“We find it hard to believe the average railway is so immaculate as Mr. Pratt makes out. On the other hand, the book brings out clearly the strong points of English railways, their safety, and the superior accommodation they give to both passengers and goods.”
| + — | Acad. 68: 635. Je. 17, ‘05. 270w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 575. S. 2, ‘05. 350w. | ||
| Sat. R. 100: 187. Ag. 5, ‘05. 270w. |
Pratt, Edwin A. Trade unionism and British industry. [*]$1.50. Dutton.
These articles appeared in the London Times in the fall of 1901 under the title of “The crisis in British industry.” They comprise a study of the industrial conditions in England. The trade-union situation in twenty of the leading British industries is fully treated, and a rather severe judgment on trade-union policy and practice is given.
“Seemingly intimate bearing upon the fiscal controversy. The book, taken as a whole, is a severe indictment of what is called the ‘new unionism’—the militant unionism. Hostility to trade-unionism is written large on every page from cover to cover, and the author’s very evident bias makes one question rather than accept his conclusions. The book is interesting and informational. The impression grows upon one as he reads that the investigation was not a colorless seeking after truth, but an attempt to find facts which would bear out a theory already formed, and that the trade-unionist was really judged without notice and without a hearing.” Edith Abbott.
| + — — | J. Pol. Econ. 13: 129. D. ‘04. 1140w. |
Prentys, E. P. and Kametaro Sesamoto. Japanese for daily use. 75c. Jenkins.
“A booklet which will fit the pocket and help the traveller. It is full of real talk, brief, to the point, and wholly free from that exaggeration of honorifics heard on the stage and overworked by novelists and Japanophiles.... Numbers, money, postal rates, and helps to pronunciation have not been forgotten in this capital manual.”—Nation.
“We have failed to find a misprint in its sixty-three pages.”
| + + + | Nation. 81: 13. Jl. 6, ‘05. 80w. | |
| * | + | R. of Rs. 32: 253. Ag. ‘05. 40w. |