“Not in any sense an objective scientific study, but an assertion of principles that deserves attention.”
+ Booklist 17:54 N ’20
Reviewed by Ordway Tead
+ Dial 69:412 O ’20 640w + Ind 104:247 N 13 ’20 60w
“As a piece of argumentation ‘Parliament and revolution’ leaves a good deal to be desired. Its logical texture is not of the finest; too often it gives us assertion where we want demonstration; and as for ‘scientific’ and ‘unbiased,’ these adjectives, by which the book is described in the publishers’ advertisement on the paper cover, have no more to do with the case than the flowers that bloom in the spring.” R. L. Schuyler
− Nation 110:826 Je 19 ’20 850w
“In a measure, Mr Macdonald’s book is a salutary corrective to a good deal of loose vituperation. But there is another aspect to the matter with which he has failed to deal. Granted the ignorance and inertia of the modern electorate what, at bottom, are its causes?... The trade unions have an importance which Mr Macdonald altogether fails to give them in this study.” H. J. L.
+ − New Repub 22:383 My 19 ’20 1800w
“The book is one that, we warrant, will not fully satisfy any single Socialist. One feels himself at times tantalized between enjoyment of some excellent statement of principle or fact or analysis of some particular question, only to draw a conclusion here and there that appears to be a concession to conventional opinion. Yet the book will appeal to all but the romanticists and those of fixed opinions.” James Oneal