“Illuminating volume.”
| + + | Spec. 99: sup. 460. O. 5, ’07. 860w. |
Barker, J. Ellis. Rise and decline of the Netherlands: a political and economic history and a study in practical statesmanship. *$3.50. Dutton.
7–6776.
“It is a political pamphlet, in which the author makes use of material professedly furnished by the history of the Dutch republic for the purpose of a long invective against the evils of democratic and party government, and especially against the particular form of government which exists in Great Britain. Mr. Ellis Barker also writes undisguisedly as an advocate holding a brief on behalf of the necessity of Great Britain’s adoption of a strong imperialist and federal policy based on the maintenance of a powerful navy and army.”—Lond. Times.
“Mr. Barker’s book will itself divide men into two parties: tariff reformers will applaud its conclusions, whilst free traders will say that the colours are laid on thickly for the very party purpose which Mr. Barker denounces.”
| + − | Acad. 72: 57. Ja. 19, ’07. 920w. |
“The over-abundance of quotations, apt and inapt alike, are wearisome and weaken the argument which contains some wheat to a large proportion of chaff.”
| − + | Am. Hist. R. 12: 922. Jl. ’07. 420w. |