Chapter I: of this book indicates the need of a study of business (12)

“It may be that the closeness of the author to the scenes of which she
writes has marred the perspective. In any case, the present volume
very largely fails both in color and adequacy.... By way of
compensation, the concluding chapters exhibit a good deal of dramatic
power. Indeed, we have seldom read a story more pitifully fascinating
than that of the massacre at Wounded Knee, as told by the aged Short
Bull in his tepee on the blizzard-swept prairie near Pine Ridge. It is
worth knowing, for it is history.”

+ − =Cath World= 111:544 Jl ’20 200w

=Nation= 111:164 Ag 7 ’20 40w

=N Y Times= 25:81 F 8 ’20 380w

“In addition to its personal interest the book gives a stirring
picture of early western life.”

+ =Outlook= 124:249 F 11 ’20 30w

=R of Rs= 61:334 Mr ’20 50w

=Springf’d Republican= p6 Ap 19 ’20 200w

=CODY, WILLIAM FREDERICK (BUFFALO BILL, pseud.).= Autobiography of Buffalo Bill. il *$3 (3c) Cosmopolitan bk. corporation

20–7661

In this story of his life Colonel Cody touches upon his life as a
showman only as the final rounding out of his career after the great
wild west, of which he had been so integral a part, had become a thing
of the past. But in its pages live again and go down to history the
thrilling last days of Indian warfare, buffalo hunting and
stage-coaching. The book is illustrated by N. C. Wyeth.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 17:68 N ’20

“The volume is a brisk, vivid and authentic picture of a departed era,
so rich in detail and so bold in outline that it leaves most of our
purely fictional wild West stories in total eclipse.” L. B.

+ =Freeman= 1:478 Jl 28 ’20 200w

=Nation= 111:164 Ag 7 ’20 40w

“Buffalo Bill’s own story does not rank with ‘Treasure Island,’ but it
is the boys’ own book, for it holds all that can live of the life its
hero led on the plains and afterwards preserved under canvas; and it
was written by a boy who actually did the thing every boy resolves to
do, stayed a boy in defiance of time and fate for more than seventy
years.”

+ =Review= 3:71 Jl 21 ’20 1250w

“His autobiography well deserves a place on the library shelf devoted
to western history.”

+ =R of Rs= 62:111 Jl ’20 100w

“It is well to have a life of such varied adventures written at
length, the more so since the setting of so much of that life has
passed beyond duplication.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Jl 18 ’20 340w

“Interesting to everyone, for it is an important phase of our history
graphically told by the one who knew it best.”

+ =Wis Lib Bul= 16:122 Je ’20 100w

=COFFIN, HENRY SLOANE.= More Christian industrial order. *$1 (4c) Macmillan 330

20–6208

The author does not hold that the fragmentary sayings of Jesus can be
pieced together to form a basis for a new industrial order. What he
believes is that the spirit of Jesus furnishes a guide for conduct in
any given situation and his purpose here is to ask “what the spirit of
Jesus would create out of the existing social system in order that we
may be led into a more Christian industrial order.” Contents: The
Christian as producer; The Christian as consumer; The Christian as
owner; The Christian as investor; The Christian as employer and
employee; Conclusion—democracy and faith. The author is minister in
the Madison avenue Presbyterian church, New York city, and associate
professor in Union theological seminary.

* * * * *

=Booklist= 17:51 N ’20

=N Y Times= p30 O 10 ’20 60w

“It is a very quiet book, a book whose tread is muffled, as if it fell
upon a thickly carpeted church aisle. Mr Coffin’s book on the social
order seems to take us far away from the industrial struggle.”

− + =Review= 3:75 Jl 21 ’20 200w

=Survey= 44:639 Ag 16 ’20 380w

=COHEN, OCTAVUS ROY.= Come seven. il *$1.75 (1½c) Dodd

20–16928

A volume of negro stories by the author of “Polished ebony.” Contents:
Without benefit of Virgie; The fight that failed; The quicker the
dead; Alley money; Twinkle, twinkle, movie star; The light bombastic
toe; Cock-a-doodle-doo!

* * * * *

“They approach the burlesque in their fun, but they never fail to
amuse.”

+ =Outlook= 126:378 O 27 ’20 50w

=COHEN, OCTAVUS ROY.= Gray dusk. *$1.75 (2c) Dodd

20–2646

A detective story with scenes laid in South Carolina. Stanford Forrest
and his bride had gone there for their honeymoon. Four days later
David Carroll receives a telegram stating that Mary Forrest has been
murdered, and that Stanford is held for the crime. With his assistant,
Jim Sullivan, Carroll hastens to the scene of the tragedy. From the
first he is prejudiced in favor of his friend, but Sullivan maintains
his professional calm and stands ready to suspect everybody. There
seems however to be no one to suspect but Stanford himself, against
whom the circumstantial evidence is strong. But gradually others
become implicated, Bennet Hemingway, who had written a slanderous
letter, Conrad Heston, the man who had so mysteriously occupied
Furness Lodge before the arrival of the Forrests, Esther Devarney who
loves Heston, and Mart Farnam, the “swamp angel” with a weakness for
“licker.” One of these is guilty and Carroll succeeds in finding the
evidence that singles out this one.

* * * * *

“There are some good descriptions of the South Carolina ‘back country’
and a lack of objectionable thrills and horrors. The keen reader will
be able to guess the solution.”

+ =Booklist= 16:311 Je ’20

“‘Gray dusk’ has two qualities that lift it out of the ruck into which
books of its class usually fall. The first of these is a denouement
that will catch five out of every six sophisticated readers off guard,
and the second is the literary skill the author displays in the
successful creation of an atmosphere that enhances his plot.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:28 Jl 18 ’20 460w

“The plot is ingenious and the solution of the mystery unexpected.”

