upon his widow. But in his life a very inadequate share of
official reward was dealt out to the man who not only may be placed
first among British maritime discoverers, but also gave his country her
title, and so her colonies, in Australasia. As a commander, an observer
and a practical physician, his merits were equally great. Reference has
been made to his survey work and to his victory over scurvy; it must not
be forgotten that along with a commanding personal presence, and with
sagacity, decision and perseverance quite extraordinary, went other
qualities not less useful to his work. He won the affection of those who
served under him by sympathy, kindness and unselfish care of others as
noteworthy as his gifts of intellect.

See the _Account of a Voyage round the World in 1769-1771, by Lieut.
James Cook_, in vols. ii. and iii. of Hawkesworth's Voyages (1773);
the _Voyage towards the South Pole and round the World ... in ...
1772-1775, written by James Cook_ ... (1777); a _Voyage to the Pacific
Ocean ... in 1776-1780_, vols. i. and ii. written by Cook (1784); also
the _Narrative of the Voyages round the World performed by Captain
James Cook_, by A. Kippis, D.D., F.R.S. (1788), long the standard life
of the navigator, but now superseded by Arthur Kitson's _Captain James
Cook, the Circumnavigator_ (1907). (C. R. B.)

COOK, THOMAS (1808-1892), English travelling agent, was born at
Melbourne in Derbyshire on the 22nd of November 1808. Beginning work at
the age of ten, he was successively a gardener's help and a wood-turner
at Melbourne, and a printer at Loughborough. At the age of twenty he
became a Bible-reader and village missionary for the county of Rutland;
but in 1832, on his marriage, combined his wood-turning business with
that occupation. In 1836 he became a total abstainer, and subsequently
became actively associated with the temperance movement, and printed at
his own expense various publications in its interest, notably the
_Children's Temperance Magazine_ (1840), the first of its kind to appear
in England. In June 1841 a large meeting was to be held at Loughborough
in connexion with this movement, and Cook was struck with the idea of
getting the Midland Counties Railway Company to run a special train from
Leicester to the meeting. The company consented, and on the 5th of July
there were carried 570 passengers from Leicester to Loughborough and
back at a shilling a head. This is belie