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A novel story told in the fashion that best suited a woman traveler,
who with another traveler of her own sex, in the months immediately
succeeding a bloody war, wandered unescorted thru regions but recently
disturbed, and met with kindness and hospitality at the hands of the
people. Instead of an exhaustive treatment of objects of interest in
the towns visited we find in the short chapters crisp, informing bits
of history, description and comment that stand out with the definition
of a photograph. The cities which occupy the leisurely tourists are
Athens, Corinth, Constantinople, Salonica, Tempe, Thessaly, St Luke of
Stiris, Delphi, Mistra and Sparta, Megalopolis, Bassæ, Yanina,
Cettigne, Scutari and Dalmatia. The book is beautifully illustrated
from photographs.

“An ordinary narrative of travel, with plenty of human interest.
Certain of the views leave something to be desired in regard to
clearness of detail.”

+ — =Ath= p254 My ‘17 80w

“Miss Conway’s book is very good reading, and all too brief.”

+ =Spec= 118:441 Ap 14 ‘17 150w

“The work is lightly written, and archæology, which was the
inspiration of the journey, is left in the background, as is explained
in an excellent introduction by Sir Martin Conway; but it will appeal
to the Antikajis, even amid their martial labours, as well as to the
ordinary reader.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p46 Mr 29 ‘17 470w

=CONWELL, RUSSELL HERMAN.=[2] Observation:—every man his own university. il *$1 (3c) Harper 374 17-26979

By the author of “Acres of diamonds” this book is sent out “to induce
people to look at their own eyes, to pick up the gold in their laps,
to study anatomy under the tutorship of their own hearts.”
Observation, the writer believes, is the key to success. This key is
viewed in the light of a prized possession and the reader points the
way to using it intelligently. Contents: Observation—the key to
success; Who the real leaders are; Mastering natural forces; Whom
mankind shall love; Need of orators; Woman’s influence; Every man’s
university; Animals and “the least things”; The bottom rung; Home
reading; Thoughtfulness; Instincts and individuality; Women; Musical
culture; Oratory; Self-help; Some advice to young men.

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:148 F ‘18

=CONWELL, RUSSELL HERMAN.= What you can do with your will power. *50c (6c) Harper 174 17-9814

The author says, “The message I would like to leave with the young men
and women of America is a message I have been trying humbly to deliver
from lecture platform and pulpit for more than fifty years. ... The
message is this: Your future stands before you like a block of
unwrought marble. You can work it into what you will. Neither
heredity, nor environment, nor any obstacles superimposed by man can
keep you from marching straight through to success, provided you are
guided by a firm, driving determination and have normal health and
intelligence.”

=A L A Bkl= 13:373 Je ‘17

=Pratt= p5 Jl ‘17 30w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 Jl 8 ‘17 130w

=CONYNGTON, THOMAS.= Corporate organization and management. $5 Ronald 347.1 17-24990

Mr Conyngton’s two earlier books “Corporate management” and “Corporate
organization,” published respectively in 1903 and 1904, have been
revised and combined into one volume by Miss Helen Potter of the New
York bar. “All duplicated and obsolete material has been deleted, and
the volume as a whole has been brought sharply up to date. While this
has been done, no necessary material has been omitted, all the
valuable features of both volumes being retained.” (Preface) In its
present form the work is made up of five parts: The corporate system;
Corporate organization; Corporate management; Special corporate
topics; Forms and precedents. The volume is indexed.

=St Louis= 15:341 S ‘17 20w

=COOK, ARTHUR LEROY.= Interior wiring and systems for electric light and power service. il *$2 Wiley 621.31 17-7827

“This book is intended as a guide to modern practice in electric
lighting and power applications, and in the design and installation of
the wiring for such purposes.” (Preface) It has been written
particularly for electrical workers but is also adapted for use in
schools. The author is head of the department of applied electricity
at Pratt institute. The book is made up of three parts: Electric
lighting systems; Electric power systems; Interior wiring.

“Valuable to electric workers occupied with only interior wiring,
industrial works, office buildings, or dwellings. Covers this subject
more fully than Croft.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:115 Ja ‘18

=Cleveland= p109 S ‘17 20w

“Examples illustrate each step. Of particular value to the electrical
worker are the many diagrams of connections, illustrations of
electrical apparatus and fixtures, curves and tables.”

+ =Elec World= 69:1268 Je 30 ‘17 150w

=N Y Br Lib News= 5:76 My ‘17

“Practical and free from troublesome mathematics. A wealth of clearly
expressed and definite information and instruction compressed into a
volume of pocket size.”

+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p8 Ap ‘17 120w

“‘Treatment of lighting is especially good. ... Principles of
illumination are taken up in a clear and concise manner. The
thirty-three pages on calculation of illumination are eminently suited
for the busy architect and contractor. ... The characteristics and
advantages of various types of motors are given. Control devices are
well treated. ... The chapter on selection of motors is good. ...
Interior wiring forms the last section. ... A very useful feature is
the chapter on examples of actual wiring systems.’”

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:448 My ‘17 130w (Reprinted from Electrical Age
p56 Ap ‘17)

=Pittsburgh= 22:658 O ‘17

+ =Pratt= p17 Jl ‘17 40w

+ =Quar List New Tech Bks= Ap ‘17 130w

=St Louis= 15:364 O ‘17 20w

=COOK, CARROLL BLAINE (DIXIE CARROLL, pseud.).= Lake and stream game fishing; with an introd. by James Keeley, and a foreword by Jack Lait. il $1.75 (3c) Stewart & Kidd 799 17-20655

This book, by the president of the American anglers league, conveys
much practical instruction in matters of fresh-water angling. It
includes “Stories of big fish as told by their captors”; “One hundred
questions and answers on tackle, fish and fishing”; and “Poems of the
water trails,” by Albert Jay Cook. There are ten full-page
illustrations.

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:48 N ‘17

“More useful than many recent books on angling in that it gives minute
and specific instructions, some of them intended for the mere novice,
some valuable to the experienced sportsman. A student of Walton is
tempted to the cynical remark that the English is what might be
expected of a man who favors self-thumbing and self-spooling reels;
but this doubtless betrays a hopelessly old-fashioned taste in both
tackle and literary style.”

