CONYBEAEE. 364 COOK. in tins science afterwards procured for him the friendship of Buckland, De la B&che, Elie de Beaumont, and many of the leading geologists of the time. He contributed several papers on various geological subjects to English periodicals and was admitted to membership in the Royal Society and the Geological Society of London. In 1844 he became Dean of Llandaff, an office he retained intil his death in 1857. CONYBEAEE, William John (1815-57). An English clergyman and essayist, the son of Rev. illiam Daniel Conybeare (q.v.). He grad- uated at Cambridge in 1837, took orders four years later, and in 1848 succeeded his father as vicar of Axminster. He wrote Perversion; or, the Causes and Consequences of Infidelity, a religious novel (185G) ; and Essays Ecclesiastical and Social (1850). He is best knovn, however, as joint author, with Rev. J. S. Howson, of the Life and Epistles of Saint Paul (1851). CONYEES, kon'yerz. A town and the county- seat of Rockdale County. Ga., 30 miles east-south- east of Atlanta; on the Georgia Railroad (Map: Cieorgia, B 2 ) . It is in a cotton-growing and granitc-quarrving countrv. Population, in 1890, 1349; in 1900, 1605. CONZE, kon'tse, Alexander (1831—). A German arch.Teologist. He was born at Hanover, and was educated at Gottingen and Berlin. He was professor of archa;ology at Halle (1863-69), Vienna (1869-77), and Berlin (1877-87). Ho was also director of the Berlin Museum, and in 1887 received an appointment as general secre- tary of the German Archieological Institute. His writings include chiefly, in addition to some gen- eral studies, the following descriptions of travel and excavations; Reise auf den Inseln des thrazischen Veercs (1S601: Arohiiologisclie Un- tersuchungen in Samothrcke (2 vols., Vienna, 1875-80) ; Beitriiqe zur Geschichte der griechi- schen Plastik (2d ed., Halle, 1869) ; Die Ergeb- nisse der Ansqrahunqen zu Perqamon (Reports 1-3, Berlin, 1880-88)." COO'DIES. The. A name applied to the New York Federalists who favored the War of 1812. It was derived from Abimalech Coody. the pseudo- nym adopted, in his conununications to the press, by Gulian C. Verplanck, the leader of the faction. Consult Hammond, The History of Political Par- ties in the State of ^eic York (4th ed., Coopers- town. 1846). COOK, MorNT (called by the Maoris Ahoar- angi, cloud-breaker). A mountain in the South- ern Alps, on the South Island, New Zealand. (Map; New Zealand. C 5). It has an alti- tude of 12,350 feet, • and is regarded as the highest point of Australasia. Its top is covered with perpetual snow. The first ascent was made in 1882. Since then the mountain has been repeatedly ascended and explored. COOK, Albert STANBURRorGH ( 1853—) . An American scholar, born at IMontville, N. J. He graduated in 1872 at Rutgers College, studied at the universities of Gottingen and Leipzig, and in 1879-81 was associate professor of English at the Johns Hopkins University. In 1882 he was appointed professor of English at the LTniversity of California, where he thoroughly reorganized the department, and through it indirectly in- fluenced the instruction in English in the entire State. In 1889 he was called to the chair of English language and literature at Yale Uni- versity. He became an editor of the Journal of (lermanic Philology, and has published a valuable translation of Sievers' Old English Grammar (Boston, 1S85), at once most favorably received and adopted as standard in the majority of the xuiivcrsities of the English-speaking world. His publications further include: The Phonological Jnvcsligation of Old English (1888) ; The Bible and English Prose Style (1892); The Art of Poetry (1892); The Artistic Ordering of Life (1898) ; and editi<ms of Leigh Hunt's What Is Poetry f (1893) ; of books i. and ii. of Paradise Lost (1896); and of the Christ of Cvnewulf (1900). COOK, Charles (1787-1858). An English Wesleyan clergjTnan, born in London. He was appointed in 1818 to the French mission of the Methodist Church in Normandy, and it was mainly by his exertions that Methodism was established in France. He engaged in a con- troers}' with Cesar Malan on predestination, which led to his work L'amour de Dieu pour tons les homines. Consult Cook, Life of Charles Cook (Paris, 1862). COOK, Clarence Chatham (1828-1900). An American art critic and author, born in Dor- chester, Mass. He gi'aduated at Harvard in 1849, studied architecture, and spent several years in teaching. He was a contributor of articles on American art to the New York Tribune, from 1863 until 1869, when he was appointed Paris correspondent for the same paper, and took up his ijsidence abroad. He re- mained in Paris until the outbreak of the Franco- Prussian War. when he returned to New York and resumed his former relations with the Tribune. Cook was one of the first American art critics, and on that subject, as well as archaeology, was an accepted authority. Besides his chief work. The House Beautiful (1878), he wrote Central Park 1 1 869 ) , and edited a translation of Liibke's History of Art (1878). From 1884 he edited The Studio for a number of years. COOK, Edward DuTTON (1829-83). An Eng- lish author and dramatic critic. He studied painting and engraving; with Leopold Lewis wrote a melodrama. The Dorc and the Serpent, in 1867-75 was dramatic critic of the Pall Mall Gazette, and from 1875 of the ^Vorld. Of his works in Action, the best knouTi is The Trials of the Trcdgolds (1864). COOK, Eliza (1818-89). An English poet, born in London. Her first volume, entitled Lays of a Wild Harp, she published in 1835, and, after writing considerably for periodicals, particularly the Tiff?.-??/ Dispatch, she published Melaia and Other Poeins ( 1838) . In 1849-54 she edited Eliza Cook's Journal, much of whose contents was re- published in Jottings from My Journal (1860). In yen- Echoes and Other Poems (1S64), she was not so successful as in previous works. Her un- pretentious verse, including, notablv. "God Speed the Plough," "The Old Armchair," and "The Star of Glengarry," has been very ])opular among a wide circle of readers in both England and America. A complete edition of her poetical works appeared in the "Cliandos Classics Series" (London. 1870) ; and they were also published in New York (1882). COOK, Francis Aiies (1843—). A United States naval officer. He was born in ^lassachu- setts, and in 1863 graduated at the L^nited States
