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Walter, Franz. 224 v/I9
Die propheten in ihrem sozialen beruf und das wirtschaftsleben ihrer
zeit; ein beitrag zur geschichte der sozialethik. 1900. Herder.
Sociology
Barclay, Sir Thomas. qi"34i B23
Problems of international practice and diplomacy, with special reference
to the Hague conferences and conventions and other general
international agreements. 1907. Sweet.
By an eminent authority on international law.
"The book is invaluable for all international lawyers, politicians, and the higher
ranks of journalism. The book is essentially one for reference, not dealing with principles
or rules but with real disputed concrete questions that are not yet ripe for the
class-room. It gives the material and presents opinion in the making and offers a wide
field for speculation as to the cosmos which may emerge from the chaos." Saturday
review, 1907.
Carter, James Coolidge. 340 C23
Law; its origin, growth and function; being a course of lectures
prepared for delivery before the Law School of Harvard University.
1907. Putnam.
When Mr Carter died, in 1905, he had undoubtedly for many years been generally
regarded as the leader of the American bar. These lectures are general in their nature
and couched in non-technical language. They make no contribution to legal history.
Their force is spent upon the general theorem, that "the whole private law, which
governs much the larger part of human conduct, has arisen from and still stands upon.
custom, and is the necessary product of the life of society, and therefore incapable of
being made at all." The book is of great interest as an expression of the deliberate
and mature conviction of one of the most thoroughly trained and powerful legal minds
which this country has yet produced. Condensed from American historical review, 1908.
Child, Mrs Lydia Maria (Francis). r326 C43a
Appeal in favor of that class of Americans called Africans. 1836.
Taylor.
Mrs Child was one of the earliest as well as one of the most prominent antislavery
supporters.
"The tone is calm and strong, the treatment systematic, the points well put, the
statements well guarded. The successive chapters treat of the history of slavery, itscomparative
aspect in different ages and nations, its influence on politics, the profitableness
of emancipation, the evils of the colonization scheme, the intellect of negroes,
their morals, the feeling against them, and the duties of the community in their behalf.
As it was the first anti-slavery work ever printed in America in book form, so I have
always thought it the ablest; that is, it covered the whole ground better than any other
...Dr. Channing attributed a part of his own anti-slavery awakening to this admirable
book." Thomas Wentivorth Higginson's Contemporaries.
Curry, Jabez Lamar Monroe. 342-7 C931
Southern states of the American union considered in their relations
to the constitution of the United States and to the resulting union.
1895. Johnson Pub. Co.
"Historical argument for the southern view of the Constitution written by one
prominently identified with the southern Confederacy and aimed 'to reconstruct ideasand
opinions adverse to the South, in so far as they are founded on ignorance and
prejudice.' While mainly ex parte, and not always dispassionate, the presentation is
manly and, on the whole, fair and strong. Its explanation of the attitude of the South
will be found well worth reading by those who have studied only the other side of the
question." Lamed's Literature of American history.