J S T" 49 fa I /3/4 J UC-NRLF *B Sflt, OTM c^ SELECTED LIST OF MUNICIPAL AND iCIVIC BOOKS SECOND EDITION TO THE READER "Vf C Books in this list may be borrowed or consulted at the Public Library, and the public is invited to make use of the Lib- rary's reference service in looking up all topics connected with civic, social and municipal affairs. The Library is the public's information bureau. iks listed, in this catalogue will be sent post- paid icr Ln? address in the world, on receipt, of the price quoted* by Bmmm J STREET NEW YORK SUBJECT INDEX \3 jA Accidents 58 Accounting 11 Art, Civic 2, 5 Baths 1 Billboards 1 Bridges 2 Budget-Making H Celebrations, Civic 3 Charities 3 > 53 Charters 9 » 17 Child Welfare 3 Citizenship 17 City Planning 5 Cleaning, City 20 Commercial Organizations.. 8 Commission Government 9 Courts 4 Culverts 2 Dances. Folk 42 Docks 63 Elections 9 Engineering 41 Exhibits 10 Festivals, Public 3 Finance, Municipal H Fire Loss and Protection.. 14 Flies 29 Food Inspection 20 Franchises 39 Garbage Disposal 20 Garden Cities 5 Gardens • • 16 Gas Standards 40 General Books 17 Government, Municipal 9 Harbors 63 Health, Public 20 Highway Engineering 45 Hospitals 24 Housing 25 Infant Mortality 20 Initiative 27 Insect Extermination 29 Insurance, Workmen's 54 Landscape Architecture. ... 30 Law, Municipal 32 Libraries 34 Lighting 35 , .23, Markets Milk, Pure Mosquitoes 29 Motion Pictures 45 Municipal Ownership 36 Noise, Unnecessary 37 Nursing, Visiting 57 Ordinances, Municipal 32 Pageantry 3 Parks 38 Pavements 4 Playgrounds Police Preferential Voting Proportional Representation 10 Public Utilities 39 Public Works 41 Recall [ 27 Recreation 4? Referendum 27 Roads 45 Sanitation 20 Schools 4£ Sewage Disposal 6] Short Ballot c. Signs, Street 1 Single Tax n Smoke Nuisance 52 Social Centers 55 Social Evil 53 Social Welfare 53 - Story Telling 5, 44 Street Cleaning 20 Streets 45 Swimming Pools . . Taxation Textbooks on Civi' Traffic, Street ... Trees Tuberculosis ... ... Viaducts 2 Vocational Education 51 Voting Systems 9 Waste Disposal 61 Water Fronts 63 Water Supply 64 Woman Suffrage 66 Women's Civic Work GC> The classification is by subjects, with an alphabetical arrangement by authors under each subject head. The prices quoted include postage. Free publications are entered at a nominal charge of 10 cents to cover expense of ordering and mailing. Government publication should be ordered direct from the Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C. Of the 400 books listed nearly 275 have been published within the last four years. Pamphlets have been listed only for a few subjects on which the book literature appears inadequate. The list is kept up to date in the review columns 01: The American City. BRIDGES, Continued— CELEBRATIONS— CHILD WELFARE save time for the practicing engineer, for whom the book is in- tended. The designs and data tables for culverts and trestles are original with the author and are here presented for the first time. They are the result of his own practice in the design and con- struction of railroad structures. Tyrrell, Henry Grattan. History of Bridge Engineering. 191 1. 480 pp. 330 illustrations. % $4.00 This book prevents a history of ancient, mediaeval and modern bridge-building, tracing the later development by types — stone, pontoon, aqueduct, wooden, cast-iron and steel. Different types of design of steel bridges — truss, tubular and plate girder, sus- pension, cantilever, arch, trestle and viaduct — are discussed. The last two chapters are devoted to solid and reinforced concrete bridges. Statistics and cost details are given in many instances. About 2,000 bridges are noticed. Theory and methods of de- sign are purposely omitted. Celebrations, Civic, Including Pageantry See also Recreation and Social Centers Bates, Esther Willard. Pageants and Pageantry. 1912. 294 pp. Illustrated. $1.25 Designed for the use of schools and colleges. The book con- tains six chapters on the staging, costuming, organizing, sources and writing of amateur pageants and plays; also five specimen pageants, comprising scenes from different periods in Roman, mediaeval, English and American colonial history, with directions for their reproduction with limited stage settings. There is also much other dramatic material in the volume, with songs from various periods and directions for ancient dances. A few speci- men tables of expense have been contributed by leading pageant masters. Mackay, Constance D'Arcy. Patriotic Plays and Pageants for Young People. 1912. 223 pp. $1.46 Comprises three pageants: Pageant of Patriotism (outdoor); the same for indoors; Hawthorne Pageant (both outdoor and in- door). Portions of these pageants are separate, one-act plays especially suitable for separate performance in school, home or small theater. Simple directions for costumes, scenes and staging. All suitable for settlements, special festivals, etc. Needham, Mary Master. Folk Festivals: Their Growth and How to Give Them. 1912. xi -f 244 pp. $i-35 Teachers, social workers and civic organizations — whoever is concerned with the preparation of festivals, celebrations and pageants — will find this book a guide and friend. It contains the fruit of much experience; it provides practical suggestions for all seasons, and it is full of real inspiration. An excellent bibliography will prove useful to those who may wish to pursue their study of folk festivals beyond the limits of this book. Child Welfare See also Recreation, Schools, Social Research and Service, Social Centers Breckinridge, Sophonisba P., and Abbott, Edith. The Delinquent Child and the Home. 1912. x -f 355 pp. 30 tables. $2.00 This is a study of the work of the Juvenile Court of Cook County, Illinois, undertaken with the idea of gaining a more thorough knowledge of the needs of all children, and of extend- ing the usefulness of the Court. It tells of immigrant children, of the poverty-stricken, the orphan and the homeless, the ignor- ant and the unmanageable; the children without play and those from degraded and crowded homes. The appendices contain val- uable material, including two chapters of "family paragraphs," or summarized statements about the homes and families and offenses of 150 delinquent boys and girls. CHILD WELFARE— Continued Chicago School of Civics and Philanthropy. The Child in the City. 1912. xiii + 502 pp. 11 illustrations. $1.66 The papers presented in this volume were read at the con- ferences held during the Chicago Child Welfare Exhibit, May 11- 25, 1911. They are a real contribution to the discussion of the unsatisfied claims of childhood upon the modern community. Chicago School of Civics and Philanthropy. Finding Employment for Children Who Leave the Grade Schools to Go to Work. 191 1. 56 pp. 25 cents Report to the Chicago Woman's Club, the Chicago Association of Collegiate Alumnae and the Woman's City Club. The contents are: "The School and the Working-Child: A Plea for Employ- ment Supervision in City Schools," by Sophonisba P. Brecken- ridge and Edith Abbott; "Preliminary Report on Opportunities of Employment in Chicago Open to Girls Under Sixteen," by Anne S. Davis; "Public Care of Working-Children in England and Germany: Some Notes on Juvenile Labour Exchanges by Edith Abbott;" "Trade and Technical Classes for Girls in Chi- cago;" "Selected Bibliography Relating to Employment Super- vision." Clopper, Edward N. Child Labor in City Streets. 1912. 280 pp. Illus- trated. $1.33 The American taxpayer worships economy, but he spends two hundred dollars to save himself one hundred. He allows a small boy to work in the street so as to earn about a hundred dollars a year, because he forgets, or doesn't know, that sixty per cent of all delinquent boys come from the street trades and every de- linquent child costs the state at least two hundred dollars a year, ii. the boy is an orphan or the son of a poor widow (only a small percentage are) it would be cheaper to give him a pension than to train him in crime. This is one of the many startling facts brought out in this volume. Coulter, Ernest K. The Children in the Shadow. (Introduction by Jacob A. Riis.) 1913. xvii + 277 pp. Illustrated. $1.65 Mr. Coulter was clerk of the largest children's court in the world and the founder of the Big Brother Movement, which has spread to more than forty cities. His unprecedented experience gives him an unusual authority. This book is a large "slice of life," full of pathos and hope and good humor. It is a stirring appeal for the neglected citizen of to-morrow. Hart, Hastings H., Editor. Juvenile Court Laws in the United States: Sum- marized. 191 0. 160 pp. $1.60 Part I is a summary of juvenile court legislation of the United States through 1908, and later revised to cover the legislation of 1909. _ Part II is a topical abstract of the state laws governing the trial and disposition of juvenile offenders, covering legislation in force at the close of 1909. Part III contains a juvenile-court law which may serve as a model for other juvenile-court legisla- tion. Holmes, Arthur, Assistant Director of the Psycho- logical Clinic ; Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania. # The Conservation of the Child. 19 12. 345 pp. 37 illustrations. $1.35 Covering the practical application of established principles in the inauguration and operation of a psychological clinic. Val- uable to anyone interested in child welfare. Containing tests and measurements applicable to diagnosing special children. The material is arranged topically, and is clear and interesting. The illustrations are most illuminating. Many definite cases are de- scribed in a way which emphasizes the sociological importance of the psychological clinic. National Child Labor Committee. Child Labor and Education. Vol. I., No. 1. (June, 1912), of The Child Labor Bulletin. $1.00 The magazine is a quarterly, price $2 per year. This number contains the papers and proceedings of the Eighth Annual Con- ference on Child Labor. CHILD WELFARE, Continued— CITY PLANNING National Child Labor Committee. Child Labor Laws in All the States. Vol. J., No. 2. (August, 1912.) The Child Labor Bulletin. 126 pp. 50 cents A summary of the child-labor and compulsory-education laws of all the states, simply and briefly arranged by states. Con- taining also draft of the Uniform Law, several articles on street trades regulation, and one on the enforcement of child-labor laws from a special field study by Charles L. Chute. National Child Labor Committee. Child Workers in the Tenements. 1912. 47 pp. Illustrated. 10 cents A vivid presentation of a serious problem that affects public health, legitimate standards of business interests, and the health, education and morals of little children, and should therefore be of deep concern to every citizen. Neil, Henry. Fighting for the Welfare of Our Little Men and Women. 1912. 320 pp. 150 illustrations. $2.26 A handbook describing the efforts being made for the welfare of children, particularly in reference to their play. The author is responsible for the Mothers' New Pension Law of Illinois. Ogburn, William F., Ph. D., Instructor in History, Politics and Economics, Princeton University. Progress and Uniformity in Child-Labor Legis- lation. 1912. 