Thorstein Veblen
Review author of: 'Geschichte des Socialismus und Communismus im 19. 
Jahrhundert'. By Dr. OTTO WARSCHAUER. Leipzig: Gustav Fock, 1892 und 1893. 8vo., 
Erste Abtheilung: Saint-Simon und der Saint-Simonismus, pp. x. + 106. Zweite 
Abtheilung: Fourier, Seine Theorie und Schule, pp. vii. + 131.
The Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 1, No. 2. (Mar., 1893), p. 302.
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The two installments already published of this work make up but a small part of 
the book as it will appear when completed. It takes up the history of nineteenth 
century socialism in greater detail than the volume by Kirkup, and has more of a 
narrative and expository character. The preface (to part II.) states that "all 
dependence on second-hand material has been avoided on principle," the aim being 
to meet the want that exists in economic literature of "a history of socialism 
drawn directly from original sources."
The author treats his material from the standpoint of economics, and introduces 
no biographical matter, beyond what is necessary in order to an intelligent 
discussion from that standpoint. It is (or perhaps better, promises to be) a 
work of painstaking research, and is exhaustive to the extent which its volume 
will permit. The summaries of the various doctrines discussed are necessarily 
somewhat brief, but these, as well as the discussion and the estimates of men 
and doctrines, are fair and dispassionate.
T. B. V.