja ‘17 1000w

“One is inevitably led to compare this work with that of Bishop, which
covers practically the same ground and for so long has been the single
authority covering the whole field. Dr Clark’s book is more analytical
and endeavors to explain the movements and forces of each period, and
not merely to chronicle facts. It moreover takes up phases of the
subject not touched upon by Bishop, such as organization. All in all
it constitutes an admirable economic history of manufactures.” E. L.
Bogart

+ =Ann Am Acad= 70:323 Mr ‘17 350w

“The chief contribution of the work is in details rather than in
principles. ... Not all of the generalizations are substantiated. ...
The allotment of space and the distribution of emphasis are open to
serious criticism. ... The history of the development of industrial
organization is inadequate. ... The section on the factory system (pp.
448-55) is incomplete. ... Since the book was apparently written to
trace the volume of growth rather than to analyze the causes for the
development of new forms of industrial organization, one ends a
critical reading of the volume with a feeling of uncertainty as to how
much valuable evidence on the latter subject may have been
overlooked.” M. T. Copeland

=J Pol Econ= 25:633 Je ‘17 530w

=CLARKE, GEORGE HERBERT=, ed. Treasury of war poetry, 1914-1917. *$1.25 Houghton 821.08 17-25441

The publishers state that this collection of about 130 British and
American poems of the world war “contains important poems by important
authors which have not been accessible to other anthologies.” They are
arranged under the headings: America; England and America; England;
France; Belgium; Russia and America; Italy; Australia; Canada; Liège;
Verdun; Oxford; Reflections; Incidents and aspects; Poets militant;
Auxiliaries; Keeping the seas; The wounded; The fallen; Women and the
war. The editor’s policy “has been humanly hospitable, rather than
academically critical, especially in the case of some of the verses
written by soldiers at the front.” (Introd.) There are indexes of
first lines, of titles and of authors; Occasional notes, giving brief
biographies of some of the poets; and an introduction by the editor.

=A L A Bkl= 14:120 Ja ‘18

“On the whole Professor Clarke has been remarkably successful in
sifting the grain from the chaff.”

+ =Ind= 92:262 N 3 ‘17 70w

“Many of the poems have been inaccessible to other anthologists, and
Professor Clarke has provided illuminating notes to the whole
collection.”

+ =Lit D= 55:39 D 8 ‘17 110w

“Practically all of the best and finest things the war has inspired
are included in the collection, and that means at least a little of
the finest verse that has been written in English for some years. The
indexes are so well contrived that they deserve a word of praise.”

+ =N Y Times= 23:12 Ja 13 ‘18 420w

“While there may be individual differences of opinion regarding the
inclusion or omission of particular poems, no one will find fault with
Prof. Clarke’s general principle of selection.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 18 ‘17 360w

=CLAY, OLIVER.= Heroes of the American revolution. il *$1.25 (2c) Duffield 973.3 16-25270

The title of this book is somewhat misleading. It suggests a book of
biographies. What the author has written is a series of chapters
bearing on the Revolution and devoted to groups and localities rather
than to individuals. Contents: The men of Massachusetts; The royal
province of Virginia; The part New York played; The rally of the
patriots; The writer of our Declaration of independence; The birth of
the American army; Our foreign allies; The shadows of the Revolution;
Daughters of liberty; Our revolutionary navy; From Lexington to
Yorktown; Our commander-in-chief.

“Would appear to be fitted for use in secondary school
instruction. ... It is a good book to put into the hands of American
boys, whether in or out of school.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p8 F 7 ‘17 100w

+ =Ind= 91:228 Ag 11 ‘17 40w

“The author’s method undoubtedly has its advantages in focusing the
reader’s attention on the movements of men in the mass rather than on
the development of sporadic careers.”

+ =R of Rs= 55:216 F ‘17 70w

“While primarily intended for young persons, grown-ups will also find
much of interest in ‘Heroes of the American revolution.’”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 F 18 ‘17 130w

=CLEGHORN, SARAH NORCLIFFE.= Portraits and protests. *$1.25 Holt 811 17-23579

The poems in this volume are arranged under the four headings:
Portraits; Of country places and the simple heart; Of time and
immortality; Protests.

