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

“The fact that Dr Naville has written the introduction is sufficient
guarantee of the scholarly character of Dr Cobern’s work. The present
volume will prove of the greatest utility to the large number of
readers who look for just such a ready reference to the scientific
discoveries of modern times, and scholars, too, with large libraries
at their disposal, will welcome the main facts presented in this
condensed form.”

+ =Cath World= 106:244 N ‘17 360w

“While filled with illuminating material that will be prized by
scholars and Bible students, it is written in a style so popular as to
make a strong appeal to every book-lover. ... The illustrations are
exceptionally fine, showing numerous portrait busts, recently
excavated temples, and other buildings, frescoes, sarcophagi, etc.”

+ =Lit D= 55:32 Jl 14 ‘17 650w

“Dr Cobern brings the life and the customs of the early Christians
before us in astonishing detail.”

+ =Lit D= 55:41 D 8 ‘17 230w

+ =N Y Times= 22:326 S 2 ‘17 90w

=Outlook= 117:219 O 10 ‘17 100w

=Pittsburgh= 22:698 O ‘17 50w

“It is manifestly unfair to write what purports to be a scientific
study and to twist facts and give far-fetched interpretations of facts
to fit a preconceived system of ideas. Camden M. Cobern has written a
compendious work in which he is carried much too far by
prepossessions. He at times makes astonishing statements and neglects
to give the slightest authority or evidence therefor.”

– + =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ja 13 ‘18 880w

=COCHRAN, MRS EVE OWEN.= Wilderness rose; a play in four acts especially adapted for the use of American historical societies and chapters of the D. A. R. (American dramatists ser.) *$1 Badger, R: G. 812 17-10977

A pageant-play designed for amateur production. It tells a story of
colonial New England in the days of the witchcraft delusion. Naomi
Dickinson, a young girl, is accused of witchcraft. She flees from her
native village and finds shelter with friendly Indians. Repentance on
the part of the woman who had cast suspicion upon her and the efforts
of her lover to find her result in her return and a happy ending.

=COCKE, SARAH COBB (JOHNSON) (MRS LUCIAN HOWARD COCKE).= Master of the hills; a tale of the Georgia mountains. *$1.50 Dutton 17-17974

“Mrs Cocke [relates] the adventures of two generations of the old
Georgian family of Warner, whose lives are curiously interwoven with
those of the family of the sturdy mountaineer, ‘Gray Eagle,’ known to
his clan as ‘the Master of the hills.’ The story opens just before the
outbreak of the Civil war, when, after finishing their education in
Europe, the son and nephew of Judge Warner have returned to the little
Georgian university town. ... With them comes the young Marquis de
Layne, whose advent brings about an undreamed-of complication
involving not only the Warners and their friends, but the family of
the mountaineer Gray Eagle.”—Boston Transcript

“The changed conditions in the South, after the war, are well
indicated. And although they are presented from a southern point of
view, they are free from those mannerisms which often make pictures of
the kind valueless. The story is agreeably told, sustaining its quiet
interest to the end.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ag 22 ‘17 250w

“The book proves, if it proves anything at all, that an author may be
fairly truthful in regard to history, geography, and dialect, and yet
completely miss the essential characteristics of a people.”

— =Dial= 63:163 Ag 30 ‘17 80w

“To call it unreal is to insult reality. We marvel most at its finding
a publisher.” Clement Wood

– — =N Y Call= p14 S 2 ‘17 330w

“The author’s style is poor.”

— =N Y Times= 22:286 Ag 5 ‘17 250w

“The book shows immature workmanship.”

— =Springf’d Republican= p15 S 23 ‘17 270w

=COCROFT, SUSANNA.= Growth in silence; the undertone of life. il *$1.50 (5c) Putnam 131 17-25740

A cheerful, demonstrable theory of life underlies these helpful
sermonettes. Women who owe Mrs Cocroft a debt of gratitude for
demonstrating the way to fuller physical perfection will turn with
confidence to what she has to say on the subject of Mental and
physical poise, Happiness, Mental atmosphere, Health, Nerve control,
Freedom of thought, and kindred themes. The philosophy is a philosophy
of optimism which if put into practice develops the harmonies of the
soul, and in turn manifest harmony in the body. A book for both men
and women.

=COESTER, ALFRED LESTER.= Literary history of Spanish America. *$2.50 (2c) Macmillan 860 16-18492

For descriptive note see =Annual for 1916.=

“One pays tribute to the author’s labor, and also to his scholarship.
In his printing of Spanish names and quotations, he is singularly
accurate, only a negligible number of trifling errors having fallen
under the reviewer’s eye. ... It may be that, in the course of his
long poring over South American writers, and his epitomes of their
books, Dr Coester sometimes loses his sense of proportion; is betrayed
into calling a poet great because his admiring fellow-countrymen did
so. But as a whole he keeps his head and his poise.”

+ — =Am Hist R= 23:202 O ‘17 550w

“Mr Coester’s book fills an inestimable place as a guide and
counsellor in this otherwise uncharted study.” T: Walsh

+ =Bookm= 45:318 My ‘17 830w

“A closing chapter on the contemporary Modernista movement is
especially valuable for its appreciation and criticism of the work of
the brilliant Nicaraguan lyric poet, Ruben Darío, who died recently.
Used in conjunction with the author’s bibliography of Spanish-American
literature, published in the Romanic Review, we have here the best
available guide, in English, for the novitiate in this field.”

+ =Ind= 89:457 Mr 12 ‘17 280w

“Devoting some forty pages to what he has called the ‘Colonial period’
of Spanish-American literature, the author exhibits with a wealth of
interesting detail the origins of one of the most fascinating of
literary epochs. The average reader will here find an unexplored mine
of information. He will gain some idea of Spain’s eminence in the
field of literature.”

