“Among the best features of Professor Frank’s[sp?] book, which is characterized throughout by knowledge, precision of statement, and acuteness of observation, as well as by vigor of style and vitality of thought, is the skill with which he has utilized the archaeological sources of information.” W. S. Ferguson
+ − Am Econ R 10:801 D ’20 1500w
“As a study of the economic development of the city of Rome, the governing centre of the civilized world, it stands alone in its completeness, in the thorough use which the author has made of available evidence, in the sound judgment which he has shown, and in the clear, convincing way in which he has set forth his conclusions.” F. F. Abbott
+ Am Hist R 26:309 Ja ’21 560w
FRANK, WALDO DAVID. Dark mother. *$2.50 Boni & Liveright
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“Mr Frank’s is one of those long novels of the type which Theodore Dreiser has popularized, with a minute description of the adventures of one or two young men, coming to New York from the West, giving especial emphasis to their amatory experiences, and reflecting sarcastically upon the evils of capitalism. In this book it is the Spanish war which enters incidentally into the story.”—Review
Reviewed by Paul Rosenfeld