=A L A Bkl= 14:86 D ‘17

“She belongs as thoroughly to New England as does Robert Frost
himself, but she sees New England in softer, more gentle garb than he
sees it. ... Though people do not move her to the biting word and we
feel in her portraits a charity of outlook, it would be doing faint
justice to Miss Cleghorn not to note the way in which her lines can
flay, when she is roused by injustice or cruelty.” D. L. M.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 D 22 ‘17 900w

“While the verses have all a distinct, personal accent, they fail
adequately to convey emotion. This is partly due to the fact that the
author clings to lilting measures, intelligible for ‘Margerita singing
ballads,’ but not for ‘Jane Addams,’ that she uses inversion
frequently, permits her metrical feet to stumble, and has a rather
tiresome fondness for flounces and roundabouts. The lack of intensity
is perhaps also due to Miss Cleghorn’s austere passion for New
England.”

– + =Dial= 63:525 N 22 ‘17 260w

“Many of her poems of protest, such as ‘Comrade Jesus,’ have been
reprinted in all radical periodicals and anthologies. Others, such as
‘Peace hath her Belgiums,’ ‘The incentive’ and ‘One hundred thousand
more’ deserve to be as widely known. ... In the earlier sections of
the book there are some lovely things. ‘Come, Captain Age,’ ‘Vermont’
and a few others stand out. But too often the verses seem too
chiselled, too cautiously contrived, too much a product of reading
rather than life, which either make the result unimportant, or
incoherent.” Clement Wood

+ — =N Y Call= p15 O 21 ‘17 300w

“The war intrudes itself only momentarily to elicit the ‘protest’
which seems to come instinctively from the ‘intellectual’ in an era of
patriotism.’ ... ‘The poltroon’ and ‘Comrade Jesus’ ought to receive
the chuckles of delight and the mutterings of wrath that they were
doubtless expected to call forth. ... ‘Portraits and protests’ gives
the impression that it ought to be an anthology combining the work of
George Woodberry, the Masses and Franklin P. Adams.”

=Springf’d Republican= p6 S 18 ‘17 250w

=CLEMENS, SAMUEL LANGHORNE (MARK TWAIN, pseud.).= Mark Twain’s letters; ed. by Albert Bigelow Paine. 2v *$4 (1½c) Harper 17-30756

Uniform in binding and in number of volumes with Paine’s biography of
Mark Twain. A brief sketch of Mr Clemens’s life prefaces the first
volume, while thruout both volumes is editorial comment which
amplifies references in the letters and keeps the chronology clear.
The letters reveal the great American humorist at his best, and as the
personalities of the recipients of his letters are so different and
the observations and interests of the writer so varied the reader
enjoys a wide range of reactions. The first letters were written from
New York and Philadelphia in 1853 when Mr Clemens left his home in
Hannibal, Mo., and started out to make his fortune. Among the largest
number to any one person are the letters to W. D. Howells, which are
intimate and lasting testimonials of the great friendship between the
two men.

Reviewed by Archibald Henderson

=Bookm= 46:583 Ja ‘18 1350w

“Few writers made their letters so thoroughly a part of themselves as
did Mark Twain. They are as characteristic an expression of his
individuality, of his manner, of his habit of thought and tricks of
speech, as are the pages he wrote for the immediate eye of the public.
His letters are an unending pleasure.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 N 14 ‘17 2100w

“It goes without saying that he portrays himself in this work in every
mood, and he had them all. One of the most significant features of the
collection is the light it throws on the creation of his books.”

+ =Lit D= 55:46 D 8 ‘17 140w

“The work, as done by Mr Paine, is not only a contribution to Mark
Twain literature, but it is, likewise, a notable example of the way in
which letters should be compiled so as to reflect the true character
of the person who wrote them.”

+ =Lit D= 55:42 D 29 ‘17 2050w

+ =Nation= 106:115 Ja 31 ‘18 2100w

“[Mr Paine’s] running commentary [is] always modest, always
unobtrusive, and always confined to the strictly necessary
explanations. In other words, he has let Mark Twain, the letter
writer, speak for himself. It is difficult to see how this work could
have been done more discreetly or more tactfully. These letters are
never composed with any thought of publication; they are never
labored; they are always easy; they are sometimes even free and easy.
They are the spontaneous expression of the man himself as he happened
to be at the moment of taking pen in hand. They are highly individual;
they abound in whim, in humorous exaggeration, in imagination, and in
energy. They are delightful reading, in themselves in the first place,
and in the second as revelations of the character and the
characteristics of Mr Samuel L. Clemens, who was in some ways a
different person from Mr Mark Twain known to all the world.”

