| + + + | Outlook. 79: 707. Mr. 18, ‘05. 280w. |
Alston, Leonard. Modern constitutions in outline: an introductory study in political science. [*]90c. Longmans.
“Mr. Alston, who is Deputy professor of history in Elphinstone college at Bombay, has written a brief but lucid sketch of the constitutions of the chief political communities of the modern world. His little book was planned to meet the needs of university students; but it will have a wider field.... [It] consists of three opening chapters dealing respectively with Federalism, and the Two-chamber system, Party government, and the Demarcation of powers; and of a second part in which a special and more detailed account is given of the constitutions of the chief powers of the world.”—Spec.
“Mr. Alston has done a useful piece of work, which, in its brevity and clearness, is a model of the expository functions of a professor.”
| + + | Spec. 94: 620. Ap. 29, ‘05. 410w. |
Altsheler, Joseph A. [The candidate.] [†]$1.50. Harper.
In this political novel the hero, who is a presidential candidate, is accompanied by his niece on a speech-making tour through the West. A newspaper correspondent, also in attendance, loves the girl, and is largely responsible for the triumph of the candidate. The path of love is not smooth, however, for the girl is the betrothed of a distinguished politician, whose enmity her uncle has no wish to incur.
“Mr. Altsheler has given us a thoroughly readable story.” W: M. Payne.
| + + | Dial. 38: 391. Je. 1, ‘05. 550w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 135. Mr. 4, ‘05. 120w. |
“‘The candidate’ is by no means an unreadable book, but it is not in Mr. Altsheler’s previous best style, nor is it up to his usual level of interest. The various elements of plot somehow lack the cohesion necessary to weld them into a convincing whole.”