219 pp. Many tables. $1.83 Covering the field of child-labor legislation through about one- third of a century. It is a statistical description, giving detailed information regarding each state, and measuring the progress and the uniformity of legislation on child labor. Partridge, Emelyn Newcomb, Story-Teller for the Worcester (1910) Playgrounds, and Partridge, George Everett, Ph. D. Story-Telling in School and Home. Illustrated. $1.25 A great feature of this volume is its comprehensiveness. It contains the material needed and what should be known about it. It combines the stories themselves, of varied types ready for the telling, and just the information the narrator wants con- cerning these stories, and, too, concerning the way to tell them in order to seize and hold fast the attention of young audiences. The book is designed to help both teachers and parents. It is written by veterans in the story-telling field, and is informed with a spirit of broad culture and exacting taste, and with a trained insight into the psychology of young people. City Planning and Replanning, In= eluding Congestion of Popu= lation, etc. See also Garden Cities, Housing, Landscape Ar= chitecture, Roads and Streets, etc. Information in regard to published plans for indi- vidual places will be furnished on request. The list of such reports is too long to be added to that of the gen- eral books on city planning here given. Bibliography. Check List of References on City Planning. . 1912. I2 3 PP- 25 cents Compiled by the Division of Bibliography, Library of Congress, and the Department of Landscape Architecture, Harvard Uni- versity, under the editorial direction of H. H. B. Meyer, Chief Bibliographer, Library of Congress. It is the May, 1912, issue of Special Libraries. It is published preliminary to the "Bibliog- raphy of City Planning," in preparation by the same authorities. Though incomplete, this list is of practical value to libraries, pro- fessional city planners, and to students of the subject. The a !r ra ? gement material by localities represented gives a view of the extent of the city planning movement. CITY PLANNING— Continued Bentley, E. G., LL. B., and Taylor, S. P., A. R. I. B. A. Housing, Town Planning, Etc., Act 1909. A Prac- tical Guide in the Preparation of Town Planning Schemes. (Published in England.) 1911. xvi -f- 159 pp. Duty extra. $i'35 With a Foreword by R. Unwin; with appendices containing the text of the Act; also specimen forms of notices and a model set of colored plans. Explaining, "step by step, in simple and under- standable language, exactly what should be done and can be done to make the Act effective." Canadian Housing and Town Planning Congress. The First Canadian Housing and Town Planning Congress. (Held in Winnipeg, Canada, July 15-17, 1912.) 1913. 123 pp. 10 cents Containing, besides opening addresses, the following papers: "Some Architectural Aspects of Town Planning," by Raymond Unwin; "Some Observations on the British Town Planning Act," by Thomas Adams, Town Planning Assistant to the Local Govern- ment Board, London, England; "Transit and Town Planning," by John P. Fox, Secretary Transit Committee, City Club of New York; "Some City Planning Problems in the Prairie Cities," by Malcolme W. Ross, Regina, Sask.; "The Housing Problem," by Charles A. Hodgetts, Medical Adviser to the Commissioner of Conservation, Ottawa, Canada; "The Tenement House Question," by Dr. M. Seymour, Commissioner of Public Health for Sas- katchewan; "Housing as It Affects the Community," by Mrs. Al- bion Fellows Bacon, Secretary Indiana Housing Association; "Housing and Town Planning," by His Royal Highness, the Duke of Connaught, Governor General of the Dominion of Canada: "The Essential Elements of City Planning," by Guy Wilfrid Hayler; "The Social Aspect of Town Planning," by James Ford, of the Department of Social Ethics, Harvard University; "Prime Considerations of Town Planning." by Frederick Law Olmsted; "The City Beautiful," by Louis Betz, St. Paul, Minn.; "Some of the Fundamental Problems of Town Planning," by B. Antrim Haldeman, Town Planning Engineer, Philadelphia, Pa.; "The Bane of the Gridiron," by Arthur A. Shurtleff, Landscape Ar- chitect, Boston; "Beautifying the City," by L. J. Boughner, Edi- tor Minneapolis Tribune; "Financial Aspects of Town Planning," by C. B. Whitnall, Milwaukee, Wis. Glen, Randolph A., M. A., LL. B., Chairman, Town Planning Committee, Acton Urban District Coun- cil, and Dean, Arthur D., Member National Advisory Town Planning Committee. The Law and Practice of Town Planning. (Pub- lished in England.) Duty extra. $3*87 The authors of this book have in addition to their legal quali- fications as Barrister-at-Law of the Middle Temple and Western Circuit, and Solicitor of the Supreme Court, respectively, the ad- vantage of personal practical experience with town planning schemes. The work contains: the English law relating to town planning; the practice and procedure adopted when scientific town planning schemes are in contemplation; fifty model clauses for town planning schemes; an outline of improvement and other housing schemes; an account of the progress of town planning in other countries. McVey, Frank L., President of the University of North Dakota. The Making of a Town. 1913. 221 pp. $1.09 This is the book of the small town — its difficulties and some ways to overcome them. Two chapters bearing the titles "Town Huilding and Cooperation" and "The Planning of the Town" are followed by four chapters on the fundamentals of health, schools, morals and business. The remaining chapters discuss "The ^En- trance to the Town;" "Government and Administration;" "Or- ganizations and What They Can Do for the Town;" "Advertising the Town;" and "The Future of the Town." References for further reading on each of these topics are listed at the end of the volume. Marsh, Benjamin G, Secretary of the Committee on Congestion of Population in New York City. An Introduction to City Planning. 158 pp. Illus- trated. $1.00 A brief summary of city planning in America and foreign countries. Contains nearly fifty maps, plans and photographs illustrative of city planning throughout the world, and transla- tions of many foreign laws on city planning. CITY PLANNING— Continued Mawson, Thomas H., Lecturer on Landscape Design, University of Liverpool. Civic Art. 375 pp. 2 colored plates. 275 drawings and photographs. $20.00 Studies in town planning, in parks, boulevards and open spaces. Mr. Mawson is a leader of thought on town planning. National Conference on City Planning. Proceedings of Rochester, N. Y. (1910), Conference. $1.50 Philadelphia (191 1) Conference. $1.50 Boston (1912) Conference. $2.00 Papers by experts on problems relating to all phases of city planning. Nichols, J. C. Real Estate Subdivisions — The Best Manner of Handling Them. (Published by the American Civic Association. Series II, No. 5.) November, 1912. 15 pp. 25 cents An address delivered at the fifth annual convention of the National Association of Real Estate Exchanges at Louisville, Ky., June 20, 1912. The author tells of the actual development by himself of a tract of more than 1,000 acres — "The Country Club District" of Kansas City, Mo. — into an ideal residential section. "Representing," says the American Civic Association, "eight years of actual execution, according to a plan, and the introduction of modern ideas in 'saving hills and dales' in the laying out of streets; in the best in .the planting of trees; in the illumination of streets; in the subdivision into lots; in wise legislation for the development of the property; and in safeguarding by regulations and restrictions the interests of all those who are induced to become home-owners in the District." Nolen, John. Replanning Small Cities. 1912. 218 pp. 46 illus- trations. $2.70 Six typical studies as follows: Roanoke, A Small City of the New South; San Diego, A Pacific Coast Resort and Future Sea- port; Montclair, A Residence Town Suburban to New York: Glen Ridge, A Model Borough in New Jersey; Reading, A Small Industrial City; Madison, A State Capital and University Town; with introductory chapter entitled, "The Planning of Small Cities, A General Survey"; and closing chapter, "Existing Cities, How They May Be Replanned." Pray, James Sturgis, Chairman, School of Landscape Architecture, Harvard University, and Kimball, Theodora, Librarian, School of Landscape Architecture, Harvard University. City Planning. 1913. 103 pp. $1.00 A comprehensive analysis of the subject arranged for the clas- sification of books, plans, photographs, notes and other collected material; with alphabetic subject index. Robinson, Charles Mulford. The Improvement of Towns and Cities. 313 pp. Illustrated. $1.35 Showing the different ways in which civic beauty may be ob- tained, and that many lines of work may combine to produce a harmonious result. It treats of civic beauty in relation to city sites, to city planning and construction. Perhaps the most in- teresting section of the book is the one dealing with beauty in the street and telling what has been done to conceal wiring, to abolish smoke and noise and ugly advertising, to secure esthetic and harmonious house-fronts and street furnishings, to plant and preserve graceful, strong trees, and with grass and flower and vine to set the country in the city. Robinson, Charles Mulford. Modern Civic Art. 381 pp. 30 full-page illus- trations. $3.25 A comprehensive discussion of the artistic side of city better- ment: what the approaches by land and water should express and CITY PLANNING, Cont.— COMMERCIAL ORGANIZATIONS reveal of the city's character and importance; how concentration of the chief government buildings, properly treated, should form the climax of the city's distinction; how beauty and dignity may be attained in the business section of a city, and how home sur- roundings of rich and poor may be made comfortable, refined and beautiful. Robinson, Charles Mulford. The Width and Arrangement of Streets. (See Roads, Streets and Pavements.) Town Planning Conference, London, October, 1910. Transactions, xx -f- 812. Profusely illustrated with photographs, maps and diagrams. Duty ex- tra. $5.00 The volume is divided into three parts. The first contains the record of the Conference. In this portion is given a complete list of the delegates, an account of the various visits and ex- cursions which they made, the addresses of the inaugural meet- ing and the speeches of the banquet. The second part contains the papers and discussions of the Conference. These cover a very wide range of topics discussed for the most part by the leading experts of all countries. The papers are printed in the language in which they were written, with English translations appended to all those which were in foreign tongues. Part Three is made up of "Notes on the Exhibits" of the really remarkable exhibition, which was housed in the Royal Academy. These notes were prepared by H. V. Lanchester and Raymond Unwin. Triggs, H. Inigo. Town Planning, Past, Present and Possible, ix + 334 PP- *73 illustrations. (Published in Eng- land.) $5.48 The author spent several years studying the methods of such cities as Paris, Berlin, Munich and Vienna. It deals with traffic problems, planning of streets, town expansion and development of suburbs. Unwin, Raymond. Town Planning in Practice. An Introduction to the Art of Designing Cities and Suburbs. Quarto. xxii + 424 pp. Over 300 illustrations. (Published in England.) $6.48 The author preserves a careful balance between artistic and practical considerations. Among the topics treated are: Civic Art as the Expression of Civic Life; Centres and Enclosed Spaces; Arrangement of Main Roads: Site Planning and Resi- dential Roads; Cooperation in Site Planning. Waterhouse, Paul, M. A., and Unwin, Raymond, F. R. I. B. A. Old Towns and New Needs. Also the Town Ex- tension Plan. (Being the Warburton Lectures for 1912, Manchester University, Manchester, England.) 