“This is the book of a lawyer, but one written less for lawyers than for those, whatever may be their lines of life, who are now studying from the historical standpoint the Rooseveltian theory of constitutional government.” Simeon E. Baldwin.
| + | No. Am. 184: 311. F. 1, ’07. 1530w. |
“The rarity of lapses emphasizes the scrupulous care with which the work has been prepared, while the industry, skill and conviction of the author make criticism difficult.” H. A. Cushing.
| + + − | Pol. Sci. Q. 22: 716. D. ’07. 1120w. | |
| R. of Rs. 35: 382. Mr. ’07. 40w. |
Prentis, John Harcourt. Case of Dr. Horace: a study of the importance of conscience in the detection of crime. †$1.25. Baker.
7–12637.
In the interests of psychology, to prove how great a part the conscience of a criminal plays in the detection of his crime, two friends devise a daring test. They substitute the body of a man who died at a hospital for Dr. Horace, who promptly disappears on a two weeks’ vacation. They arrange the body so that murder is evident, they furnish a motive and every clue points to Wallace, the other man in the plot, as the murderer. Then follows the work of the detectives on the trail of the murderer without a conscience. The story is interesting, and the end is clever, altho it evades the psychological point.
“The story, however, though readable thruout, weakens deplorably in the latter chapters.”
| + − | Nation. 84: 457. My. 16, ’07. 370w. |