. Review of reviews and world's work. ath of her husband, Edward Maybrick, in ), until,fifteen years later, when she liad finished her lifesentence (in I)eceml)er, IIHW), is told simply, and there isadded a legal and medical analysis of the MODERN AMERICAN PROBLEMS. In a volume bearing as its title the single impressiveword Poverty (Macmillan), Mr. Rol)ert Hunter un-dertakes to estimate the of poverty at the presenttime in the United States; to describe .some of its evils,not only among the dependent and vicious , butalso among the unskilled, underpaid, underfed, an
. Review of reviews and world's work. ath of her husband, Edward Maybrick, in ), until,fifteen years later, when she liad finished her lifesentence (in I)eceml)er, IIHW), is told simply, and there isadded a legal and medical analysis of the MODERN AMERICAN PROBLEMS. In a volume bearing as its title the single impressiveword Poverty (Macmillan), Mr. Rol)ert Hunter un-dertakes to estimate the of poverty at the presenttime in the United States; to describe .some of its evils,not only among the dependent and vicious , butalso among the unskilled, underpaid, underfed, andpoorly house<l workers ; to point out certain remedialactionswhichsociety may wisely undertake, and, finally,to show that the evils of poverty are continually repro-ducing themselves in society. In the first chapter, gives his reasons for believing that, even inprosperous times, no less than ten million persons in theUnited States are underfed, underclothed, and poorlyhoused. One class in the community to which Mr. Hun-. UOUEIIT HUNTER. t-er gives especial atten-tion in his book, andwhich works of thischaracter have fre-([uentlj neglected, con-sists of the large groupof underpaid wage-workers from whichthe dependent mainly Hunter does notpretend to make an ex-haustive study of theproblem, but he tells ofthings that he has .seenwhile living among thepoorest of the workingpeople; and the mosttelling facts that hepresents are factstlrawii, not from offi-cial reports, but fromactual experience andobservation. As a record of such data, his book is anextremely valuable contribution to sociology. U. Ih-iulerson, of the Iniversity of Chi-cago, has prepared a useful compendiiun of ModernMethods of Charity (Macmillan), in which he gives anaccount of the systems of public and private relief inthe i)rincipal countries having mcMlern niethods. Thissubject, it would seem, is one in which the comparativetreatment is especially desirable. T
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