“[There is] piquancy which will commend the group to the most indifferent reader.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 743. N. 23, ’07. 240w. |
Train, Arthur Cheney. [Prisoner at the bar: side-lights on the administration of criminal justice.] **$2. Scribner.
6–43223.
“The object of Mr. Train’s book is to give a concrete idea of the actual administration of criminal justice in large cities. The book is by no means an academic essay in criminology, but the result of actual observation and experience, the author having been associated for some years with District Attorney Jerome as prosecutor in the criminal courts of New York city.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 75. Mr. ’07. |
“It is not too much to say that this volume is easily one of the most important books on penology of the last decade.” Carl Kelsey.
| + + | Ann. Am. Acad. 29: 235. Ja. ’07. 590w. |
“He has written an authoritative description of the machinery of criminal justice and has done his work so well that even he who runs may see the wheels go ’round.” Frederick Trevor Hill.