“In spite of its theoretical weakness, the work has much to recommend it to serious students of monetary science. It furnishes one of the best available accounts of recent developments in money and banking.”
+ – Ind. 60: 398. F. 15, ’06. 450w.
“He has not always discriminated between what was novel to him and what would be new to a well-informed reader. His pages are encumbered with superfluous quotations upon unimportant topics. His historical chapters are sometimes painfully inadequate, and his treatment of theoretical subjects not always satisfactory.”
+ – Nation. 82: 118. F. 8, ’06. 210w.
“It would be difficult to name a treatise which blends facts and theory so well, applying each to the other in a manner so illuminating.”
+ + N. Y. Times. 10: 913. D. 23, ’05. 580w.
“As a writer he possesses an agreeable style and the ability so to present the most arid scheme that it becomes interesting even to a reader having a minimum of economic knowledge.”
+ + Outlook. 82: 614. Mr. 17, ’06. 1550w.
“While Mr. Conant’s work possesses the virtue of great comprehensiveness, it is the opinion of the reviewer that, to be of greatest use to the general reader and the university student alike, a book on money and banking should above all exhibit that unity and precision of theory which is the greatest lack in Mr. Conant’s work.” A. C. Whitaker.
+ – Pol. Sci. Q. 21: 332. Je. ’06. 1720w.