+ =Spec= 125:372 S 18 ’20 30w

“The story is conventional, but is not without lively episodes and
suspense.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p9a Ag 29 ’20 80w

“He writes in an easy, natural manner, with an agreeable absence of
that laboured smartness which so often mars American stories.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p385 Je 17 ’20 80w

=COLE, GEORGE DOUGLAS HOWARD.= Chaos and order in industry. *$2.75 (3½c) Stokes 335

(Eng ed 20–76275)

The average man, says the author, becomes conscious of our industrial
and economic system only when something has gone wrong. He goes
through three stages: apathy, prejudice, knowledge. The object of the
book is to serve the third stage and to find out what is really wrong.
After reviewing the status of the various industries he arrives at the
conclusion that the cleavage in society today is between the workers
by hand and by brain on the one side and the rentiers and financiers
on the other and that the function of industrial reconstruction
consists in devising a policy by which the former can exercise their
functions not on behalf of the latter but on behalf of the whole
community. Contents: The cause of strikes; Motives in industry; The
reconstruction of profiteering; The guild solution; Coal; Railways;
“Encroaching control” versus “industrial peace”; Engineering and
shipbuilding; Cotton and building; Distribution and the consumer; The
finance of industry; The real class struggle; Appendices and index.

* * * * *

+ =Ath= p305 S 3 ’20 210w

“Mr Cole’s system may not inspire confident belief in those whose
approach to economic study has been through the classical formulae.
But no one can afford to dismiss it as a tissue of fallacies, an
impossible Utopia.” Alvin Johnson

+ − =New Republic= 25:80 D 15 ’20 1500w

“The degeneracy of its tone hangs like a miasma over every page. The
whole book is a gospel of greed, a hymn of hate.”

− =Sat R= 130:221 S 11 ’20 650w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p376 Je 17 ’20 1350w

=COLE, GEORGE DOUGLAS HOWARD.= Introduction to trade unionism. (Fabian soc., London. Research dept. Trade union ser.) $1.65 For sale by the Survey 331.87

(Eng ed 19–2251)

“In ‘An introduction to trade unionism’ the most prominent of the
younger students of the British labor problem presents to the reader
an admirable survey of English trade unionism of the present day. The
book estimates the strength of organized labor, analyzes trade union
structure and government, discusses the unions’ attitude toward
amalgamation, toward political action, cooperation, the state, the
shop steward’s movement, etc., and gives the reader a forecast of the
future.”—Survey

* * * * *

“What Mr Cole has set out to do he has done remarkably well. No
student of British trade unionism—or of American trade unionism, for
that matter—should pass this little book by.” D. A. McCabe

+ =Am Econ R= 9:589 S ’19 380w

“Mr Cole is to be thanked for explaining to the outside world the
growth and goal of the shop stewards’ movement. Those who will take
the trouble to follow Mr Cole’s treatment of the subject and to
consult the works indicated in his bibliography will realize the
futility of attempting to deflect trade unionism from its course by a
flood of goodwill.”

+ =Ath= p61 F ’19 140w

“Gives a lucid and commendably dispassionate account of the British
trade union movement.”

+ =Spec= 122:202 F 15 ’19 440w

Reviewed by H. W. Laidler

+ =Survey= 43:282 D 20 ’19 240w

=COLE, GEORGE DOUGLAS HOWARD.= Labour in the commonwealth. (New commonwealth books) *$1.50 Huebsch 331

19–3307

“Mr Cole’s book is a restatement of the humanity of labour; a rescue
of labour from the dismal penumbra of abstractions which have
prevailed in industrial theory since the industrial revolution of the
last century. ‘Labour,’ which the economists have loved to contrast
with ‘capital,’ is an abstraction, he believes which has vitiated
thinking and perverted economic science from its proper function. Mr
Cole, therefore, who is one of the few members of the English
intelligenzia who have gained the full confidence of the labour party,
writes not of abstract labour as a ‘thing’ but of individual men and
women forming the majority of the people in any commonwealth; and
gives us his personal theory of labour’s place in the commonwealth and
what labour and the labour movement are like. This theory is that
labour should have control in the industrial sphere.”—Int J Ethics

* * * * *

“Of particular interest is Professor Cole’s analysis of the state. He
avoids very carefully the mistake which is so often made of confusing
the state and the commonwealth as a single entity.” G. S. Watkins

+ =Am Econ R= 10:608 S ’20 420w

“A notably interesting book.”

+ =Ath= p31 Ja ’19 30w

“Mr Cole’s new volumes may be heartily recommended to all who search
for an understanding of the mainsprings of labour policy and of the
groundwork of labour organization.”

+ =Ath= p61 F ’19 340w

+ =Booklist= 16:112 Ja ’20

“A pungent review of the whole range of present industrial and social
life in the spirit of a revolutionary critic.”

+ =Brooklyn= 12:31 N ’19 40w

=Dial= 67:498 N 29 ’19 60w

=Int J Ethics= 29:506 Jl ’19 140w

“We could wish that Mr Cole would confine himself more rigorously to
plain and straightforward explanation. His excursions into satire and
humor are unfortunate. The book includes a chapter upon Labour and
education which is of real importance. Mr Cole’s discussion of the
state in this volume is on the whole better than anything he has
previously written on this subject; and a chapter on The organization
of freedom, in which there is an exposition of the guild idea from the
angle of personal liberty, is an exceedingly fresh and suggestive
piece of work.”

+ − =Nation= 110:112 Ja 24 ’20 1100w

“Against theories he regards as outworn Mr Cole’s attack, through all
his book, is spirited and resourceful. At times Mr Cole’s imaginative
style seems less telling than the steady hammering with facts which
such a writer as Sidney Webb uses. But there are times enough when Mr
Cole drives his sword’s point through a dogma and out its farther
side.” C. M.

+ − =New Repub= 22:102 Mr 17 ’20 480w

“There is no attempt in this book to equivocate or to win a decision
by finesse. In following Mr Cole’s argument many queries cannot fail
to occur to the reader, no matter how unprejudiced he may try to keep
his mind. In the first place, has Mr Cole been absolutely fair in
depicting present industrial conditions?”

