Chapter 19

Thefollowing pages contain advertisements of books by the same author or on kindred subjectsBy the Same AuthorThe Theory of the Leisure ClassAn Economic Study of InstitutionsCloth, 12mo, $2.00 netMacmillan Standard Library Edition, $0.50 netEXTRACT FROM PREFACEIt is the purpose of this inquiry to discuss the place and value of the leisure class as an economic factor in modern life, but it has been found impracticable to confine the discussion strictly within the limits so marked out. Some attention is perforce given to the origin and the line of derivation of the institution, as well as to features of social life that are not commonly classed as economic.TABLE OF CONTENTSChapterI.Introduction.ChapterII.Pecuniary Emulation.ChapterIII.Conspicuous Leisure.ChapterIV.Conspicuous Consumption.ChapterV.The Pecuniary Standard of Living.ChapterVI.Pecuniary Canons of Taste.ChapterVII.Dress as an Expression of the Pecuniary Culture.ChapterVIII.Industrial Exemption and Conservation.ChapterIX.The Conservation of Archaic Traits.ChapterX.Modern Survivals of Prowess.ChapterXI.The Belief in Luck.ChapterXII.Devout Observances.ChapterXIII.Survivals of the Non-Invidious Interest.ChapterXIV.The Higher Learning as an Expression of the Pecuniary Culture.“The study is a thoughtful and interesting one and is couched in clear and straightforward English.”—Minneapolis Journal.PUBLISHED BYTHE MACMILLAN COMPANYPublishers 64–66 Fifth Avenue New YorkTwo New Books of Related InterestWork and Wealth: A Human ValuationByJ. A. HOBSON, M.A.,Author of “Industrial Society,” “John Ruskin, Social Reformer,” etc.Cloth, 8vo, $2.00 netMr. Hobson is an economist of established reputation whose writings have for years been eagerly read by his fellow-economists. The purpose of this, his latest work, is to present a just and formal exposure of the inhumanity and vital waste of modern industries by the close application of the best approved formulas of individual, and social welfare and to indicate the most hopeful measures of remedy for a society sufficiently intelligent, courageous and self-governing to apply them. The wholly satisfying fashion in which the author has achieved this purpose results in a suggestive and stimulating review from a novel standpoint of problems in which all students of economy are interested. Not only is the book an important contribution to the literature of its field; it is no less valuable in its bearing on general questions of the day with which other than purely professional economists are concerned.Violence and the Labor MovementByROBERT HUNTER,Author of “Poverty,” “Socialists at Work,” etc.Cloth, 12mo, $1.50 netThis book deals with the mighty conflict that raged throughout the latter part of the last century for possession of the soul of labor. It tells of the doctrines and deeds of Bakounin, Netchayeff, Kropotkin, Ravachol, Henry, Most and Caserio. It seeks the causes of such outbursts of rage as occurred at the Haymarket in Chicago in 1886 and are now being much discussed as Syndicalism, Haywoodism and Larkinism. It is a dramatic, historical narrative in which terrorism, anarchism, syndicalism and socialism are passionately voiced by their greatest advocates as they battle over programs, tactics and philosophies.PUBLISHED BYTHE MACMILLAN COMPANYPublishers 64–66 Fifth Avenue New YorkTwo Important Interpretations of Present MovementsProgressive DemocracyByHERBERT CROLY,Author of “The Promise of American Life.”Cloth, 8vo, $2.00 netThe object of the author in this book is three-fold. He has in the first place analyzed the modern progressive democratic movement in this country in order to separate its essential from its non-essential ingredients to discover whether there is any real issue between American progressivism and American conservatism. In the second place he has tried to reconstruct the historical background of progressivism to see what roots or lack of roots it has in the American political and economic tradition. And finally he has attempted to trace what we may reasonably expect from the progressive movement, to show what tools it must use in order to carry out its program and what claims it has on the support of patriotic Americans. The work seeks, therefore, to express for the first time a consistently educational theory of democracy.Progressivism and AfterByWILLIAM ENGLISH WALLING,Author of “The Larger Aspects of Socialism,” “Socialism As It Is,” etc.Cloth, 12mo, $1.50 netThis is a book which every thoughtful socialist, social reformer and those to whom social reform makes any appeal, ought to read. Mr. Walling views social and economic questions as a thinker and student, never merely as a theorist or partisan. In the political events of the last few years Mr. Walling sees much that is significant not only for the present but for the future. What the progress of affairs in the next generation is to be he outlines in this work in a fashion that is as convincing as it is unusual from the socialistic standpoint. Of particular interest are his analyses of President Wilson, Colonel Roosevelt and other prominent leaders, while his description of that which has been and that which is to come is trenchant and keen. Whether one agrees with his predictions or not the force and clearness with which the issues are indicated distinguish the volume for all kinds of readers.PUBLISHED BYTHE MACMILLAN COMPANYPublishers 64–66 Fifth Avenue New YorkAmerican Syndicalism—The I. W. W.ByJOHN GRAHAM BROOKSAuthor of “As Others See Us,” “The Social Unrest,” etc.Cloth, $1.25 net; postpaid, $1.36“Mr. Brooks’s book is a careful, sympathetic, and critical study of American syndicalism as represented in the order named the Industrial Workers of World.