+ Nation 111:566 N 17 ’20 1400w
“Not the least attractive feature of the book is a number of excellent illustrations. A great deal of valuable and interesting information about the labor laws and the industrial condition of soviet Russia is contained in a long appendix.” A. C. Freeman
+ N Y Call p10 Ag 15 ’20 680w R of Rs 62:221 Ag ’20 50w
MCCABE, JOSEPH. Taint in politics. *$2 Dodd 172.2
“This anonymous attack on the political world of the day deserves attention as a searching and forcible exposure of many undoubted abuses. Lack of principle, lightly disguised corruption, privileged incompetence, a pampered and leisurely civil service, slavish adherence to party, the substitution of oligarchy for any true democracy—these and such like features of public life are trenchantly and often convincingly attacked; and some historical chapters at the beginning trace the evolution of political corruption back to the middle ages. Though the writer has some suggestions at the end as to shorter parliaments, saving of parliamentary time, and, more broadly, the fundamental need of popular education, he is almost solely destructive; he is ‘not so much concerned with the method of purification as the establishment of the disease,’ and it is a real merit that he is absolutely impartial in his onslaught on the two—or three—parties and on the coalition.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
“The value of this anonymous criticism of present-day political affairs would be greatly enhanced were the writer able to confirm the hope held out at the commencement, that in spite of his summary dismissal of politics as everywhere and always more or less tainted, his attitude might eventually be something more than negative.”
− + Ath p50 Jl 9 ’20 200w
“The reader is likely to find, in this volume, additional reasons for congratulation that America has not become a partner in the international gaminghouse. The chapter on American conditions is disappointingly superficial.” C. N.
+ − Freeman 2:454 Ja 19 ’21 280w