+ — =Dial= 63:408 O 25 ‘17 130w

“Doubtless the novice who wishes to learn how to catch pike or bass in
Wisconsin streams and lakes will get more out of Dixie Carroll to that
immediate end than he could extract in any available allowance of time
from Izaak Walton. But slang is a vehicle of expression all too easily
overworked.”

+ — =Nation= 105:229 Ag 30 ‘17 430w

=Pittsburgh= 22:654 O ‘17

“Conceived in the spirit of Izaak Walton but actually written in the
modern vernacular of the disciples of the rod and reel. A delightful
book to read if you do not fish. The amusing introduction is by Jack
Lait.”

+ =R of Rs= 56:333 S ‘17 50w

=COOK, SIR THEODORE ANDREA.= Mark of the beast. il *5s Murray, London 940.91 17-13490

“The author’s object in collecting and arranging the facts marshalled
in this book is to drive home the lesson that an inconclusive ‘peace
with the German empire will be a disastrous defeat.’ The three main
subjects are ‘German kultur,’ ‘German history and diplomacy,’ and
‘German atrocities.’ The prophecies of Bernhardi, the work of Col.
Frobenius, and similar pronouncements, are submitted to illuminative
criticism; the tortuousness and duplicity of German diplomacy are
described at length; together with the appalling events at Louvain,
Aerschot, Audenne, Dinant, &c.” (Ath) The illustrations are
reproductions from Holbein’s “Dance of death.”

“As a cumulative indictment of German methods this work is impressive
and of deep gravity.”

=Ath= p106 F ‘17 100w

+ =Sat R= 123:87 Ja 27 ‘17 870w

“Our chief criticism of this book is that Sir Theodore Cook is not
dealing quite fairly with his readers, for a very brief examination is
sufficient to show that a considerable portion of it has already been
republished in book form. Page after page of this work is identical
with a large part of his previous book, ‘Kaiser, Krupp, and kultur,’
including the quotations with which each chapter is headed; and of
this fact no warning is given to the reader.”

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p56 F 1 ‘17 650w

=COOK, SIR THEODORE ANDREA.= Twenty-five great houses of France; the story of the noblest French chateaux; with an introd. by W. H. Ward. (Country life lib.) il *$16 Scribner 728.8

“Sir Theodore Cook is an enthusiast for certain phases of French
architecture, and he knows his subject. He is also an assiduous
student of the romance of history, and he has given the results of his
researches and wanderings in France in this handsome and attractive
volume.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup) “The author has described houses
ranging in character from the citadel of a royal borough to the
country seat of a minister of state, from a great fortified monastic
establishment on its wind-swept cliff to a substantial burgher’s
residence in the heart of a great city. In date the houses described
range over five centuries.” (N Y Times)

“The splendid page, the open type, the broad margins, the host of full
page plates and the greater host of cuts of details make this study by
T. A. Cook a thoroly delightful and valuable work on the chateaux.”

+ =Ind= 88:411 D 4 ‘16 110w

“To architects and students of architecture and to all who have looked
upon the noble buildings that made France lovely, even before the war
had revealed her heroic soul, this book has an irresistible
appeal. ... The text conveys a clear idea of the characteristic
architecture of the buildings to even those readers who lack special
knowledge of this subject, and the 380 illustrations are a joy to the
eye.”

+ =N Y Times= 21:512 N 26 ‘16 150w

=Pittsburgh= 22:39 Ja ‘17 20w

“Sir Theodore Andrea Cook is the best of guides, for he is equally
interested in history and in architecture. The letterpress exactly
reflects in this respect the fascination of the châteaux.”

+ =Spec= 117:833 D 30 ‘16 1550w

“Sir Theodore Cook is always sympathetic, sensitive to impressions,
tolerant, and eminently readable, even if he sometimes loses touch of
his critical sense in his full-blooded enthusiasm for all the
pageantry of the past. But his chief concern is with people, with
those who owned and those who lived in these great houses, rather than
with the humble artist who designed them.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p5 Ja 4 ‘17 1600w

=COOKE, JOSEPH BROWN.= Baby, before and after arrival; intimate talks with prospective mothers in plain, non-technical language. il *$1 Lippincott 618.2 16-23365

“This book deals chiefly with the mother, before and after the baby’s
arrival, and the title is therefore somewhat misleading. Recent
statistics would seem to indicate that child-bearing is still quite
hazardous. ... While infant mortality has been reduced almost 50 per
cent within the last generation, the death rate of child-bearing
mothers has remained stationary. Dr Cooke points out that, while the
medical profession is chiefly to blame for this state of affairs, the
public is responsible for a good many impediments it has put in the
way of the conscientious physician in the scientific performance of
his duties. He details the essential facts about pregnancy and
childbirth, and indicates the necessity for cooperation between
physician and patient.”—N Y Call

“Written in not too technical language, adapted for mothers and
nurses. ... It is blunter than Slemons and not so full as Davis.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:294 Ap ‘17

“The entire problem is treated by the author in a practical and
sensible fashion.” Medicus

+ =N Y Call= p14 F 18 ‘17 200w

“‘In many ways it is an admirable presentation. ... It is encouraging
to find another straightforward, thoroughly scientific popular book on
the subject of childbearing.’” D. R. Mendenhall

+ =Pittsburgh= 22:334 Ap ‘17 30w (Reprinted from Journal of Home
Economics p144 Mr ‘17)

=COOKE, MARJORIE BENTON.= Cinderella Jane. il *$1.35 (2c) Doubleday 17-11703

By day Jane Judd cleaned studios in the Washington Square
neighborhood. By night she devoted herself to the art of letters. For,
unknown to the “Studio colony,” Jane had not only ambition, but
ability of a rare order. Jerry Paxton, for whom she had worked for six
years, had never taken any notice of Jane. To him she was a quiet,
undemonstrative, domestic woman—the ideal wife for a popular society
painter, unhappily beset by the women who fell victim to his charm.
Unexpectedly Jerry asked Jane to marry him, and she accepted.
Interesting developments follow; Jane’s first novel is published, and
Jerry, who believes that a woman’s one career should be her husband,
finds himself married to a woman who is famous. Their adjustment is
the substance of the latter half of the story.

