| + + + | Charities. 14: 641. Ap. 1, ‘05. 880w. |
“The book is not remarkable either in a sensational or a scientific sense.”
| + | Critic. 46: 382. Ap. ‘05. 160w. |
“The most earnest efforts to provide proper laws for the exclusion of undesirable aliens, with an efficient system for securing the enforcement of such laws, has resulted in little more than an evasion of them by the least desirable emigrants. Mr. Brandenburg traces the causes of this failure by an investigation as thorough and complete as it perhaps is possible to make.”
| + + | Dial. 38: 52. Ja. 16, ‘05. 200w. |
“Is of special interest for the reason that it offers a radical remedy for existing immigration evils.”
| + + | Reader. 5: 625. Ap. ‘05. 270w. |
Brandes, Georg Morris Cohen. [Main currents in nineteenth century literature.] 6v. v. 4. Naturalism in England. [*]$3. Macmillan.
The period known as the romantic movement in English poetry at the beginning of the nineteenth century is treated in this volume. “Mr. Brandes seems to approach literature not wholly from the side of art.... He is concerned rather with the moral and spiritual progress of the world ... he ... takes poet after poet, and, with a skilful handling of biographical material and an ardent critical appreciation makes a rapid and interesting sketch of the motives and performances of the particular writer.” (Acad.)
“As one reads one becomes aware that the volume is rather a sympathetic interpretation of certain great figures, from Mr. Brandes’ point of view, than a piece of masterly generalisation. It is a mine of apposite biographical illustration, of delicate appreciation and of felicitous criticism of a high order.”