1912. 62 pp. 9 illustrations. 40 cents Two lectures, the first, by Mr. Waterhouse, on the duties of a town planner in an old city; the second, by Mr. Unwin, on the plotting of suburbs around existing towns. Commercial Organizations, Civic Work Of The Central Association of Commercial Secretaries. Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Convention of the Association, Indianapolis, Ind., Septem- ber 20-21, 1912. 1913. 71 pp. 50 cents This is more than the minutes of a meeting. It contains talks between commercial secretaries on their mistakes; direct criticisms on some commercial club methods, and papers on various munici- pal questions, such as the street railway problem, the commission form of government, the mayor's cabinet, etc., besides a discus- sion of the relation between commercial and agricultural develop- COMMERCIAL ORGANIZATIONS, Cont.—COM'N GOV'T. Clay, S. H., Secretary of the Lexington (Kentucky) Commercial Club. City Building. 1913. 164 pp. $5.00 The purpose of the book is to help commercial secretaries to work along progressive lines in making cities better places in which to live and do business. It takes up ways of keeping a commer- cial organization alive and growing; various plans of locating in- dustries; securing, organizing, financing and entertaining con- ventions; extensions of wholesale and retail trade; street build- ing and cleaning; transportation; the City Beautiful; the relation of the schools to the industrial interests of the city; government by commission; good roads; the relation of the city to the agri- cultural community. Commission Government, Short Bal= lot and Proportional Representation See also General Books on Municipal Government and Good Citizenship; Initiative Referen= dum and Recall American Academy of Political and Social Science. Commission Government in American Cities. 191 1. 284 pp. Paper covers, $1.00; cloth, $1.50 Thirty articles by authorities on this subject, arranged under the following divisions: Underlying Principles and Typical Plans; Problems of Commission Government; Objections, Limita- tions and Modifications of the Commission Plan; Results of Commission Government in Typical Cities. Beard, Charles A., Associate Professor of Politics, Columbia University, Editor. The Loose-Leaf Digest of Short Ballot Charters. 400 + pp. $5.00 A living cyclopedia of the commission government movement. The largest work on the subject — larger than all others put together; the most complete — covering the history, legal develop- ment, theory and the present-day practical workings of the reform in the various cities, and giving text or digest of the law in 32 states. An up-to-date work — all non-loose-leaf books on com- mission government are out of date before they can reach the public, so rapidly does this movement progress. Embodying the work of fifty contributors and a year of preparation and compila- tion of facts. Bradford, Ernest S., Ph. D. Commission Government in American Cities. 191 1. xiv + 359 PP. $i.35 This work is especially suited to the requirements of the average citizen, giving him in compact form the essential facts of the history and development of the commission idea as applied to city government. It further partakes of the character of a textbook in that much space is devoted to the development of details in city management under the new system. Bruere, Henry. The New City Government. 1912. xxii -f 438 pp. 10 tables. $1.62 Based on an administrative survey of ten cities made by the author and William Shepherdson for the Metz Fund of the Bureau of Municipal Research, New York, in 1911. The facts presented have been gleaned from public records and reports, and from interviews with public officials. The book is intended to be "of service to municipal officials who are now called upon to render efficient service without the instruments of efficiency." Childs, Richard S. Short Ballot Principles. 191 1. 171 pp. $1.09 One of the most readable books ever written on American political problems. Expressing the personal opinions of the author, who is the Executive Secretary of the National Short- Ballot Organization. COMMISSION GOVERNMENT, Cont.— EXHIBITS Humphreys, John H. Proportional Representation. 1911. xxi +400 pp. (Published in England.) $1.50 This volume analyzes the results of English electoral methods; contrasts the working of the second ballot, the alternative vote and proportional representation; describes the systems of elec- tion which obtain in several Continental countries, in Tasmania and in South Africa; and discusses the effects of proportional representation upon the party system and its bearing upon the relations between the two Houses of Parliament. McGregor, Ford H., Instructor in Political Science at the University of Wisconsin. City Government by Commission. (Bulletin No. 423 of the University of Wisconsin.) 191 1. 151 pp. 40 cents A comprehensive outline of the advantages and shortcomings of the commission plan, particularly in the Middle West. Con- servative in tone, readable, and contains a good bibliography. Woodruff, Clinton Rogers, Secretary National Mu- nicipal League, Editor. City Government by Commission. 191 1. 381 pp. $1.62 Several of the chapters comprise papers presented to the National Municipal League by experts and investigators who have made a study of the various phases of commission govern- ment and other forms of city charters. Another chapter con- tains an article prepared by the chairman of the Executive Com- mittee, Prof. Albert Bushnell Hart, the rest of the book being the work of Mr. Woodruff himself. The chapter entitled "The Growth of the Movement" contains a list of 156 cities having some form of a commission government, with population and date of adoption of the charter. Distinctive features of various state laws and local charters are pointed out. The chapter on "The Des Moines Plan" contains the Des Moines charter com- plete. Exhibits Chicago City Club. Guide to the City Club Housing Exhibition, April 15 to June 1, 1913. 55 PP- Illustrated. 15 cents This pamphlet is' of value to those who are making an analytical study of the subject of housing, especially for exhibit purposes. Child Hygiene Association of Philadelphia. The Report of the Philadelphia Baby-Saving Show, May 18-26, 1912. (Edited by the Publica- tion Committee ; published by the Executive Com- mittee.) 1913. 270 pp. Illustrated. $1.00 The organization, exhibition methods, and the plan of financ- ing the Show are given in detail, with descriptions of the various exhibits, fifty half-tone plates of important features, and typo- graphical reproductions of all reading matter appearing in the charts, tables and legends. The proceedings of the Conference on Infant Hygiene, which was held in conjunction with the Baby- Saving Show, are given in full. The subjects treated were dis- cussed by some of the best authorities in this country. The finan- cial statement gives a classified analysis of the expenditures of the Show. Post, Arthur Edwin, Executive Secretary, Philadel- phia Milk Show, Editor. The Report of the Philadelphia Milk Show. 191 1. 123 pp. Illustrated. 50 cents Its organization and management and a description of the ex- hibits. The illustrations include reproductions of charts and models and views of sections of the Show, also reproductions of the advertisements announcing it. The report is a valuable guide for the organization and management of similar under- takings. in FINANCE, MUNICIPAL Finance, Municipal and State; In= eluding Accounting and Taxation Cleveland, Frederick A., Ph. D. Chapters on Municipal Administration and Ac- counting. 361 pp. $2.13 The various chapters of the volume are addresses and articles which were delivered or published from 1903 to 1909. They are arranged according to subject matter. Beginning with an ex- position of graft in its various forms, and of the citizen's ignorance of city affairs, the author analyzes the financial man- agement of municipalities and explains the principles of budget personality. The need and significance of correct municipal accounting are set forth in several chapters with sufficient detail to serve as a manual of reorganization. Cooley, T. M., LL. D., late Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Michigan. A Treatise on the Law of Taxation, Including the Law of Local Assessments. (Third edition by- Albert P. Jacobs, of the Detroit Bar.) 1003. 2 vols. 1,727 pp. $12.00 The present edition was prepared at the request of Judge Cooley, and was far advanced toward completion at the time of his death. Under his direction the second edition was taken as a basis of the third, and most of the alterations in the text were examined and affirmed by him. Such alterations as have been made are always by way of amplification, for nearly every passage of Judee Cooley's text has been cited with approval by the highest authority. In its present forrn the text is supported or illustrated by reference to 17,000 decisions, of which more than 9.500 have been handed down since the previous edition. The table of cases has been prepared with great care and labor, citing not merely the official reports, but referring to the volume and page of the Reporter System, The American Decisions, Re- ports and State Reports, and the L. R. A. By means of this cooious table of cases a ready reference is afforded to the princi- pal unofficial series of reports. Dean. Maurice B., of tbe New York Bar. Municipal Bonds Held Void. 1912. 122 pp. 3 tables. $2.50 Including issues enjoined: registration or certification denied; issuance not comnelled: validation refused, and all proceedings determining illegality. The object of the book is stated to be the compilation, in ready reference form, of all cases in the United States holding municipal bonds void or determining their illegality nrior to issuance, for use by owners and dealers in municipal bonds, ?nd banks loaning on such securities as collateral, so as to guard against illegal issues in existence. The cases are ar- ranged in three tables, which are fully explained and described. Fillebrown. C. B., President of the Massachusetts Single Tax League. The ABCof Taxation. 236 pp. 8 illustrations. $1.30 An authoritative guide that cannot fail to throw light upon the true principle of taxation to the landlord, the rent payer and the student of economics. Mr. Fillebrown is an accepted authority. George. Henry. Progress and Poverty, xi -f- 512 pp. $1.00 An inquiry into the cause of industrial depressions and of In- crease of want with increase of wealth. The remedy — taxation of land values. Hurd. Richard M.. President, Lawyers Mortgage Com- pany, New York. Principles of City Land Values. 191 1. Third edition, viii -f 159 pp. Illustrated. $1.50 Outlining the theory of the structrrf of cities and stating the average scales of land values produced bv different utilities within them. The material for the studv of the structure of cities has been gathered from many local histories of American cities, old mans, commercial geographies, etc.; for the study of averaee scales of values has been taken from valuations of land and build- ings, rentals and mortgages obtained in about fifty cities in the rourse of the mortgage business of the United States Mortgage •& Trust Company, and from many visits to these cities. The 11 FINANCE, MUNICIPAL, Continued viewpoint is that of a conservative lender on real estate, and while the examples cited are chiefly from the smaller cities, the author believes that the principles stated are universal, and differ only in application and in resulting combinations. Marsh, Benjamin C. Taxation of Land Values in American Cities; the Next Step in Exterminating Poverty. 