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Principles and Practice of Civil Engineering at the Royal Engineers' Establishment for Field Instruction at Chatham. The course of lectures Mr. Conybeare delivered at Chatham, which was published in 1857, contains the first recommendation published for the use of iron in land defences, and several other suggestions which have since been carried out. In April, 1869, Mr. Conybeare was appointed by the Home Secretary to design and carry out certain works of drainage required to be executed under the authority of the Home OffiCe and of the Local Government Act, at Southover, in Sussex. In 1878 he was engaged at Caracas, in Venezuela.

COOK, Dutton, born in London in 1832, was educated at private schools and at King's College, London, and served articles in the office of his father, George Simon Cook, solicitor, of London, formerly of Grantham, Lincolnshire. He studied painting and engraving, and at one time sought employment on Punch as a draughtsman on wood. He was engaged from 1868 to 1871 as assistant editor of the Cornhill Magazine. From 1867 to 1875 he filled the post of dramatic critic to the Pall Mall Gazette, and he has since been attached in that capacity to The World newspaper. He has also acted as the fine art reviewer of the same journal. Mr. Cook has written upon fine art topics in various reviews, has contributed to many periodicals and journals, and has published the following works of fiction:— "Paul Foster's Daughter" (1861); "A Prodigal Son" (1862); "The Trials of the Tredgolds" (1864); "Leo" (1864); "Sir Felix Foy, Bart." (1865); "Hobson's Choice " (1866); " Dr. Muspratt's Patients " (1868); "Over Head and Ears" (1868); "Young Mr. Nightingale " (1874); "The Banns of Marriage" (1875); and "Doubleday's Children" (1877). He has also published a collection of essays and studies, entitled "Art in England" (1869); a "Book of the Play: studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character" (1876); "Hours with the Players" (1881); and "Nights at the Play: a view of the English Stage" (2 vols., 1883). Mr. Dutton Cook married in 1874 Miss Linda Scates, Associate of the Royal Academy of Music, and Professor of Music at the Ladies' College, Cheltenham.

COOK, Eliza, poetess, the daughter of a respectable tradesman in Southwark, was born about 1818. At an early age she contributed to various periodicals, including the New Monthly, Metropolitan, Literary Gazette, &c., and published in 1810 a volume of poems, which at once attracted the attention of the public, and stamped her as a writer of great merit and origrinality. She more than sustained this favoured position in the "Journal" which bore her name, and which was published weekly from 1849 until 1854, when, on account of failing health, it was given up, to the great regret of its readers. Her poems, reprinted in a collected form, have passed through numerous editions, and a beautifully illustrated Christmas volume was issued in 1860. She published another volume, entitled "New Echoes, and other poems," in Oct., 1864, and obtained a literary pension of £100 per annum the same year.

COOK, The Rev. Frederic Charles, M.A., born about 1810, received his academical education at St. John's College, Cambridge (B.A., 1831; M.A., 1844). He became chaplain of Lincoln's Inn in 1860; a canon residentiary of Exeter cathedral in 1864; chaplain in ordinary to the Queen; chaplain to the Bishop of London in 1869; and precentor of Exeter in 1872. Mr. Cook, who was formerly one of Her Majesty's Inspectors of Schools, has published, the "Acts of the