The title of this book misleads one, as the author writes of the country houses, or rather palaces, of our American millionaires. These houses are monuments, not of the taste and personality of the owners, but of the skill and training of the architects and decorators, and there is much grandeur and little domesticity. What is lacking in “Estates,” however, the author amply makes up to us in “Gardens,” and gives most delightful illustrations, many of which are drawn from the well-known Falkner and Bellefontaine farms.
“Whether we regard his book as a record of contemporary and domestic architecture of a certain sort, or as a contribution to sociology, it will be of scarcely less interest a hundred years hence than it is to-day.”
| + + | Nation. 80: 160. F. 23. ‘05. 470w. |
Fetter, Frank Albert. [Principles of economics; with applications to practical problems.] [*]$2. Century.
A book which will be particularly valuable to students and teachers, as it represents the course of instruction which Dr. Fetter has given in his classes. “The theory is illuminated by constant references to practical life, and to such sides of life as college students are likely to come into contact with, and it is also used to shed light on the larger problems of our current social life.” (J. Pol. Econ.)
“In the wealth of material treated, in the judicious employment of all methods of economic study, in the sanity and lucidity of discussion, the book has hardly an equal. Moreover, it is the most readable book on economics that the reviewer has had the good fortune to peruse.” A. S. Johnson.
| + + — | Ann. Am. Acad. 25: 144. Ja. ‘05. 1840w. |
“Professor Fetter’s book may challenge comparison, on the ground of its intrinsic excellence, with any systematic treatise on economics that has appeared since the days of John Stuart Mill.” Winthrop More Daniels.
| + + | Atlan. 95: 563. Ap. ‘05. 850w. |
“Tho having acquaintance with the new, his philosophy is essentially of the old and reveals but few modifications due to an understanding of modern thought and modern conditions.”