“The author, like Adam Smith, possesses a cosmopolitan mind which enables him in many cases to present more than one view and explanation of the same matter. This cosmopolitan spirit which runs through the work will commend it to a larger circle of readers. The book deserves and will no doubt receive a wide circulation as a supplementary college text.” Enoch Marvin Banks.
+ + Ann. Am. Acad. 27: 256. Ja. ’06. 1220w.
“The generic adverse criticism to be passed on the book is that the author has not succeeded in dominating the almost perplexing variety and richness of the material on which he has drawn.” Winthrop More Daniels.
+ – Atlan. 97: 850. Je. ’06. 690w.
“So great are the solid merits of the new book, however, that there can be no doubt of its ultimate success and wide adoption. Professor Seligman’s clearness and conciseness of style has enabled him to handle his great store of materials with conspicuous success.” R. C. V.
+ + Bookm. 22: 531. Ja. ’06. 530w.
“After all this litigiousness of disposition on the part of the reviewer—this overzeal in the discovery of material for dispute—it is equally a pleasure and a duty to express hearty commendation and cordial appreciation of this new treatise in its quiet, scholarly, effortless dignity and grace of style, its surpassing felicity of statement, its clarity and effectiveness of exposition, and, above all, its winning catholicity of temper and sympathy.” H. J. Davenport.
+ + – J. Pol. Econ. 14: 143. Mr. ’06. 13420w.
“With all its merits, therefore, professor Seligman’s ‘Principles’ has, upon its theoretical side, serious shortcomings. As a book of reference it should prove highly valuable—more so, in fact, than any other recent work.”
+ + – Nation. 82: 390. My. 10, ’06. 1210w.