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COOKE. 367 COOKE. Youth of Jefferson (1854) ; Ellie, or the Human Comedy (ISou); Henry Saint John, Gentleman (1859), a sequel to I'iryinia Comedians; Wear- inri of the Gray (18G7) and its sequel, Mohun; or, the Last Days of Lee and His Paladins (1808); Life of iitonetcall Jackson (18U3, 1S7G) ; Life of R. E. Lee (1871) ; and Viryinia: A History of the People (1883), an excellent book contributed to the "American Comniou- wealths Series." COOKE, JosiAH Parsoxs (1827-94). An American chemist, born in Boston. He graduat- ed at Harvard in 1844, and soon afterwards was appointed to the chair of chemistry and niiner- aloiij- at Harvard College. In this capacity he stimulated the scientific study of chemistry at collegiate institutions, urging laboratoiy instruc- tion, which, before his time, had not been intro- duced into the midergraduate course of American colleges. His publications include Chemical Problems and Reactions (1853) ; The Neiv Chem- istry (1871): Religion and Chemistry (1864); and The Credentials of Science the Warrant of Faith (1888). COOKE, JIoRDECAi CuBiTT (1825—). An English botanist, bom at Horning, in Norfolk. When a boy he was apprenticed in the draper's trade, afterwards acted as clerk in a law office, and subsequently taught school. At the age of tliirty-five he obtained a position in the India Museum, from which he wa.s transferred to the Kew Botanical Gardens in 1880. His publica- tions include more than forty botanical works, for the most part dealing with fungi, and includ- ing Manual of Botanic Terms (1862) ; A Fern Book for Everyhody (1867) ; Handbook of Brit- ish Fvnyi (1874) : Mycographia (6 vols., 1879) ; Illustrations of British Fungi (8 vols., 1881) ; An Introduction to the Study of Fungi (1895). COOKE, Philip Pendleton (1816-50). An American poet, elder brother of .John Esten Cooke and first cousin of John Pendleton Ken- nedy, the novelist. He was born at JIartinsburg, Va. He graduated at Princeton in 1834, and. like his more famous yovmger brother, studied law under his father, but preferred literary pur- suits, and contributed many poems and stories to the Southern Literary ilessenycr and other magazines. He was equally devoted to field s]>orts, which in part accounts for the fresh qual- ity of his work, especially of his Froissurt Bal- lads (1847). his only published book. In spite of a lyrical talent which once gained the com- mendation of Lowell, Cooke is little known save for his sweet lyric of sentiment "Florence Vane," which was popular and has been frequently translated. COOKE, PniLTP Saint Geobge (1809-95). An American soldier, bom near Leesburg, Va. He graduated at West Point and was assigned as second lieutenant of the Sixth Infantry in 1827, served for manv vears on the frontier, partici- pated in the Black Hawk War of 1832, and be- came lieutenant of dragoons in 1833. During the Mexican War he served from October. 1846, to July, 1849, in California as lieutenant-colonel of ■ a battalion of Missouri volunteers, and for a short time commanded a regiment in the City of Mexico, In 1847 he became major of the Sec- ond Dragoons. After 1849 he was reassigned to frontier duty, took part in several operations against the Indians, commanded the cavalry in the Utah Expedition of 1857-58, became colonel of the Second Dragoons in 1858, and from August, 1800, to August, 1861, was in command of the Department of L'tah. He was raised to the rank of brigadier-general in November, 1861, and participated as a conmiander of a cav- alry division in the Peninsular Campaign, com- manded the Baton Rouge District of the De- partment of the Gulf from October, 1803, to May, 1864, and from May, 1864, to ilarch, 1866, was general superintendent of the recruiting service. At the clo.se of the war he was brevetted major-general for 'gallant and meritorious services.' lie conunanded the Department of the Platte in 1806-07, the Department of the Cumberland in 1869-70, and the Department of the Lakes from 1870 until his retirement in 1873. He published Scenes and Adventures in the Army, or Ro- mance of Military Life (1856) ; The Conquest of Xew Mexico and California: An Historical and Personal arrative (1878); and .Yeit Cavalry Tactics (1884). COOKE. Rose Tebry (1827-92). An Ameri- can poet and writer of short stories, chiefly of New England rural life, whose prominent charac- teristics are pathos and humor. She was born at West Hartford, Conn,, and was educated at the Hartford Female Seminary. She lived chiefly at Collinsville till her marriage to R. H. Cooke in 1873, after which she lived at Winsted, Conn., till 1887, removing thence to Pittsfield, Mass., where she died in 1802. Her first published work was Poems (1860), which won cordial recogni- tion. A second and complete collection of her verses was made under the same title in 1888, but the earlier pieces remain the best. Her genial talent then turned to fiction, often defect- ive in form, but spontaneous, fresh in its humor, and keen in its perception of New England traits and character. Her volumes, except for a single novel. Steadfast (1889), are collections of short stories: Happy Dodd (1870) ; Somebody's Neigh- bors (1881): Root-Bound (1885): The Sphinx's Children (1886); Huckleberries (1891), Of in- dividual stories she is said to have regarded The Deacon's Week as best. It was translated into four languages and had a very wide circulation. Others deserving of special commendation are: Polly Mariner; Old Miss Dodd: and Freedom Wheeler's Controversy with Providence. COOKE, Thomas (1703-56). An English writer, Ioioanii as Hesiod Cooke. In 1725 he pub- lished a poem called The Battle of the Poets, in which he attacked Pope and the other wits, and was rewarded by a place in the Dun-ciad (ii. 138). He did a large amount of miscellaneous literary work and was for a time editor of the Craftsman. He has a deserved place in litera- ture as the translator of Hesiod (1728) and of Terence (1734). COOKE, Sir William FoxHERorLL (1806-79). An Englisli electrical engineer, born at Ealing, in Middlesex. He received his education at Dur- ham and Edinburgh, served on the Indian staff from 1826 to 1831, and then studied medicine- and the physical sciences in France and in Ger- many. In 1837 he entered into partnership with Wheatstone, and together with him rendered ser- vices of the highest importance to electrical en- gineering, especially to telegraphy. In 1838 he built the first English telegraph line, between