+ − =N Y Evening= Post p3 F 14 ’20 1800w

=N Y Times= 25:325 Je 20 ’20 1400w

=Spec= 122:202 F 15 ’19 240w

“Adds nothing further to the philosophy of the national guildsmen, its
object being merely to give a birdseye view of the social
relationships to the outsider who wants to know the A B C’s, not of
guild socialism but of the industrial problem as a whole. This purpose
it fulfills admirably.” H. W. Laidler

+ =Survey= 41:644 F 1 ’19 480w

“By the test of fact Professor Cole is in places inadequate. But his
book is spirited, and the drift of his argument is sound. It is,
furthermore, entertaining—which alone would justify it. It is finally
a key to the state of mind of many of that younger generation to whom
it is principally addressed.” W: L. Chenery

+ − =Survey= 43:408 Ja 10 ’20 500w

=COLE, GEORGE DOUGLAS HOWARD.= Social theory. (Library of social studies) *$1.50 (2½c) Stokes 301

20–7572

The book is a study of the actions of men in association, in
supplement and complement to their actions as isolated or private
individuals, and its object is to ascertain the essential principles
of social organizations and the moral and psychological problems upon
which their structure and functioning must be based if they are to be
in real harmony with the wills of the men and women of whom they are
composed. It is the author’s conviction that our existing structure of
society is not responsive to human needs, does not allow of the full
self-expression of all its members and is doomed to a radical
reconstruction. One of the social theories placed on the superannuated
list is that of state sovereignty. Contents: The forms of social
theory; Some names and their meaning; The principle of function; The
forms and motives of association; The state; Democracy and
representation; Government and legislation; Coercion and
co-ordination; The economic structure of society; Regionalism and
local government; Churches; Liberty; The atrophy of institutions;
Conclusion; Bibliographical notes and index.

* * * * *

“On the whole candor compels the report that the author has brewed a
few familiar concepts and some scattered observation into a turgidity
against which adequate familiarity with the sociological analyses of
the past two decades and a consistently observed purpose might have
been a protection.” A. W. Small

− =Am J Soc= 26:247 S ’20 870w

“Very able and pregnant little book. His book must be taken very
seriously, not only by teachers, but by politicians and reformers. It
will rouse keen discussion and hot dissent. Mr Cole will welcome both.
For though his manner is dogmatic, his method is tentative and moulds
itself on facts. His French logic has been grafted on an English
mind.” G. L. Dickinson

+ =Ath= p476 Ap 9 ’20 1700w

=Booklist= 16:328 Jl ’20

Reviewed by Ordway Tead

=Dial= 69:412 O ’20 640w

“For my own part I take little exception to Mr Cole’s general
conclusion as based on the ideas of self-government and function. It
is only Mr Cole’s methods of reaching his conclusion which seem to me
inadequate. Human association is based not on will but upon
necessity.... Mr Cole’s book is exceedingly valuable nevertheless.”
Ordway Tead

+ − =Freeman= 1:405 Jl 7 ’20 1000w

“The book is compact and closely reasoned, detached, and even academic
in manner and revealing, as do Mr Cole’s other works, an acute and
masterly handling of his material.” M. J.

+ =Int J Ethics= 31:113 O ’20 520w

“Mr Cole has intellectual power of high order. He knows well what he
is aiming at and where he wants to stand. One of the most commendable
traits of his book is its candor in confessing that it is prompted by
a preference.” T: R. Powell

+ =Nation= 11:sup413 O 13 ’20 2050w

“A brilliant piece of relentless reasoning. Not often is sociology
made so easy, even enticing, as in this book.”

+ =Nation [London]= 27:212 My 15 ’20 1150w

“Guild socialism has hitherto lacked a reasoned theory of social
organization. In this book Mr Cole makes a brave and wonderfully
successful effort to grapple with its difficulties.” H. J. L.

+ =New Repub= 23:154 Je 30 ’20 1600w

“The entire book is abstract to a degree. It cannot be recommended for
easy reading, but it should be read with care, if half the world is to
know what the other half is thinking about. As a flight of fancy and
project of reform Mr Cole’s idea has some attractive features, but we
would rather see it tried in some other country.”

− + =N Y Times= p13 Ag 8 ’20 2400w

“‘Social theory’ is a book worth while. It is reasoned and temperate;
despite a too frequent reliance upon abstract terms where concrete
example is most needed, it is clearly expressed; and it presents a
coherent set of principles. One may disagree with all of it and yet
acknowledge that the author has ably stated his argument.” W. J. Ghent

+ − =Review= 3:316 O 13 ’20 580w

=R of Rs= 62:110 Jl ’20 150w

“This is a most irritating little book. No text-book has a right to be
quite so dull as this; particularly from Mr Cole one had looked for
something more original.”

− =Sat R= 130:56 Ag 17 ’20 650w

“Mr Cole’s book is worthy of and will receive study. While it will not
pass unchallenged upon its constructive side, its criticism of old
conceptions is surely trenchant and significant.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p9a Ag 29 ’20 840w

“It is an illuminating book. For one I confess to have wished that Mr
Cole could have avoided his rather lengthy definition of the terms he
used.” W: L. Chenery

+ − =Survey= 45:288 N 20 ’20 180w

“He is so anxious to convey an attitude of philosophic detachment that
he sometimes writes in what is for him a rather stilted and
commonplace style. Still, Mr Cole has after all an extremely acute and
very well trained mind. His analysis of social theory is nothing if it
is not acute.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p162 Mr 11 ’20 1100w

“As far as he goes, the author is an independent thinker, and neither
his knowledge of the labor movement nor his grasp of current social
theories can be questioned. The critical and destructive part of his
work is therefore fresh and highly suggestive. But both his admirers
and his opponents will expect something more, some revolutionary and
creative thought.” W: E. Walling

+ − =Yale R= n s 10:219 O ’20 720w

=COLE, GRENVILLE ARTHUR JAMES.= Ireland the outpost. il *$2.50 Oxford 941.5

20–2491

“Mr Cole believes that ‘a realization of the physical structure of
Ireland, and of her position as an outpost of Eurasia, may lead to a
wider comprehension, not only of the land, but of its complex
population.... If the presentation is a true one,’ he adds, ‘the nine
sections should lead to one conclusion.’ This conclusion is
anticipated in the first sentence of the book: ‘Nature allows no
“self-determination” to any point on the surface of the globe.’ If the
geology, flora, fauna, and ethnology of Ireland show that it is
closely united to the British island, it should not seek to go off on
its own politically.”—Nation

