Chapter 1
) The books are illustrated and have an index.
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“Throughout these gossipy and voluble pages, we find much of repetition and more of exaggeration. In spite of its faults, which are easily forgiven to the genial author, the work is one of some value to our political literature. It is decidedly interesting and engaging reading.” J. A. Woodburn
+ − =Am Pol Sci R= 14:713 N ’20 1400w
“Mr Clark wanders in and about his subject in a chatty reminiscent fashion, illuminating many little known corners of party politics, bringing before the reader a brilliant procession of public personalities and always indulging in sparkling anecdotes. The serious reader will be troubled by the lack of sequence of political events.”
+ − =Booklist= 16:278 My ’20
=Boston Transcript= p9 Mr 27 ’20 550w
“The unity of the narrative is badly jumbled; a literary hack, hired to revise the manuscript, would have cut it down from a third to a half and with ease have straightened out the illogical arrangements, the crudities of the paragraphs, the vain repetitions, and tiresome platitudes.” C. W. Alvord
+ − =Nation= 111:sup424 O 13 ’20 430w
Reviewed by M. F. Egan
=N Y Times= 25:163 Ap 11 ’20 3150w
“No student of political history will be able to omit this voluminous account from his list.”
+ =N Y Times= 25:191 Ap 18 ’20 110w
“Genial humanity and wisdom, shrewd and kindly observation of men and affairs—these are the outstanding qualities of Champ Clark’s reminiscences. The wisdom varies in comprehensiveness and in degree of illumination; the humanity is constant. It is remarkable how little of the bitterness of controversy or the roughness of saw-edged sarcasm there is in any part of Mr Clark’s book.”
+ =No Am= 211:713 My ’20 2250w
+ − =Review= 2:460 My 1 ’20 1400w
+ =R of Rs= 61:558 My ’20 180w
=CLARK, ELLERY HARDING.= Track athletics up to date. il *$1.50 Duffield 796
20–9841
A new manual of track athletics by an author who has had wide experience as a physical director. His purpose is stated in the preface: “First, I have endeavored to trace, with brevity, the history of track athletics; next, I have noted some of the best of the many books, pamphlets and special articles which have been written on this subject; and lastly, I have tried to summarize, in the year 1919, our present knowledge of proper methods of training and of performing the various events on track and field.” The work is illustrated with forty-three plates.
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“He combines clear statement with the highest ideal of sport.”
+ =Booklist= 17:19 O ’20
=R of Rs= 62:448 O ’20 70w
=CLARK, EVANS.= Facts and fabrications about soviet Russia. pa 50c Rand school of social science 914.7
20–12609
“The volume is divided into two parts. Part 1 deals with the astounding falsehoods told about soviet Russia by the American press, publicists and state and federal officials during the past few years. In this portion the Sisson documents, the presidential fabrications, the reports of alleged military defeats, and the rumors concerning ‘the nationalization of women,’ etc., are set forth in documentary form. Part 2 consists of a comprehensive bibliography of periodical, book and pamphlet literature dealing sympathetically with all phases of the Russian problem—foreign policy, education, drama, industry, labor, propaganda, religion, the woman question, etc.”—Socialist R
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“The method is simple and admirably adapted to the purpose. Possibly his classification is a little biased, as when he maintains that all the conservatives have been unreliable and all the liberal and labor organs truthful. But in general his criterion will stand and his list will prove sound.” Preserved Smith
+ − =Nation= 111:160 Ag 7 ’20 760w
+ =Socialist R= 9:209 N ’20 250w
=CLARK, FRANCIS EDWARD.= Gospel of out of doors. *$1.25 Assn. press 570.4
20–9999
One of the author’s purposes in publishing this collection of papers is “that other men and women, encouraged by my own experience of the joy, the comfort, and the health that come from an old farm, may feel its lure, learn its joy, and experience its health-giving comforts.” (Preface) Contents: The gospel of out of doors; The joy of the seed catalogue; The lure of the old farm; A sermon to my brother weeds; Farming as a moral equivalent for war; Under the willow in the spring; My doorstep visitors; Birds in the bush and birds in the book; Out of doors in the autumn; A rainy day at the farm; The underground alchemist; Fun on the old farm; Always something new on the old farm; Next best to a farm; Can a horse laugh? Ever-bearers and ever-bloomers.
