“The book brings nothing particularly new to the comment of the Georgians, but it does furnish the most compact and pleasurable volume put together so far about these men. Mr Moore’s chapter on Alan Seeger is particularly gratifying to an American.” H. S. Gorman
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“Our view is that Mr Moore has failed, first, because he has let himself be seduced by the prevailing fashion into dealing with writers who in some cases owe more to their gallantry than to their verse, and secondly, because in his heart he does not, possibly with the exception of Brooke and Grenfell, at all believe in those whom he here praises.”
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“He is a coach rather than a judge, and this is partly what will make his book so agreeable to the general reader, for, owing to his desire to help, his approval is never insipid nor his blame cantankerous. He is also a master of the comparative method.”
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MOREL, EDMUND DEVILLE. Black man’s burden. *$1.50 Huebsch 960
(Eng ed 20–22707)
The purpose of the book is to convey a clear notion of the atrocious wrongs which the white people have inflicted upon the black, and to lay down the fundamental principles of a humane and practical policy in the government of Africa by white men. As a comprehensive survey of Europe’s relations with Africa is not within the scope of the book the author has sectionalized the determining impulses of European intervention and has given specific examples under each section. He has also shown the inter-action between European affairs and the proceedings of European governments in Africa, making the former an inevitable aftermath of the latter. The first two chapters are explanatory of the white man’s and the black man’s burden and the rest of the book is divided into three periods: (1) The slave trade; (2) Invasion, political control, capitalistic exploitation; (3) Reparation and reform.