“She sprinkles her sprightly narrative with much information, some of it intentional and some of it unconscious, about the native character and the nature and resources of the islands.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 702. N. 2, ’07. 420w. |
Russell, Charles Edward. Uprising of the many. **$1.50. Doubleday.
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Questions are answered here that grow out of “the threat of a moneyed autocracy, the passing of wealth, and the power for which wealth stands, into the hands of a few.” “These chapters, largely a republication of material that has already appeared in Everybody’s magazine, form a powerful indictment against the shameless greed of ‘vested interests,’ and exhibit our own country as tolerating, constitutionally, legally, and by tacit consent, some of the most outrageous injustices in the history of the world.” (Dial.)
“His book is rich in instructive matter.”
| + | Dial. 43: 256. O. 16, ’07. 270w. |
“Has collected an immense amount of information that is of value to the perplexed student of current economic conditions in this country. The author’s view is a partizan one and occasionally passes over fairly obvious defects in the workings of the system of governmental and municipal control and ownership which he describes.”
| + − | Lit. D. 35: 578. O. 19, ’07. 390w. |