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+ =Booklist= 17:20 O ’20
“There is nothing about the old farm, however prosaic it may be, that fails to suggest to Mr Clark material for a delightful essay; and he is always ready with a pungent poetical quotation.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 21 ’20 300w
“The charm of the book ... is simply irresistible.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p8 Jl 22 ’20 170w
=CLARK, THOMAS ARKLE.= High school boy and his problems. *$1.20 Macmillan 170
20–8370
“Dean Clark of the University of Illinois for many years has made boys and their ways the chief concern of his official life. Mr Clark is what the students would call a ‘regular’ dean. He knows the temptations that beset the young man and is not astonished that they are sometimes too much for him. He is inclined to overlook the minor shortcomings, but conceives it his duty to warn the boy of the risk he runs in yielding to evil suggestions. For the rest the book has much in it that is of interest, and the dean is particularly happy in his chapters on the value of systematic study and on choosing a career or a college.”—Boston Transcript
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“Sensible little talks with a happy freedom from ‘preachiness.’”
+ =Booklist= 17:48 N ’20
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Jl 21 ’20 150w
“It is concrete in every paragraph, reminiscent, replete with glimpses of real boys facing actual situations. Almost as important as is its content is the fact that it promises to win a reading from the high-school boy to whom it is addressed.”
+ =School R= 28:555 S ’20 340w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p669 O 14 ’20 30w
=CLARKE, ISABEL CONSTANCE.= Lady Trent’s daughter. *$1.75 (1½c) Benziger
20–4464
Lady Trent had been married at a very early age and, widowed before twenty, had left her infant daughter to the care of her elder sister, who had brought the girl up in seclusion from the world. Olave is sixteen when the story opens. A distinguished novelist meets the girl in the woods, and charmed with her youth and innocence, persuades her into a series of clandestine meetings. He finally tells her that he is engaged to another woman, and later it comes to light that this woman is Olave’s mother. The engagement is at once broken and Lady Trent tries to win her daughter’s confidence and love. But the mischief is already done and the girl continues to meet Quinn. A runaway marriage is planned, but is abandoned when Quinn’s long neglected Catholic principles reassert themselves. Olave also accepts Catholicism, toward which she has had strong leanings, feeling that under its influence she would have been saved from the course of deception she has followed.
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=Ath= p304 S 3 ’20 390w
“Guy Quinn not only fails to live for us, but is quite devoid of any heroic qualities. As to his charm, which subjugated in turn the widow Felicity Trent and her young daughter Olave, that has to be taken altogether on trust.”
− + =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p532 Ag 19 ’20 600w
=CLARKE, ISABEL CONSTANCE.=[2] Ursula Finch. *$2.25 (2c) Benziger
The story of two sisters, one a spoiled beauty and one a drudge, The
## scene is Cornwall but later when Ursula, the drudge, seems likely to
interfere with her sister’s matrimonial schemes, she is packed off to Rome as a nursery governess. Here she comes under the influence of Catholicism and joins the church. The lover who had been the cause of her exile follows her and as he also has leanings toward the Catholic faith the story ends happily.
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“Miss Clarke has again produced a book which is both interesting and entertaining; yet appreciation is mingled with constant regret over the vehemence of her characterizations.”
+ − =Cath World= 112:548 Ja ’21 210w
=CLARKSON, RALPH PRESTON.=[2] Elementary electrical engineering. il *$2 Van Nostrand 621.3
20–19604
“A textbook of theory and practice, particularly adapted for the instruction of mechanical, civil, and chemical engineers and others desiring a short course.” (Sub-title) Contents: Introduction; Units and terms; The solution of circuits; The generation of electricity; Electrical measuring instruments; Illumination and power, electrical transmission, theory of lighting devices. There are 141 diagrams and an index.
=CLEMENCEAU, GEORGES EUGÈNE BENJAMIN.= Surprises of life. *$1.90 (4c) Doubleday
20–16497
This collection of tales, translated from the French by Grace Hall, tells the stories of curious characters in all walks of life. The initial tale, Mokoubamba’s fetish, is of an old negro from Central Africa, reseater of chairs, weaver of mats and mender of all things breakable, wise beyond other men and with a philosophy of his own with regard to fetishes. Some of the other titles are: A descendant of Timon; Aunt Rosalie’s inheritance; A mad thinker; Better than stealing; A domestic drama; The treasure of St Bartholomew; Lovers in Florence.
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“To face facts, though not always a pleasure, is a duty. To face the French novelist’s interpretation of them seems to us in many cases neither the one nor the other.”