+ + =N Y Times= 22:473 N 18 ‘17 2300w

“The letters are well edited, with such historical comment as is
needed to make them understandable and no more.”

+ =Outlook= 118:31 Ja 2 ‘18 190w

“His is one of the few figures that the whole nation has learned to
love, and one that has become an enduring part of our best traditions.
It has been only too often the unfortunate office of intimate letters
to shatter similar illusions. So what greater tribute can be paid to
the present ones than to say that they serve simply to enhance the
richness, the tenderness, the whimsical tolerance of the Mark Twain we
have learned to know in his books.” F: T. Cooper

+ =Pub W= 93:221 Ja 19 ‘18 1050w

“This collection of his letters is a revelation of his growth as a
writer and of the main-springs of his conduct.”

+ =R of Rs= 57:99 Ja ‘18 170w

“Albert Bigelow Paine is the editor of these volumes and a most loving
interpreter of Mark Twain he proves to be. He is a little sweeping in
his judgments, but he supplies adequately the information which
enables the reader to understand the occasion of any letter. ... The
feeling in the book, wherever it crops out, is as unaffected as the
humor, and seemingly expressed with the same unconsciousness. The
offhand nature of this writing is peculiarly American. The style is
undress without being excessively colloquial, vigorous and
workmanlike, and, above all, rich with meaning and savor.”

+ + — =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 25 ‘17 2400w

=CLEMENS, SAMUEL LANGHORNE (MARK TWAIN, pseud.).= What is man? and other essays. il *$1.75 Harper 814 17-13964

A collection of miscellaneous essays and papers, some of them
reprinted from magazines, others appearing in print for the first
time. “What is man?” the longest piece in the volume, is Mark Twain’s
cold and cutting analysis of the human race. It is in the form of
colloquy between an old man and a young man, the elder arguing that
man is a machine and nothing more. This is followed by the touching
memorial to Jean Clemens, who died shortly before her father. Several
of the papers are sketches from the author’s travels abroad. One is an
appreciation of William Dean Howells. Other miscellaneous essays are:
English as she is taught; A simplified alphabet; Concerning tobacco;
The bee; Taming the bicycle; Is Shakespeare dead?

=A L A Bkl= 14:120 Ja ‘18

“Wherever in these pages he is humorous, Mark Twain is at his best;
wherever he is serious and in a disputative mood he causes his readers
to long for the creator of the Jumping frog, and for the traveller who
made his historic journey through Europe in company with a party of
merry Innocents.” E. F. E.

+ — =Boston Transcript= p7 Je 2 ‘17 500w

“An aftermath of sixteen papers representing the intellectual byplay
of a big restless mind. Nothing human is foreign to this ranging
curiosity.”

+ =Nation= 105:489 N 1 ‘17 520w

=CLEMENTS, FREDERIC EDWARD.= Plant succession. pa $5 Carnegie inst. 581.1 16-17349

“For nearly a quarter of a century the author of this large and
attractive volume has been investigating numerous problems in the
field of phyto-ecology and related subjects as he has found them in
the great out-of-door laboratory of western United States. This area
is particularly stimulating for such work since so many of the natural
life phenomena have been preserved to the present in nearly their
original conditions. ... The reader must understand that this work is
not in any sense a treatise on general plant ecology. It represents a
careful examination of the facts and principles of plant succession,
an analysis of the development of vegetation in the past as well as
the present, together with a digest of the methods for investigating
successional phenomena.” (Science) Professor Clements has recently
resigned from the faculty of the University of Minnesota to become a
member of the staff of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. He is
the author, with Mrs Clements, of “Rocky Mountain flowers.”

=Cleveland= p40 Mr ‘17

“This latest work from Clements will attract the attention of
botanists and biologists in general throughout the world. ... The
bibliography of nearly a thousand titles, the most of which have been
abstracted or noted somewhere in the text, is still another valuable
part of the book. This is probably the most nearly complete collection
of titles on succession and related phenomena available. It may be
said, after securing a bird’s-eye view of the book as a whole, that
Clements’s monograph presents an invaluable summary of our knowledge
of plant succession and that it must become at once the indispensable
reference and guide for the student of vegetative cycles in all parts
of the world.” R. J. Pool

+ =Science= n s 45:339 Ap 6 ‘17 1650w

=CLENNELL, WALTER JAMES.= Historical development of religion in China. *$2 Dutton 299 (Eng ed 17-17530)

