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=Cook, Joel.= _Pa._, 1842- ----. A Philadelphia journalist, financial
editor of the Public Ledger. Brief Summer Rambles near Philadelphia;
An Eastern Tour at Home; A Holiday Tour in Europe; England, Picturesque
and Descriptive; The Siege of Richmond. _My._
=Cook, Joseph.= _N. Y._, 1838-1901. A Boston lecturer whose Monday
morning lectures at Tremont Temple were at one time very popular,
but whose shallow, pretentious thought provoked much criticism from
scholarly, accurate minds. Boston Monday Lectures, in ten volumes;
Current Religious Perils, with Other Addresses on Leading Reforms.
_Hou._
=Cook, Marc.= _R. I._, 1854-1882. A journalist of New York. The
Wilderness Cure; Vandyke Brown Poems.
=Cook, Richard Briscoe.= _Md._, 1838- ----. A Baptist clergyman of
Wilmington, Delaware. The Story of the Baptists in all Ages and
Countries.
=Cook, Theodore Pease.= _Ms._, 1844- ----. Brother of M. Cook, _supra_.
A journalist of Utica, who published a Life of Samuel J. Tilden. _Ap._
=Cooke, George Willis.= _Mch._, 1848- ----. A Unitarian clergyman
of Lexington, Massachusetts, who has done much excellent work in
criticism. George Eliot: a Critical Study; Ralph Waldo Emerson:
his Life, Writings, and Philosophy; Poets and Problems, Studies of
Tennyson, Ruskin, and Browning; Guide Book to Browning; The Clapboard
Trees Parish, Dedham, a History. _Hou._
=Cooke, John Esten.= _Va._, 1830-1886. A noted Virginia author who
served in the Confederate army during the Civil War. He wrote much
historical fiction, The Virginia Comedians being the most famous of
his romances. Leather Stocking and Silk; The Youth of Jefferson; Surry
of Eagle’s Nest; Wearing the Gray; My Lady Pokahontas; Henry St.
John, reissued as Bonnybel Vane; Mohun, or the Last Days of Lee and
his Paladins; Her Majesty the Queen; Pretty Mrs. Gaston; Stories of
the Old Dominion; The Maurice Mystery; Mr. Grantley’s Idea; Professor
Pressensee; Virginia Bohemians; Hammer and Rapier; Hilt to Hilt,
include the greater part of his work in fiction. He wrote also Life of
General Lee; Stonewall Jackson, a Biography; Virginia, a History of
the People. _Ap. Har. Hou. Lip._
=Cooke, Josiah Parsons.= _Ms._, 1827-1894. A chemist of distinction
who was professor of chemistry at Harvard University from 1850, and
lectured in many places on scientific topics. Religion and Chemistry;
Scientific Culture; Elements of Chemical Physics; Chemical Problems and
Reactions; Principles of Chemical Philosophy; The New Chemistry; The
Credentials of Science the Warrant of Faith; Laboratory Practice. _Ap.
Scr._
=Cooke, Nicholas Francis.= _R. I._, 1829-1885. A once prominent
physician of Chicago. Satan in Society; Antiseptic Medication.
=Cooke, Parsons.= _Ms._, 1800-1864. A Congregational clergyman of Lynn,
strongly Calvinistic in doctrine and controversially inclined. History
of German Anabaptism; A Century of Puritanism and a Century of its
Opposites.
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