191 1. xv + 112 pp. Paper, 80 cents; Cloth, $1.10 The author realizes that the heavy taxation of land values is fundamentally a moral issue. He does not regard the single tax as the sole cure for social ills, but makes the assertion that "adequate taxation of land values will reduce the cost of living by $20 per family up for different classes in cities." Metz Fund, New York Bureau of Municipal Re- search. Handbook of Municipal Accounting. 1913. 226 pp. 30 folders. $2.15 This book is a simple exposition of a scientific system of accounting and reporting for municipal^ utilities, which will pro- duce complete, accurate and prompt information at the least possible cost. The book should be of great value to those upon whom rests the responsibility of conducting the affairs of a municipality. Montgomery, Robert H., C. P. A. Auditing: Theory and Practice. 1912. xxix + 657 pp. $5-oo This book is intended to instruct those who have had but little experience in accounting matters, as well as to guide the qualified public accountant. The chapters cover the auditor's qualifications, his duties in various cases, his methods of work in full; a study of depreciation; special points in different classes of audits, including building and loan associations, pub- lic service corporations, municipal accounts, charitable organiza- tions, land and development companies, contractors, etc.; the li- abilities of auditors and of directors; and certified public account- ant laws and examinations, with specimen examination questions from various states. National Tax Association. State and Local Taxation. Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Conference under the auspices of the National Tax Association. 1913. 558 pp. $3.16 The volume is well indexed and full of helpful description and comment of a practical character upon current problems of taxa- tion. Among the more important papers are a review of the tax legislation of 1912, by Arthur C. Pleydell; a description of the tax system of Pennsylvania, by N. E. Hause; a discussion of the working of the interesting scheme of corporation taxation recently enacted in California by A. B. Nye; a discussion of the relation of taxation to rates of public service corporations, by N. T. Guernsey; a paper on the Wisconsin income tax, by Nils P. Haugen ; and an outline of a practical plan of forest taxation, by F. R. Fairchild. Orr, John, M. A. Taxation of Land Values: As It Affects Land Owners and Others. (Preface by Mary Fels.) 1912. xi + 116 pp. Duty extra. 35 cents "Mr. Orr contends," says The Public, "for the economic iden- tity of taxes and land values. To disregard this identity is, in his view, to encounter an impassable psychological barrier to the movement for land value taxation and to ignore a tactical oppor- tunity. For land-users look upon 'the sums which they pay in rent to landowners, and in rates and taxes to the local and national governments, as one payment for the services rendered to them by the community,' and will as willingly give in another form to-morrow what 'they are willing to give in one form to-day.' Consequently, as Mr. Orr argues, the transfer of taxes to land values will not lessen the net income of land-owners, but will tend to increase it to the extent of the advantage in re- duced friction of the direct land-value tax over the present in- direct ones." Page, Wm. Herbert, of the Columbus, Ohio, Bar, and Jones, Paul, of the Columbus, Ohio, Bar. A Treatise on the Law of Taxation by Local and Special Assessments. 1009. 2 vols, ccxlvii + 2,497 PP. $13.00 Including assessments for streets, sidewalks, alleys, sewers and all other city improvements, as well as assessments for all rural 12 FINANCE, MUNICIPAL, Continued improvements, such as roads, ditches, drains, bridges, viaducts, water systems and irrigation. It is a connected statement of the principles of the law of taxation by local and special assess- ments as established by court decisions. The table of contents is a minute analysis of the subject. Detailed discussion is given of the method by which the public corporations may enforce assessments and the methods whereby the property owner may seek relief. Exhaustive citation of authorities is made, and there are parallel references to other than the official reports. There is a very full index. Post, Louis F. The Taxation of Land Values. 1912. 145 PP- Illustrated. 30 cents Outlines of lectures on this subject. An explanation, with illustrative charts, notes and answers to typical questions, of the land, labor and fiscal reform advocated by Henry George. Prendergast, William A., Comptroller of the City of New York. Report Submitting Plan of Proposed System for the Central Purchase and Distribution of Sup- plies for the City of New York. March 15, 1913. 72 pp. Diagrams and tables. 10 cents Containing all the forms necessary to carry the proposed sys- tem into full operation and effect. The plan has been developed from the system of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company. It does not contemplate the elimination of any of the departmental purchasing agents. It contemplates charter amendments to permit the creation of a department of purchase, headed by a board of purchase consisting of the Mayor, the Comptroller and the Presi- dent of the Board of Aldermen; also the appointment of a general purchasing agent and a general city storekeeper. The heads of the eighteen largest purchasing departments in the city would be given supervision over every act of the general purchasing agent. Seligman, Edwin R. A., McVickar Professor of Po- litical Economy, Columbia University. Essays in Taxation. 1913. Revised and enlarged edition. About 700 pp. $3«75 This book was originally published in 1895, and the favor with which it was received has rendered necessary a new edition every two or three years. These successive editions have, however, contained but slight changes. Now, after the lapse of almost eighteen years, the progress of the world both in fiscal facts and in economic theory has been so marked that to keep the book a satisfactory interpretation of actual conditions it has been neces- sary to revise it throughout, rewriting entire sections and chap- ters. The thirteen chapters of the original have grown to twenty, and these, together with the additions to the remainder of the work, have resulted in a volume of almost double the size. The book is, therefore, substantially a new book. The Develop- ment of Taxation, the General Property Tax, the Single Tax, Double Taxation, the Inheritance Tax, the Taxation of Corpora- tions, and the Classification of Public Revenues are some of the topics taken up by the author. Shearman, Thomas G. Natural Taxation. 268 pp. Goth, $1.00; paper, 50 cents The contents of this suggestive volume: Crooked Taxation, Direct Taxation, Taxation of Personal Property, Testimony of Experience, Effect of the Personalty Tax on Farmers. Taxa- tion of Women and Children, Taxation of Improvements, The Natural Tax, One Tax Enough, Justice of Natural Taxation, Where the Burden Falls, Social Effects of Natural Taxation, Replies to Objections, Incidence of Taxation. Upson, Lent D. Sources of Municipal Revenues in Illinois. 1912. 126 pp. 32 tables, 1 map. 75 cents One of the "University of Illinois Studies in the Social Sciences." The budgets of twenty-four cities of over 8,000 popu- lation (excluding Chicago) were examined in this study, part of the purpose of which is to show the means of revenue which are not fully utilized. Complete statements were secured from all but three of the cities examined, covering the revenues for general purposes. The material is arranged according to the plan employed by the Bureau of the Census for tabulating the statistics of cities. Considerable information is included which is not directly concerned with city budgets, but is important to the permanent betterment of cities — such data as the cost of operating municipal water and light plants, the time and date of expiration of public service franchises, the rates of license taxes, and the relation between the number of liquor licenses and the number of police. 13 FIRE LOSS, PREVENTION AND PROTECTION Fire Loss, Prevention and Protection American School of Correspondence. Cyclopedia -of Fire Prevention and Insurance. 1912. 4 vols. 1,800 pp. 765 illustrations. $15.80 This work covers the cause, prevention and handling of fires, the theory and practice of fire insurance, the protection and in- spection of risks, the adjustment of losses and the business operations involved. The sections on fire prevention make a careful study of all modern public and private fire-fighting ap- pliances, and give particular attention to the possibilities and limitations of fire-resisting building construction. The sections on fire insurance cover both the big general principles underlying the insurance business and their practical application to current insurance problems. All matters of inspection, hazards, risks, ratings and schedules are exhaustively treated. The authors have considered the simplest, most efficient methods of applying the fundamental principles of insurance practice to each problem that may arise in the day's work, showing the different ways in which it may occur, and explaining in detail and by diagrams how it can best be handled. Croker, Edward F. Fire Prevention. 1912. x -J- 354 pp. Illustrated. $1.65 The author, who was for twenty-seven years a New York fire- man, and for the last twelve years of that time head of the Department, says: "The fighting of many fires and the study of the subjects both of fire extinguishment and fire prevention, during my years of connection with the New York Fire Depart- ment, have led me to set down the recommendations and plans which will be found in the chapters of this book, and it is ray sincere hope that by the adoption of at least some of them in this great country the annual sacrifice of life and property to the most destructive of the elements may be somewhat reduced." Freitag, Joseph Kendall, B. S., C. E. Fire Prevention and Fire Protection as Applied to Building Construction. 1912. ix + J 038 pp. $4.00 A volume of convenient size for easy reference, containing much detailed material on modern progress in fire-resistance, clearly presented and made forcible by frequent references to definite conditions and experiences. Hardy, Edward R., New York Fire Insurance Exchange. Fire Insurance Law (including Standard Policy). 1913. 250 pp. $1.50 A treatise on the history and growth of the standard fire in- surance policy, a discussion of its legal phases and a careful analy- sis of its provisions, including a group of standard forms, clauses and riders. Kenlon, John, Chief of New York Fire Department. Fires and Fire Fighters. 191 3. xii -f- 410 pp. Illustrated. $2.70 A history of modern fire-fighting, with a review of its develop- ment from earliest times. Among the subjects treated are fire control in schools, factories and hospitals; theaters and fire panics; the hotel peril; seaport problems: fire strategy in the homes of the people; gasoline and garages, and the problem of the skyscraper. There is an important chapter on "The Trade of Arson," and two chapters are devoted to "Great Fires and How They Were Fought." Methods of fire-fighting in England, France and Ger- many are described, and much practical information is given re- garding the New York Fire Department. Many valuable tables are found in the appendix. McKeon, Peter Joseph, Consulting Expert in Fire Prevention. Fire Prevention. 