“This book is an expansion of an address delivered on Dec. 8 and 9,
1913, to the students of the Caermarthen Presbyterian college. The
relation between religion and history in China, and the attitude of
the Chinese towards religious beliefs and practices, are set before
the reader, together with accounts of Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism
in China, and Lamaism, the modern transformation of China, and other
matters of interest.”—Ath

=A L A Bkl= 14:110 Ja ‘18

=Ath= p94 F ‘17 70w

“A sane and readable account of Chinese culture by a British
consul. ... Mr Clennell succeeds in putting comprehensive statements
in a lucid way, and any one who performs the easy task of following
them is already equipped with some understanding of the creeds of
China.”

+ =Nation= 105:125 Ag 2 ‘17 1000w

“Scholarly, thoughtful, suggestive, reverent, the work before us is
one of the very best of its kind.” I. C. Hannah

+ =Survey= 39:446 Ja 19 ‘18 200w

=CLIFTON-SHELTON, ALFRED.= On the road from Mons. map and diags. *$1.25 Dutton 940.91 (Eng ed A17-707)

“The work in the field of the English A. S. C. (Army service corps) is
a branch of the service little known to Americans. Captain
Clifton-Shelton, who was with the supply train of the Nineteenth
brigade, gives, in ‘On the road from Mons,’ an account of the peril
and the obstacles encountered by his immediate command during the
historic retreat from Mons and the forward movement to the line of the
Aisne.”—Boston Transcript

=A L A Bkl= 14:88 D ‘17

“Graphic, and at times humorous, account.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 N 14 ‘17 290w

+ =Ind= 92:342 N 17 ‘17 40w

=COAN, CLARENCE ARTHUR.= Fragrant note book; romance and legend of the flower garden and the bye-way. il *$2.50 Putnam 716 17-14230

Mr Coan tells us “how to know the flowers, intimately and lovingly,
but not at all scientifically and botanically. ... Poetry, both
original and selected, profusely sprinkles the pages. ... Delicately
tinted decorations cover the printed text.”—Dial

“To Mr Coan, his garden, through whose gate the Dumb Porter leads us,
is a place of delight, of peace and ease of heart. And its freedom is
given generously to us.”

=Boston Transcript= p7 Ag 1 ‘17 280w

“In its content there is, as the author warns us, ‘of horticulture not
a word.’ ... The appearance of the volume is handsome, and it will
doubtless figure as a gift-book.”

+ =Cath World= 105:685 Ag ‘17 80w

“Delightfully original.”

+ =Dial= 63:167 Ag 30 ‘17 250w

“Precisely the sort of sentimental concoction devoted to ‘Romance and
legend of the flower garden and the bye-way’ that is irresistibly
alluring to a certain part of the American public.”

– + =Nation= 105:44 Je 12 ‘17 140w

=COBB, IRVIN SHREWSBURY.= “Speaking of Prussians—” il *50c (4c) Doran 940.91 17-14799

The author was in Europe as a war correspondent early in the war. At
that time he was a neutral, representing a neutral nation. He now
says, “I am not a neutral any more. I am an American! My country has
clashed with a foreign power, and the enemy of my country is my enemy
and deserving of no more consideration at my hands than he deserves at
the hands of my country. Moreover, I aim to try to show, as we go
along, that any consideration of mercy or charity or magnanimity which
we might show him would be misinterpreted. Being what he is he would
not understand it.” The essay is reprinted from the Saturday Evening
Post.

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:18 O ‘17

“He is brief, uncompromising, but he is also fair-minded. He defends
the German soldier from many charges, and thereby makes his
arraignment of the German government and military system the more
convincing.”

+ =Ind= 91:75 Jl 14 ‘17 40w

=Pittsburgh= 22:680 O ‘17 60w

=Pratt= p39 O ‘17 40w

“He was one of five experienced newspaper men who signed a statement
of inability to discover good evidence of German atrocities in Belgium
at that time. For such sentiments Mr Cobb was charged with being a
German sympathizer when he was merely an open-minded reporter. But if
any doubt exists in anybody’s mind as to the real state of the
author’s mind, the reading of his little book will rapidly dispose of
it.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Jl 17 ‘17 270w

=COBB, IRVIN SHREWSBURY.= Those times and these. *$1.35 (1½c) Doran 17-16321

Ten of Irvin S. Cobb’s stories are collected in the volume. In several
of them he returns to his native Kentucky and to Judge Priest. The
first story, “‘Ex-fightin’ Billy,” is a tale of Judge Priest’s youth,
of the time at the close of the war, when, refusing to be
reconstructed, he had tried to become a citizen of Mexico. One of the
later stories relates an episode of the present war. Contents:
Ex-fightin’ Billy; And there was light; Mr Felsburg gets even; The
garb of men; The cure for lonesomeness; The family tree; Hark! from
the tombs; Cinnamon seed and sandy bottom; A kiss for kindness; Life
among the abandoned farmers.

