+ Nation 111:252 Ag 28 ’20 190w
“Suggestive as are Mr Jones’s opinions and arguments, stimulating as they are and thought-provoking, they are calculated for the meridian of Greenwich and not for that of Washington—which may make them a little less useful to us, although none the less entertaining.”
+ − N Y Times 24:389 Ag 3 ’19 2100w
“Throughout the book there are passages that deserve a praise that cannot be accorded to the whole as a statement of first principles or as a treatise upon education.”
+ − No Am 212:428 S ’20 1850w
“He can not write either lifelessly or tediously. He can not write foolishly, either; and, although you may now and again disagree with him, you will hardly find him repellently unsympathetic. On the other hand, you may be apt to feel, he does not leave you much of anywhere.”
+ − Review 3:111 Ag 4 ’20 500w + St Louis 18:56 Ap ’20 40w
“Mr Jones is in the mood of a man who has had a bad piece of work palmed off on him and writes an indignant letter to the Times about it. His book is a whole collection of indignant letters. The truth is that Mr Jones has not thought out his arraignment.”
− Springf’d Republican p11a Jl 18 ’20 1100w The Times [London] Lit Sup p183 Ap 17 ’19 540w
JONES, HERBERT. Well of being. *$1.50 Lane 821