256 pp. Illustrated. $i«75 A treatise and textbook on making life and property safe against fire. "For inspectors, fire marshals, business men, build- ing managers, shop foremen, superintendents of institutions, janitors, engineers, matrons and housekeepers." Martin, Frank E., and Davis, George M., M. D. Firebrands. 191 1. 219 pp. 16 illustrations. 68 cents Designed to teach children how to avoid setting a fire, how to extinguish one, and how to hold one in check until the arrival of help. Each story in the book tells how a fire was started, how it should have been avoided, and how it was put out. GARDEN CITIES, SUBURBS AND VILLAGES Garden Cities, Suburbs and Villages See also City Planning and Landscape Architecture Information will be furnished on request regarding books and pamphlets describing individual places under this head. Benoit-Levy, Georges. L'Enfant des Cites- Jardins. (The Child of the Garden City.) 180 pp. Many illustrations. Duty extra. $ 1 - 12 Tells the story of garden cities as they relate to the life of children. Full of information about the progress of the move- ment, particularly in England and America, while a short closing chapter summarizes the accomplishment and the hopes and plans of the Association des Cit6s-Jardins de France. Written in easy French. Benoit-Levy, Georges. Le Roman des Cites- Jardins. (The Romance of Garden Cities.) Numerous illustrations. Duty extra. $1.10 Describing attractively and simply scenes which the author has witnessed during residence in these places. In simple French. Benoit-L£vy, Georges. Art et Cooperation dans les Cites- Jardins. (Art and Cooperation in Garden Cities.) 1911. 226 pp. Many illustrations. Duty extra. $1.40 The third volume by this author on the garden city. Written in easy French. Covering with considerable detail the artistic character of garden cities, the English cooperative societies, such as the Copartnership Tenants, Ltd., and a review of the progress of the movement in many countries. Co-partnership Publishers, Ltd. Co-partnership in Housing. (By E. B. Foreword by Raymond Unwin.) 191 1. 30 pp. Many illus- trations. Duty extra. 10 cents An account of the Hampstead Tenants' Societies from the formation of the first in May, 1907. Culpin, Ewart G., Secretary to the Garden Cities and Town Planning Association. Garden City Movement Up-to-Date. 1912. 63 pp. Illustrated. Boards, 50 cents; paper, 35 cents A record of facts relating to 33 different settlements in which there are nearly 50,000 people. The facts are made vivid through the use of many diagrams showing the layout and development of the various settlements. Mr. Culpin says: "Every effort has been made to obtain the utmost degree of accuracy, and the figures given have been supplied by the companies or societies concerned." The book closes with the 1912 annual report of the Garden Cities and Town Planning Association, with the consti- tution and by-laws, and a list of officers, branches, affiliated asso- ciations and foreign correspondents. Garden Cities and Town Planning Association. Garden Cities and Town Planning. Monthly Magazine. Published in England. Illustrated. Yearly subscription, $1.00 A chronicle of the chief events in the garden city movement, and of the plans for its development. Giving concrete examples of its success, with plans and views. Howard, Ebenezer. Garden Cities of To-morrow. 167 pp. Illustrated. Duty extra. 50 cents This book, first entitled "To-morrow: a Peaceful Path to Real Reform," was the literary source of the garden city movement. The author foresaw "a garden city, combining industrial works and garden village, welded into a complete town, with municipal ownership of land, encircled by an agricultural belt," thus com- bining advantages of town and country. 15 GARDENS, HOME, SCHOOL AND VACANT LOT Gardens, Home, School and Vacant Lot See also Landscape Architecture Albee, Helen R. Hardy Plants for Cottage Gardens. 309 pp. 60 illustrations from photographs. $i«73 A personal and very readable record, illustrated by photo- graphs, of the author's success in assembling within a limited area the choice varieties of hardy shrubs, annuals and peren- nials, arranged to give a succession of bloom of pure color in each bed. With a list giving manner of growth, height, time of blooming, exact color, special requirements of soil and moist- ure, "easy ways" taught by experience, and many other items of vital importance. Clute, Willard Nelson, Teacher of Science, Flower Technical High School for Girls, Chicago, 111. Agronomy. A Course in Practical Gardening for High Schools. 1913. xi + 296 pp. Many illus- trations. $1.10 This book begins with chapters on chemistry, the origin and composition of soils, manures, and the effects of heat, light and moisture on the plant. These are followed by a comprehensive discussion of planting, cultivating, pruning, propagating, lawn- making, plant-breeding, evolution, and the origin of domestic races of plants. Insect pests and plant diseases are discussed and methods of control are given. Much space is devoted to the im- provement of the home grounds, both as regards the growing of better vegetables and the production of finer flowers and more tasteful lawns and borders. The work centers in the school garden and is planned to cover the second semester of the school year, following closely the sequence of the seasons. This is also a gardening manual for the general reader, since it covers the whole subject of gardening and requires no previous knowledge for its comprehension. Greene, M. Louise, Ph. D. Among School Gardens. 388 pp. 113 views and diagrams. $1.25 The history of school gardening in Europe, Canada and the United States is given, and the various kinds of gardens to accomplish various aims are distinguished and described. There are full instructions for preparing the soil and planning, planting and caring for the garden. The cost of equipment is estimated, and the care of tools is explained. The appendices include lists of plants for different kinds of gardens, planting schemes and directions, record forms for teachers and pupils, cooking notes, programs of work for the year. There is an outline of garden work which shows how it may be connected with and made to illuminate every phase of the second grade primary work. Hemenway, Herbert D. How to Make School Gardens. 126 pp. 9 illus- trations. $1.10 Of this book the author says: "This little manual has grown out of the experience of the author in children's garden work, and is the answer to the many inquiries which are received from various points all over the country from persons who are en- thusiastic and realize the purpose and advantages of the school garden movement, but who have not had the advantages and training to understand the best methods of making and con- ducting a garden so as to get good results from an agricultural and horticultural standpoint." Meier, W. H. D., A. M., Head of the Department of Biology and School Gardening, State Normal School, Framingham, Mass. School and Home Gardens. 1913. v -f 319 pp. Many illustrations. 80 cents One of the most satisfactory books on the subject thus far published, because of its definite dealing with individual plants, one at a time, telling how to plan for, plant and care for each one. It is equally useful as a textbook for grammar grades and as a guide for home gardeners. The drawings and photographs have all been made expressly for this book. Plans are given for laying out and planting home and school grounds and gardens. GARDENS, Continued— GENERAL BOOKS Miller, Louise Klein. Children's Gardens. 235 PP- 48 illustrations. $1.32 The book has been written especially in the interest of chil- dren's gardens, with the idea of transforming barren, dreary, ill- kept school grounds and other uncared-for places into places of beauty and good taste, and of developing love of nature in children. The book contains much of value to all interested in the art of gardening, and shows how much can be accomplished by a slight expenditure of time, money and energy with a display of good taste. Parsons, Henry G. Children's Gardens for Pleasure, Health and Education. 226 pp. Illustrated. $1.10 Part I explains clearly and charmingly the fascination of the garden and the value of the knowledge to be gained there. Part TT tells how to prepare and lay out the ground, and describes in detail every step of the instruction and control of children in gardens of from 20 to 500 plots. There is a list of books and pamphlets for the teacher, and the appendices include the cost of tools and equipment and a report of the Children's School Farm in DeWitt Clinton Park, New York City. Williams, Dora. Gardens and Their Meaning. 191 1. ix + 235 pp. $1.00 This volume, bv a teacher in the "Boston Normal School, is not only a practical handbook for teachers of gardening, presenting scientific material in simple, readable form, but shows "that a garden for education may be, not merely in substance, but in spirit, a corner of the great world." The appendix contains lists of gardening books, of plants for children's gardens and interesting gardening experiments, and planting tables for twenty flowers and twentv vegetables. The illustrations are new and delightful. General Books on Municipal Qov= ernment and Good Citizenship See also Commission Government and Short Ballot Addams, Jane, Head of Hull House, Chicago. Democracy and Social Ethics. 1912. 281 pp. $i.35 The complexity of industrial struggle, the strain of social re- lations under conditions of overcrowding and their effect upon the efforts of social settlements to better these conditions, are stated with great force and clearness. From the point of view which believes the essential idea of democracy to be the identifi- cation of one's own with the common lot, the author reviews efforts toward amelioration in philanthropy, in industry, in edu- cation and in politics. Addams, Jane. Newer Ideals of Peace. 243 pp. $i-35 The author draws a vivid picture of the absorption of foreign races, their ideals of the kindliness and protection of govern- ment, and declares that the crowded quarters of the city are the focal point for the building of national character. It is there that the new characteristics and customs are born that will affect the future organization of government. The quickening concern for human welfare, as indicated by the attempt to # eradicate tuberculosis and kindred diseases; the protection of children for industrial efficiency, are but the indication of the upbuildine of national strength and character by the preservation and utiliza- tion of the best of the new population, rather than by militarism. Allen, William H., Director of the Bureau of Munici- pal Research, New York City. Efficient Democracy. 356 pp. 12 illustrations. $1.62 The Literary Digest says: "The princirtal aim of the book is to awaken desire to know the essential facts regarding the administration of health, busi- ness, school, church, hospital, juvenile court, charity, bequest and government. * * * Undoubtedly the most impressive 17 GENERAL BOOKS— Continued characteristic of the volume in an intellectual sense is its signifi- cance in favor of the validity of the democratic principle of government." American Academy of Political and Social Science. Efficiency in City Government. May, 1912. vii -f- 367 PP- $1.00 Twenty-eight articles by authorities, grouped under the follow- ing general heads: The Need for Efficiency in Municipal Gov- ernment; Efficiency Principles Applied; Bureaus of Municipal Research; Training for Municipal Efficiency. Baldwin, Simeon E. The Relations of Education to Citizenship. 