“M. Leroy-Beaulieu does not go behind the figures of the last census and his analysis is no more profound than that heard in a smoking-room after dinner.”
+ – Critic. 49: 94. Jl. ’06. 240w.
“The translation seems to have been well made, and though essentially statistical, the book as a whole may prove interesting to many who are not statistically inclined.”
+ + Engin. N. 55: 318. Mr. 15, ’06. 270w.
“It is not written in so interesting a style as Bryce’s ‘American commonwealth,’ and is more exclusively devoted to the commercial and industrial development of the United States, but is valuable as a competent and thoro discussion of our progress and problems from the impartial standpoint of a foreign statistician.”
+ Ind. 61: 1171. N. 15, ’06. 80w.
“Exhaustive examination of the resources and possibilities of the United States. What gives his book its greatest worth, besides making it extremely easy reading, is the deftness with which Mr. Leroy-Beaulieu has combined the proverbial Gallican weakness for generalization with an un-Gallican appreciation of the value of facts and figures.”
+ + Lit. D. 31: 999. D. 30, ’05. 850w. N. Y. Times. 11: 28. Ja. 13, ’06. 270w.
“He writes less as a critic than as an expositor.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 65. F. 3, ’06. 1030w.