“The theory, or ‘philosophy,’ of this syndicalism is given, a review made of the practical experiences of the movement as it has expressed itself here in the last few years, and a view sought of its possible destinies in the United States. Mr. Brooks says:“‘In it and through it is something as sacred as the best of the great dreamers have ever brought us. In the total of this movement, the deeper, inner fact seems to be its nearness to and sympathy with that most heavy laden and long enduring mass of common toilers. Alike to our peril and to our loss shall we ignore this fact.’”—New York Tribune.The Social UnrestStudies in Labor and Social MovementsByJOHN GRAHAM BROOKSCloth, 12mo, 394 pages, $1.50 net“The author, Mr. John Graham Brooks, takes up and discusses through nearly four hundred pages the economic significance of the social questions of the hour, the master passions at work among us, menversusmachinery, and the solution of our present ills in a better concurrence than at present exists—an organization whereby every advantage of cheaper service and cheaper product shall go direct to the whole body of the people.... Nothing upon his subject so comprehensive and at the same time popular in treatment as this book has been issued in our country. It is a volume with live knowledge—not only for workman but for capitalist, and the student of the body politic—for every one who lives—and who does not?—upon the product of labor.”—The Outlook.Mr. Bliss Perry, the editor ofThe Atlantic Monthly, says of it: “A fascinating book—to me the clearest, sanest, most helpful discussion of economic and human problems I have read for years.”PUBLISHED BYTHE MACMILLAN COMPANYPublishers 64–66 Fifth Avenue New YorkBy WILLIAM ENGLISH WALLINGThe Larger Aspects of SocialismCloth, $1.50 net; postpaid, $1.63“For the second time William English Walling has made a notable contribution to the literature of Socialism.”—Mary Brown Sumner in The Survey.“Your two books, together and separately, constituted the supreme English contribution to Socialism.”—Professor George D. Herron.“This book is exceptionally suggestive and interesting.... It is to be hoped that Mr. Walling will continue to give us such careful and suggestive analyses of socialistic thought.”—Alexander Fleisher in The Annals of the American Academy.“The author has earned a right to a front-rank place among the American Socialist ‘intellectuals.’... A clear-sighted observer, and a reporter honest with himself and the public.”—The Nation.“You are certainly one of those exasperating men who must be counted with. I have gone over your first book with admiration and extreme disapprobation. There is no book with which I have any acquaintance which is so truthful in telling what a considerable body of our countrymen are thinking about.”—Professor Albert Bushnell Hart.Socialism As It IsA Survey of the World-Wide Revolutionary MovementCloth, 12mo, $2.00 net; postpaid, $2.12A NEW DEPARTURE IN SOCIALIST BOOKS“Can be most highly recommended as a sane and clear exposition and is not a rehash of the various volumes that have been already published on the subject, but is a contribution from a distinct and new point of view.”—The New York Times.“The best and most scholarly presentation of the subject that has yet fallen into my hands. It gave me an insight into the situation, for which I longed but to which I could not find any access.”—Professor Jacques Loeb.“You certainly give a wonderful insight into Socialism as it is and getting to be—and it is an insight that every citizen ought to have.”—Professor John R. Commons.“I have been reading your book with great interest. The great contribution, it seems to me, is the clear contrast between State Socialism and revolutionary socialism.”—Professor Simon N. Patten.PUBLISHED BYTHE MACMILLAN COMPANYPublishers 64–66 Fifth Avenue New YorkThe Theory of Social RevolutionsByBROOKS ADAMSAuthor of “The Law of Civilization and Decay,” “The New Empire,” etc.Cloth, 12mo, $1.25 net“A remarkable work.”—The Argonaut.“A cleverly written book by a clever man. The argument is that the existing social system will soon be changed and that the courts have become political and not judicial.”—Pittsburgh Post.“No one interested in either history or politics can afford to neglect Mr. Adams’ views.”—Newark Evening News.“... no more fascinating study of a topic so grave is often printed.”—New York World.“... there has not appeared in recent years so calm and determined an attack upon judicial legislation.”—La Follette’s Magazine.“A very stimulating study.”—Review of Reviews.Labor and AdministrationByJOHN R. COMMONSPROFESSOR OF POLITICAL ECONOMY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSINCloth, 12mo, $1.60 netThe history of labor laws and strikes has this in common to both—laws become dead letters; the victories of strikes are nibbled away. Some philosophers fall back on the individual’s moral character. Little, they think, can be done by law or unions. There are others who inquire how to draft and enforce the laws, how to keep the winnings of strikes—in short, how to connect ideals with efficiency.These are the awakening questions of the past decade, and the subject of this book. Here is a field for the student and economist—not the “friend of labor” who paints an abstract working-man, but the utilitarian idealist, who sees them all as they are; not the curious collector of facts and statistics but the one who measures the facts and builds them into a foundation and structure. His constructive problem is not so much the law and its abstract rights, as administration and its concrete results.PUBLISHED BYTHE MACMILLAN COMPANYPublishers 64–66 Fifth Avenue New York