“Will be popular. Appeared in the American Magazine.”

=A L A Bkl= 13:449 Jl ‘17

“The truth is, genius apart, Jane is a rather tiresome and irritating
person—to the male observer, at least.” H. W. Boynton

— =Bookm= 45:534 Jl ‘17 500w

“The plot is admirably worked out, with a surprise in every
chapter. ... Jane is the super-woman type, a trifle too calm to be
human. But she is an excellent girl and teems with lessons. Besides,
she finally learns a few for herself.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 25 ‘17 280w

“One is not sure about ‘Cinderella Jane.’ The writer is so set upon
being modern, so enthusiastic about the current doctrine of marriage
as a mutually free state, that she strains the point at the expense of
her Jane and her husband.”

=Nation= 104:737 Je 21 ‘17 380w

“The best part of the book consists of the remarks made by Jane and
the author regarding women’s careers and economic position, and in
these there is nothing which will not prove entirely familiar to any
one who has given any attention to these subjects.”

=N Y Times= 22:166 Ap 29 ‘17 330w

=Spec= 119:741 D 22 ‘17 30w

“The theme is now a common one, but the qualities that made this
author’s ‘Bambi’ so pleasing to many are here in even greater
measure.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p19 Je 10 ‘17 350w

“A novel of New York life, with a good deal of the unabashed emotional
appeal one expects from so representative an American writer as the
author of ‘The girl who lived in the woods.’”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p602 D 12 ‘17 130w

=COOLIDGE, ARCHIBALD GARY.= Origins of the Triple alliance. (Univ. of Virginia, Barbour-Page foundation) *$1.25 (3½c) Scribner 940.9 17-20014

This volume is based on three lectures given before the University of
Virginia, in 1916, by Professor Coolidge of Harvard university,
“pointing out the causes, personal and international, that led to the
formation of the alliance. The author disclaims having made any
startling discoveries or any new theories; his object is to set out
the interplay of political forces, the aims of statesmen, and the
aspirations of peoples in Europe after the Franco-Prussian war as an
indispensable study for anyone who wishes to understand even in a
superficial way the causes that have brought about the present
world-conflict.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup) Two appendices give the
terms of the Austro-German alliance and the terms (so far as known) of
the Triple alliance.

“Its outstanding merit is lucidity of presentation and in this respect
the book, considering its small compass and the involved nature of its
subject, is a model of exposition. The ordinary student would have
been grateful for a list of authorities other than the few referred to
in the sparse footnotes.”

+ — =Am Hist R= 23:430 Ja ‘18 470w

“Short but adequate and very lucid account of the origins of the
Triple alliance.”

+ =Ath= p520 O ‘17 170w

“The book is of general interest just now, when especial need is felt
of a readable and accurate account of the political forces at work
among the central European powers following the Franco-Prussian war.”
L. E. Robinson

+ =Bookm= 46:272 N ‘17 350w

=Cleveland= p138 D ‘17 40w

=Ind= 91:475 S 22 ‘17 170w

“Though Professor Coolidge modestly disclaims having made any
startling discoveries, his little volume is probably the clearest,
sanest, and most objective brief account of the most important
permanent results of European diplomacy between 1866 and 1882. Its
value lies in the discriminating judgment, based on wide reading and
personal acquaintance, with which he handles such elusive questions as
the war scare of 1875, the personal relations between the old Kaiser
and the Czar, and the devious motives of Bismarck, Gortchakov, and
Andrássy. ... Professor Coolidge has also been wise in giving an
unusually full analysis of the Russian and Balkan factors in the
origins of the Triple alliance. These have ordinarily been much less
appreciated than the Italian and French elements.”

+ =Nation= 105:223 Ag 30 ‘17 650w

“It is pleasant to recognize a book in which Bismarck as a statesman
is not, if the expression may be used, melodramatized out of all
lifelikeness.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:383 O 7 ‘17 500w

=Pittsburgh= 22:678 O ‘17

“One of the best books to help one understand how the present way came
about.” P. B.

+ =St Louis= 15:353 O ‘17 30w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p395 Ag 16 ‘17 90w

=COOLIDGE, DANE.= Rimrock Jones. il *$1.35 Watt 17-13184

“‘Rimrock’ is a young Arizona prospector, possessing all the vices and
virtues of his kind—the magazine and moving-picture kind. He discovers
a fabulously rich copper mine. A young woman stenographer gives him
her small savings to assist in establishing his claim, in return for
which he gives her a one per cent interest in the property. He
interests an eastern capitalist, but past experience has taught him to
be wary of surrendering his control. Eventually, a fault develops in
his filing and a man jumps one of his claims. Jones kills the man and
is jailed. Until he is acquitted the girl watches over his interests,
but afterward he becomes infatuated with an eastern woman, follows her
to New York and there pursues a round of dissipation and seriously
involves himself in disastrous stock speculation. In the meanwhile,
the fault in his mining claim once more crops up in Arizona. This the
girl uses to advantage in bringing him to his senses.”—Springf’d
Republican

“The story is vigorously written, as beseems its subject, and will
especially appeal to those acquainted with mining manipulations.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:274 Jl 22 ‘17 120w

“It is a breezy story of its kind, and its rapid action creates a high
degree of interest.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p15 Ag 19 ‘17 220w

=COOLIDGE, LOUIS ARTHUR.= Ulysses S. Grant. il *$2 (1c) Houghton 17-4331

“No man who ever gained enduring fame was more the sport of chance
than Grant,” says his biographer. “No character in history has
achieved supreme success in war or the supreme reward of politics who
owed less to his own ambition or design. ... He was the child of
splendid opportunities which came to him unsought, for which he never
seemed to care, and which he met with calm assurance of his own
capacity.” It is a well-written work based on trustworthy sources and
it treats adequately of what the author calls Grant’s two distinct
careers, devoting more space than is usual to Grant’s presidency.

