Reviewed by Everett Kimball
Am Pol Sci R 14:512 Ag ’20 490w Booklist 16:298 Je ’20
“Failing entirely to understand the play of actual economic forces in the production and distribution of income, it is natural that Dr Butler should conclude that strikes and industrial wars are simply the result of an ignorance of the true and complete harmony of interests between capital and labor. Dr Butler pleads for ‘cooperative individualism into a moral purpose.’ But we cannot help feeling that he has not got any intelligible grip upon this moral purpose, and therefore shows a feeble hold upon the very principle of individual liberty whose championship he assumes.” O. O.
− Nation 110:728 My 29 ’20 1350w
“There are no compromises of principles in this book, and the author makes no concessions to those demands made through the cries of the herd. To all Americans who need a mental tonic today, and to all who feel that their confidence in law and the application of law to life needs strengthening, and to all who believe that this republic is not to drift at the mercy of every wind of doctrine, this very seminal volume belongs of right.” M. F. Egan
+ N Y Times 25:203 Ap 25 ’20 3450w + R of Rs 61:556 My ’20 60w
“Read aright, the book is a masterly and no doubt timely defence of American institutions and the principles underlying them.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p363 Je 10 ’20 1150w The Times [London] Lit Sup p671 O 14 ’20 40w
BUXTON, NOEL EDWARD, and LEESE, C. LEONARD. Balkan problems and European peace. *$1.75 Scribner 949.6