Lindsay, Charles Harcourt Ainslee Forbes-. America’s insular possessions. 2v. $5. Winston.
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A two-volume photogravure edition of a work devoted to America’s island possessions. The first volume includes the Great Antilles, Porto Rico, Guam, and Hawaii, while the second is devoted entirely to the Philippines. The history, growth, political development, industries, and resources of the islands are treated with little attention to controversial questions. For which omission in the second volume the author inserts a chapter of extracts from public addresses of the former governor, William H. Taft.
“With all its possible weaknesses and omissions, from the point of view of historical, economic and sociological science, the work is nevertheless the most comprehensive general treatise on some of our outlying possessions in relatively small space and for the ‘general reader’ that exists in the English language.” Carl C. Plehn.
| + + − | Ann. Am. Acad. 30: 179. Jl. ’07. 670w. |
“In short, as to the past and present, this book is interesting and valuable. As to the problem of the near future it is almost voiceless.”
| + | Nation. 83: 263. S. 19, ’07. 620w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 404. Je. 22, ’07. 160w. |
“The author’s views are frankly stated, but we see no indication that they have led him either to misreport any facts, to omit in his report any facts of significance, or to present the facts in false proportions on false relations.”
| + + | Outlook. 86: 479. Je. 29, ’07. 790w. |