. Review of reviews and world's work. upon a certain portion ofour population of an inadequate and improper food-supply. This he regards as the great problem of pov-erty as it affects childhood. It is strange indeed thatso fundamental a matter as this has been all but ig-nored by the people most active in various forms ofphilanthropy. The facts gathered by Mr. Spargo aremainly those that have come within the range of hispersonal experience and It would be rashto generalize from them, yet their force is not to begainsaid. The first volume in the series dealing with Ameri-can Publi
. Review of reviews and world's work. upon a certain portion ofour population of an inadequate and improper food-supply. This he regards as the great problem of pov-erty as it affects childhood. It is strange indeed thatso fundamental a matter as this has been all but ig-nored by the people most active in various forms ofphilanthropy. The facts gathered by Mr. Spargo aremainly those that have come within the range of hispersonal experience and It would be rashto generalize from them, yet their force is not to begainsaid. The first volume in the series dealing with Ameri-can Public Problems (Holt) is a discussion of Im-migration and Its I Effects Upon theUnited States, byPrescott F. Hall, sec-retary of the Immi-gration RestrictionLeague. This workdevotes special attention to the develop-ments of the past tenor fifteen years, al-though the historicalaspects of the subjectare not chapters aredevoted to , and thearguments for re-striction and regula-tion are fully set PRESCOTT p. HALL. Valuable documentaiy mate-rial is contained in the appendix. The late William Morton Grinnell believed that theprinciples of socialism and of labor unions were unfairand unnatural, and that instead of attempting to estab-lish artificial conditions by legislation we should goback to the principles of religion and of nature and fol-low them implicitly. This is the of hislittle book entitled Social Theories and Social Facts(Putnams), published only a few weeks before his the topics treated in this volitme are trusts,competition, socialism, labor, the cost of living, thecourse of wages, railroads, and railway rates. ON JEWISH HISTORY AND TRIALS. A very attractively printed and bound volume comesto us from the executive committee of the associationformed some months ago to arrange for the celebrationof the two and a half centuries of Jewish settlement inthe United States. It consists of the addresses delivereda
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