“A compendious bibliography and some good illustrations add to the value of his excellent book.”
+ + Spec. 97: sup. 764. N. 17, ’06. 330w.
Cook, E. Wake. Betterment, individual, social and industrial; or, Highest efficiency. **$1.20. Stokes.
The preface says: “The object of this work is to give in convenient form the latest discoveries which promote individual, industrial, and collective efficiency.” Conservation of energy in all its forms would result in the “Simple life,” weary though the expression be, and the author suggests it as the goal that insures immunity from disease, and a great increase in mental and physical energy.
Cook, Theodore Andrea. Old Provence. 2v. **$4. Scribner.
“Old Provence is the land of romance, and of the tale of its beauty and interest Mr. Cook is the most delightful of narrators.”
+ Acad. 70: 34. Ja. 13, ’06. 1060w.
“The work needs a clearer plan, more adequate special knowledge, better judgment and critical discrimination, many more references (there are but very few), more personal reserve, a better index and a real map. It is pleasant, semi-learned magazine writing.”
– + Am. Hist. R. 11: 874. Jl. ’06. 570w.
“More than a guide-book and less, it is one of those aids to travel which, like Mr. Crawford’s ‘Rulers of the South,’ should lie by the side of Baedeker in even the smallest steamer trunk.” Josiah Renick Smith.