Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1907 — Sparling’s New Book On Business Organization. [ARTICLE]

Sparling’s New Book On Business Organization.

Prof. Samuel Sparling, ot Wis consin University, who. has jnst returned there alter quite an extensive stay at the old home place southwest of town, has just recently had another book published along the general line his of college work, which is political economy. This new book is on Business Organization, and is the most complete work on that line ever published. He has already achieved such a big reputation as a worker and writer in his special line that he has no trouble to find publishers for his books, and the big international house of Macmillan & to., of New York and London, snapped this one up the minute it was offer ed them. The book has only been out a few months, but it has already had a large sale, and not only in this country bnt in England. The book represents an enormous amount of thoro and painstaking work on Mr. Sparling’s part, and in various parts of the country, and it deals exhaustively with all the different leading lines of business now carried on, telling how they are organized and carried on. The facts given were originally gathered for use in Prof. SparL ing’s class loom, and by the diree tion and authority of the University he is connected with. In this connection we may say that Prof. Sparling is thinking pretty stroDgly of quiting University work after this year and devoting himself entirely to literary work, with farming as a diversion; or perhaps to farming, with literary work as the diversion, or perhaps a little of both in both ways. Anyhow he like both farming and writing better than teaching. He has been receiving for several years offers irom Uiuw wiitigwoiKnitflvwsrnesr of much better paying positions than he holds at Wisconsin, but he

has declined all of these, having made up his mind not to Jeave Wisconsin until he quits college work for good. There is such large number of professors, assisjjt ant professors and tutors in the lines of political economy at Wisconsin, and a number of whom are mere ornamental figure heads ' w jj o do nothing in actual college \york except to draw their salaries, that promotion is very slow to the/ re al workers like Prof. an d unless he gets a good boost A>y another year he will quit work entirely. /