* * * * *

=Ath= p47 Ja 9 ’20 240w

“Professor Cole’s ‘Ireland the outpost,’ has a beauty of style rare
even among those who make belles-lettres their profession. With the
knowledge of a scientist the author combines the feeling of a poet,
and an acquaintance with the contemporary poetry of his country.” N.
J. O’C.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ja 21 ’20 400w

“As an argument, ably presented, this one is peculiarly liable to be
reduced to the absurd.” Preserved Smith

− =Nation= 110:555 Ap 24 ’20 200w

=COLERIDGE, ERNEST HARTLEY.= Life of Thomas Coutts, banker. 2v il *$10 Lane

20–5660

The subject of this biography, one of the founders of the banking
house of Coutts & Co., was born in 1735 and died in 1822. Business,
financial, political and social events of his time enter into his life
story. He was one of those who opposed the war with America and the
subject is referred to frequently in his correspondence during that
period. The biography is based on a large collection of mss which came
to light in 1907 and it tells for the first time in full the story of
Thomas Coutts’s romantic attachment for Harriet Mellon, whom he
married in his eightieth year. The volumes are very fully illustrated
and volume 2 has an index.

* * * * *

=Ath= p332 Mr 12 ’20 2450w

“Mr Coleridge’s two volumes are skilfully written and able documents.”
E. F. E.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Mr 31 ’20 1450w

“The biography before us is indebted for its attraction more to the
author than the subject. The personality of Tom Coutts does not strike
us as original or impressive: his letters are pompous, prosy, and
frequently ungrammatical. On the other hand, the prefatory chapters of
Mr Hartley Coleridge, the ‘callidæ juncturæ’ with which he stitches
together his bundles of letters, are quite delightful; and his
historical vignettes are perfect in their lightness of touch and
fairness of judgment.”

+ − =Sat R= 129:36 Ja 10 ’20 1500w

“The author has had the good fortune to use for the first time the
family papers, including the banker’s correspondence, which relates to
affairs of the heart as well as to Mammon and to politics. Thus the
book gives an intimate portrait of a successful man of business and
throws new light on the history of his times.”

+ =Spec= 124:144 Ja 31 ’20 1050w

“Lord Latymer is to be congratulated on having chosen Mr Coleridge to
edit these papers and Mr Coleridge on the scholarly way in which he
has carried out his task.... We must mention, in conclusion, an
extremely characteristic series of letters from Lady Hester Stanhope,
expressed with all her vivacious spirit. In spite of all the other
riches in this book these should on no account be missed.”

+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p7 Ja 1 ’20 1850w

=COLERIDGE, STEPHEN.=[2] Idolatry of science. *$1.25 Lane 501

20–16351

“Mr Coleridge’s book is really not so much a protest against the
idolatry of science as a general onslaught on the influence and on the
achievements of science. His theme is that the vital things of life
are feeling, thought, conduct, and that with them science has nothing
to do. It cannot therefore raise the human mind or play the chief part
in education. But he goes much further than that, and avows that
science deprives man of beauty and magnanimity; that few of its
‘trumpeted triumphs’ have really brought benefits to mankind; and that
it was in an evil hour that ‘James Watt and George Stephenson between
them gave railways and factories to mankind.’”—The Times [London] Lit
Sup

* * * * *

“It is an amusing performance, even the scientists will admit that if
they have sense and humour enough not to take the book too seriously.”

+ =Ath= p353 Mr 12 ’20 110w

“The book is sharp in wit and often delicious in its humor, but its
mistakes are so obvious that they scarcely need to be pointed out.” R.
E. B.

+ − =Boston Transcript= p2 N 27 ’20 300w

“Mr Coleridge’s effusions make us agree with him to the extent of
wishing that science had never invented the art of printing or even
the alphabet.”

− =Nation= 112:47 Ja 12 ’21 390w

“A little more of the spirit of impartial investigation which is the
method of science would have saved him from much foolish exaggeration
about the exaltation of ugliness in ‘poetry, painting, sculpture, and
all forms of human expression.’ There is much half-truth in the book,
much restatement of the obvious. But it makes good reading, and the
very narrowness of its survey adds to its piquancy.”

+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p143 F 26 ’20 510w

=COLLINS, ARCHIE FREDERICK.= Farm and garden tractors. il *$2.25 Stokes 631.37

20–19612

The author claims that the tractor is by all odds the most important
factor in solving the farming problem of today, viz: reducing the
number of men and lowering the cost of production. The book proposes
to tell all about how to buy, run, repair and take care of one. Every
kind of tractor and every part and detail is shown in the
illustrations and diagrams, there is an appendix and an index, and the
contents are: About tractors in general; The parts of a tractor; The
mechanism of a tractor; Garden and truck farm tractors; Tractors for
small farms; Tractors for average farms; Tractors for big farms;
Draw-bar and belt power applications; How to take care of your
tractor; Tractor troubles and how to fix them; Tractor repairs and how
to make them; The kind of tractor you want.

=COLLINS, ARCHIE FREDERICK.= Motor car starting and lighting. il *$1.50 Appleton 629.2

20–11306

In a note on “How to use this book” the author says, “This books tells
you (1) how to keep out of starting, lighting and ignition troubles,
in so far as this is possible, and, what’s more to the point, (2) how
to find and fix troubles when they crop out, which they are bound to
do even in the best of systems.” The book is composed of four parts:
The electric power plant; The electric starting system; The electric
lighting system; The electric ignition system. There are eighty-one
illustrations and an index.

* * * * *

+ =N Y P L New Tech Bks= p57 Jl ’20 80w

=COLLINS, ARCHIE FREDERICK, and COLLINS, VIRGIL DEWEY.= Putnam’s handbook of buying and selling. il *$1.90 Putnam 658

20–7432

This book “telling in a simple and practical way how to succeed in
business” (Sub-title) is the result of long years of experience in the
merchandising field. “It is so simple that however little you know
about business you can understand it, and it is so practical you can
use it at once and with telling effect.” (Preface) It falls into four
parts: Successful selling: Expert buying; Commercial confidence; and
Business wisdom. Some of the chapters are: First principles of
selling; How to pick live wire salesmen; Selling over the counter;
Selling to the retail trade; Selling to the wholesale trade; Making
your sales through the mails; The essentials of shrewd buying; Inside
credit information; Raising and investing money. There are thirty-two
illustrative charts and diagrams and an index.

