Theodore Savage: A Story of the Past or the FutureHamilton, Cicely
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Theodore Savage: A Story of the Past or the Future
Hamilton, Cicely
Apocalyptic fiction; End of the world -- Fiction; Regression (Civilization) -- Fiction; Science fiction
_Daily Telegraph._—“Good stories abound.”
_Daily News._—“Racy and warm-hearted memories of a varied life ...
should be widely read.”
MY YEARS OF EXILE, by _Eduard Bernstein_. Translated by _Bernard Miall_.
Demy 8vo, 15/-.
_Times._—“Herr Bernstein is a calm and dispassionate observer ... full
of simple narrative and naïve reflection.”
_Morning Post._—“Of this country and its people he gives a very shrewd
and sympathetic analysis ... worth recording.”
A LADY DOCTOR IN BAKHTIARILAND, by _Dr. Elizabeth MacBean Ross_. Crown
8vo, 7/6.
_Daily Mail._—“A really admirable and entertaining study.”
_Medical Times._—“An attractive volume which should make a wide appeal.”
_Geographical Journal._—“This book possesses a permanent value.”
THE KEREN HA-YESOD BOOK. Colonisation Problems of the Eretz-Israel
(Palestine) Foundation Fund. Edited by The Publicity Department of the
“Keren Ha-Yesod.” Crown 8vo, 2/-.
=THE NEW ERA SERIES=
BREAKING POINT, by _Jeffery E. Jeffery_, with Foreword by _G. D. H.
Cole_. Crown 8vo, 4/6.
This book is an attempt to consider the future of civilisation in the
light of the present world crisis. It speaks much for Mr. Jeffery’s
optimism that while he manfully faces his facts and never in any way
evades the issues, his book ends on a hopeful note. He believes that
_now_ is the time for mankind to turn the next corner on the road of
progress and that ours is the opportunity to seize or to throw away.
ECONOMIC MOTIVES IN THE NEW SOCIETY, by _J. A. Hobson_. Crown 8vo, 4/6.
Perhaps the most telling argument used against drastic schemes of
economic reconstruction is that which holds that any system of public
ownership and representative government of essential industries would
break down because it would fail to create the necessary incentives to
production and distribution. In this book Mr. Hobson examines this
important question in detail. He analyses these “incentives” both from
the producing and the consuming side and proposes many ways by which
they might be not only retained but stimulated. He provides satisfactory
answers to such questions as: Will the present standards of management,
skill, workmanship and factory discipline be improved? Will the
consumers benefit? Will people save? _i. e._ Will sufficient fresh
capital be forthcoming for the further developments of industry?
It is a valuable book because it successfully counters the argument
which has, on appearance at least, some show of reason behind it.
LAND NATIONALISATION, by _A. Emil Davies, L.C.C._, and _Dorothy Evans_
(formerly Organiser, Land Nationalisation Society). Crown 8vo, 4/6.
In the past the importance of the land problem has been neglected, but
now the changed conditions brought about by the war call for increased
production at home. This book shows that the present system of land
ownership impedes production on every hand and stands in the way of
almost every vital reform.
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