1912. 178 pp. $1.25 This work constitutes the ninth volume of Dodge Lectures, de- livered at Yale University by Hon. Simeon E. Baldwin, Governor of Connecticut. The book fulfills admirably the purpose of the founder of these lectures, which was to promote among "edu- cated men of the United States an understanding of the duties of Christian citizenship and a sense of personal responsibility for the performance of those duties." Beard, Charles A., Associate Professor of Politics in Columbia University. American City Government. A Survey of Newer Tendencies. 1912. ix -f- 420 pp. 14 illustrations. $2.00 The "newer tendencies" surveyed are largely social and eco- uomic, and the table of contents indicates the large proportion of space given to such functions of city government rather than to political and administrative matters. The chapter heads are as follows: The People of the City; Home Rule; Municipal Democracy; Municipal Government and Administration; Raising and Spending the City's Money; Guarding the City Against Crime and Vice; Franchises and Public Utilities; Municipal Ownership; The Streets of the City; Guarding the Health of the People; Tenement House Reform; Education and Industrial Training; Municipal Recreation; City Planning. The appendi- ces give: An Outline of Sections for a Model Street Railway Franchise; Recommendations of the New York City Commission on Congestion; a Bibliography. This is a book for students and citizens, and presents its material in an attractive and interesting way. Beard, Charles A. American Government and Politics. 191 1. 772 pp. $2.26 A manual, designed for college students and citizens, rather than as an elementary or a technical treatise. The chapters on "The Organization of Municipal Government" and "Municipal Functions" are the ones of special interest to those concerned with the study of cities. Beatty. Bessie. A Political Primer for the New Voter. 1912. (Introduction by Hon. William Kent.) Boards, 50 cents; cloth. 75 cents A shelf full of lengthy treatises, codes and statutes has here been reduced to a pocket-size volume, written in simple, read- able English. It avoids the dryness of a text on civil govern- ment, and yet imparts up-to-date information regarding the politi- cal conditions of our country. It contains a fair • statement of the principles of our political parties and a chapter on eco- nomic theories touching the growing doctrines of socialism and single tax. There is also a chapter on the legal status of women in the United States. Bryce, Right Honorable James, British Ambassador to the United States. The Hindrances to Good Citizenship. 123 pp. $1.25 Lectures given at Yale University. It is the average citizen whom the author addresses, and whose failure to maintain the proper standard of civic duty he here analyses as due to indul- gence, personal self-interest and party spirit. There is a sepa- rate lecture on each of these causes, with a fourth which shows how to overcome the obstacles to good citizenship. IS GENERAL BOOKS— Continued The Civic Press. The American City. Published monthly. Annual subscription, $2.00; single issues, 25 cents; bound volumes (6 issues), latest, $2.00; all others, $2.50. This magazine tells, in an interesting, practical manner, of progress along all lines which tend to make cities and towns more healthy, happy and convenient places in which to live and transact business. The municipal official finds in it helpful in- formation for his own department of work, in addition to gaining a broad outlook on civic advance generally; while the man or woman who holds no office, but is interested in the public wel- fare, is thereby enabled to advance that welfare more effectively than would otherwise be possible. Deming, Horace E. The Government of American Cities. 323 PP- $ I - 6 5 This volume is a clear and definite exposition of the thesis that the success of municipal government depends upon the applica- tion of the fundamental principles of democracy. The expe- riences of foreign cities are brought to bear upon America's problems of to-day. The book contains a particularly good dis- cussion of the relation of the city to the state. The municipal program of the National Municipal League is reprinted as an appendix to this volume. Fairlie, John Archibald. Municipal Administration, xiii -f- 448 pp. $3.18 The book gives a general knowledge of the whole field of municipal administration for those interested in public affairs, and at the same time forms the groundwork for more detailed investigation for those who make this a special field either for academic study or for practical work. Goodnow, Frank J., Eaton Professor of Adminis- trative Law and Municipal Science in Columbia University. Municipal Government. 401 pp. $3.00 The author has sought to cover the history of city development in general and to determine the character of city populations, with the purpose of lending aid in the solution of some of to-day's pressing problems. The information given and the conclusions drawn are clearly arranged under subheads, the book being de- signed for students in high schools and colleges, as well as for the broader reference use of the practical worker. Howe, Frederic C. European Cities at Work. 1913. 370 pp. $1.92 The third of a series of books by this author, dealing with the municipal problem. It is a study of activities rather than politi- cal machinery, and outlines the municipal achievements of Ger- many, England and other European countries during the last 20 years. Such subjects as town planning, housing, municipal ownership, care of working people, recreation, docks and har- bors, as well as the beautification of cities, are among those treated in this volume. Munro, William Bennett, Ph. D., LL. B., Professor of Municipal Government in Harvard University. The Government of American Cities. 1912. ix + 401 pp. $2.37 A volume on municipal governmental organization. It traces the growth of American city government and analyses the city's social structure; it defines the city's function as an agent of the state, and gives suggestions upon the drafting of city charters. The powers and responsibilities of American cities are explained, and are pronounced too narrow in comparison with those of European cities. The composition, rights and duties of the mu- nicipal electorate are reviewed, with the requirements for voting. Other chapters are as follows: Municipal Nominations and Elec- tions; Municipal Parties and Politics; The City Council; The Mayor; The Administrative Departments; Municipal Officials and Employees; City Government by a Commission; Direct Legisla- tion and the Recall; Municipal Reform and Reformers. 19 GENERAL BOOKS, Cont.— HEALTH AND SANITATION Munro, William Bennett, Ph. D. The Government of European Cities. 409 PP. $2.69 The government of French, Prussian and English cities is ex- amined as to its structure and functions, and compared on many points with that of the United States. The book is not padded with detail, but discusses the subject analytically with especial explanation of the relations between city and state government. Pollock, Horatio M., Ph. D., and Morgan, William S., Ph. D. Modern Cities. Progress of the Awakening for Their Betterment Here and in Europe. 1913. x -f- 418 pp. 16 illustrations. $1.63 The authors of this volume were closely associated for several years in active work for municipal betterment in the city of Albany, N. Y. While thus engaged they came in touch with the principal movements for social progress in America. The work is the result of careful and painstaking study into conditions of city government by two competent writers who have analyzed these in the light of modern requirements and the demands of patriotic citizenship. The following are the chapter heads: "The Modern City"; "City Planning"; "Home Planning — The Housing Problem"; "City Streets and Some Splendid Types"; "The Value of Art in Cities"; "The Value of Parks — Impressions at Sans Souci and Versailles"; "Harbor Development — The Port of Genoa"; "The Conservation of Human Life"; "Municipal Government"; "Municipal Home Rule"; "The Selection of City Officers and Employees"; "The Control of Municipal Public Ser- vice Corporations"; "Recent Developments in Education"; "Re- ligion and Municipal Life"; "The Social Evil"; "Conditions and Methods of Social Progress in American Cities." Roeder, Rev. Adolph. Practical Citizenship. 215 pp: $1.60 Setting forth the civic obligations of the individual citizen. Rowe, Leo S. Problems of City Government. 358 pp. $1.65 An original, suggestive and serious consideration of the prob- lems of the city, the political and social consequences of its growth, its legal powers, its part in the American political sys- tem, and the problems of its utility corporations. Wilcox, Delos F., Ph. D. The American City: A Problem in Democracy. 423 PP. $1.34 Dr. Wilcox believes that the great political and social reforms of the future will come through the city. By tracing the causes of city growth, the peculiarities of life in the city, and its ideals of democracy, he has tried to make plain to all the breadth of a city's influence, the foundations of its organization, the extent of its responsibility and the sources of its revenue in this country. Health and Sanitation, Public See also Housing, Insect Extermination, Public Works, Smoke Nuisance, Tuberculosis, Waste Disposal, Water Supply, etc. Allen, William H. Civics and Health. 1909. xi -J- 411 pp. Illustrated. $1.25 What is being accomplished in various places to protect the health rights of the community is shown in this book in a prac- tical way. What the school board and the teacher should be and do in order to improve school and home conditions; how coope- ration with dispensaries and other agencies furthers economy; what is being done against tuberculosis and unclean milk, and how to battle with alcoholism and the tobacco and patent-medi- cine evils, all have their place, with much other material, in this volume. Its outlines and diagrams and pictures definitely tell facts worth knowing. American Academy of Political and Social Science. The Public Health Movement. 191 1. vi + 334 pp. Paper covers, $1.00; cloth, $1.50 Twenty-four articles by authorities, arranged under the fol- lowing general topics: The General Problem; Disease Carriers — the Control of Causes; Elimination of Diseasea — Physical Care of Individuals. 2P HEALTH AND SANITATION— Continued American Association for Study and Prevention of Infant Mortality. Transactions of the Third Annual Meeting of the Association, Cleveland, October 2-5, 1912. 1913- 383 PP- $3.i3 Among the important addresses contained in this volume, we note one on the Federal Children's Bureau, by Julia C. Lathrop, another on "The Department of Health's Activity in Lessening Infant Mortality in Pennsylvania," by B. Franklin Roger, M. D., and others on continuation schools, eugenics, housing, nursing and social work. American Public Health Association. Reports and Papers of the Association. Pub- lished annually. $5.00 A necessary part of every library that undertakes to supply reliable information about public health. Special prices for back volumes. ' American Public Health Association. Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Sewage. Compiled by the Laboratory Section of the American Public Health Association. Sec- ond Edition. 1912. 144 pp. $1.25 This is a revised edition of the volume issued in 1900 under the title of "Report of the Committee on Standard Methods of Water Analysis to the Laboratory Section of the American Pub- lic Health Association." The subject is considered under chapter headings of "Physical Examination," "Chemical Examination," "Microscopical Examination" and "Bacteriological Examination." Bibliographies and an index are also included. Barry, William F., M. D. The Hygiene of the School Room. 191 1. 207 pp. $1.00; Library Edition, $1.50 This new edition summarizes modern thought on this im- portant subject as developed in professional study and investiga- tion throughout the country. Treats helpfully all problems of school sanitation. Blair, Thomas S., M. D. Public Hygiene. 191 1. 2 vols, xv -f- 644 pp. 158 illustrations. $10.40 This is a working handbook showing accomplished results. The following are the chapter heads: The Family vs. the Community; Hotels, Lodging Houses and Public Buildings; School Inspection and College Sanitation; Penal Institutions and Hospitals for the Insane; Maternities; Places of Amusement and of Dissipation; Slums and Town Nuisances; Special Rural Hygiene and Sanita- tion; State Departments and Boards of Health; A Proposed Federal Bureau of Health; Local Boards of Health and Sanitary Officers; Army and Navy Sanitation — or Hygiene of Camps; The Coroner and the Physician; Quarantine; Infectious Diseases; Immunity; Epidemics; Disinfection; Tuberculosis Sanatoria and Dispensaries; Home Hygiene and Interior Sanitary Installations; Pure Drugs and Foods; Public Works and Corporations; Public Carriers and Sanitation; Laboratory Methods in Sanitation; Medi- cal Societies and Sanitation. Bryant, Louise Stevens. School Feeding: Its History and Practice at Home and Abroad. 1913. 310 pp. Illustrated. $i-37 Mrs. Bryant has made a careful study of school feeding both at home and abroad. In this volume she gives a complete his- tory of the movement in this and other countries, but the particu- lar value of the book is in the treatment of the present status of the movement. The effects of malnutrition and its causes are thoroughly dealt with, as are also the food needs of growing children. Of particular interest is the chapter on underfeeding among American school children. The facts therein set forth will convince and impress everyone of the need of organizing cheap lunches for the school children in an effective manner. Chapin, Charles V., M. D., Superintendent of Health of the City of Providence. Municipal Sanitation in the United States. 1901. viii -f- 970 pp. Illustrated. $5.00 Although this book is not of recent publication, it contains a mass of material on the administrative side of health matters that is of great value. 2X HEALTH AND SANITATION— Continued Children's Bureau, United States Department of Labor. Baby-Saving Campaigns. (Infant Mortality Se- ries, No. i; Bureau Publication No. 3.) 1913. 93 pp. 15 cents A preliminary report on what American cities are doing to prevent infant mortality, which is to be the subject of an annual bulletin by the Children's Bureau. The present report gives the information gathered through answers to a circular letter sent to the mayors of the 109 cities of the United States each of which has a population of at least 50,000. Fine work is being done in some cities, and little or nothing in others. The ways to go about such work are here presented. Examples of circulars issued by various health departments are given in English, Italian, Ger- man, Polish, French, Hungarian and other languages. Cornell, Walter S., M. D., Director of Medical In- spection of Public Schools, Philadelphia; Lec- turer on Child Hygiene, University of Penn- sylvania. Health and Medical Inspection of School Children. 1912. xiv + 614 pp. 200 half-tone and line engravings, many of them original. $3.00 Medical Inspection, Hygiene and Defects and Diseases are the three divisions of this study, which is based on the examination of about 35,000 children. The first division does not attempt to review medical inspection in different localities, but to explain its principles and methods, with frequent reference to specific illustrations in various places. Under Defects and Diseases there are chapters on the eye, the nose and throat, the ear, the teeth, the nervous system, mental deficiency, the skeleton, nutrition, the skin and infectious diseases, dealing with each physical defect as to its definition, cause, prevalence, evidence and diagnosis, and treatment. The method of arrangement and the clearness of language, with the wealth of information and working material, make this an exceedingly valuable book. Gerhard, William Paul, C. E. Sanitation and Sanitary Engineering. 1909. 174 pp. Illustrated. $1.50 Revised edition of "Sanitary Engineering." Contents twice the original size. Valuable for non-techincal municipal officers, for engineers, architects, health officers, sanitary inspectors, etc. Gerhard, William Paul, C. E. Water Supply, Sewerage and Plumbing of Mod- ern City Buildings. 1910. xxxii + 491 pages. 214 figures and 25 diagrams. $4.00 The contents include: The Essential Features of the Hydraulic and Sanitary Engineering of Buildings; Sanitary Fixtures and Appliances; Advanced and Simplified Plumbing Methods; Plumb- ing in Its Relation to Diseases and the Municipal Control of Plumbing; Domestic Water Supply; The Water Supply of Large Modern Buildings; The Maintenance of Pipe Systems for Sew- age, Gas and Water; Rules on Plumbing, Water Supply, and Sewerage of Hospitals and Other Public Institutions. Godfrey, Hollis. The Health of the City. 191 o. 372 pp. $1.36 A series of papers published first in part in the Atlantic Monthly, designed to educate the people of cities to know what they have a right to demand of public health officers. It makes much of modern advance in sanitary science and of all tested means of health protection. Gulick, Luther Halsey, and Ayres, Leonard P. Medical Inspection of Schools. 1913. xx -f- 224 pp. $1.50 The first American work on a subject of prime importance, dealing with its historical, administrative, financial and statistical phases. The book has been entirely rewrittten, and shows the medical inspection movement as it is to-day. Hoag, Dr. Ernest Bryant. The Health Index of Children. 191 1. 200 pp. 14 illustrations. 80 cents Dr. Leonard P. Ayres, Associate Director of the Department of Child Hygiene, Russell Sage Foundation, says of this book: HEALTH AND SANITATION— Continued "It gives in clear, non-technical, authoritative language the most significant facts about the health and vitality of school children. I believe that it does this better, more clearly and more forcibly than any other book which has yet appeared." Leach, Albert E., S. B., Analyst of the Massachusetts State Board of Health. Food Inspection and Analysis. Second edition. 191 1. xviii + 954 pp. Many illustrations. $7-5° For the use of public analysts, health officers, sanitary chemists and food economists. Kerr, J. W., Assistant Surgeon-General, and Moll, A. B. Organization, Powers and Duties of Health Authorities. {Public Health Bulletin, No. 54.) August, 1912. 452 -f v pp. 25 cents An analysis of the health laws and regulations in force in the United States. Covering the present organization of state health authorities, their powers and duties (investigative, executive, ad- visory, educational, quasi-judicial and quasi-legislative) ; the re- lation of state and local health authorities and their cooperation with the Federal authorities; the organization and functions of county, township and municipal, etc., boards of health; the text of state and territorial laws relating in general to the organization and powers of health authorities, and court decisions as to the appointment, composition; powers and compensation of health boards. Newsholme, Arthur, Medical Officer of Health of Brighton, England. The Elements of Vital Statistics. 1912. Third edition; largely rewritten, xii + 353 pp. Diagrams. $3.16 The subject is divided into two sections: first, the sources of information, as the census enumerations, registrations of births, marriages, sickness, death, etc., are treated; and second, the in- formation derived from these sources is discussed in detail. New York Milk Committee. Infant Mortality and Milk Stations. 191 2. 176 pp. Many illustrations and tables. $1.13 Special report of the Committee for the Reduction of Infant Mortality of the New York Milk Committee. It states the prob- lem of infant mortality, and shows the results of poverty and ignorance. It tells the story of the pure-milk campaign in New York City, with its records and results, and gives statistics of efforts at reducing infant mortality in Chicago, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Boston, Cleveland, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Detroit and Buffalo. Other chapters show how to establish and operate milk- stations and how to extend their activities. Parkes, Louis C, M. C, D. P. H., Medical Officer of Health of the Metropolitan Borough of Chelsea; Examiner in Public Health to the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, London, and Kenwood, Henry, M. D., F. R. S., D. Ph., Professor of Hygiene and Public Health, University of London. Hygiene and Public Health. Fourth edition. 191 1. 691 pp. 86 illustrations. $3.50 Chapters on: Collection, Removal and Disposal of Excretals and Other Refuse; Air and Sanitation; Communicable Diseases and Their Prevention; School Hygiene, Disinfection, etc. Ramaley, Francis, Ph. D., Professor of Biology in the University of Colorado, and Griffin, Clay E., M. D., Instructor in Surgery in the University of Colorado. Prevention and Control of Disease. 1913. 386 PP- $3.00 This volume is one of the large number on puMic health re- cently published for the intelligent citizen. General chapters on death rate and_ disease-prevention, various types of diseases, and certain hygienic considerations, are followed by others on the germ theory of disease and other theories; the life of plant and animal parasites^ and microorganisms in air, water and food. After a discussion of infection and the spread of disease, and 23 HEALTH AND SANITATION— Continued of disinfection, special diseases are taken up. There are three chapters on tuberculosis — its manifestations and causes, its pre- vention and control, and its cure. The book is intended for the general public and for use in college classes, not for medical students, practicing physicians or biologists. Richards, Ellen H. Conservation by Sanitation. 191 1. xii -f 305 pp, Illustrated. $2.50 Including a laboratory guide for sanitary engineers. Com piled from the experiences of the last twenty years, the book concerns itself with good air, good water and the disposal oi wastes. The author's facts and figures in relation to watei supply — its efficiency, protection and regeneration — are abundanl and convincingly marshaled. The interdependence of town and country is graphically shown in the panoramic view of a stream's pollution. Succeeding chapters are devoted to ways and means of purifying water and disposing of contaminating wastes. Rosenau, M. J., Professor of Preventive Medicine anc Hygiene, Harvard Medical School. The Milk Question. 