+ − Cath World 112:400 D ’20 200w
“The author has looked about him with sympathy and understanding; and he has pondered in his heart over the things he has seen. Curious intolerances stand out the more abruptly by reason of the general temper of liberality and discrimination which marks the book as a whole. The book has it in it to do for its readers the most fruitful service possible in these bewildering times. It might and should start them thinking.” R: Roberts
+ − Freeman 2:91 O 6 ’20 1000w + Ind 104:69 O 9 ’20 80w
“One may share his vision without subscribing to his specific educational program.”
+ Nation 111:277 S 4 ’20 390w
“He seems to assume, as is usual nowadays, that democracy, as distinguished from aristocracy and monarchy, can somehow be made immortal, and that education can of course succeed where religion has failed. Granting these assumptions, the only fault to find with his work is that it appears, here and there, sometimes hasty and again fatigued. To wake it into literary life would have required an interval of repose. For that very reason, it is the more valuable as a document.”
+ − Review 3:94 Jl 28 ’20 170w + School R 28:637 O ’20 170w
“By an accurate understanding of the French character as well as of our own, Prof. Erskine is able to make this study of Americanism very illuminating.”
+ Springf’d Republican p8 Ag 20 ’20 250w
“They are happily written and are frequently stimulating, but their neglect of social undercurrents—economic and psychological, which determine the application of intelligence, and are not deflected by it—mars their value.” N. W. Wilensky