− + =Ath= p731 N 26 ’20 160w
“Distinguished by technical dexterity.”
+ =Booklist= 17:156 Ja ’21
“The stories, if not put to the test of inner veracity, are thoroughly readable.”
+ − =Nation= 111:353 S 25 ’20 300w
“The stories and things are well worth telling and are well told. The
## book is the work of a keen and accurate reader of human nature and of
a master of satire.” A. W. Welch
+ =N Y Call= p10 N 21 ’20 380w
“As literature, the tales in the present volume stand far above ‘The strongest,’ the novel which he published in America last year. If they have a single fault it is that the author’s lifelong habit of speaking and writing to convince people of something shows itself in the parable-like character of some of his stories. His powers of characterization are admirable.”
+ − =N Y Times= p7 S 19 ’20 1400w
“In an age like ours when literature is afraid of its name, its pedigree, and its uniform, M. Clemenceau will be helped rather than hurt by the association of no small measure of literary force with the brusque frankness and imperious, half insolent, unconcern of the man who is not answerable to reviewers.”
+ =Review= 3:565 D 8 ’20 350w
“The book is marked by its clarity, that absence of adjectives which makes every idea understood at once. M. Clemenceau is shrewd, yet generous, a quality that Mark Twain attained in some of his short stories. He paints portraits not merely in two dimensions, but in three.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p9a N 14 ’20 290w
“There is always the impression that the things related are things seen, not things invented, and that they are symbols of things not seen. Some of the equipment of a complete master of the genre indeed, he seems to lack.”
+ − =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p666 O 14 ’20 450w
=CLEMENS, SAMUEL LANGHORNE (MARK TWAIN, pseud.).= Moments with Mark Twain; selected by Albert Bigelow Paine. *$1.50 Harper 817
20–6374
One of the compiler’s excuses for offering this selection from the writings of Mark Twain to the public is to show that the latter was something more than a fun-maker. “The examples have been arranged chronologically, so that the reader, following them in order, may note the author’s evolution—the development of his humor, his observation, his philosophy and his literary style. They have been selected with some care, in the hope that those who know the author best may consider him fairly represented.” (Foreword)
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=Booklist= 16:305 Je ’20
“Well-chosen selections from his works chronologically arranged to show evolution of style and thought as well as characteristic humor. Useful for quotation hunters.”
+ =Cleveland= p84 O ’20 20w
=Review= 2:403 Ap 17 ’20 80w
=CLEVELAND, FREDERICK ALBERT, and BUCK, ARTHUR EUGENE.= Budget and responsible government. (American social progress ser.) *$3 (2½c) Macmillan 353
20–8814
“A description and interpretation of the struggle for responsible government in the United States, with special reference to recent changes in state constitutions and statute laws providing for administrative reorganization and budget reform.” (Sub-title) The preface by Mr Cleveland states that the work was begun as a report to the National budget committee. Later its scope was expanded and Mr Buck of the New York Bureau of municipal research, who had been preparing a report dealing with administrative reorganization in the several states, was asked to collaborate. In addition to the editor’s note by Samuel McCune Lindsay, there is an introduction by ex-President Taft, who during his term of office urged the adoption of the budget system. The book is in five parts: Historic background and interpretation of the recent movement for administrative reorganization and budget procedure; Detailed accounts of proposed plans and recent legal enactments for administrative reorganization in state governments; Detailed accounts of the characteristics and operation of recent state enactments providing for a budget procedure; Proposed national budget legislation; Conclusion. There is no index, a want partly supplied by the analytical table of contents.
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+ =Am Hist R= 26:148 O ’20 200w
Reviewed by A. C. Hanford
+ =Am Pol Sci R= 14:711 N ’20 500w
“Sound, careful work for students and those interested in problems of government.”
+ =Booklist= 16:328 Jl ’20
“Mr Cleveland states very plainly the facts regarding the necessity of a national segregated budget and no one reading his book can fail to realize that if the government of this country is to be administered in an efficient and responsible manner some form of segregated budget must be adopted.” G. B.
