The social usages of Washington, the seat of federal government and the home of a large official world, differ in many important respects from those of the rest of the country and these differences are made clear in this little volume which “covers not only the fixed etiquette of official circles but also the new social issues that have come up under the Roosevelt administration.” It will prove of value to all visitors at the national capital who wish to enjoy its public functions and meet its public people without being entangled in the intricacies of its etiquette.
Hall, H. Fielding. People at school. $3. Macmillan.
Mr. Hall says: “Some years ago I wrote ‘The soul of a people.’ It was an attempt to understand the Burmese, to see them as they do themselves, to describe their religion and its effect on them. This book is also concerned with the Burmese.... This is of the outer life, of success and failure, of progress and retrogression judged as nations judge each other.”
+ Acad. 70: 450. My. 12, ’06. 630w.
“‘A people at school’ will never, we think, attain the popularity of ‘The soul of a people:’ the tonic is never sought like the sweet. But it deserves to be read in conjunction with the other book, and no one can read it without learning much about some ten millions of our fellow-subjects.”
+ + – Ath. 1906, 1: 322. Mr. 17. 1340w.
“The work has little literary charm, but it is sane, lucid and instructive.”
+ – Lit. D. 32: 770. My. 10, ’06. 130w.
“Interesting if not very exhaustive, nor always entirely convincing.”