“Mr Coolidge has used the best books relating to the subject, and
particularly everything personally relating to Grant, except the
material in the Civil war records. He has not, however, familiarized
himself with recent monographic literature, or with the economic and
social movements of the time, which emphatically influenced Grant’s
career, although they left his personality untouched. ... He seems
also not to possess a sufficient background of military knowledge to
give force to his military criticism. Grant, however, both man and
boy, by quotation and incident, stands out more clearly than in any
previous account. ... The study of Grant in some respects is apt to
prove final.” C. R. Fish

+ =Am Hist R= 22:885 Jl ‘17 1150w

“General King and Mr Edmonds devote but a small portion of their books
to Grant’s life after the close of the Civil war. While not an
absolutely necessary biography, would be of use as viewing Grant from
this angle.”

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:351 My ‘17

“The more important and distinctive part of Mr Coolidge’s work lies in
the last third of it. ... Scant justice is done to the character of
Carl Schurz in this review of Grant’s life. ... Mr Coolidge’s book
fails to achieve its evident purpose to set Grant among the few great
presidents; it was not needed to place him among the country’s
greatest soldiers.” H. S. K.

=Boston Transcript= p8 F 7 ‘17 900w

“Mr Coolidge presents an informing and, on the whole, judicial account
of Grant’s presidency. The student of our history knows that this is
no easy task. One of the best features of this excellent biography is
the liberal quotation from Grant’s letters and state papers, written
in that simple and forceful style which proceeded from his integrity
and strength of character.”

+ =Dial= 64:76 Ja 17 ‘18 630w

+ =Ind= 91:34 Jl 7 ‘17 60w

“If it cannot be said that Mr Coolidge’s biography altogether explains
the man Grant and his career, ... he has nevertheless narrated the
events of a difficult historical period with a skill which gives to
the present generation a rapid and comprehensive account of much with
which it should be acquainted, while older persons familiar with the
story can read it once more with renewed interest.”

* + =Nation= 104:759 Je 28 ‘17 1350w

“The biography, while it embodies in quotation or paraphrase all that
is most significant in Grant’s narrative, has abundant freshness and
vitality of its own: it is written with more than a touch of
eloquence. Not merely because of its fullness and accuracy, but also
through its literary qualities—its virility and incisiveness—it is not
unworthy to stand beside the ‘Memoirs’ as a companion piece.”

+ =No Am= 205:803 My ‘17 1150w

“It comes just short of 600 pages, as long as a one volume biography
can afford to be, and a study of its proportions reveals good judgment
on the part of the author. ... The value of the volume is enhanced by
the portraits, seven of Grant alone, one in a group of officers: all
but one of these are from the collection of Frederick Hill Meserve of
New York and some of them have not hitherto been published. Five of
them are of the soldier, one of the president, two of the veteran.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Jl 20 ‘17 430w

=COOMARASWAMY, ANANDA KENTISH.= Buddha and the gospel of Buddhism. il *$3.75 (3½c) Putnam 294 A16-1519

For descriptive note see Annual for 1916.

=A L A Bkl= 13:240 Mr ‘17

“There is nothing scholarly about this book; as a contribution to
scientific knowledge, it is nil. Its accounts of the legendary life of
Gautama and his teaching, the discussions of the contemporary
religious systems of India and of the later developments of Buddhism,
as well as the concluding chapters on Buddhist art, are all a
hotch-potch of quotations from modern scholars. ... If one wishes to
get a general view of Buddhism, he will do better to turn to any
popular manual, say the one by Mrs Rhys Davids in the Home university
library, which is far better than the present work, and only costs
one-seventh as much. ... The book is confessedly a work of propaganda.
As an argument for Buddhism, it is not particularly convincing.”

— =Dial= 62:405 My 3 ‘17 750w

“We have many expositions of Buddhism, but few possess either the
charm or the forcefulness of this.”

+ =Lit D= 54:913 Mr 31 ‘17 320w

“This book, dealing, as it does, very largely with metaphysical
speculations, is, of course, not very easy reading. But the author’s
style is admirably clear. It is illustrated with a number of fine
plates, some in color, others in black and white.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:357 S 23 ‘17 500w

=St Louis= 15:47 F ‘17

“The author’s previous work and his peculiar fitness to write
authoritatively on this subject should go far to recommend this book
for serious consideration by all students of the Buddhist religion.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p6 Mr 12 ‘17 300w

=COOPER, CLAYTON SEDGWICK.= Brazilians and their country. il *$3.50 (3c) Stokes 918.1 17-29767

The writer contends that in a period when territorial barriers are
being so rapidly dissolved and when national and social conditions are
being so deeply stirred by the greatest human conflict of all ages,
isolation and localism are no longer possible for any thoughtful
person. He offers this contention as an apologia for a North
American’s presumption in writing about a South American people.
Contents: Mental hospitality; Brazilian traits; Portugal and Brazil;
The Brazilian empire; The orientalism of Brazil; Republican
government; A leviathan country; Education; Brazilian home life; The
triumph of the engineer; Seeing Rio de Janeiro by tramway; Electric
energy transforming Brazil; The racial melting pot; In the land of the
Paulistas; The awakening of southern Brazil; Trade and transportation;
Outdoor sports and lotteries; Rio de Janeiro, city of enchantment;
Bahia, old and bizarre; Paranagua; Pernambuco and Central Brazil; Para
and the rubber workers of the Amazon; The Brazilian Indian; Languages,
libraries and literature; Brazil’s army and navy; The Latin American
view of North Americans; The newspaper as an international medium;
Brazil’s tomorrow.

“We have as a result a history with science, observation and
experience combined in a really valuable volume.” T: Walsh

+ =Bookm= 46:606 Ja ‘18 110w

“The frequent comparisons between North American and South American
ways of looking at life and of carrying on the business of living are
always interesting and ought to prove useful to all business men,
especially young men, who hope to enter into trade relations with
South America.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:579 D 30 ‘17 360w

“Exceptional among serious descriptive works in being readable as well
as full of useful information. A business man with South American
trade in the back of his mind might well invest in this book. It gives
a striking picture of our great southern neighbor and ally.”