=COLLINS, ARCHIE FREDERICK, and COLLINS, VIRGIL DEWEY.= Wonders of natural history. il *$2.25 Stokes 590

20–21293

It is the purpose of this “comprehensive account of man in the making
and of prehistoric and present day animals” (Sub-title) “to put into
simple language an authoritative account of the chief branches of
natural history, namely, zoology, geology, palæontology and
mineralogy. Finally it explains the accepted idea of evolution from
the lowest protoplasmic matter, through unthinkably long ages, into
the highest living forms as we know them today.” (Foreword) The book
is indexed, has numerous illustrations and the contents are:
Prehistoric animals; Man in the making; About the aborigines;
Contemporary mammals; Birds of today; Present-day reptiles; Modern
fishes; Living insects, millipedes, crustaceans and spiders; Lower
forms of animal life; Minerals and gems; Some other wonders; How the
exhibits are prepared.

=COLLINS, JOSEPH.= Idling in Italy; studies of literature and of life. *$3 Scribner 850

20–17228

“Literary Italy of today is presented by Joseph Collins in his recent
book, to which is given the misleading title, ‘Idling in Italy.’ Of
particular importance and interest is the long array here presented of
Italian writers of prose and verse who are almost entirely unknown in
this country, but who in their native land are the apostles of a new
movement in Italian literature. An entire chapter is devoted to the
futurist movement. His criticism of Giovanni Papini, chief exponent of
the futurist movement, is comprehensive. Dr Collins spares neither
praise nor scathing criticism of Gabriele D’Annunzio, Italy’s most
romantic figure. A number of essays in the book have no relation to
Italy. The author dissects W. Somerset Maugham’s ‘The moon and
sixpence’; he gives an interesting chapter on Samuel Butler; there is
a chapter on feminism and a good pen picture of Wilson.”—Springf’d
Republican

* * * * *

=Booklist= 17:104 D ’20

“The pages are filled with all those qualities which make the perfect
essayist.” W. S. B.

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 N 20 ’20 720w

“The study of President Wilson, as it is published in this book,
proves to be an appreciation, perhaps the broadest Wilson has called
forth. I find this study the best piece of writing about Wilson I have
seen, with the one exception of that chapter of Maynard Keynes’s, and
what superiority the Keynes essay has in brilliance Dr Collins makes
up for in conviction and depth.” J. H. Dounce

+ =N Y Evening Post= p8 N 27 ’20 720w

“There are far too many names, followed in each case by brief critical
notes, for the reader to gain a clear impression of any one author to
whom he has been introduced. When, however, Dr Collins pauses in his
swift flight to linger for a while in contemplation of a single author
he reveals an appreciative understanding and an acute critical
faculty.”

+ − =N Y Times= p4 O 24 ’20 1150w

“The reader gets from the volume ideas, not suggestions: stimulus, not
charm. He who picks up the book to be lulled, may lay it down
sleepless or enraged. It is a real book, not a piece of literary
exquisiteness or a series of agreeable conversational discourses.”

+ =No Am= 212:856 D ’20 1700w

“Dr Collins’s chapters are entertaining as well as keen and
illuminative. Some of his themes are in lighter vein, but scarcely any
would suggest ‘idling’ except to a gormand for work.”

+ =Outlook= 126:334 O 20 ’20 90w

“Perhaps Dr Collins comments too briefly on the many names which he
considers. The book is not organic. It seems that Dr Collins had a
number of essays on hand and decided to give them to the public under
a pleasing but irrelevant title.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p10 O 29 ’20 500w

=COLMAN, SAMUEL, and COAN, CLARENCE ARTHUR.= Proportional form. il *$3 Putnam 740

20–7442

“Further studies in the science of beauty, being supplemental to those
set forth in ‘Nature’s harmonic unity.’” (Sub-title) “Nature’s
harmonic unity,” published in 1912, was based on the thesis that in
nature “a few fundamental and major rules work in concert for the
government of the whole scheme,” and on the relation between this
universal harmony and art. The present work represents a continuation
of studies in the same field presented in a simpler form. Certain
fundamental principles have been repeated in order to obviate constant
reference to the first book. The volume has 156 drawings and designs
and is indexed. A note on the title page states “The drawings and
correlating descriptions are by Mr Colman. The text and mathematics
are by Capt. Coan.”

* * * * *

=R of Rs= 61:672 Je ’20 40w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 N 9 ’20 250w

=COLUM, PADRAIC.= Boy apprenticed to an enchanter. il *$2.50 (8½c) Macmillan

20–21991

Mr Colum has written a new fairy story for children, the story of Eean
the fisherman’s son who was caught stealing the horses of King Manus.
He was brought bound into the king’s hall doomed to die at sunrise.
But first the king asked him to tell how it came about that he had
risked his life in attempting so dangerous a thing. “And I declare,”
said the king, “if he shows us that he was ever in greater danger than
he is in this night I shall give him his life.” So Eean the
fisherman’s son tells the story of his apprenticeship to Zabulun the
enchanter.

* * * * *

“With the Celt’s instinct for magician’s tricks Colum has taken Greek,
Egyptian, Biblical, and Arthurian tales, and made a simply-constructed
patch-work of enchantment.”

+ =Bookm= 52:550 F ’21 130w

Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne

+ =N Y Times= p8 D 19 ’20 60w

=COLUM, PADRAIC.= Children of Odin. il *$4 Macmillan 293

20–19525

“In ‘The children of Odin’ Padraic Colum has given a free rendering of
the myths of the poetic and the prose Eddas. Mr Colum tells us that he
has done his work directly from the Eddas and in consultation with
Norwegian scholars. Mr Colum had boys and girls above twelve years in
mind when preparing his text.”—Bookm.

* * * * *

“Told in a connected narrative that flows in a simple, rhythmic prose
sometimes poetic. Expensive for many libraries.”

