+ – Ann. Am. Acad. 27: 444. Mr. ’06. 750w.

“The dejected feeling that Prof. Small’s book produces is mainly because of one’s inability to convince one’s self that the author believes that, there is any real truth or importance in this wordy farrago.” Winthrop More Daniels.

Atlan. 97: 852. Je. ’06. 1040w.

“As a book on general sociology this is a valuable contribution to the literature on the subject. While the interpretation of human experience is sufficiently emphasized, sufficient stress is not laid upon the evolution of human society as a means of arriving at a correct estimate of the present structure and activities.” Frank W. Blackmar.

+ + – Dial. 40: 146. Mr. 1, ’06. 1960w.

“His volume is rather for the student, perhaps we might say the advanced student, than for the interested but not especially prepared thinker on sociological problems.”

+ Outlook. 82: 273. F. 3, ’06. 420w.

Reviewed by Edward Alsworth Ross.

+ + Pol. Sci. Q. 21: 140. Mr. ’06. 980w.

Smet, Pierre-Jean de. Life, letters and travels of Father Pierre-Jean de Smet, S. J.; ed. by Hiram Martin Chittenden and Alfred Talbot Richardson. $15. Harper, F. P.