+ =Outlook= 117:519 N 28 ‘17 50w

+ =R of Rs= 57:219 F ‘18 60w

=COOPER, ELIZABETH (MRS CLAYTON SEDGWICK COOPER).= Heart of O Sono San. il *$1.75 (3½c) Stokes 17-28073

The heart of O Sono San is not only the heart of every Japanese girl,
but the heart of woman the world over. The customs, the ceremonies,
the superstitions and traditions that dominate the environment in
which O Sono San is reared are those which now stifle, now strangely
quicken the development of Japanese women. From babyhood to motherhood
we follow her. In her maturity when she gives her boy to her country,
while she lives thru the uncertainties and terrors of the struggle for
Japan’s life, when her boy falls serving his country, she rallies from
the staggering blow with the heroism that is no more Japanese than
French, English, German or American. It is the old Spartan heroism of
universal womanhood. The illustrations are excellent reproductions in
duo tone from photographs.

+ =A L A Bkl= 14:130 Ja ‘18

“The author’s ‘The lady of the Chinese court yard’ was an interesting
piece of work. It was brilliant, but not so fine as ‘The heart of O
Sono San,’ because the latter book possesses rare ethical and
spiritual beauty.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:578 D 30 ‘17 770w

“If the illustrations do not always illustrate the accompanying text,
they are in themselves exquisite. The book is worth owning.”

+ =Outlook= 117:510 N 28 ‘17 50w

=COOPER, JAMES A.= Cap’n Abe, storekeeper; a story of Cape Cod. il *$1.25 (1½c) Sully & Kleinteich 17-14190

Louise Grayling decides suddenly to spend the summer on Cape Cod with
an uncle she has never seen, Cap’n Abram Silt. She finds Cap’n Abe to
be a mild and peaceful old gentleman who for many years has
entertained his neighbors with tales of the wild adventures of his
seafaring brother, Cap’n Amazon. Louise has never heard of this
brother and is amazed to learn that she has another uncle. There are
others, too, who have begun to express polite doubt as to his
existence. So to silence these doubters, Cap’n Abram arranges for the
appearance of Cap’n Amazon. His own disappearance is coincident with
the arrival of the swarthy-skinned, black-haired, red-turbaned seaman
who can be no other than the legendary captain. The village accepts
the stranger at his face value but is sorely puzzled to know what has
become of the gentle Cap’n Abe. The reader will anticipate Louise in
guessing the secret, but the curious villagers are kept in doubt for
some time.

+ =A L A Bkl= 11:26 O ‘17

“Mr Cooper is to be credited with some ingenuity of plot and with
holding concealed until almost the closing chapter a climax which can
fairly claim originality. ... There is a conventional love romance in
the book.”

=Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 11 ‘17 250w

“If your last trip to the Cape has lost any of that delicious odor of
clams and seaweed that clung even to your shoelaces, you can get a new
whiff of it here, with a great deal of pleasure.”

+ =Dial= 63:354 O 11 ‘17 100w

“The sea and the seafolk give the breezy atmosphere which makes it
pleasant reading for a summer’s day.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:258 Jl 8 ‘17 130w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p13 Je 17 ‘17 220w

=COOPER, LANE=, ed. Concordance to the works of Horace. pa $7 Carnegie inst. 874 16-20920

“With this monumental volume a great labor of love on the part of the
professor of the English language and literature in Cornell university
has been finished, and a new and advanced position in the progress of
classical scholarship has been gained. ... The text on which the
‘Concordance’ is based is that of Vollmer’s ‘Editio maior’ of 1912.
Contrary to the usual practice, Mr Cooper has maintained a purely
alphabetical sequence in the arrangement of Horatian forms, as, for
instance, ‘sum, eram, esse, fui,’ etc., rather than listing all these
under the basis of ‘sum’ or ‘esse.’ The advantage of this plan is that
the student can at once detect the presence or absence of any given
form in Horace. The work is a concordance and not a mere index. Each
word is quoted in connection with a whole line (or more if necessary)
of its context, which makes it possible, not only instantly to
identify the passage, but also to study the word or phrase in question
without turning it up in the original text. ... Mr Cooper has issued
with the ‘Concordance,’ for the benefit of those engaged in a similar
task, a list of instructions for preparing the slips used in the
compilation of this great work.”—Class J

“We, who up to date have had no index to Horace except those of the
Zangemeister-Bentley type, works ill printed and out of print at that,
will have constant cause for gratitude to Mr Lane and to his
‘Maecenas,’ the Carnegie institute of Washington, for his scholarly,
handsome, and entirely usable volume. It is a royal octavo, on heavy
durable paper, printed with type unusually large and clear for such a
work.” F. J. Miller

+ =Class J= 63:609 Je ‘17 530w

“To review a concordance exhaustively one must have thumbed it in long
service. I have tested this one only by rapid reading of a hundred
pages selected at random. I have observed no misprints and no
instances of unintelligent or misleading delimitation of the excerpts.
They are always so made as to indicate sufficiently the metrical, the
grammatical, and the substantive context. ... An interesting page of
the preface describes the method by which the forty-five thousand
slips were prepared by eighteen collaborators.” Paul Shorey

+ =Class Philol= 12:311 Jl ‘17 450w

=COOPER, LANE=, ed. Greek genius and its influence. *$3.50 (2½c) Yale univ. press 913.38 17-29847

Select essays and extracts that interpret the life and genius of
classic Greece. The work aims to supply “a part of the necessary
background for the study of Greek and Latin masterpieces, ... and to
stimulate and rectify the comparison of ancient with modern
literature.” The characterizations of the Greek race which are
assembled here have special interest for students of literature, and
the writer hopes, for the geographer and anthropologist. A penetrating
study of the traits of the Greek race, at its best, furnishes an
introduction to the volume. He finds the Greek the most versatile and
evenly developed of any race nature has brought forth; they were
religious and intellectual; remarkable was their scientific interest
in human conduct. The writer, who is professor of the English language
and literature in Cornell university, offers the volume as a stimulus
to the study of standard English translations of the classics.