+ =Booklist= 17:163 Ja ’21

Reviewed by A. C. Moore

=Bookm= 50:380 N ’19 90w

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 N 17 ’20 440w

=Dial= 69:548 N ’20 70w

“Not the least part of the beauty of this telling of them is that, for
all his Norse subject, Mr Colum is as usual invincibly Irish.”

+ =Ind= 104:380 D 11 ’20 50w

+ =Lit D= p86 D 4 ’20 150w

+ =New Repub= 25:24 D 1 ’20 220w

Reviewed by Hildegarde Hawthorne

+ =N Y Times= p8 D 19 ’20 60w

=COMERFORD, FRANK.= New world. *$2 Appleton 335

20–17097

The author has made a tour of Europe to study our present day world
problems. He claims to have made a thorough study from every
conceivable point of view. He blames bolshevism and socialism for all
the chaos. He sympathizes with labor but fears its methods of redress
and is absolutely opposed to everything that threatens law and order.
Among the contents are: Problems facing a stricken world; The problem
of Europe’s poverty; A tragedy of politics; Russia out of balance; The
soviet machine; Clash of fact and theory; The failure of the
socialization of industry; The third international; Intermeddling in
Russia; Bolshevism in the United States. There are appendices
consisting of various documents.

* * * * *

“Frank Comerford’s ‘The new world’ combines a sane and temperate
judgment with a firm, intellectual grasp of his subject.”

+ =N Y Evening Post= p11 O 30 ’20 400w

=COMFORT, WILL LEVINGTON, and DOST, ZAMIN KI (WILLIMINA LEONORA ARMSTRONG).= Son of power. *$1.90 (2c) Doubleday

20–21182

His name was Sanford Hantee, but the boys of the Chicago streets
called him “Skag.” It was at the Lincoln Park zoo that he first began
to know animals, and their fascination for him was so keen that he ran
away from home and became a circus trainer. His power over animals
seemed to come from his absolute control of himself and from the fact
that he knew no fear. It was old Alec Binz of the circus who gave Skag
his desire to go to India and know for himself the animals of the
jungle. In India he very soon achieved the title Rana Jai—Son of
power. The book is really a series of short stories telling of Skag’s
exploits with various jungle beasts. Among the titles are: The good
grey nerve: The monkey glen; Jungle laughter; The hunting cheetah;
Elephant concerns; Blue beast, and Fever birds. Skag made some human
friends, too, in India, among them Carlin Deal, a girl half-Indian and
half-English who becomes almost as important as Skag himself in the
narrative.

* * * * *

“Men and boys especially will like it.”

+ =Booklist= 17:156 Ja ’21

“Interesting and colorful, these stories, though written with a
collaborator, are thoroughly characteristic of Mr Comfort. Though
parts of the volume make rather too great demands upon the reader’s
credulity, it is, on the whole, a fascinating piece of work, vivid,
picturesque, full of color and the glamour and mysticism of India.”

+ =N Y Times= p24 O 31 ’20 800w

=COMMITTEE ON THE WAR AND THE RELIGIOUS OUTLOOK.= Church and industrial reconstruction. *$2 Assn. press 261

20–15930

This volume is the third in a series of reports that is being issued
by the Committee on the war and the religious outlook. In these times
of industrial unrest and uncertainty following the world war, says the
introduction, the spirit of God “moves on the face of the waters”
challenging the church “to reconsider its own gospel, to redefine its
attitude toward the present social order, and to interpret for our
time the way of life involved in Christian discipleship.” After
defining the Christian interest in and approach to the industrial
problems the volume takes up: The Christian ideal of society;
Unchristian aspects of the present industrial order; The Christian
attitude toward the system as a whole; The Christian method of social
betterment; Present practicable steps toward a more Christian
industrial order: The question of the longer future; What individual
Christians can do to Christianize the industrial order; What the
church can do to Christianize the industrial order. The appendices
are: I, The historic attitude of the church to economic questions; II,
Selected bibliography on the church and industrial reconstruction;
III, The Committee on the war and the religious outlook. There is an
index.

* * * * *

Reviewed by G: Soule

=Nation= 111:535 N 10 ’20 680w

“Within the compass of no other single volume can be found such a
summary of the churches’ experiences in the present industrial age,
backed by a valuable historical study of the successive attitudes of
the church to economic questions.” Graham Taylor

+ =Survey= 45:467 D 25 ’20 1250w

=COMMITTEE ON THE WAR AND THE RELIGIOUS OUTLOOK.= Missionary outlook in the light of the war. *$2 Assn. press 266

20–7779

This volume is one in a series of studies that is being brought out by
the Committee on the war and the religious outlook. It is the report
prepared by a special sub-committee with Dr Robert E. Speer as its
chairman and Rev. Samuel McCrea Cavert as its secretary and contains
the evidences collected and the conclusions arrived at, on the
religious outlook, by a great number of competent men. The contents
fall into three parts: Part 1—The enhanced significance and urgency of
foreign missions in the light of the war; Part 2—The effect of the war
on the religious outlook in various lands; Part 3—Missionary
principles and policies in the light of the war. The appendices
contain a synopsis of the contents and a selected bibliography.

* * * * *

“The papers are uniformly by men who possess first-hand knowledge of
the subjects on which they write.”

+ =Bib World= 54:646 N ’20 180w

=Booklist= 17:6 O ’20

“This volume is not simply for so-called church people but has much
suggestion for all who are facing the problems of our time. Such
readers may have to do some skipping, for there are pages here
reminiscent of the missionary tract of our childhood, and they will
have to do a good deal of translating.”

+ − =Review= 3:271 S 29 ’20 1800w

=COMMITTEE ON THE WAR AND THE RELIGIOUS OUTLOOK.= Religion among American men, as revealed by a study of conditions in the army. *$1.50 Assn. press 261

20–5049

“This volume is one of a series of studies that is being brought out
by the Committee on the war and the religious outlook. The committee
was constituted, while the war was still in progress, by the joint
action of the Federal council of the churches of Christ in America and
the General war-time commission of the churches and was an expression
of the conviction that the war had laid upon the churches the duty of
the most thorough self-examination.” (Editorial preface) The book,
which corresponds in aim and method to the British work “The army and
religion,” is based on answers to questionnaires, personal interviews,
letters, articles in the religious press, etc. It is in three parts:
The state of religion as revealed in the army; The effect of the war
on religion in the army; Lessons for the church.