Thefollowing pages contain advertisements of books by the same author or on kindred subjects

By the Same Author

The Theory of the Leisure Class

An Economic Study of Institutions

Cloth, 12mo, $2.00 netMacmillan Standard Library Edition, $0.50 net

EXTRACT FROM PREFACE

It is the purpose of this inquiry to discuss the place and value of the leisure class as an economic factor in modern life, but it has been found impracticable to confine the discussion strictly within the limits so marked out. Some attention is perforce given to the origin and the line of derivation of the institution, as well as to features of social life that are not commonly classed as economic.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

“The study is a thoughtful and interesting one and is couched in clear and straightforward English.”—Minneapolis Journal.

PUBLISHED BYTHE MACMILLAN COMPANYPublishers 64–66 Fifth Avenue New York

Two New Books of Related Interest

Work and Wealth: A Human Valuation

ByJ. A. HOBSON, M.A.,

Author of “Industrial Society,” “John Ruskin, Social Reformer,” etc.

Cloth, 8vo, $2.00 net

Mr. Hobson is an economist of established reputation whose writings have for years been eagerly read by his fellow-economists. The purpose of this, his latest work, is to present a just and formal exposure of the inhumanity and vital waste of modern industries by the close application of the best approved formulas of individual, and social welfare and to indicate the most hopeful measures of remedy for a society sufficiently intelligent, courageous and self-governing to apply them. The wholly satisfying fashion in which the author has achieved this purpose results in a suggestive and stimulating review from a novel standpoint of problems in which all students of economy are interested. Not only is the book an important contribution to the literature of its field; it is no less valuable in its bearing on general questions of the day with which other than purely professional economists are concerned.

Violence and the Labor Movement

ByROBERT HUNTER,

Author of “Poverty,” “Socialists at Work,” etc.

Cloth, 12mo, $1.50 net

This book deals with the mighty conflict that raged throughout the latter part of the last century for possession of the soul of labor. It tells of the doctrines and deeds of Bakounin, Netchayeff, Kropotkin, Ravachol, Henry, Most and Caserio. It seeks the causes of such outbursts of rage as occurred at the Haymarket in Chicago in 1886 and are now being much discussed as Syndicalism, Haywoodism and Larkinism. It is a dramatic, historical narrative in which terrorism, anarchism, syndicalism and socialism are passionately voiced by their greatest advocates as they battle over programs, tactics and philosophies.

PUBLISHED BYTHE MACMILLAN COMPANYPublishers 64–66 Fifth Avenue New York

Two Important Interpretations of Present Movements

Progressive Democracy

ByHERBERT CROLY,

Author of “The Promise of American Life.”

Cloth, 8vo, $2.00 net

The object of the author in this book is three-fold. He has in the first place analyzed the modern progressive democratic movement in this country in order to separate its essential from its non-essential ingredients to discover whether there is any real issue between American progressivism and American conservatism. In the second place he has tried to reconstruct the historical background of progressivism to see what roots or lack of roots it has in the American political and economic tradition. And finally he has attempted to trace what we may reasonably expect from the progressive movement, to show what tools it must use in order to carry out its program and what claims it has on the support of patriotic Americans. The work seeks, therefore, to express for the first time a consistently educational theory of democracy.

Progressivism and After

ByWILLIAM ENGLISH WALLING,

Author of “The Larger Aspects of Socialism,” “Socialism As It Is,” etc.