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Je 23 ’20 350w
“For the student of budget legislation and administration in the technical sense, the chapters by Mr Buck will be especially welcome.” C: A. Beard
+ =Nation= 111:275 S 4 ’20 700w
+ =R of Rs= 62:109 Jl ’20 140w
“The book is an eloquent plea for more effective democracy, a powerful argument against political bossism, and a valuable contribution to the cause of the ‘independent’ voter. It should prove of informative value to women.” C. E. Rightor
+ =Survey= 45:73 O 9 ’20 570w
=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p671 O 14 ’20 50w
=CLOSE, EVELYNE.= Cherry Isle. *$1.90 (2½c) Doran
20–20001
Anthea Argent is just a young struggling singer when the famous tenor, Charles Garston, meets and falls in love with her in cherry-blossom time. Altho she realizes she cares more for her art than she does for him, she consents to marry him. Her voice develops until her fame matches her husband’s, but with the coming of their baby she loses it entirely. Her coldness to her husband increases to bitter hatred and they finally separate, but not before she has realized that her child was born dumb. The other passion of her life beside her voice is for revenge on the man who had wrecked her mother’s life—her own unacknowledged father. She sets herself to ruin him and accomplishes it in a dramatic way. But, having done so, she realizes that the fulfilment of this ambition, as of her earlier one, turns to ashes in her grasp. She sees herself as the selfish, hard woman that she is, and the close of the story finds her pride breaking as she tries to pick up the pieces of her life and patch them together again.
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“The novel, though readable, has elements of artificiality.”
+ − =Ath= p590 Ap 30 ’20 110w
“For a piece of sensational fiction this novel is decidedly readable. The opening chapters in the cherry orchard are charming bits of description.”
+ =N Y Evening Post= p10 N 6 ’20 50w
=Sat R= 130:80 Jl 24 ’20 80w
=CLOW, FREDERICK REDMAN.= Principles of sociology with educational applications. (Brief course ser. in education) $1.80 Macmillan 301
20–3277
“Mr Clow, who teaches in the State normal school at Oshkosh, Wisconsin, believes that sociological theory can be made, to a far greater extent than has hitherto been done, an instrument for the solution of practical and technical problems. The present text-book, which is divided into three parts, ‘The factors of society,’ ‘Social organization,’ and ‘Social progress,’ is intended to provide students with a basis upon which they can apply sociological principles to groups and institutions of which they form part or with which they are familiar. Each chapter of the exposition is followed by a list of ‘Topics’ to be assigned to individual students for special study, a series of ‘Problems’ for discussion and an elaborate table of bibliographical references. This careful work contains in addition a select list of books generally useful for further reading in the subject and indices of authors, books, periodicals and subjects.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
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“The book is encyclopedic rather than systematic. It treats in succession a great variety of topics, but one is left at the end of the book with a confused idea and without any view of a general systematic theory of society or of school organization. It would be very difficult to put this book into the hands of elementary students unless the author himself were so thoroughly inspired by the importance of sociology that he could carry the student far beyond the compass of the text itself.”
+ − =El School J= 20:713 My ’20 580w
+ =School R= 28:389 My ’20 280w
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p404 Je 24 ’20 150w
=CLUTTON-BROCK, ARTHUR.= Essays on art. *$1.75 Scribner 704
20–6951
“In the preface of this volume, Mr Clutton-Brock asks, ‘How are we to improve the art of our own time? After years of criticism I am more interested in this question than in any other that concerns the arts.’ He believes that art, like other human activities, is subject to the will of man, and that the quality of art in any age depends chiefly upon the attitude of the public towards it. His insistence on good workmanship and sound construction in the things we see and handle every day is a continuance of the gospel of William Morris, and it was never more needed than it is now. He pours irony and ridicule on the idea of art as a luxury; on the craze for cheap machine-made reproductions of expensive ornaments; on professors of art who live in hideous drawing-rooms; on the exalting of processes above persons; and on the professionalism of artists, in whom an arrogant skill and accomplishment take the place of genuine expression. One of the best of the essays is a ‘Defence of criticism,’ occasioned by an outburst of Sir Thomas Jackson lamenting that art criticism could not be made penal for ten years, so that people might think for themselves.”—Sat R
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“Mr Clutton-Brock is safer as a thinker on conscience and duty than on æsthetics, though he portrays the artist—Leonardo, Mozart, or Poussin—with admirable insight.”
+ − =Ath= p1353 D 12 ’19 140w
=Ath= p8 Ja 2 ’20 1550w
“It is so pregnant with genial wisdom, and without being unduly dogmatic, so sincerely genuine in its viewpoints, that it is bound to give real pleasure.”
+ =Boston Transcript= p6 Ap 28 ’20 200w
“These essays are vigorous, informative, and often very well written.”
