Reviewed by Montgomery Schuyler.
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 749. N. 17, ’06. 1300w. + Outlook. 84: 530. N. 27, ’06. 10w.
Devine, Edward Thomas. Efficiency and relief: a programme of social work. **75c. Macmillan.
“The inaugural address of Mr. Edward T. Devine on the occasion of his taking the Schiff Professorship of social economy at Columbia University.... His subject is ‘Efficiency and relief,’ and he discusses modern methods of increasing the industrial efficiency of the individual and at the same time of providing adequate relief for those who are of deficient wage-earning capacity.”—Ind.
+ Am. J. Soc. 11: 707. Mr. ’06. 110w.
“Large and fine as is the outlook of this lecture, it lacks something of complete analysis of the aim of charity. The treatment is, indeed, broader than the definition; the spirit of the author is wider than the programme he outlines; and the lectures which will follow will pass beyond the territory which can be accurately named ‘economics.’” C. R. Henderson.
+ – Am. J. Soc. 12: 423. N. ’06. 180w.
“Those who are interested in these great problems of social advance will find this address most helpful and stimulating.”