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TAFT, HENRY WATERS. Occasional papers and addresses of an American lawyer. *$2.50 (2½c) Macmillan 304
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Of these addresses the author says, in his long introduction, that “the march of events has been so rapid that little more than a historic interest now attaches to the subjects they deal with,” but he hopes they may stimulate the younger members of the legal profession to greater effort in promoting the effective administration of justice and in the duties of citizenship. The contents, in part, are: Address to the Harvard law school students delivered in 1908; Some responsibilities of the American lawyer; The bar in the war; Report of the war committee; Aspects of bolshevism and Americanism; The League of nations; Sovereignty, constitutionality and the Monroe doctrine; What is to be done with our railroads? Some of the papers appeared in the New York Times.
“Mr Taft brings to his consideration of these subjects sound information and a forceful dignity of judgment.”
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“A fresh, clear viewpoint, together with that true liberalism which is the fruit of independent thought, makes these essays enjoyable. One of the most interesting of all is the introduction, in which there are some critical and friendly estimates of Theodore Roosevelt and of some of the things proposed by him—these latter more critical and not quite so friendly, though never ungenerous or unfair.”
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“They are uniformly clear, good tempered, and conservatively progressive.”