“Too much emphasis cannot be laid upon the efficiency and inspiration afforded by these essays. ‘Charitable Effort,’ ‘Filial Affections,’ ‘Household Adjustment,’ ‘Industrial Amelioration,’ ‘Educational Methods,’ ‘Political Reform,’ are the topics treated in a masterly and revolutionary style. Miss Addams shatters some of our most cherished illusions upon the relations which should exist between the helper and the helped, between parent and child, mistress and maid, the members of a family, between the ‘boss’ and the community. She takes the subject entirely out of the realms of sentimentality, puts it upon a solid moral basis, and by a close and logical train of reasoning brings her conclusions home to the conscience and common sense of every member of the social structure. The book is startling, stimulating and intelligent.”—Philadelphia Ledger.
The Arbiter in Council
A discussion of peace and war, in which take part, each from his own viewpoint, a lawyer “with a conscience,” a stock broker, a learned professor of history, a journalist, a retired admiral, an army officer, and two clergymen of widely differing forms of church government. The Arbiter is a veteran student of politics, a disciple of John Bright.
“As a summary of all that is to be said on the subject, thrown into readable form, the book is well done; ... almost no topic is left untouched.”—Nation.
“What strikes one in reading this book even more than its readableness, is the wide range of its information.... The points of view offered are many and diversified.... No argument worth using is left unused.”—The Evening Mail.
“The subjects discussed include the causes and consequences of war; modern warfare; private war and the duel; perpetual peace or the federation of the world; arbitration, the political economy of war, and Christianity and war. It is a notable book, or will become one as it is widely read.”—Editorial in The Boston Herald.
“The Arbiter’s friends are drawn from several ranks in life, and they bring to the symposium wide reading in the literature of the subject, logical powers and a persuasive manner of speaking. ‘The Arbiter in Council’ may be regarded as a conspectus of the best thought on warfare, especially in relation to the topic of universal peace.”—Philadelphia Press.
6 + 567 pages, 8’vo., cloth, $2.50 net.
On many of the subjects touched upon in Miss Addams’s “The Newer Ideals of Peace” interesting material may be found in the volumes named below:—