| + + | Spec. 94: 253. F. 18, ‘05. 930w. |
Lydston, G. Frank. Diseases of society. [**]$3. Lippincott.
“A study of social conditions in this country. The police criminal, the anarchist, and the large number of moral and physical law-breakers are here discussed. The author also deals with such questions as the oppression of wealth, the rights and wrongs of organized capital and labour, the negro question, and the offences of society at large. The book is well illustrated.”—Bookm.
“The style, although brilliant at times, is open to much criticism. It is verbose, often disconnected and rambling. In spite of many blemishes the book is of great value. With the general thesis of the book and a large percentage of the conclusions, the reviewer is in hearty sympathy and heartily commends it to students of social problems.” C. Kelsey.
| + + — | Ann. Am. Acad. 25: 350. Mr. ‘05. 1040w. |
“His examination of the question of crime seems exhaustive, his inferences inevitable.” Albert Warren Ferris.
| + + | Bookm. 21: 528. Jl. ‘05. 660w. |
“While here and there is much that is interesting, although at times crudely presented, the author like many others who write upon the subject errs in trying to prove too much from insufficient premises and newspaper gossip, and this is especially true when he treats of craniometry and physiognomy.” Allan McLane Hamilton.
| + — | Critic. 47: 183. Ag. ‘05. 1140w. |
“It has not the air of a serious book of science, and indeed contains here and there a misplaced facetiousness.”