+ =Lit D= 54:2000 Je 30 ‘17 470w

“Dr Coester is a young Harvard man, corresponding member of the
Hispanic society of America, and author of a ‘Practical Spanish
grammar,’ and kindred text books.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:109 Mr 25 ‘17 770w

“Mr Coester gives a chapter to each country. The average reader is
surprised to learn that there is a school of realistic novelists in
Mexico, which most Americans cannot think of as a literary nation.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Je 24 ‘17 220w

=COHEN, ISRAEL.= Ruhleben prison camp, il *$2.50 (2½c) Dodd 940.91 (Eng ed 17-18379)

Ruhleben is a race course outside Berlin that is now used as a
concentration camp for British civilians. The author was interned
there for nineteen months, from November 6, 1914 to June 6, 1916. He
says, “In the following pages I have endeavoured to set forth as
faithfully as my memory would permit the varied vicissitudes through
which I passed from the outbreak of the war down to my arrival in
London. I have confined myself as much as possible to a record of my
own experiences and observations, supplemented only to a small extent
by the information I gleaned from trustworthy fellow-prisoners.” He
writes of: The act of internment; Rules, regimen, and rumours; The
segregation of the Jews; Administration, discipline, and punishment;
Communal organization; Social amenities and characters; Intellectual
activities, etc.

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:18 O ‘17

“The experiences related have naturally a good deal in common with
those described by Mr Geoffrey Pyke in his book published in February,
1916, but Mr Cohen’s way of meeting troubles and difficulties does not
appear to us to have been so commendable.”

=Ath= p258 My ‘17 43w

=Ath= p346 Jl ‘17 330w

+ =Cleveland= p130 D ‘17 80w

“The whole story is told dispassionately and with a charm of manner
and power of description that make the recital one of the most vivid
and fascinating chapters yet written in the history of the great war.”

+ =Dial= 63:68 Jl 19 ‘17 330w

“It is owing to Mr Cohen’s faculty of conveying these impressions
vividly as well as to his graphic descriptions of external conditions
that his book has such great human interest.”

+ =Nation= 105:44 N 15 ‘17 210w

+ =N Y Times= 22:215 Je 3 ‘17 150w

=Pittsburgh= 22:761 N ‘17 60w

=Pratt= p39 O ‘17 10w

“An accomplished journalist, he has none of the higher gifts of
writing which stir and thrill the heart. Rather he has written a sober
and comprehensive history which will survive as a permanent document
of the war when the brilliant sketches are, perhaps, forgotten. ...
The illustrations are well chosen and serve to complete a remarkably
full book, so thick with detail that it is somewhat difficult to
read.”

+ =Sat R= 123:368 Ap 21 ‘17 1900w

+ =Spec= 118:676 Je 16 ‘17 150w

“Of all the books so far printed about Ruhleben it is the most
complete, though it could not, in the nature of the case, tell all
that there is to be told. It has, no doubt, the defects of its
qualities. ... One must go elsewhere for a study of the effect of too
much barbed wire upon the human mind.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p122 Mr 15 ‘17 1050w

=COHEN, JULIUS HENRY.= The law; business or profession? *$2.50 Banks 340 16-23082

“‘The law: business or profession?’ raises and answers the question of
the ethics of law practice. Mr Cohen finds the case hopeful. He does
not blink the bad reputation which lawyers as a class have gained with
the common people, and he does not assert that it is unjustified by
facts. But he points out a growing spirit within the bar to cleanse
itself of undesirable practitioners, and to keep the law as a
profession free from business entanglements and from corruption
through financial interests.”—Springf’d Republican

“Mr Cohen writes with earnestness and vigor. His plea for the
recognition of the law as a profession and not a business will benefit
every lawyer and layman who reads it.”

+ =Nation= 105:127 Ag 2 ‘17 670w

“It is not to be thought that there is anything local about the book.
It is even broader than the nation, many leading countries being
searched for cases affording a basis for the principles which control
the lawyer’s professional ethics everywhere, and in all times.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:14 Ja 14 ‘17 800w

“Sound doctrine for both the profession and the public.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Je 1 ‘17 270w

=COIT, STANTON.= Is civilization a disease? *$1 (6c) Houghton 302 17-13984

In this essay, presented first at the University of California in the
series of Barbara Weinstock lectures on the morals of trade, the
author uses the term trade in a broad sense to include our whole
system of socialized wealth. Civilization is defined as “the
organization of man’s mastery over nature on a basis of self
interest,” and modern trade is said to disclose civilization in its
acutest form. Civilization, the author points out, is a mushroom
growth. It is already beginning to crumble, and will in time be
superseded by a new order which is already in process of creation. The
title of the little book is suggested by Edward Carpenter’s
“Civilization: its cause and cure.”

“These lectures bear the earmarks of shallow thinking, as well as the
defacements of fulsome expression.” Archibald Henderson

— =Bookm= 46:275 N ‘17 300w

Reviewed by H. M. Kallen

=Dial= 63:445 N 8 ‘17 580w

=Ind= 90:555 Je 23 ‘17 50w

“If the Barbara Weinstock lectures are to be the vehicle for such wild
surmisings as those displayed in ‘Is civilization a disease?’ the
founder’s money might have been put to much better uses.”

— =Nation= 105:350 S 27 ‘17 230w

=R of Rs= 56:327 S ‘17 250w

“Dr Coit is evidently one of those sociological rhetoricians who
preach eugenics in season and out of season. Otherwise he might have
been graciously willing to discuss the very interesting subject
proposed by the foundation of lectures which he was the first to
adorn.”

— =Springf’d Republican= p17 N 18 ‘17 280w

“Dr Coit, in this essay, provides a stupendous idea in tabloid form.”
Bruno Lasker

+ =Survey= 39:201 N 24 ‘17 400w

=COLE, NORMAN BROWN, and ERNST, CLAYTON H.= First aid for boys. il *$1.25 Appleton 614.8 17-14057

“A manual for boy scouts and for others interested in prompt help for
the injured and the sick.” (Sub-title) Contents: A handful of signs;
What to do; Shock and fainting; A little about the blood and more
about bleeding; Sunstroke and heat exhaustion; Concussion, skull
fracture, apoplexy, alcoholic intoxication, and epilepsy; Infection
and “staphy”; Burns and frostbites; Poisoning; Bandages and carries;
Fractures and dislocations; Drowning and artificial respiration; Minor
emergencies. There are fifty-one illustrations from drawings by Walt
Harris. The book is endorsed by James E. West, chief scout executive
of the Boy scouts of America.