+ =Dial= 68:538 Ap ’20 80w
“His is a book worth thinking about, very straight and sober and sincere, discussing one of the most serious of all subjects in a manner worthy of the subject.” F. H.
+ =New Repub= 21:389 F 25 ’20 1800w
“With the strong ethical perceptions, Mr Brock combines sensitiveness.”
+ =Review= 2:276 My 29 ’20 400w
“He writes with a refreshing absence of superiority, as one of the public with a natural and human interest in art.”
+ =Sat R= 128:565 D 13 ’19 800w
“A better little book of ‘aesthetics for beginners’ could hardly be imagined than Mr Clutton-Brock’s ‘Essays on art.’”
+ =Spec= 124:242 F 21 ’20 380w
“Possessed of a finely perceptive and reflective nature, he sets forth truths that might be called spiritual were not the word spiritual in some minds held to denote a lack of common sense. Perhaps it is Mr Clutton-Brock’s distinction that he makes spiritual truths appear to be common sense.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13a F 22 ’20 1050w
=CLUTTON-BROCK, ARTHUR.= What is the kingdom of Heaven? *$1.75 Scribner 230
(Eng ed A20–528)
“‘Is the universe a fraud?’ is the question which Mr Clutton-Brock asks and tries to answer in this book. Is life as we know it a welter of pain and evil, a vast and stupid joke; or is there some sense, some moral principle, behind this seeming chaos? We all desire to believe that our private virtues rhyme with something in the universe. We can be convinced that they do, and we can make the conviction come true in fact, says Mr Brock, by believing in the Kingdom of Heaven. The Kingdom of Heaven is a relation of man to the universe analogous to the relation of man to art—a relation at once passionately intimate and disinterested. The Kingdom of Heaven in politics means the disappearance of struggle and competition, in the individual the beginning of happiness.”—Ath
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“Mr Brock writes in such a way that it is often possible to wonder whether his words have any very exact meaning, or whether they are merely symbols fluttering in the void, searching vainly for some solid reality on which to repose themselves.”
− =Ath= p315 My 19 ’19 180w
Reviewed by Bertrand Russell
=Ath= p487 Je 20 ’19 1700w
“It is a passionate and beautiful treatment of Jesus and his chief doctrine, bearing the mark of the artist and the prophet. This book must be read slowly, reflected upon earnestly; it is a significant discussion of a supreme subject.”
+ =Bib World= 54:643 N ’20 330w
“Mr Clutton-Brock’s book has a fresh, arresting quality; it detains the reader. It is worthy of attention as representing the highminded and persuasive modernism that is working in the church.”
+ =Int J Ethics= 31:117 O ’20 550w
=Springf’d Republican= p17 Je 29 ’19 950w
=Springf’d Republican= p15 O 19 ’19 2600w
=COAKLEY, THOMAS FRANCIS.= Spiritism; the modern satanism. *$1.25 Extension press 134
“Dr Coakley finds what he calls ‘the present craze for spiritism’ to be in substance much the same as those waves of hysteria and necromancy that have occasionally swept the earth since the most ancient times. He opposes it especially in its claim to be, as Sir Conan Doyle calls it, ‘a new revelation,’ and finds spiritistic practices to be full of danger of many sorts, while he thinks that a future life filled with the sort of spirits that are chiefly in evidence at séances would offer few attractions. He sets forth the attitude of the Catholic church upon the subject and makes clear the reasons why it prohibits its members from taking any part in spiritistic or psychical research inquiries.”—N Y Times
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+ =Cath World= 112:252 N ’20 110w
=N Y Times= 25:19 Jl 4 ’20 110w
=COBB, IRVIN SHREWSBURY.= Abandoned farmers. *$3 (6½c) Doran 817
20–19071
In this “humorous account of a retreat from the city to the farm” the reader accompanies the author on a long search for an abandoned farm, and, when it is found at last, assists in every detail of taking possession, of digging a well, planning, building and furnishing the house and, at last, takes leaves of him with the impression that, although the feat was not accomplished without membership in the Westchester county despair association, it was all worth while. Contents: Which is really a preface in disguise; The start of a dream; Three years elapse; Happy days for Major Gloom; In which we bore for water; Two more years elapse; “And sold to—”; The adventure of Lady Maude; Us landed proprietors.
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“Written with the usual Cobb humor. Described by one reader as ‘a bit thin with an occasional raisin.’”
