Bosanquet, Helen (Mrs. Bernard Bosanquet). Family. *$2.75. Macmillan.
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“This book is a sociological study in which the ethical interest is clearly recognized throughout as the dominant interest. It is the history of an institution considered as embodying certain moral ideas. In tracing the development of the family, in examining its various forms, and in tracing its relation with other institutions, Mrs. Bosanquet keeps unfalteringly the human point of view. The book is quite uncontroversial in tone.... The first part is historical.... The second part treats of the modern family—its bases, economic function, its constituent parts, its outlook.”—Int. J. Ethics.
“Mrs. Bosanquet gives us a rich collection of truths; but they are not the whole truth; and without the whole truth the whole picture of the family becomes distorted,” C. S. Devas.
| + − | Acad. 71: 573. D. 8, ’06. 1400w. |
“Preserving throughout the ethical interest, the optimistic view. Written in a luminous, easy style.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 192. N. ’07. |
“The author has done a valuable work in bringing together the results of the most careful investigators into the early history of the institution as well as a study of the modern family.” Emily Fogg Meade.
| + + | Ann. Am. Acad. 30: 173. Jl. ’07. 450w. |