“Directions well given and simplified by diagrams.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:64 N ‘17

“Dr Cole and Mr Ernst have been active workers in the scout movement,
and have made their book not only sound technically but adapted
psychologically to the interest of the boy reader. ... Similarly, the
drawings by Walt Harris reinforce the text accurately and
ingeniously.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 20 ‘17 300w

+ =Lit D= 55:59 D 8 ‘17 60w

=Pratt= p20 O ‘17

=COLEMAN, ALGERNON, and LA MESLÉE, A. MARIN.= Le soldat américain en France, map *50c Univ. of Chicago press 448 17-22278

A French reader containing “chapters on France, transports, hotels,
railroads, manners and customs, food, money, army, etc., with a
vocabulary giving the article with all nouns and indicating
pronunciation.”—A L A Bkl

“To be used in connection with either of the University of Chicago
manuals.”

=A L A Bkl= 14:9 O ‘17

“For the green student, this little book would be wholly useless,
unless studied with a teacher. The figured pronunciation, even with
the instructions given would be an unsolvable mystery. ... The verb is
the back-bone of a language; but not a hint is given as to the
inflections. The chapters that follow the elaborate statement of
pronunciation are written in idiomatic French and are a mixture of the
commonplace and the valuable.”

– + =Boston Transcript= p7 S 22 ‘17 220w

=Pittsburgh= 22:693 O ‘17 20w

=COLEMAN, FREDERIC ABERNETHY.= With cavalry in the great war; the British trooper in the trench line. il *$1.50 Jacobs 940.91 A17-1461

“A phase of the fighting on the western front, of which we have known
little, is covered by Mr Coleman in this personal narrative of the
exploits of the British cavalry through the second battle of Ypres.
Some of our readers may recall Mr Coleman’s earlier book entitled,
‘From Mons to Ypres with General French.’ The present volume takes up
the story where its predecessor left it—with the closing days of
1914.”—R of Rs

Reviewed by C. M. Francis

— =Bookm= 46:450 D ‘17 300w

“Mr Coleman’s book is copiously illustrated with excellent
photographic views.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 S 19 ‘17 430w

+ — =Dial= 63:589 D 6 ‘17 150w

=R of Rs= 56:549 N ‘17 150w

=COLERIDGE, STEPHEN.= Evening in my library among the English poets. *$1.25 Lane 821 17-13371

An essay on English poetry, with many quotations. The author says, “I
invite the reader to spend an evening in my library, drawing down a
volume here and a volume there, following no definite order either of
date or subject, guided only by a desire to estimate without prejudice
the quality of the verse.” Among the poems selected for quotation are
many that are not universally known. Among these are a few of the more
exquisite of modern poems. With the radical departures in
verse-making, the author has no sympathy.

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 My 5 ‘17 700w

“This book is rather a personal expression of likes and dislikes in
the field of poetry than a work of genuine criticism, that will have
an abiding value in one’s own library.”

+ — =Cath World= 105:687 Ag ‘17 280w

“The anthology on the whole is fair, and something more than that. It
includes poems from little-known authors, which any reader will be
glad to have brought to his notice. The book leaves an impression in
harmony with its title.”

+ — =Nation= 104:661 My 31 ‘17 300w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:61 Ap ‘17

“A book which definitely assists in the development of literary
taste.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:104 Jl ‘17 70w

+ =Sat R= 122:438 N 4 ‘16 2200w

“A very unconventional anthology, interspersed with some candid
criticism. The modern apostles of ‘force’ like Mr Masefield, and the
late Rupert Brooke, and Francis Thompson in his highly rhetorical mood
are sternly reproved. ... For our part, we could wish that Mr
Coleridge had not included second-rate modern verse like ‘The rosary,’
and that he had hesitated before asserting that Goldsmith’s ‘Deserted
village’ was inspired while Gray’s ‘Elegy’ was not.”

– + =Spec= 17:660 N 25 ‘16 110w

“Some of the poems, too, are worthy of rediscovery and deserve a
popularizing of their merits. But most of them are less unfamiliar
than Mr Coleridge seems to think.”

+ — =Springf’d Republican= p17 Je 24 ‘17 350w

“What are the principles that guide Mr Coleridge in choosing
selections for our improvement and delight? It is not difficult to
discover them. The prize always goes to the poet of finish and
scholarship, who observes the laws of prosody and elevates and refines
the passions, which is Mr Coleridge observes, the ‘true function of
the poet.’ And with this for his standard he moves his poets up and
down like boys in a class. ... Enough has been said, perhaps, to show
that, though we should not allow Mr Coleridge to choose our new poets
for us, he is a very vigilant guardian of the old.”

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p523 N 2 ‘16 850w

=COLLIN, CHRISTEN CHRISTIAN DREYER.= War against war, and the enforcement of peace; introd. by W: Archer. *80c Macmillan 341.1 (Eng ed 17-18476)

“Professor Collin, of Christiania, is one of the most eminent of
Norwegian writers. ... In these eleven essays he writes with much
force in support of the allied cause, and deals effectively with the
utterances on the other side in his own country and in Germany—his
view of the future being that ‘universal peace will be secured not by
disarmament but by joint armament.’”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

“An excellent statement of our cause by a detached observer. ...
Perhaps the most interesting chapter in the book is the essay on
Kant’s ‘Perpetual peace.’ Prof. Collin fixes on the ironical fact that
it was Kant, a German, who first promulgated the idea of the gradual
federation of the free nations of the world into a world-republic.”

+ =Ath= p296 Je ‘17 480w

“Prof. Christen Christian Collin, of the University of Christiania, is
an acknowledged authority upon Greek, Norwegian, French, and English
literature, and an ardent sociologist.”

+ =Ath= p301 Je ‘17 100w

“A very sensible plea for the cause of the Entente Allies.”

