De Alexander: “They cherish more bitter hatred of their own countrymen than they have ever shown towards the enemies of our land.”

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....

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.

Human, dramatic, interesting, absorbing, there is philosophy of national and political life back of it--a philosophy which not only furnished interpretation of past events, but offers guidance for the future....