1932 -or until today if one is appraising the impact of Howells' brand of "secular socialism." This is only to say, however, that the social historian will find Mr. Hough's book more useful as a document in the history of the failure of American liberalism than as a re-interpretation of Howells' importance as a social critic and reformer.
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