+ =Ind= 92:60 O 6 ‘17 90w

=Nation= 105:182 Ag 16 ‘17 100w

“Nearly all of the essays take up the idea of a league of nations as
an outcome of the present war whose function it would be to lessen the
danger of war in the future and perhaps even prevent its recurrence.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:269 Jl 22 ‘17 570w

=Pratt= p39 O ‘17 50w

+ =Spec= 118:616 Je 2 ‘17 120w

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p215 My 5 ‘17 270w

=COLLINS, ARCHIE FREDERICK.= Home handy book. il *$1.10 Appleton 680 17-14069

“A compendium of useful things to do around the average house and how
to keep it in repair.” (Sub-title) The author advises every man to
learn how to do his own repair work on two counts: first, he will save
money, second, he will take pride and pleasure in doing things for
himself. He writes of: Tools everyone should have; Indoor mechanics;
Be your own locksmith; Doing electrical jobs; The amateur plumber; The
handy glazier; The furniture repairer; The home decorator; Handy helps
for the house; Odds and ends.

+ =Pratt= p24 O ‘17 20w

=Quar List New Tech Bks= O ‘17 20w

“Just the thing for the man who likes to ‘putter around,’ or the
growing boy who wishes to make himself handy.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:555 N ‘17 40w

=COLLINS, ARCHIE FREDERICK.= Magic of science. il *$1.25 Revell 530 17-19383

“In ‘The magic of science,’ A. Frederick Collins has compiled, largely
from manuals of his own writing, a book of scientific amusements which
can be performed with simple apparatus. Practical glimpses are
provided into the mystery of light, heat, sound, magnetism and
electricity, and a successful effort is made to set the experiments in
an orderly sequence that should make for the positive instruction of
the youthful experimenter. Many of the processes are already familiar,
but they lose none of their interest from that fact. There are
numerous illustrations.”—Springf’d Republican

“It will interest and spur boys’ curiosity in spite of its
unattractive make-up.”

+ — =A L A Bkl= 14:136 Ja ‘18

“His latest volume deals with scientific facts, novel and delightful
facts many of them, and small boys with average intelligence aged from
eleven to fifteen will read it with eagerness.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Ag 1 ‘17 100w

“We are sorry for the boy who cannot own a copy of this fascinating
book.”

+ =Ind= 91:265 Ag 18 ‘17 30w

=Springf’d Republican= p15 Ag 26 ‘17 90w

=COLLINS, ARCHIE FREDERICK.= Money making for boys. il *$1 (2c) Dodd 658 17-31276

Practical money-making schemes for boys in the country, village or
city based on the best business ethics. The value to the boy is that
the instruction tends to train him to put a value on whatever is sold
that is fair to both customer and to himself. The training itself
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the ingenuity of the boy and helps him direct it into profitable
channels. Contents: Why every boy should make money; Ways a boy can
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service; Getting and doing trade jobs; There’s money in refreshments;
Raising small live stock; In partnership with the earth; Fishing,
hunting and trapping; Making things to sell; Working for other people;
What to do with your money.

=COLLINS, ARCHIE FREDERICK, and COLLINS, VIRGIL DEWEY.=[2] Boys’ book of submarines. il *$1.35 (3c) Stokes 623.8 17-31264

A book for boys, made up of the following chapters: The first of the
submarines; How to make and work a model submarine; How a real
submarine is made and works; The heart of the submarine; Making and
shooting the torpedo; Making the submarine deadlier; The wonderful eye
of the submarine; The marvelous tongue and ears of the submarine; The
crew of the submarine; How the submarine attacks; The new submarine
chasers; The last word in submarines. There are illustrations from
photographs and numerous figures and diagrams.

“A book that is a help to the understanding of war news.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:591 D 23 ‘17 30w

“A splendid book for the boy who is interested in boats and
mechanics.”

+ =R of Rs= 57:215 F ‘18 190w

=COLLINS, CHARLES WALLACE.= National budget system. *$1.25 (4½c) Macmillan 351.73 17-20555

“This work is an attempt to show in as brief a compass as possible
what the budget system is, why it is said to be needed for the United
States, and what adjustments could possibly be made short of a
constitutional amendment to secure its adoption. ... The writer has
attempted, even at the risk of the loss of scientific technique, to
make this exposition readable. The work is not intended to be original
or exhaustive. ... In the preparation of this work the author has used
portions of an article of his, ‘Constitutional aspects of a national
budget system’ in the Yale Law Journal for March, 1916, and another,
‘The coming of the budget system’ in the South Atlantic Quarterly for
October, 1916.” (Preface) A short list of authorities is appended.

“The intricacies of national finance are not easily expressed in
simple terms but the author of the present volume set out to do this
and on the whole he has succeeded. This is not because he has evaded
or glossed over the difficulties but because he first explains with
sufficient detail just how each of the great countries prepares its
financial program for the year and then indicates where our own
short-comings are. His criticism of the American system is incisive
and to the point, but not overdone.”

+ =Am Pol Sci R= 11:791 N ‘17 120w

+ =Cath World= 106:257 N ‘17 450w

“On the whole the argument presented is excellent, but some of the
difficulties which would be involved under our present system of
federal government are passed over with slight or no consideration.”

+ — =J Pol Econ= 25:1058 D ‘17 230w

“Mr Collins’ book is a distinctly valuable contribution. It contains
little original material. All the data he uses lay undigested in the
forbidding tomes of committee reports, statutes and treatises on
political science. But, except for Professor Ford’s ‘Cost of our
national government,’ little of this has been predigested for popular
consumption. Mr Collins’ book is more up to date, has a wider sweep
and contains more definite proposals for change, while it avoids even
more successfully the pitfalls of technical lingo and involved
exposition.” Evans Clark

+ =N Y Call= p14 O 21 ‘17 1450w

+ =N Y Times= 22:483 N 18 ‘17 1250w

“Public finance is generally a dry subject, but Judge Collins has
managed with rare ability to make his volume interesting and
comprehensive. It should appeal to the ordinary reader as well as to
students. Not the least interesting part of the work is the author’s
description of the various budget systems of foreign governments.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 O 14 ‘17 250w

“This compact little book admirably fulfils the purpose of its author.
Much stress is properly laid upon the history and budget practice of
Great Britain and while all that the author says in praise of the
English budget system is true, he has missed the significance of the
treasury as a great independent department of administration or
business management. He has likewise failed to call attention in his
references to authorities and sources for further study of budget
systems to the remarkable collection of literature on this subject
edited and published by the New York Bureau of municipal research.” S:
M. Lindsay

+ — =Survey= 39:266 D 1 ‘17 300w

=COLLINS, FRANCIS ARNOLD.= Air man. il *$1.30 (4c) Century 629.1 17-21113

The conquests of the air man in peace and war are told by the author
of “The camera man,” “The wireless man,” etc. The opening chapter on
Learning to fly describes and compares the methods of teaching in use
in America and in France, and enumerates the requisites for obtaining
an American flying license. Other chapters are: The aero-sportsman,
Aero-exploration and adventure; Aerial transportation; Embattled
air-fleets; Air duels; American airmen under fire; The chivalry of the
air. The final chapter, American air forces, tells of what has been
accomplished in, and is planned for, aviation in America.

