“It is not to be expected that a work like this can pass unchallenged, and the soundest of criticism and the most profound of scholarship should be invoked before an exact estimate can be made of its value. But the erudition displayed in this volume is enough to make us wait with impatience Professor Wiener’s second volume.” G. H. S.
+ Boston Transcript p8 N 13 ’20 1050w
“Worthless as a scholarly contribution, the book provides the psychologist with a valuable example of distorted erudition and methodological incompetence.”
− Dial 69:213 Ag ’20 90w
“His book indicates the widest scholarship.” W. E. B. Du Bois
+ Nation 111:350 S 25 ’20 390w
WIGMORE, JOHN HENRY. Problems of law; its past, present, and future. *$1.50 Scribner 340
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“Professor Wigmore discusses the law’s evolution, its mechanism in America, and its problems as they relate to world legislation and America’s share therein. These lectures constituted one series of the Barbour-Page foundation lectures at the University of Virginia.” (N Y Evening Post) “It is assumed by Dean Wigmore that a new age is at hand, for which a considerable amount of new legislation will be required, and in view of this fact he urges that our legislators must be made experts ‘(1) by reducing their numbers, (2) by giving them longer terms, (3) by paying them enough to justify it [that is, apparently, the work of legislation] as a career for men of talent, (4) by making their sessions continuous.’” (Review)