“As a book it suffers from two distinct faults. In the first place it tries to cover too much ground. No one can write a competent survey of every aspect of socialism in a moderate-sized volume. The book attempts, in the second place, a treatment of the most recent events in the socialistic movement at a time when the evidence for anything more than a bare and jejune statement of congressional resolutions is simply not available. Yet the book transcends these deficiencies. It shows, even to an outsider, what immense justification there is for a faith in the prospects of socialism.” H. J. Laski
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“Any one interested in the labor movement will use his book several times a week. Its mass of facts is not a mess, but an orderly mobilized compilation.” Arthur Gleason
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LAING, MARY ELIZABETH.[[2]] Hero of the longhouse. (Indian life and Indian lore) il *$1.60 (2½c) World bk.
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The “hero of the longhouse” is the historical Hiawatha, an entirely different person from the legendary figure in Longfellow’s poem. The real Hiawatha lived in the fifteenth century, was a member of the Onondaga tribe and was one of the founders of the League of the Iroquois and the author has drawn her story from the most authentic sources, chiefly from Horatio Hale’s Iroquois book of rites and manuscripts in the New York state archaeological department. Arthur C. Parker, state archæologist, writes an introduction, and there is a bibliography and glossary. The story has been told primarily for school children.
LAKE, KIRSOPP. Landmarks in the history of early Christianity. *$3 Macmillan 270.1
“The purpose of the book, briefly stated, is to trace the Greek and oriental ideas in Christian thought and practice by reference to six early centers—Galilee, Jerusalem, Antioch, Corinth, Rome and Ephesus. The work aims to illuminate critical points rather than to provide a complete survey, and it may be said to focus sharply the searchlight of thought upon salient aspects of the large subject. Prof. Lake first presented the substance of these chapters in a series of lectures at Oberlin college.”—Springf’d Republican