“The novel, though readable, has elements of artificiality.”
+ − Ath p590 Ap 30 ’20 110w
“For a piece of sensational fiction this novel is decidedly readable. The opening chapters in the cherry orchard are charming bits of description.”
+ N Y Evening Post p10 N 6 ’20 50w Sat R 130:80 Jl 24 ’20 80w
CLOW, FREDERICK REDMAN. Principles of sociology with educational applications. (Brief course ser. in education) $1.80 Macmillan 301
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“Mr Clow, who teaches in the State normal school at Oshkosh, Wisconsin, believes that sociological theory can be made, to a far greater extent than has hitherto been done, an instrument for the solution of practical and technical problems. The present text-book, which is divided into three parts, ‘The factors of society,’ ‘Social organization,’ and ‘Social progress,’ is intended to provide students with a basis upon which they can apply sociological principles to groups and institutions of which they form part or with which they are familiar. Each chapter of the exposition is followed by a list of ‘Topics’ to be assigned to individual students for special study, a series of ‘Problems’ for discussion and an elaborate table of bibliographical references. This careful work contains in addition a select list of books generally useful for further reading in the subject and indices of authors, books, periodicals and subjects.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
“The book is encyclopedic rather than systematic. It treats in succession a great variety of topics, but one is left at the end of the book with a confused idea and without any view of a general systematic theory of society or of school organization. It would be very difficult to put this book into the hands of elementary students unless the author himself were so thoroughly inspired by the importance of sociology that he could carry the student far beyond the compass of the text itself.”
+ − El School J 20:713 My ’20 580w + School R 28:389 My ’20 280w + The Times [London] Lit Sup p404 Je 24 ’20 150w