“The book is a classic and we owe the translator a heavy debt for making it an English one. We can give him no higher praise than by affirming that there is nothing in the diction of the text to suggest its alien origin.”
+ + Sat. R. 102: 173. Ag. 11, ’06. 1900w.
Meyer, Hugo Richard. Government regulation of railway rates; a study of the experience of the United States, Germany, France, Austria-Hungary, Russia, and Australia. **$1.50. Macmillan.
“Very one-sided and, so far as our railway conditions come into consideration, often absolutely untruthful representations.” A. v. d. Leyen.
– – Am. J. Soc. 11: 683. Mr. ’06. 4400w.
“Unfortunately the author is temperamentally a doctrinaire and an advocate. His book evinces a great amount of study, but the results of his labor are greatly injured by the author’s unscientific spirit.” Emory R. Johnson.
– + Ann. Am. Acad. 28: 186. Jl. ’06. 1210w.
“Mr. Meyer’s book fully deserves first rank among the plentiful literature now appearing in behalf of the railway side of the rate-regulation controversy.”
+ – Arena. 36: 103. Jl. ’06. 2180w.
“Despite the wealth of erudition paraded in the footnotes, the cautious reader puts the treatise down, unsatisfied, incredulous.” Winthrop More Daniels.