+ − =Booklist= 17:104 D ’20
+ =N Y Evening Post= p9 O 30 ’20 110w
“‘The abandoned farmers’ represent Mr Cobb at his happiest.”
+ =Outlook= 126:768 D 29 ’20 130w
“It is a tale all of which lies in the telling, and with Cobb in the role of Tusitala no one can go wrong in expecting that every phase of humor in the subject will be brought forth.”
+ =Review= 3:506 N 24 ’20 220w
=COBB, IRVIN SHREWSBURY.= From place to place. *$2 (1½c) Doran
20–2846
“Stories about ourselves” is the sub-title of this collection of character sketches. The choice of subjects is unusual. In “The gallowsmith” we have a sympathetically drawn picture of a self-appointed hangman who plied his trade with the pride of a good craftsman till suddenly one day his dormant imagination awoke and—killed him. The other sketches are: The thunders of silence; Boys will be boys; The luck piece; Quality folks; John J. Coincidence; When August the second was April the first; Hoodwinked; The bull called Emily.
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=Booklist= 16:242 Ap ’20
=Cleveland= p71 Ag ’20 60w
=Lit D= p127 Mr 27 ’20 1300w
“These stories make interesting reading, though they are remote from any trace of realism.” Alvin Winston
+ =N Y Call= p11 Mr 21 ’20 300w
“Here we have Mr Cobb in all his varying moods of farce and pathos, reminiscence, stern logic, and ironical tragedy. The tale which opens the book, ‘The gallowsmith,’ manifestly belongs to him who wrote ‘The escape of Mr Trimm’ and the wonderful narrative of ‘The bell buzzard.’”
+ =N Y Times= 25:57 F 1 ’20 700w
+ =Springf’d Republican= p11a Mr 21 ’20 350w
=COBB, IRVIN SHREWSBURY, and RINEHART, MARY (ROBERTS) (MRS STANLEY MARSHALL RINEHART).= Oh, well, you know how women are! and Isn’t that just like a man! *$1 (8c) Doran 817
20–4128
Mr Cobb, at one end of the book, enlarges on the foibles of women—their narrow skirts, their high heels, their habits of impeding the traffic and getting off street cars backward, and then ends with a tribute to their work for the war. Mrs Rinehart, at the other end, reciprocates with comments on the inherent conservatism of men, and their sex clannishness, and then pats them gently on the head for their eternal boyishness and confesses that “we do like them, dreadfully.”
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“While some of the jokes will seem trite, there are enough good laughs to compensate.”
+ − =Booklist= 16:272 My ’20
“The tone of both little essays is delightfully urbane.” Joseph Mosher
+ =Pub W= 97:993 Mr 20 ’20 200w
“It is all good fun, and neither writer could be dull if he (or she) tried.”
+ =Springf’d Republican= p13a Ap 25 ’20 300w
“That clever novelist [Mrs Rinehart] gives us very much better reading. She is full of shrewd remarks, and shows much more sympathetic insight into man than Mr Cobb does into woman.”
+ =The Times [London] Lit Sup= p405 Je 24 ’20 340w
=COBB, THOMAS.= Mr Preston’s daughter. *$1.75 (2½c) Lane
20–19510
Monica Dasent, in love with Godfrey Raymond, becomes jealous when Essa Maynard, a girl of doubtful past, begins to pay him marked attention. Godfrey’s sole interest in Essa is because his uncle Hugh has confessed a “certain responsibility” for the girl. After the uncle’s death, it is discovered that he left Essa a large legacy, and Godfrey tries to prove exactly what “responsibility” Uncle Hugh had felt. This involves him in a family quarrel of long standing between his uncle and his cousin Anthony, the cause of which he finds to be the paternity of Essa. Anthony, the real father, is anxious to conceal the fact from his wife, but it all turns out to be a tempest in a teapot since his wife had known the circumstances even before their marriage.
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=Ath= p687 My 21 ’20 50w
“Here are the ingredients of excitement. But somehow or other the creator of these elements lacks the proper recipe for the most effective mixing. His atmosphere sags; his stride is feeble: he never swings into the long and winning pace that comes so easily to the authors of American best sellers.”
− + =N Y Evening Post= p17 D 4 ’20 310w
“The author has a fluent pleasing style, and he knows his London thoroughly. Can be commended to that large class which buys a novel because the purchaser wants ‘something to read.’”
