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THE name of William Graham Sumner (1840-1910) is so comparatively little known in Great Britain, except perhaps as the author of “Folkways”, that it comes as something of a surprise to discover that there is in the United States a Sumner Club which has sponsored the publication of this centenary volume “as a means for stimulating the scientific' study of society”. The book itself consists of reprints of some of Sumner's essays, lectures, and extracts from his works together with comments by so-called “American leaders”.
Sumner To-day
Selected Essays of William Graham Sumner, with Comments by American Leaders. Edited by Prof. Maurice R. Davie. Pp. xxvi + 194. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1940.) 15s. 6d. net.
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BLACK, E. Sumner To-day. Nature 150, 417–418 (1942). https://doi.org/10.1038/150417a0
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