* * * * *

“These pages ought to be before every church or convention that is
planning to serve the nation through the organized church.”

+ =Bib World= 54:552 S ’20 380w

=Booklist= 17:6 O ’20

Reviewed by H. A. Jump

=Boston Transcript= p8 Mr 13 ’20 3050w

Reviewed by Hugh Page

=Pub W= 97:1295 Ap 17 ’20 290w

=CONE, HELEN GRAY.= Coat without a seam, and other poems. *$1.25 Dutton 811

20–519

“‘The coat without a seam, and other poems,’ by Helen Gray Cone,
though not an unusual book of verse, is significant for its strong,
impressive faith and its whole-hearted optimism. More than half of the
poems concern the war, and are brimming with war’s idealism. The
remainder, collected under the title ‘The quiet days,’ are lyrics on
various themes. Miss Cone has been best known in the past few years as
the author of a ‘A chant of love for England,’ the answer to the
German ‘Hymn of hate.’”—Springf’d Republican

* * * * *

“Time was, and not long since, these counters had a brave ring; now,
without the mixture and fusion of noble metals, the poor alloy
predominates. Even the shrill notes sound flat.” L: Untermeyer

− =Dial= 68:527 Ap ’20 620w

“Among the poetesses in the larger mood, Helen Gray Cone, though
palpably not the least ambitious, is destined least to survive the
present hour for the reason that her ardors have been lighted at
unsubstantial altars, those of the late war and the late peace. A
poetess of the flag, she seems stale now as well as strident.” M. V.
D.

− =Nation= 111:247 Ag 28 ’20 70w

“It is well conceived and the rhetoric is of a high quality, but the
pulse of authentic poetry is too often missing.”

+ − =N Y Times= 25:16 Je 27 ’20 170w

“Miss Helen Gray Cone has a substantially perfect technique. The
highest originalities are not open to her, but her feeling is delicate
and true, and, in all the agitations of the late war, there is no
tremor in the mounting flame.” O. W. Firkins

+ =Review= 2:519 My 15 ’20 160w

“Miss Cone’s diction is simple, unaffected, and tinted rather than
colored. Her style is good.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Mr 21 ’20 100w

=CONKLING, MRS GRACE WALCOTT (HAZARD).= Wilderness songs. *$1.50 Holt 811

20–9071

This collection of poems, reprinted from various magazines, show
nature and life reflected in the poetic soul of a woman. The poems are
grouped under the headings: Songs of New England roads; Songs of war;
Seven interludes; Songs of places—old Mexico; Nocturnes; and a
concluding poem: The wilderness.

* * * * *

+ =Booklist= 16:337 Jl ’20

“It is conspicuous that ‘Wilderness songs’ should follow ‘Afternoons
of April.’ The fragile, tremulous art of the earlier book has taken on
a firm, ripe quality of mood and expression.” W. S. B.

+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 14 ’20 1600w

“Mrs Conkling feels platitudes snugly and sweetly. Her cadences, like
her attachments, are the generally accepted. Her mood and meter seem
all too neat, with seldom a sign that their creation brought thrusts
of pleasurable pain.” M. V. D.

− =Nation= 111:247 Ag 28 ’20 40w

“Few indeed are the books of lyrics as well made as these. The
melodies are light, but lovely; the diction shows an exquisite
discretion; and there is always a sense of proportion in design.”
Marguerite Wilkinson

+ =N Y Times= 25:272 My 23 ’20 280w

+ =Spec= 125:745 D 4 ’20 20w

“Delicate perception expressed with quiet charm is characteristic of
the poems. The volume in general satisfies the craving for nature in
her gentler moods.”

+ − =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 13 ’20 240w

=CONKLING, HILDA.= Poems by a little girl. *$1.50 Stokes 811

20–7794

The author of these poems is now nine years old. Amy Lowell writes a
long preface to the book in which she says: “It is poetry, the stuff
and essence of poetry.... I know of no other instance in which such
really beautiful poetry has been written by a child.... What this book
chiefly shows is high promise; but it also has its pages of real
achievement, and that of so high an order it may well set us
pondering.” With some biographical data on the child Miss Lowell
describes her manner of working, which she considers to be largely
subconscious and perfectly instinctive. The poems are grouped
according to the child’s age into: Four to five years old; Five to six
years old; Six to seven years old; and Seven to nine years old.

* * * * *

“The book as a whole is convincing, and a number of the poems are
beautiful.”

+ =Ath= p644 N 12 ’20 620w

+ =Booklist= 16:305 Je ’20

“Charming and unusual. Here is a book of poems instinct with the
spirit of childhood and so childlike in much of its phrasing as to
make a direct and permanent appeal to children and grown people.” A.
C. Moore

+ =Bookm= 51:314 My ’20 1000w

“Her thought has not the incoherence that might be expected of a
child; she paints in each poem a complete picture, step by step,
usually leading up to the last line with a fine feeling for climax. In
economy of words and in power of connotation these poems resemble the
translations from the Chinese and the Japanese which have lately
attracted the attention of occidental poets, but there is a richness
of detail that we are accustomed to associate with the tradition of
English literature.” N. J. O’Conor

+ =Boston Transcript= p10 My 15 ’20 1150w

“Many a mature poet might be proud of some of these little gems. All
of them sparkle with that faery light that enables its possessor to
see things quaintly and daintily.”

+ =Cleveland= p73 Ag ’20 220w

+ =Cleveland= p108 D ’20 70w

“The quality which shines behind practically all of these facets of
loveliness is a directness of perception, an almost mystic divination.
It is its own stamp of unaffected originality, a genuine
ingenuousness. It is ridiculous to talk of the ‘stages’ in the work of
a ten-year-old child and yet the verses conceived between four and
seven are more vivid, seem more spontaneous and less—absurd as it may
seem—sophisticated than those written between seven and nine.” L:
Untermeyer

+ =Dial= 69:186 Ag ’20 1200w

“Readers will be glad of the book, not only because it was written by
a child, but because it contains beautiful poetry. Not a false image
is to be found in it, not a single artificial symbol, not a line of
dull, stereotyped diction!”

