“The novelization of the play ‘Prince Karl’ is distinctly unsatisfactory; it is crude, sketchy, and unreal; the faults that effective stage setting and clever acting would render oblivious in an acted drama become very salient in a narrative read in cold blood. There is no originality in either the plot or character portrayal.”
| − | Outlook. 87: 744. N. 30, ’07. 110w. |
Guthrie, William B. Socialism before the French revolution; a history. **$1.50. Macmillan.
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The first comprehensive attempt to meet the need of a record of the history of social reform from the time of More to the French revolution. The author emphasizes especially the fact that social theory is the outgrowth of social conditions and that social strivings and social ideals are by no means confined to the nineteenth or twentieth centuries. His captions are as follows: The beginning of social unrest of England, The social theories of Sir Thomas More, Life and times of Campanella, The socialism of Campanella, Eighteenth century radicalism in France; The social teachings of Morelly, and revolutionary radicals.
“His references to modern socialism are not always happy. There are frequent statements that need the saving grace of qualification; while the tone of some of them is jaunty rather than judicial.”
| + − | Ind. 63: 1004. O. 24, ’07. 320w. |
“If Dr. Guthrie’s work is open to severe criticism it is perhaps because of its conception of the nature of socialism and his assumption that the utopias of the period under discussion are to be taken as socialism.” R. F. Hoxie.
| + − | J. Pol. Econ. 15: 497. O. ’07. 540w. |