“A book to arouse enthusiasm and confidence in aviation.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:44 N ‘17

Reviewed by C. H. P. Thurston

=Bookm= 46:286 N ‘17 30w

“With its interesting text and graphic illustrations from over fifty
photographs, ‘The air man’ ranks among the extremely few books upon
aviation that appeal to the average American who wants the thrill of
its story free of the dry-as-dust of equations and diagrams.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p9 N 24 ‘17 240w

“Of interest to boys and adults.”

+ =Cleveland= p103 S ‘17 20w

=Nation= 105:349 S 27 ‘17 540w

“Mr Collins’s book is very opportune, and the fact that it is so well
done, gives so comprehensive a view of the general subject of
aeronautics and of what has been already accomplished therein and is
written with accuracy, although it is not too technical for the
ordinary reader, will help to give it the popularity it deserves.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:294 Ag 12 ‘17 800w

=COLUM, PADRAIC.= Mogu, the wanderer; or, The desert; a fantastic comedy in three acts. *$1 Little 822 17-8575

Padraic Colum has been closely associated with the Irish dramatic
movement, but in this play he leaves his native Ireland to write a
drama of the East. The scene is laid in Persia. Mogu the wanderer is a
beggar from the desert who at one stroke of fate is elevated to the
viziership, made second in power to the king. By an equally sudden
chance he is restored to his former lowly position, to return to his
desert a beggar.

“Full of authentic oriental color.”

+ =Dial= 62:445 My 17 ‘17 210w

“On the stage, when properly presented in accordance with Mr Colum’s
directions, it would make a remarkable picture. There is,
unfortunately, in the early act an element of uncertainty as to how
far the imagination is to play a part in the development of the plot,
as to where the audience is to be serious or not, that somewhat
confuses the dramatic action.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:168 Ap 29 ‘17 160w

“The play is fascinating and it presents a new phase of Mr Colum’s
dramatic invention. The key to this phase is in his volume of poems,
‘Wild earth.’”

+ =R of Rs= 55:441 Ap ‘17 210w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 My 20 ‘17 280w

=COLVIN, IAN D.= Unseen hand in English history. *7s 6d National review office, London (Eng ed 17-25264)

“Mr Colvin’s ‘Unseen hand in English history’ is a continuation of his
book ‘The Germans in England.’” (The Times [London] Lit Sup) “He
reviews the chief events of English history since the Tudors with the
object of showing what the traditional English policy is.” (Sat R)
“The bulk of the book is a plea on not very novel grounds for a
protective system, or, as he ... prefers to call it, ‘national
industry.’” (The Times [London] Lit Sup)

“The book is not history: it is not even good honest fiction. It is
simply a pamphlet decked out with an apparatus of learning. ... It is,
however, well worth perusing as a study of Jingo psychology. Mr
Colvin, whose incisive style may be recognized in the leading columns
of the Morning Post, [draws] his ideas not from Britain, but from
Berlin.”

— =Ath= p399 Ag ‘17 570w

“The book is well worth reading. A lively style, adroit selections, an
instinct for contemporary sources and authorities, distinguish Mr
Colvin from most of our professional historians, who fear they will
lose their name for science if they cease to be dull. ... He argues
strongly for a tariff, and he chooses the best arguments for his
case.”

+ + — =Sat R= 124:50 Jl 21 ‘17 780w

“Mr Colvin is too much in the grip of Germany.”

— =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p302 Je 28 ‘17 1050w

=COLVIN, SIR SIDNEY.= John Keats; his life and poetry, his friends, critics, and after-fame. il *$4.50 Scribner 17-30270

“Besides presenting for the first time in full and consecutive detail
the history of Keats’s life and poetical activity, the new book
discusses with a fullness which has not hitherto been attempted his
relations both to his Elizabethan masters and some of his Victorian
followers, and relates the slow and gradual growth of his fame after
his death. It moreover throws, with the help of various illustrations
from prints, pictures, and the antique, new light on some of the
sources of his inspiration; and aims at calling up the circle of his
friends in their human lineaments about him, as well as at making felt
the various and conflicting currents of the critical and poetical
atmosphere amid which he lived.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

“A scholarly, full and connected account.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:127 Ja ‘18

“Sir Sidney Colvin, in this fine reassortment of the facts of Keats’s
life, seems to us to be insufficiently content with Keats’s actual
performance. He is eager to introduce an ethical nobleness into the
portrait such as certainly is not reflected in Keats’s greatest
poetry.”

+ — =Ath= p664 D ‘17 1400w

“This careful, thorough, tactful, and exhaustive work renders obsolete
all previous expressions of opinion upon Keats; it deserves, indeed,
to be labelled with the final word, ‘definitive.’ If this monumental
volume is, in any way, disappointing to the present commentator, it is
only because Sir Sidney Colvin—actuated by his trained and careful
sense of literary values—has avoided sedulously many manifest
temptations to assert and to insist upon the prime importance of his
hero. And, to my mind Sir Sidney says, if anything, too little in
praise of Keats.” Clayton Hamilton

+ — =Bookm= 46:609 Ja ‘18 1550w

“A biography to which the very name and chronicle of the subject could
not help but add its atmosphere of charm; but it is not a ‘life’ of
Keats, because the biographer gets too near his subject without
getting inside of it. It is always in the negative qualities of Keats,
both as a man and poet, that Mr Colvin is best in his biographical and
critical treatment.” W. S. B.