+ =N Y Times= 25:193 Ap 18 ’20 380w

“The gift is given us gravely and unconsciously, with none of the
reticences that fears ridicule, and yet with none of the exaggeration
that tries to ‘show off.’” Marguerite Wilkinson

+ =N Y Times= 25:272 My 23 ’20 1000w

“The present volume deserves a high place among the expressions of
youthful imagination. It is vivid, fresh, and creative in no small
degree.”

+ =Outlook= 125:542 Jl 21 ’20 130w

“The handling of the verse-form is skillful, though not masterly.” O.
W. Firkins

+ =Review= 3:653 D 29 ’20 320w

+ =Spec= 125:709 N 27 ’20 50w

“The ‘Poems by a little girl’ do not smack of the exotic and
consciously clever; they are robust as well as delicate, with the
characteristic deliberation and spontaneity of childhood seizing life
with keen eyes and quick imagination.”

+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 My 27 ’20 500w

=CONNOLLY, JAMES BRENDAN.= Hiker Joy. il *$1.75 (2½c) Scribner

20–8795

Hiker, the young hero of Mr Connolly’s series of adventures, is a
little gamin from the New York water front, who ships to sea with his
friend Bill Green on a lumber schooner bound for somewhere across the
Atlantic in wartime. The ship is wrecked in a storm and Bill gets
possession of the valuable papers the captain had been carrying and
turns them over to the secret service, according to orders. Other
adventures follow, with German spies, U-boats, and Zeppelins, and the
whole tale is related by Hiker in his own vernacular.

* * * * *

“Sea stories which will have their usual appeal because the author
knows how to write them.”

+ =Booklist= 16:346 Jl ’20

“The whole book is sufficient to provide an evening’s entertainment of
no mean quality.”

+ =Boston Transcript= p7 Ag 25 ’20 260w

=Cleveland= p72 Ag ’20 40w

“Every page vibrates with action and glows with unforced drama.
Happily, both his matter and manner are excellent.”

+ =N Y Times= 25:17 Je 27 ’20 240w

+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Je 27 ’20 300w

=CONNOR, HENRY GROVES.= John Archibald Campbell. *$2.25 (3c) Houghton

20–7012

The subject of this biography was a southern jurist, appointed a
justice of the Supreme court in 1853. In 1861 he resigned to become
assistant secretary of war for the Confederacy. He was one of the
three Confederate peace commissioners who met Lincoln and Seward in
1865. The table of contents indicates the outstanding points in his
career and shows the biographer’s plan of treatment; Ancestry and
early career at the bar; Associate justice of the Supreme court of the
United States; The slavery question before the court; On the circuit:
filibustering and the slave trade; Efforts to avert civil war;
Services to the confederacy and peace negotiations: The problem of
restoration; The slaughter-house cases and the fourteenth amendment;
Last years at the bar; Personal characteristics, intellectual and
social traits; Conclusion. A table of cases follows and an index.

* * * * *

“The biographer’s judicial experience gives him an advantage in the
treatment of legal points, while his sense of restraint eliminates
bias in the discussion of matters that ordinarily arouse the keenest
controversy. The method of inserting quoted portions is at times
confusing, and there are numerous inaccuracies of quotation.” J. G.
Randall

+ − =Am Hist R= 26:119 O ’20 680w

“Will interest students of history.”

+ =Booklist= 16:310 Je ’20

=Boston Transcript= p4 Ap 21 ’20 550w

Reviewed by J: C. Rose

+ =Review= 2:601 Je 5 ’20 1050w

=R of Rs= 61:671 Je ’20 80w

=CONRAD, JOSEPH.= Rescue: a romance of the shallows. *$2 (1c) Doubleday

20–10316

Mr Conrad’s new tale of the South Seas is the story of a man torn
between loyalty to friend and love of woman, forced to choose between
faith to his plighted word and her safety. It is a story of a
generation ago with civil war rife among the native tribes of the
Malay straits. Captain Tom Lingard has pledged his all to the service
of Rajah Hassim and has plotted and contrived to restore him to his
kingdom. The enterprise has reached its climax when an English yacht
blunders into the scene of activity and runs aground. Captain Lingard
goes aboard her with offers of assistance, his one thought to get the
intruders out of the way. His offer is met with insolence on the part
of the owner and he would gladly have left them to their fate, but he
had seen the woman, Mrs Travers, and her spell is on him. Thereafter
these two are but puppets in the hands of fate and the outcome is the
wreck of all Lingard’s hopes and the failure of the cause he had
served.

* * * * *

“This fascinating book revives in use the youthful feeling that we are
not so much reading a story of adventure as living in and through it,
absorbing it, making it our own. This feeling is not wholly the result
of the method, the style which the author has chosen; it arises more
truly from the quality of the emotion in which the book is steeped.”
K. M.

+ =Ath= p15 Jl 2 ’20 1500w

“A characteristic story, one of his best.”

+ =Booklist= 16:346 Jl ’20

“While the charm of its style is undeniable, while it is filled with
glowing word-pictures of tropical scenes, we shall doubtless be held
to be intellectually blind and artistically obtuse by many Conrad
admirers when we say that it has none of the flowing narrative
qualities which should be the chief characteristic of a story of its
sort.” E. F. E.

+ − =Boston Transcript= p4 My 26 ’20 1250w

“‘The rescue’ is characterized by that extraordinary grasp of reality
and breadth of outlook for which Mr Conrad is famous.”

+ =Cath World= 112:394 D ’20 350w

+ =Cleveland= p70 Ag ’20 100w

“It is not easy to find another name for genius. The effort to
describe it is ungrateful enough. When it penetrates so deep to the
roots of life one can pay it the tribute of becoming silent at the
earliest possible moment.” Gilbert Seldes

+ =Dial= 69:191 Ag ’20 2250w