“To one who does not know the country ‘Seeing the west’ offers many valuable suggestions.”
+ N Y Evening Post p13 O 30 ’20 110w
“It is doubtful whether anyone has brought the same amount and quality of tourist information into so compact space before.”
+ Springf’d Republican p7a D 12 ’20 130w
DUNLAP, KNIGHT. Personal beauty and racial betterment. *$1 Mosby 575.6
20–7871
“The first part of the book, ‘The significance of beauty,’ seeks to explain in detail the characters of personal beauty—an explanation found exclusively in the reproductive needs of the race. The second part, ‘The conservation of beauty,’ points to its importance as an element in race improvement which, the author maintains, can according to all present evidence be brought about only by selection of the more fit. It also discusses briefly some of the more disputable means of eliminating the entirely unfit. Above all, however, the author directs his argument against economic interest as the decisive factor in selection and effectively presents the case for the cultivation of beauty and love marriage as indispensable to race preservation.”—Survey
Reviewed by E. S. Bogardus