“Certainly the reading is good reading, for the whole two hundred odd
pages. Only—and one must ask it—why isn’t it edited?” H. B. Alexander

+ — =Dial= 64:63 Ja 17 ‘18 1250w

“While this book lacks the unity that a single authorship would
compel, it is none the less abundant in interest and in wisdom.”

+ =Educ R= 55:78 Ja ‘18 80w

=COOPER, LENNA FRANCES.= How to cut food costs. il 75c Good health pub. 641 17-19175

“In this little book, the director of the Battle Creek sanitarium
school of home economics gives a popular explanation of a balanced
diet and provides a guide to the selection of low cost foods. It
contains a large number of recipes and a list of economical menus for
ten days. The seasonal factor in food economy is brought out, and the
part played in cost by transportation and selling charges illustrated
by telling examples. The emphasis is laid on wise buying rather than
waste in the kitchen which, so far as working class households are
concerned, is apt to be exaggerated by the critics.”—Survey

=Cleveland= p131 D ‘17 40w

+ =Ind= 91:353 S 1 ‘17 70w

“The book closes with a complete bibliography on kindred subjects.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p17 O 28 ‘17 140w

“Though this book cannot take the place of verbal instruction and
practical demonstration in the education of the less educated
housewives, it may be recommended as a trustworthy manual for those
already interested in the subject.” B. L.

+ =Survey= 39:73 O 20 ‘17 130w

=COPPING, ARTHUR E.= Souls in khaki; with a foreword by General Bramwell Booth. *$1 (2c) Doran 940.91 17-17990

“Mr Copping’s book presents a series of pictures of his personal
investigations into spiritual experiences and sources of heroism in
the English army. [With the assistance of the War office and the
Salvation army] he visited the training camps in England, went to
France, tarried in the hospitals, went through the trenches, was under
fire, talked with numberless soldiers, whole and wounded, spent much
time in the Salvation army huts, and everywhere made it his chief
purpose to find out what quality it is in the British soldier that
enables him to face calmly and smilingly the horrors and the perils of
battle. It is his conclusion that at the front ‘the spirit is supreme
and the flesh subordinate,’ and he bears witness to what so many other
observers have noted, the reality of religious faith among the
soldiers.”—N Y Times

=Ath= p420 Ag ‘17 100w

“In spite of the incessant and aggravating recurrence of
adjectives—‘piteous’ seems to appear upon every other page—the writer
has achieved a very readable war book and one that ought to find a
place in the libraries of our Sunday schools.”

+ — =Bib World= 50:375 D ‘17 380w

“Chatty and interesting but marred by occasional sentimentality.”

+ — =Cleveland= p118 N ‘17 40w

“It is a chatty and very readable little book and shows in a graphic
way how spirit can rise above material conditions and make them
contribute to its own good, no matter how abhorrent they may be. And
that is something that ought, just now, when our own men are soon to
be in the trenches, to be a consoling message to Americans.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:261 Jl 15 ‘17 330w

“The book is full of stirring anecdotes of heroism and exalted
Christian service. It is well put together and is free from any
suspicion of special pleading. Mr Copping has done his best to get at
the facts. His material is fresh and, in the main, convincing.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Ag 1 ‘17 280w

=CORBETT, JULIAN STAFFORD.= England in the Mediterranean [1603-1713]. 2d ed 2v *$5 Longmans 942.06

“‘Once to grasp the Mediterranean point of view is to be dominated by
its fascination,’ wrote Julian S. Corbett a dozen years ago in the
preface to his admirable work on ‘England in the Mediterranean,
1603-1713.’ He went on to give the first satisfactory account of that
important bit of English naval and political history by which England
first established her sea-power within the Pillars of Hercules,
occupied for a while Tangier, and finally fixed her unshakable hold on
the Rock of Gibraltar.”—Nation

“Today the Mediterranean is more than ever the ‘Keyboard of Europe,’
and the history of the seventeenth century strategists who secured it
for England must always be of deep historic interest. Some of the
episodes discussed in the book are ‘Sir Walter Raleigh,’ ‘England and
the Venice conspiracy,’ ‘The navy under James I,’ ‘The Spanish
succession,’ ‘Marlborough and the navy,’ and ‘The congress of
Utrecht.’”

+ =Cath World= 105:539 Jl ‘17 320w

+ =Ind= 91:187 Ag 4 ‘17 40w

“With unusual success he has kept the complicated politics of the
period in close relation to the naval history. With their readable
style and their sense of the romance of the sea in its embodiment in
English sea-fighters, Mr Corbett’s volumes are again welcome.”

+ =Lit D= 54:1428 My 12 ‘17 280w

“The great war, which has again centered men’s minds on England’s
sea-power and her position in the Mediterranean, has called forth a
second edition of Professor Corbett’s authoritative story of those
small beginnings in the seventeenth century. It is reprinted in
smaller format, but otherwise there is no change from the first
edition.”

+ =Nation= 104:553 My 3 ‘17 140w

=CORBETT-SMITH, ARTHUR.= Retreat from Mons. il *3s 6d Cassell & co., London 940.91 (Eng ed 16-22253)

“The book deals with Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien’s corps more than with
Sir Douglas Haig’s, and even on its own ground does not attempt a
connected narrative. It gives us specimen episodes in the fighting;
but these are so well chosen that they do in effect convey to us an
accurate idea of what the whole strategical issue was.” (Spec) “Much
of the book is anecdote: stories of heroism; stories of the
irrepressible humor of the British soldier; stories of the capture and
summary execution of German spies.” (The Times [London] Lit Sup) On p.
xi-xvi the roll of honour of the First expeditionary force is given.

“He is particularly skilful in describing individual feats and
incidents.”

+ =Ath= p486 O ‘16 40w

“If we were asked how to get the best idea of the early fighting by
our small but immortal Expeditionary force, we would say: Read Lord
Ernest Hamilton’s book, ‘The first seven divisions,’ for the facts,
and Major Corbett-Smith’s book, ‘The retreat from Mons,’ for the
spirit.”