– + =Boston Transcript= p7 D 8 ‘17 2050w

“It is a book to read with delight; better still, it is a book that
compels one to turn back and reread the poet himself.” W: C. Greene

+ =Dial= 64:64 Ja 17 ‘18 1050w

“Until some chance discovery of fresh material antiquates it, this
must remain the standard authority upon Keats, as accurate as patient
scholarship can make it, and interesting to all scholarly and
unscholarly lovers of poetry.” P. L.

+ =New Repub= 13:219 D 22 ‘17 1500w

“The author’s monograph on Keats in the English men of letters series,
published thirty years ago, has heretofore been the chief authority
upon his life, character, and achievements, but compared with the
full-length portrait, complete, detailed, and authoritative, presented
in this volume, the other makes of him hardly more than a sketched
vignette. It is a notable and distinguished piece of biographical
writing that is worthy to be classed among the great biographies of
English literature.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:542 D 9 ‘17 1950w

“Manifestly a labour of love, this admirable work, illuminated
throughout with thorough knowledge and fine critical acumen, deserves
to take high rank in the select company of kindred classics. But the
book is not only of absorbing interest as a masterly presentment of
the poet and his work; it also teems with vivid studies of the circle
in which he lived.”

+ =Sat R= 124:440 D 1 ‘17 1550w

“A special feature of the book is the remarkably full treatment of the
sources of his inspiration in literature. Another strong point is the
helpful interpretation of the obscurities of Keats’s symbolism, with
the result of enabling the reader to form a truer estimate of
‘Endymion’ than was before possible. And if the book has been a labour
of love, it is love which is ‘this side idolatry.’ There is plenty of
severe criticism of Keats’s lapses from good taste and clear
thinking—his amorous mawkishness, his lax phrasing, and infelicitous
coinages. Sir Sidney Colvin is scrupulously fair in his handling of
Keats’s critics; if he lets himself go about Byron, the provocation is
irresistible.”

+ =Spec= 119:601 N 24 ‘17 2050w

“In a book that is itself a poem, so fine and true is its penetration,
so full and sensitive its expression, Sir Sidney Colvin has assembled
all the essential, one is tempted to say the quintessential, facts
relative to the poet Keats.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p13 Ja 20 ‘18 800w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p425 S 6 ‘17 260w

“The new matter adds light and shade to the already vivid portraits of
the poet and his friends, and examines his art more closely, both in
itself and in its relation to the development of English poetry as a
whole. In its pages the life and character of Keats stand out clear in
all their subtle and tragic beauty.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p573 N 29 ‘17 3550w

Complete United States infantry guide; arr. by Major J. K. Parsons. il *$6 Lippincott 356 17-21916

This volume, for officers and noncommissioned officers, is said to
include all the War department publications relating to the infantry
arm of the service. It is profusely illustrated with charts and
diagrams.

“In this very formidable volume is all information required to make
the infantry soldier efficient. His convenience will surely be served
by this opportunity to learn what must be learned from one work,
instead of being compelled to familiarize himself with twenty-five
books.”

+ =Lit D= 55:48 D 1 ‘17 150w

“This encyclopedic volume should be in every military man’s library.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:442 O ‘17 80w

“The material is well selected and arranged and the book contains a
detailed index. The only difficulty results from the size of the
publication with its 2074 pages.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Ag 9 ‘17 200w

=COMSTOCK, DANIEL FROST, and TROLAND, LEONARD THOMPSON.= Nature of matter and electricity; an outline of modern views. il *$2 Van Nostrand 530.1 17-8751

“This is a book on the modern physics of matter intended for the
general reader and written without mathematics. The authors have
collaborated by writing different parts of the book. A large number of
topics are presented to the reader in semi-popular form. The treatment
is descriptive, aided by diagrams and chemical formula groupings, and
technical terms have been avoided as far as possible. Part 1 is
divided into eleven chapters on the following topics: Introductory,
the ultimate realities, atoms and their behavior, the nature of heat
and allied phenomena, the electron and its behavior, electrons,
chemical action and light, electrons and magnetism, radio-activity,
the structure of the atom, recent discoveries concerning atomic
structure and radiation. Part 2 deals briefly in turn with fifty-six
subjects and in a manner somewhat more advanced than that of part
1.”—Elec World

=Elec World= 70:24 Jl 7 ‘17 170w

=N Y Br Lib News= 4:76 My ‘17

=St Louis= 15:326 S ‘17

=COMSTOCK, MRS HARRIET THERESA.= Man thou gavest. il *$1.35 (2c) Doubleday 17-11705

The story opens in the southern mountains. Here Conning Truedale has
come to regain his health, and here he meets little Nella-Rose. The
witch-like, mountain child fascinates him, and the marriage vows they
exchange under the open sky are as sacred to him as they are to her.
Then he goes away, promising to return. He keeps his promise and is
stunned to learn that the girl has married her outlaw lover and gone
away over the mountains. This is what he is told, and believing it, he
goes back to New York and in time marries. But the mountain people had
been mistaken about Nella-Rose. She had been in hiding, waiting for
the man she called her husband to return and for her child to be born.
This child, “Lil’ Ann,” later comes into the lives of Conning Truedale
and his wife, Lynda.

“The fatal weakness in this story is not its artificiality of plot and
excess of emotion so much as the hollow elaboration of its characters.
We might have enjoyed the romance if the author had not tried to make
it a vehicle of realism.” H. W. Boynton

— =Bookm= 46:208 O ‘17 380w

“Southern mountain dialect as it is not spoken is amply illustrated in
Miss Comstock’s latest tale of involved heart interest.”

— =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 20 ‘17 200w

“The primitive life and character of the mountains are forced into the
office of pointing up and giving a sort of exotic relish to an
essentially and even conventionally ‘modern’ story. Against an action
artificially contrived, the figure of Nella-Rose stands out with a
good deal of vigor and clarity.”