+ − =N Y Times= p25 Ja 16 ’21 450w
“Mr Cobb builds up a very good story with his accustomed skill.”
+ =Sat R= 130:262 S 25 ’20 80w
“The book is written with Mr Thomas Cobb’s usual lightness of touch.”
+ =Spec= 125:118 Jl 24 ’20 80w
=COBB, THOMAS.= Silver bag. *$1.75 (2c) Lane
20–5233
During an absence from London Valentine Brook turns his flat over to his friend Derrick Chalmers. On the morning after his return a pretty girl calls to ask for a silver bag left there during his absence. It is made clear that it is not her bag, that she is calling for it for another woman. The mystery of the story revolves about the owner of the bag. Lionel Windermere suspects his wife, Valentine reluctantly suspects Evelyn Stainer. Mrs Tempest calmly states that it is hers, but there is reason to believe she is shielding one of the others. But which one? The tangle is straightened out finally with no reputations lost and no hearts broken.
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“The mystery takes so long to clear up that the reader gets a bit tired of it all, and begins to grew impatient at a point where he should, by the rules of the mystery game, be so absorbed as to take no account of time.”
+ − =N Y Times= 25:209 Ap 25 ’20 300w
“The style is sometimes crude, but the plot is ingeniously constructed, and certainly has an unexpected solution. Yet our interest is not always maintained at a high level, possibly because none of the persons concerned makes any strong appeal to our sympathy.”
+ − =Sat R= 128:251 S 13 ’19 220w
“Mr Cobb writes his new drawing-room comedy with his usual detachment and accomplishment.”
+ − =Spec= 123:622 N 8 ’19 80w
“While not melodramatic or sensational, ‘The silver bag’ contains mystery and amusing situations. The book will please those with a weakness for delving into society scandals and near scandals.”
+ − =Springf’d Republican= p9a Ag 29 ’20 270w
=COCKERELL, THEODORE DRU ALISON.= Zoology, il *$3 World bk. 590
20–7593
A work by the professor of zoology in the University of Colorado, published as one of the New-World science series of which John W. Ritchie is general editor. It is designed as a text book for colleges and universities but has several elements of popular appeal. One of its unusual features is the interposition of biographical chapters, the author believing that it is well for the students to know more of the men who have contributed to scientific knowledge. Consequently he has provided sketches of Darwin, Linnæus. Henri Fabre, Pasteur and others. The book has good illustrations including a series of animal photographs taken under the author’s direction in the New York zoological park. References follow the chapters and there is an index.
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+ =Booklist= 16:302 Je ’20
=CODY, HIRAM ALFRED.= Glen of the high north. *$1.90 (2c) Doran
20–18933
Tom Reynolds finds himself at odds with life after his four years at the front. The vision of a beautiful face in a crowded street remains his grip on reality. On top of this comes the suggestion of a friend that he go in search of a Henry Redmond who, with his little girl, had mysteriously disappeared fifteen years previous. Ostensibly Tom goes in search of Redmond, but in reality his quest is for the face. More casual glimpses of it intensify his zeal. It takes him into the mining camps of the far north, plunges him into adventures in which figure the girl, an old philosophic prospector, a villainous miner, and a mysterious landed proprietor lording it in his stronghold behind the Golden Crest. In the end the girl proves to be the daughter of the landlord and the latter, the old prospector and the lost Henry Redmond to be one and the same person. The girl is won, gold is found in the bargain, the villainous miner is made harmless and life is once more real to Tom.
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“A commonplace, crudely written melodrama of the most obvious motion-picture type.”
− =N Y Times= p26 S 12 ’20 200w
=CODY, LOUISA (FREDERICI) (MRS WILLIAM FREDERICK CODY).= Memories of Buffalo Bill; in collaboration with Courtney Ryley Cooper. il *$2.50 (3½c) Appleton
20–2278
From the time he first courted her, to his death, Mrs Cody records the career of her husband, one of the most picturesque and adventuresome of human careers. Adventure was thrust upon him when a mere child it became a part of his environment and was later sought with the keen relish of the actor in him. “One thing had been borne to him, through the never failing worship of youthful America, that he was an idol who never could be replaced, that as long as there were boys, and as long as those boys had red blood in their veins, they would thrill at the sight of him they loved, and cheer the sounding reverberation of his great booming voice as he whirled into the arena on his great, white horse, came to a swinging stop before the grandstand, and raised his hand for the famous salute from the saddle.” (