“We have as a result a comprehensive discussion of administrative organization in the United States, in which the organization of the general, State, and local governments, the relation of the officials to the public, and the forms of control over official action are analyzed with a degree of clearness and force which give to the work a high position in the literature of American politics.” L. S. Rowe.
+ + Yale R. 15: 97. My. ’06. 290w.
Goodrich, Arthur Frederick. Balance of power: a novel. $1.50. Outing pub.
This novel “deals with a factory situation and the rise of a strong young man whose ability is characterized by the word ‘inevitable’; but the excellence of the book is in its fiber ... and a statement of the plot conveys but little.” (Outlook.) “Among the characters which are many and diversified, the most interesting, probably, is the bluff old colonel who is a sort of self appointed oracle of the town. This Yankee Mars struts through the book with the air of a man who has smelt powder and who knows a thing or two, and the way in which he imposes what he calls his opinions upon the yokels of Hampstead is very wonderful.” (Lit. D.)
“A good, readable story, and an interesting contribution to that modern type of American fiction which depicts our keen, progressive industrial life, alongside of the life of society and of the home.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ Bookm. 24: 249. N. ’06. 270w. + – Lit. D. 33: 473. O. 6, ’06. 160w.
“Mr. Arthur Goodrich had a good story to tell. He has told it very cleverly, too, although with overmuch coquetry with his plot in the first third of the book.”
+ – N. Y. Times. 11: 669. O. 13, ’06. 470w.
“It is one of the truest studies of the phase of American life of which it treats that have been made in fiction, and also one of the most interesting of the novels of the season.”