Cloth, 12mo, $1.50 net

This is a book which every thoughtful socialist, social reformer and those to whom social reform makes any appeal, ought to read. Mr. Walling views social and economic questions as a thinker and student, never merely as a theorist or partisan. In the political events of the last few years Mr. Walling sees much that is significant not only for the present but for the future. What the progress of affairs in the next generation is to be he outlines in this work in a fashion that is as convincing as it is unusual from the socialistic standpoint. Of particular interest are his analyses of President Wilson, Colonel Roosevelt and other prominent leaders, while his description of that which has been and that which is to come is trenchant and keen. Whether one agrees with his predictions or not the force and clearness with which the issues are indicated distinguish the volume for all kinds of readers.

PUBLISHED BYTHE MACMILLAN COMPANYPublishers 64–66 Fifth Avenue New York

American Syndicalism—The I. W. W.

ByJOHN GRAHAM BROOKS

Author of “As Others See Us,” “The Social Unrest,” etc.

Cloth, $1.25 net; postpaid, $1.36

“Mr. Brooks’s book is a careful, sympathetic, and critical study of American syndicalism as represented in the order named the Industrial Workers of World.“The theory, or ‘philosophy,’ of this syndicalism is given, a review made of the practical experiences of the movement as it has expressed itself here in the last few years, and a view sought of its possible destinies in the United States. Mr. Brooks says:“‘In it and through it is something as sacred as the best of the great dreamers have ever brought us. In the total of this movement, the deeper, inner fact seems to be its nearness to and sympathy with that most heavy laden and long enduring mass of common toilers. Alike to our peril and to our loss shall we ignore this fact.’”—New York Tribune.

“Mr. Brooks’s book is a careful, sympathetic, and critical study of American syndicalism as represented in the order named the Industrial Workers of World.

“The theory, or ‘philosophy,’ of this syndicalism is given, a review made of the practical experiences of the movement as it has expressed itself here in the last few years, and a view sought of its possible destinies in the United States. Mr. Brooks says:

“‘In it and through it is something as sacred as the best of the great dreamers have ever brought us. In the total of this movement, the deeper, inner fact seems to be its nearness to and sympathy with that most heavy laden and long enduring mass of common toilers. Alike to our peril and to our loss shall we ignore this fact.’”—New York Tribune.

The Social Unrest

Studies in Labor and Social Movements

ByJOHN GRAHAM BROOKS

Cloth, 12mo, 394 pages, $1.50 net

“The author, Mr. John Graham Brooks, takes up and discusses through nearly four hundred pages the economic significance of the social questions of the hour, the master passions at work among us, menversusmachinery, and the solution of our present ills in a better concurrence than at present exists—an organization whereby every advantage of cheaper service and cheaper product shall go direct to the whole body of the people.... Nothing upon his subject so comprehensive and at the same time popular in treatment as this book has been issued in our country. It is a volume with live knowledge—not only for workman but for capitalist, and the student of the body politic—for every one who lives—and who does not?—upon the product of labor.”—The Outlook.Mr. Bliss Perry, the editor ofThe Atlantic Monthly, says of it: “A fascinating book—to me the clearest, sanest, most helpful discussion of economic and human problems I have read for years.”

Mr. Bliss Perry, the editor ofThe Atlantic Monthly, says of it: “A fascinating book—to me the clearest, sanest, most helpful discussion of economic and human problems I have read for years.”

PUBLISHED BYTHE MACMILLAN COMPANYPublishers 64–66 Fifth Avenue New York

By WILLIAM ENGLISH WALLING

The Larger Aspects of Socialism

Cloth, $1.50 net; postpaid, $1.63

“For the second time William English Walling has made a notable contribution to the literature of Socialism.”—Mary Brown Sumner in The Survey.“Your two books, together and separately, constituted the supreme English contribution to Socialism.”—Professor George D. Herron.“This book is exceptionally suggestive and interesting.... It is to be hoped that Mr. Walling will continue to give us such careful and suggestive analyses of socialistic thought.”—Alexander Fleisher in The Annals of the American Academy.“The author has earned a right to a front-rank place among the American Socialist ‘intellectuals.’... A clear-sighted observer, and a reporter honest with himself and the public.”—The Nation.“You are certainly one of those exasperating men who must be counted with. I have gone over your first book with admiration and extreme disapprobation. There is no book with which I have any acquaintance which is so truthful in telling what a considerable body of our countrymen are thinking about.”—Professor Albert Bushnell Hart.

“For the second time William English Walling has made a notable contribution to the literature of Socialism.”—Mary Brown Sumner in The Survey.

“Your two books, together and separately, constituted the supreme English contribution to Socialism.”—Professor George D. Herron.

