“Simplicity of style, singleness of aim, earnestness of purpose, an entire absence not only of cant but of professionalism in all its forms, but above all a certain virility of spirit, characterize these addresses.”
| + + | Outlook. 86: 77. My. 11, ’07. 270w. |
Reviewed by Montgomery Schuyler.
| + | Putnam’s. 3: 228. N. ’07. 470w. | |
| + | Yale R. 16: 108. My. ’07. 140w. |
Hadley, Arthur Twining. Standards of public morality; the Kennedy lectures for 1906, in the school of philanthropy conducted by the Charity organization society of the City of New York. **$1. Macmillan.
7–21398.
Five essays entitled, The formation of public opinion, The ethics of trade, The methods of corporate management, The workings of our political machinery, The political duties of a citizen. In these chapters the author discusses present evils from the standpoint of the historian, the economist and the good citizen.
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 165. O. ’07. S. |
“Excellent though the book is, a little more of the ‘scorn of scorn,’ the ‘hate of hate,’ the love of all ideals of even impossible perfection, might have been expected—and twenty years ago would have been expected—in a New England college president’s treatment of the subjects discussed.”