Thorstein Veblen
Review author of: 'Bibliographie des Socialismus und Communismus.' 
By JOSEPH STAMMHAMMER. Jena: Gustav Fischer, 1893. Large 8vo. pp. iv + 303.
The Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 2, No. 3. (Jun., 1894), pp. 474-475.
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[474] It is easy to believe the author's statement that this comprehensive 
catalogue of the literature of socialism has cost "many years' painstaking 
labor." The plan of the work is that of an alphabetical catalogue, by 
authors and titles, followed by a subject index. It gives titles, date 
and place of publication, size, and in some (relatively few) cases a table 
or description of contents, as well as, still more infrequently, cross 
references. The price is not given, and the number of pages is given only 
very rarely. The intention has been to include the literature of all the 
modern European languages bearing on the subject, though the literature of 
America and of other outlying regions of occidental civilization are less 
fully represented than the countries lying nearer the author's home, in 
space and language.
The volume is to constitute part of a more comprehensive bibliography of 
social and economic science. This being the case, it is open to criticism 
on the score that it includes much that is not strictly to be demand under 
the literature of socialism or communism. Many works are listed which bear 
on socialism only remotely if at all. It is perhaps to be taken as 
indicating the author's sense of intimate relation between socialism and 
the labor question when he admits into this bibliography of socialism 
several hundred titles on trade unions, strikes, lock-outs, and like 
subjects. While the list is so full in point of its scope, and [475] 
while the number of titles is great enough to surprise even readers who 
are prepared to find a great number of entries, it is still not difficult 
to find omissions. These occur especially in the later literature of 
other languages than German and French. Still, the feature to be remarked 
upon is not the omissions, but the very high degree of completeness of 
the list in spite of a number of omissions that might be cited. The 
workmanship of the volume is highly creditable. Mistakes in the 
transcription of titles are rare beyond expectation. Still they do 
occur, apparently more frequently in transcriptions from English than 
from any other language. The following may be cited as a curiosity: 
"HILL, FREDERIC, Measures for Puttingen. End to the abuses of 
trades-unions."
T. B. VEBLEN.