“This book is exceptionally suggestive and interesting.... It is to be hoped that Mr. Walling will continue to give us such careful and suggestive analyses of socialistic thought.”—Alexander Fleisher in The Annals of the American Academy.

“The author has earned a right to a front-rank place among the American Socialist ‘intellectuals.’... A clear-sighted observer, and a reporter honest with himself and the public.”—The Nation.

“You are certainly one of those exasperating men who must be counted with. I have gone over your first book with admiration and extreme disapprobation. There is no book with which I have any acquaintance which is so truthful in telling what a considerable body of our countrymen are thinking about.”—Professor Albert Bushnell Hart.

Socialism As It Is

A Survey of the World-Wide Revolutionary Movement

Cloth, 12mo, $2.00 net; postpaid, $2.12

A NEW DEPARTURE IN SOCIALIST BOOKS

“Can be most highly recommended as a sane and clear exposition and is not a rehash of the various volumes that have been already published on the subject, but is a contribution from a distinct and new point of view.”—The New York Times.“The best and most scholarly presentation of the subject that has yet fallen into my hands. It gave me an insight into the situation, for which I longed but to which I could not find any access.”—Professor Jacques Loeb.“You certainly give a wonderful insight into Socialism as it is and getting to be—and it is an insight that every citizen ought to have.”—Professor John R. Commons.“I have been reading your book with great interest. The great contribution, it seems to me, is the clear contrast between State Socialism and revolutionary socialism.”—Professor Simon N. Patten.

“The best and most scholarly presentation of the subject that has yet fallen into my hands. It gave me an insight into the situation, for which I longed but to which I could not find any access.”—Professor Jacques Loeb.

“You certainly give a wonderful insight into Socialism as it is and getting to be—and it is an insight that every citizen ought to have.”—Professor John R. Commons.

“I have been reading your book with great interest. The great contribution, it seems to me, is the clear contrast between State Socialism and revolutionary socialism.”—Professor Simon N. Patten.

PUBLISHED BYTHE MACMILLAN COMPANYPublishers 64–66 Fifth Avenue New York

The Theory of Social Revolutions

ByBROOKS ADAMS

Author of “The Law of Civilization and Decay,” “The New Empire,” etc.

Cloth, 12mo, $1.25 net

“A remarkable work.”—The Argonaut.“A cleverly written book by a clever man. The argument is that the existing social system will soon be changed and that the courts have become political and not judicial.”—Pittsburgh Post.“No one interested in either history or politics can afford to neglect Mr. Adams’ views.”—Newark Evening News.“... no more fascinating study of a topic so grave is often printed.”—New York World.“... there has not appeared in recent years so calm and determined an attack upon judicial legislation.”—La Follette’s Magazine.“A very stimulating study.”—Review of Reviews.

“A remarkable work.”—The Argonaut.

“A cleverly written book by a clever man. The argument is that the existing social system will soon be changed and that the courts have become political and not judicial.”—Pittsburgh Post.

“No one interested in either history or politics can afford to neglect Mr. Adams’ views.”—Newark Evening News.

“... no more fascinating study of a topic so grave is often printed.”—New York World.

“... there has not appeared in recent years so calm and determined an attack upon judicial legislation.”—La Follette’s Magazine.

“A very stimulating study.”—Review of Reviews.

Labor and Administration

ByJOHN R. COMMONS

PROFESSOR OF POLITICAL ECONOMY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN

Cloth, 12mo, $1.60 net

The history of labor laws and strikes has this in common to both—laws become dead letters; the victories of strikes are nibbled away. Some philosophers fall back on the individual’s moral character. Little, they think, can be done by law or unions. There are others who inquire how to draft and enforce the laws, how to keep the winnings of strikes—in short, how to connect ideals with efficiency.These are the awakening questions of the past decade, and the subject of this book. Here is a field for the student and economist—not the “friend of labor” who paints an abstract working-man, but the utilitarian idealist, who sees them all as they are; not the curious collector of facts and statistics but the one who measures the facts and builds them into a foundation and structure. His constructive problem is not so much the law and its abstract rights, as administration and its concrete results.

These are the awakening questions of the past decade, and the subject of this book. Here is a field for the student and economist—not the “friend of labor” who paints an abstract working-man, but the utilitarian idealist, who sees them all as they are; not the curious collector of facts and statistics but the one who measures the facts and builds them into a foundation and structure. His constructive problem is not so much the law and its abstract rights, as administration and its concrete results.

PUBLISHED BYTHE MACMILLAN COMPANYPublishers 64–66 Fifth Avenue New York

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