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ECONOMICS OF THE HOUR-J. St. Loe Strachey-Putnam...
...primarily for the British working class that Mr. Strachey writes, yet all he says can be read with much profit by the workers of other countries and by so-called intelligensia, from the struggling student immersed in dry text books to the "hardest-boiled" employer of mankind...
Economics is a subject often treated as an incurable, contagious disease: the people who contract it are segregated by their fellows; the people who escape it take precaution against infection. In Mr. Strachey's book, however, the germs have been sterilized and, far from needing or deserving quarantine, it should be taken by some as inoculation against Radical Socialism and by others against Ultra Conservatism. In simpler terms, this antitoxin is the quintessence of applied economics made easy by Mr. Strachey's facile...
...accuracy of detail, one is tempted to suspect, occasionally is permitted to give way to the larger accuracy of the complete picture. His manner is rather journalistic than literary. His irony, running through the sketches in a constant undercurrent, is a little heavy. His stiletto lacks the keenness of Strachey's. But his subjects are well chosen and looked at with freshness and originality. The book as a whole gives a very complete and vivid picture of the opening of the Century...
...Garvin, editor of the London Observer: "In its issue of Dec. 17, TIME, the weekly newsmagazine, stupidly referred to me as 'editor of The Spectator, London Sunday journal.' The Spectator, as everyone knows, is perhaps the leading weekly of the world. Its editor is Mr. Strachey...