“Barring a few unlucky wanderings into Arabic, its pictures and impressions, dashed in, it is true, in a broad exclamatory style, are very vivid, interesting, and substantially correct.”
+ – Nation. 83: 392. N. 8, ’06. 310w.
“The author loves his subject; he knows it, and though he has already written three weighty tomes upon Morocco, he yet finds much unknown to the unswinkt tourist, with which to delight. Perhaps this is the best of his work upon the Moors and their land. Throughout the book journalese is veilless and shameless, though in reproducing the sayings of the people he often reveals that he appreciates their grave and sententious style.”
+ + – Sat. R. 101: 79. Ja. 20, ’06. 1840w.
Meakin, (James Edward) Budgett. Model factories and villages. $1.90. Wessels.
“Mr. Meakin’s book is divided into two parts, the first section dealing largely with the elementary efforts made by manufacturers whose buildings were situated in the centres of cities toward ameliorating the conditions of light, air, sanitation, dining facilities, and recreation; and with the efforts, more inherently successful, of those who had recognized the underlying principle that cheap land, away from the heart of the city, in a district that might be suitably surrounded by the homes of the workingmen, was the essential for real improvement.... The second half of Mr. Meakin’s book deals with ‘industrial housing,’ and ... illustrates the success which manufacturers have had, in their various and varied schemes, toward surrounding their workshops with ideal villages. The whole book is strongly indicative of the trend towards co-operation that modern industry is taking.”—Dial.
“Mr. Meakin’s object in this interesting presentation of the efforts towards ‘ideal conditions of labour and housing’ is frankly propagandist.”
+ Ath. 1905, 2: 46. Jl. 8. 520w.
“Contains an immense amount of information, both interesting and instructive, in regard to the progress made during the past century in matters referring to the welfare of the laborer and artisan.”