Hugo Stinnes. By Hermann Brinckmeyer. Translated by Alfred B. Kuttner.
(New York: Huebsch. 1 dollar 50 cents). —This little book gives an account of the well-known German industrialist and his numerous undertakings. Herr Stinnes, who is now fifty-two, is the grandson of Mathias Stinnes, who began business at Mulheim in 1808, when the Rhineland was gaining prosperity under the Napoleonic rule which freed it from mediaeval fetters. The first Stinnes made a fortune by transporting coal in barges on the Rhine and the Ruhr, and was the first to use a steam tug on the river. He invested his spare cash in the coal industry of the Ruhr valley. His sons developed the business thus solidly founded on coal. The grandson has launched out into the metal and electrical industries and has acquired large mining interests in Austria and Italy. He has bought some newspapers and plays an active part in politics as a leading member of the German People's Party. The career of a captain of industry who has a special gift for manag- ing large enterprises and who creates employment for many thousands of people is well worth studying. Impoverished Germany needs more citizens like Herr Stinnes.
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