“What should prove the best text in its field. Particularly to be commended are the careful analysis of the demand for money, the discussion of ‘fiat’ money and the treatment of the difficult subject of credit.”
+ + + Nation. 82: 366. My. 3, ’06. 140w.
“Few or none which will better repay study by the serious merchant who wishes help by which to forecast the future and protect himself against reverses which come to many unawares and not understood.” Edward A. Bradford.
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 354. Je. 9, ’06. 2200w.
“Professor Johnson’s book is a welcome addition to the voluminous literature of money, and, with its errors of detail eliminated, it will, without doubt, take rank among the best of the general works upon the subject.” A. Piatt Andrew.
+ + – Pol. Sci. Q. 21: 714. D. ’06. 1870w.
Johnson, Owen, Max Fargus. †$1.50. Baker.
A most unpleasing group of people are met with in the course of this story, which is interesting because the characters are well drawn, and the plot is well handled. Max Fargus, an old miser, rich thru the astute management of his oyster houses, meets in the park an impoverished actress who shrewdly leads him on and, posing as a country girl, actually wins his affections. He has her investigated, however, by a shyster lawyer before he marries her and the lawyer drives a crafty bargain with the girl, by which, in return for his favorable report, he is to receive half her gains. After marriage Fargus becomes suspicious and later works out a revenge which succeeds so well that all the leading characters are left either dead or miserable and the shyster’s partner, who has become his enemy, receives the Fargus money.
“There is something exceedingly refreshing in the very grimness of Mr. Johnson’s new story. It would be high praise—perhaps too high praise—to say that the characters are as well drawn as they are named.” Firmin Dredd.