=A L A Bkl= 14:26 O ‘17

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 18 ‘17 320w

“Every story is well written, and, as Judge Priest would say, ‘is as
clean as a hound’s tooth.’”

+ =Cath World= 106:109 O ‘17 190w

=Cleveland= p103 S ‘17 40w

“These tales belong more to the surface of things than did certain of
the earlier ones; they are less dramatic and less gripping.
Nevertheless, they are very well worth reading, even Mr Cobb’s worst
being above the best of the great majority of short-story writers. And
the volume closes with a bit of satirical foolery which is thoroughly
joyous and amusing.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:230 Je 17 ‘17 900w

“In many respects these stories do not measure up to those going
before. They are reminiscent and genial as of yore, but their
insistently reminiscent qualities give them something of a superficial
and not infrequently, forced tone.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ag 5 ‘17 500w

=COBBETT, LOUIS.= Causes of tuberculosis; together with some account of the prevalence and distribution of the disease. (Cambridge public health ser.) il *$6.50 Putnam 616.2 (Eng ed SG17-322)

Dr Cobbett is lecturer in pathology at Cambridge university and an
authority on the subject whereof he treats. Some of the many important
problems discussed by him are: “(1) the causes of the steady decline
of consumption, since 1863, in spite of the growth of cities and of
industrialism; (2) the fact that most of us, without any memory or
reminder of it, have at some time or other been infected; (3) the
question how far this infection confers immunity against re-infection;
(4) the fact, or strong probability, that the risk of infection
depends on the dosage—i.e., that we can deal with small doses of the
bacilli, but not with ‘massive’ doses.” (Spec)

“His experience of experimental work and its pitfalls, and his
acquaintance with the difficulties that face the practical sanitarian
and those who are engaged in the treatment of tuberculous patients,
enable him to bring to bear a keen critical faculty on the experience
and experiments of other investigators, with the result that the work
now before us may be looked upon as a ‘classic,’ and one that for
years to come will, probably, remain the reference-book for those
interested in tuberculosis.”

+ =Nature= 100:301 D 20 ‘17 1350w

“Dr Cobbett’s is one of the very best books of its kind, alike in its
wealth of knowledge, in its clear, quiet style; its orderly
marshalling of the legions of references, and the exact drawing of
conclusions so inevitable that they seem to come of themselves. ...
And it is for everybody to read who has had a grounding in the
principles of bacteriology.”

+ =Spec= 119:118 Ag 4 ‘17 1200w

=COBERN, CAMDEN MCCORMACK.= New archeological discoveries. il *$3 Funk 225 17-15313

The author, who holds the chair of English Bible and philosophy of
religion at Allegheny college, Pa., tells us that he is the first to
attempt “to give a summary of all the discoveries in all lands, so far
as these in any important way have cast light upon the New Testament
writings or the life of the primitive church”; that the mass of new
information utilized by him comes from the recently unearthed Greek
and Coptic papyri; that “many of the texts are here translated into
English for the first time”; and that his “semi-popular summary of
important results” has been written “primarily for Bible teachers and
ministers.” Dr Cobern shows that the papyri recently discovered in
Egypt “prove conclusively that the Greek in which the New Testament
was written was ... the vernacular of the day,” (Lit D) and that this
“has led, not only to a rewriting of the New Testament grammars and
lexicons but to a general recasting of very many phrases in the
gospels and epistles, some of which were formerly obscure.” (Boston
Transcript) A list of Scripture texts, illustrated is given on pages
687-8. There is an introduction by Edouard Naville, professor of
archeology at the University of Geneva.

“Dr Cobern has produced a monumental work, in which he has brought
down even to the opening of the current calendar year the richest and
fullest knowledge which sheds light upon hitherto dark places in the
Bible story.” E. J. C.

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Je 27 ‘17 1150w