| + | Outlook. 86: 256. Je. 1, ’07. 90w. |
“When a writer of fiction sets out to defend or attack some system of religion or philosophy or politics or social economy, he must beware of producing a lecture instead of a tale. Mr. Zangwill, an enthusiastic Zionist, has frequently yielded to this weakness, and his ‘Ghetto comedies’ show that he is not done with it yet.”
| − + | R. of Rs. 35: 762. Je. ’07. 280w. |
“What one is perhaps most conscious of when reading Mr. Zangwill is the sureness of his level. His stories are not all of the same value but one is sure when beginning each of them that it will lead somewhere.”
| + | Sat. R. 103: 624. My. 18, ’07. 540w. |
“Alike in matter and manner this is a book of singular and engrossing interest.”
| + | Spec. 98: 677. Ap. 27, ’07. 1470w. |
Zartman, Lester William. Investments of life insurance companies. **$1.25. Holt.
7–451.
A book which does not attempt to reflect any of the agitation attending the recent official investigation of life insurance companies, but undertakes the “more congenial task of tracing the beneficent influences which life insurance accumulations have exercised upon the economic development of the country and the relation of those accumulations to social welfare.”