+ =Spec= 117:585 N 11 ‘16 1800w

“He gives us one of the most graphic accounts which we have read of
the German mass attacks at Mons.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p471 O 5 ‘16 900w

=CORBIN, THOMAS W.= Marvels of scientific invention. (Marvels ser.) il *$1.25 Lippincott 608 17-4604

“Some of the ‘Marvels of scientific invention’ are collected in this
interesting account by Thomas W. Corbin. The subjects include guns,
torpedoes, the use of high explosives on farms, submarines, protection
in mines, smelting, freezing, color photography, and electrical
testing. These inventions and their uses are told in a pleasant
fashion and their scientific aspects are described accurately in
non-technical language.”—Nation

+ =A L A Bkl= 13:336 My ‘17

=Nation= 104:346 Mr 22 ‘17 60w

=N Y Br Lib News= 3:189 D ‘16

=St Louis= 15:363 O ‘17 30w

“Mr Corbin’s book is briefer than Mr Talbot’s, and covers a smaller
range. On the other hand, it has an index, and it goes more fully into
the chemistry and science of the subject.”

=Sat R= 122:sup10 D 9 ‘16 150w

“On the whole Mr Thomas W. Corbin achieves considerable success. But
he is not entirely free from mistakes in fact.”

+ — =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p612 D 14 ‘16 120w

=Wis Lib Bul= 13:154 My ‘17 30w

=CORCORAN, TIMOTHY=, comp. State policy in Irish education, A. D. 1536 to 1816; exemplified in documents collected from lectures to postgraduate classes. *$2 Longmans (Eng ed E17-153)

“The professor of education in the National university has printed a
series of documents illustrating the chequered history of Irish
education, hampered for centuries by racial, linguistic, and religious
differences. The first of them is Henry VIII’s admonition to Galway
‘that every inhabitaunt within the saide towne indevor theym selfe to
speke Englyshe,’ and it is characteristic. ... Dr Corcoran’s
historical introduction, written from the Roman Catholic standpoint,
is instructive, but the documents tell their own tale.”—Spec

+ =Educ R= 54:95 Je ‘17 70w

“It has been necessary to point out that Dr Corcoran mutilates or
omits important documents—a practice which might be further
illustrated from this book. But, notwithstanding this, all students of
Irish history will be grateful for what he has given them. To much of
it, no doubt, the criticism which has been made does not apply.” E.

* + – =Eng Hist R= 32:309 Ap ‘17 650w

=Spec= 117:sup533 N 4 ‘16 140w

=CORIAT, ISADOR HENRY.= What is psychoanalysis? *75c (5½c) Moffat 131 17-10883

This little book consists of questions and answers on psychoanalysis.
Such general questions as, What is psychoanalysis? Where and under
what conditions did it originate? Can psychoanalysis be harmful? What
is the cause of certain failures in psychoanalysis? are answered
together with many more specific questions relating to definite
neurotic ills. The author is first assistant visiting physician for
diseases of the nervous system, Boston city hospital, and he has
written other books on “Abnormal psychology,” “The meaning of dreams,”
etc.

“A straightforward clear exposition of the general procedure of
psychoanalysis and of the technical terms that have arisen in
connection with it.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 My 12 ‘17 470w

+ =Ind= 91:512 S 29 ‘17 40w

“Dr Coriat answers questions that have been in the minds of many
persons. All this information is presented in simple terms quite
within the understanding of persons of ordinary intelligence.”

+ =N Y Times= 22:432 O 21 ‘17 60w

=CORKERY, DANIEL.= Munster twilight. *$1 (2c) Stokes

A collection of Irish tales possessing all of the qualities we have
now come to associate with things Irish, mysticism, pathos, poetry and
humor of the sort that is more grim than jovial. Six of the stories
are grouped together under the title The cobbler’s den. They are the
stories drawn from the reminiscences of a group of cronies who come
together nightly in the cobbler’s shop.

=N Y Times= 22:202 My 20 ‘17 270w

“Whether he has been influenced by the study of Gorky and others of
this violently depressing school of realists we cannot say. It may be
merely an unconscious convergence, but the resemblance is sufficiently
striking. ... Mr Corkery has put nearly all his gloom in the van, a
method to be deprecated on prudential grounds, for while it may
impress the critic who admires strong meat, it is apt to choke off the
plain and gentle reader, especially at the present time. But we
recommend the reader to persevere, for he will be rewarded.”

+ — =Spec= 118:109 Ja 27 ‘17 1200w

“Not all of these stories are violent or harshly humorous. Some are
warm and tender, with a deep, queer insight into the hearts of old and
gentle and afflicted people.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p19 Ja 11 ‘17 500w

=CORNELL, ERA.= Above Cayuga’s waters; comp. by the editors of the Class of 1917. il $1 Cornell era, Ithaca, N. Y. 378 16-19647

A selection of articles and poems that have appeared in the Cornell
Era since its founding in 1868 to the present day. It has been the
policy of the magazine to obtain for publication articles by prominent
men on all phases of college life. “As a result,” says the preface,
“the bound copies of the Era, covering nearly fifty years, are a
storehouse of articles valuable for all who may be interested in that
wonderful phenomenon, the American university.” With few exceptions
the authors of the selections are either Cornell graduates or members
of the Cornell faculty. Among those represented are Andrew D. White,
Goldwin Smith, David Starr Jordan, Hugh Black, Arthur Brisbane, Norman
Hapgood, Dana Burnet, Liberty Hyde Bailey, and Jacob Gould Schurman.

“This little book will have interest not only for all Cornellians,
graduate as well as undergraduate, but also for many others who busy
their minds much or occasionally with the problems of student life and
the relations between that life and the world life.”

+ =N Y Times= 21:576 D 31 ‘16 550w

“The book has little general appeal, but is valuable to students
because of its treatment of their problems, and to Cornell men because
of the memories it preserves.”

=Springf’d Republican= p19 My 20 ‘17 200w

=COSMOS, pseud.= Basis of durable peace. *50c (1c) Scribner 940.91 17-3465

A series of articles written for the New York Times in November and
December, 1916. As a starting point the author examines statements at
that time recently made by the German chancellor and the British prime
minister. Finding the two statements strikingly similar in outward
appearance, he discusses the meaning of such expressions as “rights of
small nations,” “freedom of the seas,” etc., from both the German and
the British points of view. He discusses further the principles of the
new international order that may be established after the war and the
place of the United States in it. Victory for the Allies is the first
essential for a durable peace. The second is the stamping out of the
military ideal, not in Prussia alone, but in all the countries of the
world. “The spirit and the point of view which manifest themselves in
militarism, in the subordination of civil to military authority and
policy, and in the setting of right below might, must be driven out of
the hearts and minds of men. ... The basis of sound international
policy will be found in sound domestic policy, and in sympathy with
equally sound domestic policies in other lands.”

