“Within its chosen field a valuable reference book. The work has been done with much care and thoroughness, and the book is not by any means limited in its usefulness to those preparing for debates, although its peculiar adaptability to that purpose is evident.”
| + + + | Outlook. 80: 442. Je. 17, ‘05. 170w. |
Riordan, William L. [Plunkitt of Tammany hall.] [†]$1. McClure.
A series of very plain talks on very practical politics, delivered by ex-senator George Washington Plunkitt, the Tammany philosopher, from his rostrum—the New York county courthouse bootblack stand—and recorded by William L. Riordan. “For more than forty years he has seen the political game played in New York city.... His has been the peculiar distinction of holding four offices at one and the same time and drawing salaries for three of them.... He is the old-fashioned type of the professional politician, even in Tammany Hall, but he has a shrewd, homely sense that is not to be learned from books and that would be invaluable in a man without the moral crookedness that afflicts this man.”—Pub. Opin.
| Outlook. 81: 528. O. 28, ‘05. 90w. | ||
| Pub. Opin. 39: 477. O. 7, ‘05. 370w. | ||
| * | R. of Rs. 32: 638. N. ‘05. 170w. |
Ripley, William Zebina, ed. Trusts, pools and corporations. [*]$1.80. Ginn.
This volume is “a compilation of special articles, mainly by other well-known legal writers, on the great cases which have arisen relative to the status of corporate bodies. These cases extend over a period of thirty-five years, from the Michigan salt association ... in 1868 to the recent Northern securities company and the United States shipbuilding company.”—N. Y. Times.
“Doubtless the book will prove a valuable adjunct to the equipment of the student. But a further compilation and classification of cases would have been more reassuring to the student.”
| + + — | Ann. Am. Acad. 25: 593. My. ‘05. 170w. | |
| Dial. 38: 396. Je. 1, ‘05. 50w. |
“An important and valuable contribution to economic literature.”