“The author begins by describing the present-day anarchistic philosophy and its developments, and then goes on to tell how its propagation is carried on in Paris by speaking, by conferences, by the anarchist press, and by acts—the last including insurrectionists’ outbreaks and individual crimes.”—Outlook.
“The author has done a rare thing. He has portrayed the radicals of society as men and women moved by all human emotions and not as human caricatures.”
| + + | Ann. Am. Acad. 26: 595. S. ‘05. 240w. | |
| + + | Dial. 39: 94. Ag. 16, ‘05. 220w. |
“There is plenty of picturesque material, and he makes the most of it. Ordinarily it would be no compliment to an author to say that his quotations are the best part of his book, but in this case it is, for they are so numerous, and well-chosen and are gathered from such diverse and often inaccessible sources as to form a valuable library of revolutionary literature.”
| + + | Ind. 58: 897. Ap. 20, ‘05. 690w. | |
| + — | Lond. Times. 4: 175. Je. 9, ‘05. 890w. | |
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 276. Ap. 29, ‘05. 1510w. (Outline of contents.) |
“It is a study of unusual thoroughness into the condition of Parisian life below the surface. The chapters are not as a rule, theoretical, but deal directly with actual life and observation, and in this way contain much that is picturesque and often even amusing.”
| + + | Outlook. 79: 1061. Ap. 29, ‘05. 260w. |
“An unusually earnest presentation of what modern anarchy stands for.”
| + + | Pub. Opin. 38: 757. My. 13, ‘05. 500w. | |
| + + | R. of Rs. 32: 123. Jl. ‘05. 200w. |
Sanborn, Mary Farley. Lynette and the congressman. (†)$1.50. Little.