Thorstein Veblen
Review author to: 'Adam Smith'. By FRANCIS W. HIRST. ("English Men of Letters" 
series.) New York: The Macmillan Co., 1904. 12mo, pp. viii + 240.
The Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 13, No. 1. (Dec., 1904), pp. 136.
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Mr. Hirst adds another volume to the biographies of Adam Smith, but as would be 
expected under the circumstances, he adds little that is new either of 
information or criticism. Still the volume should find a welcome. It is well 
written, graceful and entertaining, and with an intelligent appreciation of Adam 
Smith's traits of char-[137]acter as well as of the units of style, method, 
scope and insight that have made the Wealth of Nations a masterpiece of the 
science and of English literature. The most attractive portions of the book are 
those that turn about Adam Smith's intimate life and his contact with men and 
affairs.