“The writer who offers his work under the title of Cosmos, and who is
undoubtedly ex-President William H. Taft, has given us probably the
sanest discussion of the terms of peace that the nations must agree
upon at the close of the war. The articles show sound judgment and as
far as the settlement of the war is concerned, great practicability.”

+ =Cath World= 106:111 O ‘17 250w

“Much information clearly and briefly given.”

+ =Ind= 89:362 F 26 ‘17 40w

+ =N Y Times= 22:29 Ja 28 ‘17 800w

=Pratt= p36 Jl ‘17 40w

“One of the ablest expositions of the subject that has appeared in
small compass. Much less technical than Lafontaine’s ‘The great
solution.’” L. A. Mead

+ =Survey= 38:553 S 22 ‘17 290w

=COULT, MARGARET=, ed. Letters from many pens. (Macmillan’s pocket American and English classics) *25c Macmillan 826 17-7948

“Miss Coult has followed a plan of her own in selecting the letters,
and her collection is variously lively, informing and inspiring. It is
an admirable book for use in schools. ... There is a group devoted to
chat about home matters, another group of letters from young people to
their elders and another of letters from grown people to children
(including some of Phillips Brooks’s and Lewis Carroll’s), a group of
letters addressed to strangers, a long collection of sketches from
many lands, a section about tastes and a group of letters expressing
emotions. A capital group is that of ‘Other times, other manners,’
which runs from classical times through the 18th century.”—Springf’d
Republican

“While the educational use of the work is perhaps most important, many
persons will find it profitable and delightful for casual reading.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p10 My 18 ‘17 190w

=COUPERUS, LOUIS MARIE ANNE.= Twilight of the souls; tr. by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos. *$1.50 (2½c) Dodd 17-25859

This is the third of a series of four novels, “The book of the small
souls.” It carries on the story of the various branches of the Van
Lowe family. Ernst becomes temporarily deranged, Gerrit, the “healthy
brute” of a soldier, who figures largely in this volume, has a severe
illness; suffering and death come also to other of the Van Lowes, and
the “family group” that “Mamma” van Lowe has tried so hard to hold
together, seems to be breaking up. Constance, who, in the two
preceding volumes, has been passing through a period of spiritual
evolution, and has reached “the happiness of accepting one’s own
smallness ... and of not being angry and bitter because of all the
mistakes ... and of being grateful for what is beautiful and clear and
true,” has a bitter disappointment when her son, Adriaan, tells her
that he cannot carry out his parents’ long cherished plan and enter
the diplomatic service, because he has become absolutely convinced
that he should be a doctor. But the mother understands, forces down
her disappointment and encourages her boy to follow his deepest
conviction.

“It is a depressing chapter in the family history, yet not without its
glimmer of happier light. Constance sees it as that atom, that ‘grain
of absolute truth and reality’ which even small souls may possess, and
may impart to others.” H. W. Boynton

+ =Bookm= 46:488 D ‘17 600w

“The general tone is pessimistic but it is remarkable in its human
sympathy and has touches of fine idealism.”

+ =Cleveland= p2 Ja ‘18 150w

“In ‘The twilight of the souls’ Mr De Mattos translates with his
accustomed skill the third of those linked ‘Books of the small souls’
in which the Dutch realist Couperus has embodied so searching and
sympathetic an interpretation of human nature and of modern life.”

+ =Nation= 105:514 N 8 ‘17 350w

“Among the three volumes of the series which have now appeared, this,
the third, ranks second in merit, above ‘The later life’ and below the
‘Small souls.’ This because, while very much better in every way than
the former, it has less variety than ‘Small souls’ and less of
inevitability.”

+ — =N Y Times= 22:446 N 4 ‘17 1050w

=COURVILLE, E. H.=, comp. Autograph prices current. *25s E. H. Courville, 25 Rumsey Road, Brixton, London, S. W. 017

“The records in the volume are stated to have been extracted from the
catalogues of about sixty-five days’ sales, and to represent a sum of
more than £35,000. Among the entries we notice autograph letters of
Rossetti, Swinburne, Sir Walter Scott, Samuel Johnson, R. L.
Stevenson, Louis XIV, Napoleon, Washington, and others. ... Numerous
quotations from letters are embodied in the text.” (Ath) The
compilation is to be published annually and is “a complete
alphabetical and chronological record of all autograph letters,
documents, and manuscripts, sold by auction in London, with the date
and place of sale, name of purchaser, and price of each lot: together
with a comprehensive reference index.” (Sub-title). Sales from August,
1914 to July, 1916, inclusive, are comprised in this first issue.

+ =Ath= p425 S ‘16 140w

“His scholarly catalogue will be welcomed by the student, the
collector, and the dealer alike.”

+ =Spec= 117:419 O 7 ‘16 190w

“On every page of this carefully edited volume there is something to
arrest the attention, and we can only express the hope that it may
become as hardy and as vigorous an annual as ‘Book prices current.’”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p428 S 7 ‘16 950w

=COUSINS, FRANK, and RILEY, PHIL M.= Wood-carver of Salem; Samuel McIntire, his life and work. il *$7.50 Little 724.9 16-23955

“‘The wood-carver of Salem’ is a well-deserved tribute to Samuel
McIntire, of Salem, whose distinction as an architect and designer, as
well as a craftsman, is preserved in many of the stately houses of the
third colonial period that still adorn the ancient streets of
Salem. ... McIntire passed his whole life and did all his work in
Salem, never having had an opportunity to see the productions of Wren
and other contemporary English architects. Yet he attained high rank
as a designer and, in the opinion of the authors of this book, he was
our foremost colonial architect of domestic buildings.”—R of Rs