+ =Nation= 105:317 S 20 ‘17 310w

“As a whole the characters, like the tale, belong to melodrama.
Ingenuity is shown in the management of the incidents which separate
Truedale and Nella-Rose and some of the descriptions are well done.”

– + =N Y Times= 22:218 Je 3 ‘17 200w

=CONNOLLY, JAMES.= Labour in Ireland; with an introd. by Robert Lynd. *4s Maunsel & co., London (Eng ed 17-25871)

“Although James Connolly acted for many years in connection with the
extreme Socialistic party in Scotland, the United States, and Belfast,
it was not until the Dublin strikes of 1913 that he attracted much
attention from the English public; and even then he was overshadowed
in the popular judgment by the more spectacular ‘Jim’ Larkin. When the
strikes collapsed he passed again out of general notice except in
Dublin, where it was known that the nominal second-in-command of the
Irish transport workers’ union was the real contriving head and
driving-force of the movement. ... When the Sinn Fein rebellion broke
out in Easter week of 1916, he appeared as Commandant-General of the
Dublin division.’ ... The present volume is made up of reprints of two
of his works, ‘Labour in Irish history’ and ‘The reconquest of
Ireland.’ The first and more elaborate of the two is based on the
thesis that the key to the secret of Irish history is the exploitation
of the poor by the rich. ... The second part of the volume depicts, in
the darkest colours, the condition of the working class in Dublin and
Belfast at the present day.”—Spec

“Given the point of view, the book is ably and not intemperately
written. The author fairly admits difficulties in his theory—such, for
example, as the inefficiency of local administration in Dublin, where
the machinery of government is controlled by a democratic body
democratically elected. His bias appears more in his selection and
suppression of facts than in his presentment of them; he thinks he
does well to be angry. But if you write history remembering only the
severities used to restore law and order, and forgetting or justifying
the outrages which provoked them: approving of force when used against
the rich, and condemning it when used against the poor; assuming as a
matter of course that a man of property always and necessarily acts
from the basest of interested motives—you may produce a very vivid
picture, but it will not bear much relation to the events and men it
professes to portray.”

=Spec= 118:702 Je 23 ‘17 1000w

“‘Labour in Ireland’ cannot be overlooked by any one interested in
Irish problems.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p221 My 10 ‘17 800w

=CONNOLLY, JAMES BRENDAN.= Running free. il *$1.35 (2c) Scribner 17-24272

This volume includes ten stories of the sea or of seamen ashore,
copyrighted 1913-17 by Charles Scribner’s sons, 1912-17 by P. F.
Collier & son, 1916 by the Curtis publishing company. “A bale of
blankets” is a story of American naval life; “The strategists” and
“Breath o’ dawn” are naval romances, with the fleet in the background.
Other stories are: The weeping Annie; The bull-fight; Peter stops
ashore; The sea-birds; The medicine ship; One wireless night; Dan
Magee: white hope.

“Ten live sea stories told with humor and pathos.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:59 N ‘17

“In all these brief, sometimes sketchy, but always effective
picturings of life, the one sure, detectable Connolly touch is the
signet-ring stamp of individuality. And it is an individuality born of
the sea and of a deep, passionate, unalterable love of the sea.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 N 10 ‘17 290w

“The wind whistles vigorously through Mr Connolly’s pages; they drip
with brine; and the threatening face of death frequently interrupts
the grim humor of the old salts. This good, clean, virile book, like
the others that preceded it, will help to keep his fame afloat.”

+ =Cath World= 106:412 D ‘17 120w

“Sensationalism is absent, but there is humor, human appeal and the
real salty flavor.”

+ =Cleveland= p132 D ‘17 40w

“The author is unhappy in the choice of the first story to appear in
this book. ... But Mr Connolly is at home in the succeeding stories.
They are strong, and the sharp tang and clean breath of the sea are
beside the reader till the book is finished. Perhaps ‘Seabirds’
contains more real character than the others, but ‘One wireless night’
is the story of the book.”

+ — =New Repub= 13:sup14 N 17 ‘17 100w

“‘Running free’ is devoid of sensationalism, free from melodrama. ...
You will find a crowd of thoroughly human and humorous,
unsentimentalized men of the sea. ... There is heroism as well as
humor in these stories, but it is an unassuming, casual sort of
heroism.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:365 S 30 ‘17 600w

“The frequent assertion that romance disappeared from the sea with the
advent of steam vessels is abundantly disproved in the ten short
stories of ‘Running free.’ In spite of the apparent absence of
artificial color, the stories are dramatic and thrilling.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 D 2 ‘17 490w

=CONNOR, RALPH, pseud. (CHARLES WILLIAM GORDON).= The major. il *$1.40 (1c) Doran 17-30122

The motif of Mr Connor’s story is one whose patriotic climax and
poignant cadence echo in the souls of millions of men and women the
world over today. Canada furnishes the scene and the characters, but
the sentiment portrayed belongs to the whole wide world at war. The
hero is a fine type of manhood, the best that countries can produce.
He passes thru the period of bewilderment and misery, which thousands
have gone thru, when the burden of his thought is, “that great people
upon whose generous ideals and liberal Christian culture he had
grounded a sure hope of permanent peace, had flung to the winds all
the wisdom, and all the justice, and all the humanity which the
centuries had garnered for them, and following the primal instincts of
the brute, had hurled forth upon the world ruthless war.” Then came
the succession of events chief among which were the Belgian
atrocities, which kindled slowly in the hero’s heart the purpose to
have a part in ridding the earth of a system that could produce such
horrors. Many a young man will read in these pages his own reactions
to the call to the colors.

“The story-teller is successful in welding all his material into the
substance of a spirited romance.” H. W. Boynton

+ =Bookm= 46:603 Ja ‘18 380w

=Nation= 105:667 D 13 ‘17 410w

“While Mr Connor’s new novel cannot be said to amount to much as a
story, the picture of Canada in the early days of the war with which
it concludes is quite interesting.”

– + =N Y Times= 22:556 D 16 ‘17 300w

“The story has the directness and ‘punch’ of earlier Ralph Connor
books. It has also a sound and deep patriotic spirit.”

