Reviewed by G: Soule
+ Nation 111:534 N 10 ’20 100w
“It is marred by a certain ignorance of American events, or at least American points of view.... But these evidences of careless historical reading and insufficient information about a foreign country, although they impair the value of Mr Fay’s book, do not prevent it from being a careful study of the economic life and free-handed study of its politics, written in a vivacious style.”
+ − N Y Times p13 S 26 ’20 1950w
“Mr Fay attempts to develop no clear-cut definite theories. He does not indulge in the harmless but futile pastime of prophecy. One of the freshest and most original portions of the book is in the chapters in which Mr Fay traces the prevalence and disastrous consequences of ‘semi-capitalism,’ the stage of transition from domestic industries to manufacture.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p359 Je 10 ’20 1650w
FAYLE, CHARLES ERNEST.[[2]] Seaborne trade. il *$7.50 (*12s 6d) Longmans 940.45
v 1 The cruiser period.
“From the outbreak of the war and the mobilization of the British fleet to the beginning of the submarine warfare, Mr Fayle covers every incident, every move of the Allied and the German fleets. He takes up in turn the flight of the Goeben and the Breslau to the shelter of the Dardanelles, the protection of the Atlantic terminals, the precautions taken to cover trade in the Far East, the situation in the South Atlantic, and the depredations of the Karlsruhe.”—Boston Transcript