“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
+ 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
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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.