Review of the Book:

The Menace of Privilege,
by Henry George, Jr.

B.O. Flower

[Reprinted from The Arena, Vol.35, February, 1906]

Henry George, Jr., whose masterly and timely work, The Menace of Privilege, has recently appeared, was born in Sacramento, California, in 1862. Like so many of our brightest and strongest men and women, he was educated in our public-schools. At sixteen years of age he entered a printing office and since 1881 he has been engaged in journalistic labors. After the death of his father he prepared an exceptionally able and satisfactory life of the great economist. Like the elder George, he has ever evinced a passionate love for justice, freedom and the rights of the people. In recent years he has been one of the most virile and influential members in that fine group of young American patriots who are faithfully working for genuine democracy based on equality of opportunities and of rights for all the people, with much the same moral enthusiasm as marked the action of Jefferson and the young Virginian statesmen during the stirring months that preceded the inauguration of the Revolutionary war and which was the key-note and motive power of Youny Italy in its memorable crusade for unification and constitutional government under the leadership of the exiled hero Mazzini. Mr. George's new book, The Menace of Privilege, will be given an extended review in an early number of The Arena. We will therefore merely say at the present time that in our judgment it is the most important contribution to the vital social, political and economic literature of America that has appeared within the past year - a book that no friend of republican government can afford to ignore.