De Alexander: “Van Buren, moreover, understood politics too well to be blind to the danger of incurring the hostility of such a mind.”

He writes of the Filipinos as he found them, and with the knack of the true investigator, has avoided falling in with the political views of any party or faction.

Enlightened and persuasive discussion of the negro problem in its present phases and aspects.

A keen, exhaustive and merciless criticism of the whole Philippine experiment....

In his text he explains the controversy so that the plain man may understand it, while in the notes he adduces the evidence that the specialist requires....