+ =Outlook= 117:614 D 12 ‘17 50w

“It is almost startlingly ingenuous at times, but as a whole vigorous
and life like.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p638 D 20 ‘17 140w

=CONRAD, JOSEPH.= Shadow line; a confession. *$1.35 (3½c) Doubleday 17-12955

The shadow line marks the boundary between youth and maturity. Its
approach is heralded by extreme boredom, weariness and
dissatisfaction. It is a time of rash actions—getting married suddenly
or throwing up one’s job without reason. The young seaman who is hero
of this tale of the Malay Archipelago leaves his ship on a sudden
impulse, intending to take passage for home. While idling about in an
eastern seaport, opportunity comes his way and he finds himself
captain of a sailing vessel whose master had but recently died. He is
in command of this ship for twenty-one fever-ridden and ghost-haunted
days, and at the end of his voyage he finds that the boundary line has
been crossed. Youth lies behind him.

“Gives somewhat the same sense of the power of the sea and the wonder
of human nature as ‘Youth’ and ‘The typhoon.’”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:402 Je ‘17

“The atmosphere and the portraiture are masterly, but the book seems
to us more the elaboration of a short story than an actual novel.”

+ =Ath= p253 My ‘17 90w

“The subtitle, ‘A confession,’ may lead us to surmise that the tale
may be bound with special closeness to Mr Conrad’s own experience.” H.
W. Boynton

+ =Bookm= 45:536 Jl ‘17 480w

“Nothing written by Mr Conrad during his twenty years of fame as a
maker of English fiction is more characteristic than ‘The shadow
line.’ It is an epitome of his manner and a summary of his method.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 My 5 ‘17 1450w

“For Conrad, ‘the most unliterary of writers,’ is no more nor no less
unliterary than Meredith or Swinburne or Shakespeare. No other
writer—I do not except the poets—has a richer variety of verbal
resource or uses his power with more careful command.” J: Macy

+ =Dial= 62:442 My 17 ‘17 700w

+ =Ind= 90:437 Je 2 ‘17 130w

+ =Lit D= 55:36 O 27 ‘17 290w

“The tale is quite straightforward, with a sort of breathless
simplicity and candor. ... It is told by a master.”

+ =Nation= 104:760 Je 28 ‘17 730w

“Indeed, it might fairly be offered as a ‘first degree’ for the novice
seeking initiation into the Conradian mysteries. The menace and the
glamour of his ocean are here, the humanly strange yet strangely human
atoms with which it plays.” H. W. Boynton

+ =Nation= 105:600 N 29 ‘17 100w

“Mr Conrad has given us two superb pictures of courage.” Q. K.

+ =New Repub= 11:194 Je 16 ‘17 730w

“About ‘The shadow line’ there is an extraordinary atmosphere of
beauty. ... It is a beauty deeper than mere words go.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:157 Ap 22 ‘17 1700w

“‘The shadow line’ is as vivid and as haunting as ‘The ancient
mariner.’ What is more, it is thoroughly real and profoundly true.”

+ =No Am= 205:949 Je ‘17 700w

+ =Outlook= 116:116 My 16 ‘17 70w

“This is a story for the present times, a gospel searching down into
the hearts of men to awaken their potentialities in this period of
world disaster and send them forth to fight valiantly against their
ill-luck, their muddling and mistakes, and to bear with consummate
courage the heavy responsibilities thrust upon them.”

+ =R of Rs= 55:663 Je ‘17 250w

“For Mr Conrad the great object of love and enthusiasm is the ship
which he came to know so intimately in his twenty years of seamanship.
On the title-page [of the English edition] of this book is the
sentence, ‘Worthy of my undying regard,’ and underneath stands no
human name, but a ship with sails set. Here once more Mr Conrad shows
that he loves a ship as a lover does his mistress, and so his latest
book is an essential piece of himself, a return to earlier triumphs.”

+ =Sat R= 123:281 Mr 24 ‘17 950w

“Mr Conrad’s new sea story may best be described as a Conradian
version of ‘The ancient mariner.’ ... The volume is the first of a new
‘Conrad library,’ including several of his previous novels, but we
cannot share the publishers’ satisfaction with the ‘specially
attractive binding’ prepared for the series. Messrs Dent have deserved
so well of the public in this respect that they must not complain if
they are judged by their own high standard.”

+ =Spec= 118:391 Mr 31 ‘17 720w

“It is books of this kind that earn for Conrad the epithet
‘Philosophic adventurer,’ and quicken one’s hope that he may be the
chosen artist to achieve the final synthesis of realism and romance,
toward which modern fiction has so long and uncertainly evolved.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 My 27 ‘17 400w

“The serene assurance of the imagination which is the outcome of all
the finest work of Mr Conrad’s genius is here broken and uncertain.
The moral over-balances the story. That deepest meaning which haunts
the solemn beauty he has created, simply because, it may be, it has
been pursued too consciously or too familiarly, has all but eluded
him.”

+ — =The Times= [London] Lit Sup p138 Mr 22 ‘17 1000w

=CONRADI, ALBERT FREDERICK, and THOMAS, WILLIAM ANDREW.= Farm spies; how the boys investigated field crop insects. il *50c Macmillan 632 16-19964

“This is a collection of brightly written, well-illustrated
‘story-articles’ on various common injurious insects of North America,
designed to catch the attention and enlist the sympathies of ‘boys and
girls and those persons who know nothing about insects and how to
fight them.’ Among the pests described are the cotton boll-weevil and
root-louse, chinch-bugs, grasshoppers, and the black corn
weevil.”—Nature

“For fifth or sixth grade.”

=A L A Bkl= 13:130 D ‘16

“Points in the breeding and feeding habits that bear on farm practice
are often cleverly emphasised, and some of our British students might
be well occupied in compiling for the home country a somewhat similar
work.” G. H. C.

+ =Nature= 99:23 Mr 8 ‘17 250w

=N Y Times= 22:165 Ap 29 ‘17 50w

=CONWAY, AGNES ETHEL.= Ride through the Balkans; on classic ground with a camera; with introd. by Sir Martin Conway. il *$1.75 (3½c) Sturgis & Walton 914.96 (Eng ed 17-10195)