1912. xiv -f 309 pp. 30 illus- trations. $2.16 An important and broad study of the problem of securing clean, pure milk; comprehensive in scope, treating the subject not only in its relation to physicians and sanitarians, but giving equal consideration to the claims of dairymen, middlemen and consumers, and justifying the attention which has made it almost a political issue. SOPER, G. A. Modern Methods of Street Cleaning. 1909. 201 pp. Illustrated. $3.00 The result of Dr. Soper's personal experience in work of this kind under difficult circumstances, and a record of studies made abroad. Stevens, Edward F., A. A. I. A., and Casey, Edward Pearce, A. A. I. A., and others. Modern Hospitals. 1912. Quarto. 49 pp. Numer- ous small cuts and 84 full-page plates. $5-oc A series of authoritative articles on planning details and equipment, as exemplified by the best practice in this country and Europe. The illustrations show recently constructed hospitals, their architectural and technical equipment. The book is de- signed for the assistance of architects and those concerned with the superintendence of hospitals and the care of the sick. Tolman, William H., Ph. D., Director American Mu- seum of Safety, New York City, and Guthrie, Adelaide Wood, Department of Research, American Museum of Safety. Hygiene for the Worker. (Edited by C. Ward Crampton, M. D., Director of Physical Training, Department of Education, New York City.) 1912, vii -f- 2 3 r PP- Illustrated. 50 cents, The simplicity, directness and fact basis of this book make it of practical value to every worker, old or young. It is espe- cially designed for boys and girls from thirteen to eighteen years of age who are preparing to be wage-earners, and it shoulc therefore find important use in vocational, industrial and manual training high schools as well as in continuation and night schools, Anyone, however, who aims to attain happiness and efficiency through good health, right habits and wise methods will be stimu- lated by this unique textbook. Whipple, George C, with an Introduction by Professor William T. Sedgwick. Typhoid Fever. 1008. xxxvi -{- 408 pp. 5c figures. $3-oc Besides treating of the character and bacteriology of typhoid fever, its statistics and distribution, the book includes the follow- ing topics: The Investigation and Control of Typhoid Fevet Epidemics; The Influence of Public Water Supplies on thi Typhoid Fever Death Rates of Cities; The Effect of Milk Sup plies on the Typhoid Fever Death Rates of Cities; The Financial Aspect of Typhoid Fever. HEALTH AND SANITATION, Continued— HOUSING Wiley, Harvey W., M. D., Ph. D. Foods and Their Adulteration. 1912. xii + 641 pp. 11 colored plates and 87 other illustrations. $4.00 Second edition, revised and enlarged. Covering the origin, manufacture and composition of food products; infants' and in- valids' foods; detection of common adulterations; and food standards. Part of the new material in this issue is devoted to simple tests for ordinary adulterations, which intelligent house- wives may thereby learn to detect. Housing See also City Planning and Garden Cities Allan, Charles E., M. A., LL. B., and Allan, Francis J., M. D., D. P. H., Medical Officer of Health to the City of Westminster. Housing of the Working Classes Acts, 1890-1909, and Town Planning Annotated and Explained. (Published in England.) 191 1. Third and revised edition. 436 pp. Duty extra. $3.25 Since the publication of the last edition of this book two very important acts relating to the housing of the working classes have been passed, namely, the Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1903, and Part I of the Housing, Town Planning, etc., Act, 1909. These two pieces of legislation are both directed to the amendment of the Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890, which, although extensively modified, still remains the principal act. The chief feature of this edition of the book is the inclu- sion of the Housing and Town Planning Act, 1909. The rules and orders issued by the Local Government Board in connection with this act are fully given and explained. Part II relates to town planning. Allen, J. Gordon, Associate of Royal Institute of British Architects. The Cheap Cottage and Small House. (Preface by Lord Henry Bentinck, M. P. Published in England.) 1912. xii -f- 166 pp. Many illus- trations. Duty extra. 50 cents A manual of economical building. The writer advocates good construction, and shows how to obtain it at small cost by careful planning, concentrating flues, no needless passages, and by care- ful choice of materials. The site and water supply are made of first importance. The size of the cottage is related to the pos- sibilities of the neighborhood; even the lodger is considered; the materials, cost of construction, local by-laws, gardens, etc., are treated with the necessary fullness, and the excellent and varied designs complete a book that is of interest alike to the landlord, the county councillor and the social reformer. Chicago School of Civics and Philanthropy. The Housing Problem. Literature in Central Chicago Libraries. (Bulletin No. 16.) July, 1912. 40 pp. 20 cents Listing 710 books on housing and related subjects. The fol- lowing divisions are made: Bibliographies; Periodicals and Col- lections; General Works on Housing and Related Subjects; City Planning and Garden Cities as Affecting the Housing Problem; Public Regulation of Housing and City Planning; Hygiene of Towns and Houses; Architecture of Tenements and Small Resi- dences; Land Question as it Affects Housing; Garden Patches. References to special cities follow general works for each country. De Forest, Robert W., and Veiller, Lawrence, Editors. The Tenement House Problem. 2 vols. 986 pp. 84 illustrations (half-tones, maps and drawings). $3.40 These volumes contain a general discussion of the tenement house problem by the editors, and a series of brief articles on housing and housing problems contributed «by men who have studied their subject in a number of cities. Among these are: 25 HOUSING— Continued "Tenement Reform in New York Since 1901," by Robert W. De Forest; "The Tenement House Problem" (report of the Com- mission) ; "Housing Conditions in Buffalo," by William A. Douglas and Williams Lansing; "Back-to-Back Tenements," by Lawrence Veiller; "Tenement House Sanitation," by Albert L. Webster, C. E.; "Small Houses for Working Men," by H. L. Cargill; "Tenement Evils as Seen by the Tenants;" "Tubercu- losis and the Tenement House Problem," by Hermann M. Biggs, M. D.; "Parks and Playgrounds for Tenement Districts;" "Re- sults of Investigations in Buffalo in 1900;" "Tenement House Rentals;" "Housing Conditions and Tenement Laws in Leading American Cities." Schedules, forms and blanks used in the in- vestigations of the New York Commission are given. FlTZPATRICK, F. W. Model Building Code. 150 pp. $1.00 A model building code for municipalities. It represents years of experience of practical contact with the building code situation of the United States. International Housing Congress. Report of the Ninth International Housing Con- gress. Held in Vienna, May 30-June 3, 1910. 191 1. Part I — Papers Given at the Congress. 1,114 PP- Part II — Organization of the Congress and Its Transactions. 367 pp. Delivery and duty extra. $5.00 An exceedingly valuable record of an important conference. The report is in German, but each paper is published in the language in which it was presented to the Congress. National Housing Association. Housing Problems in America. Vol. I. (Pro- ceedings of the First National Conference on Hous- ing June 3-6, 191 1, New York City.) 1912. x -f- 254 pp. $2.00 The papers presented are: "A Housing Programme," by Law- rence Veiller, Secretary National Housing Association; "The Problems of the Small House," by Otto W. Davis, Superintendent Associated Charities, Columbus, Ohio; "Housing Reform Through Legislation," by Paul L. Feiss, Chairman Housing Com- mittee, Chamber of Commerce, Cleveland, Ohio; "Privy Vaults," by Charles B. Ball, Chief Sanitary Inspector, Health Department, Chicago; "City Planning and Housing," by Frederick Law Olm- sted, President National City Planning Conference; "Alleys," by Mrs. Albion Fellows Bacon, Secretary Indiana Housing Asso- ciation; "Law Enforcement," by Hon. John J. Murphy, Tene- ment House Commissioner, New York City; "The Tenant's Re- sponsibility," by Miss Emily W. Dinwiddie, Inspector of Dwell- ing Houses of Trinity Church Corporation, New York City; "Best Types of Small Houses," by Miss Helen L. Parrish, Director Octavia Hill Association, Philadelphia; "Garbage and Rubbish," by Luther E. Lovejoy, Secretary Housing Commis- sion, Detroit; "Housing Conditions in Small Towns," by Elmer S. Forbes, Chairman State Housing Committee, Massachusetts Civic League; "Sanitary Inspection of Tenements," by Edward T. Hartman, Secretary Massachusetts Civic League. The dis- cussion on these topics is also given, as well as brief reports by delegates to the Conference on housing conditions in their own communities. National Housing Association. Housing Problems in America. Vol. II. (Pro- ceedings of the Second National Conference on Housing in America, December 4-6, 1912, Philadel- phia. 1913. xiii -f 380 pp. $2.00 Including the following papers, with discussions: "Health De- partments and Housing," by Charles B. Ball, Chief Sanitary In- spector, Health Department, Chicago; "Financing the Small House," by Lee Frankel, Metropolitan Life Insurance Com- pany, New York; "Regulation by Law," by Mrs. Albion Fellows Bacon, Secretary, Indiana Housing Association; "Garden Cities," by Grosvenor Atterbury, Fellow American Institute of Archi- tects; "Instructive Sanitary Inspection," by Mrs. Johanna von Wagner, Housing Commission, Los Angeles, Cal. ; "What Are the Best Types of Wage-Earners' Houses," by John Ihlder, Field Secretary, National Housing Association; "Where Housing and Town Planning Meet," by Andrew Wright Crawford, City Parks Association, Philadelphia; "Suburban and Rural Housing," by Elmer S. Forbes, Chairman, Housing Committee, Massachusetts Civic League; "Room Over-Crowding and the Lodger Evil," by Lawrence Veiller, Secretary, National Housing Association; "The Factory and the Home: Shall the Factory Go to the Out- skirts or Shall the People Be Brought to the Center?" by John Nolen, Landscape Architect. 26 HOUSING, Continued— INITIATIVE Nettlefold, J. S. Practical Housing. (Published in England.) 194 pp. 38 illustrations. Duty extra. 35 cents This popular second edition deals with the existing evils of overcrowding on English soil, and prescribes as a remedy intel- ligent town planning. It is abundantly illustrated with town- planning diagrams and with views showing the contrast between unimproved houses and streets and their bettered condition. New York City Tenement House Department. First Report of the Tenement House Department of the City of New York. 1902-3. 2 vols. 906 pp. $2.90 This work tells how New York City dealt with the tenement- house problem, the methods the newly organized department used to overcome tremendous difficulties, and the first results of a reform which has provided the workers of New York with more sanitary living conditions than those enjoyed by the workers of any other American city who live in tenement districts. It is filled with reproductions of photographs, plans, investigation schedules, etc., which illustrate graphically conditions as found by the new department, the means taken to secure improvement, and some of the results of the first eighteen months' work. Unwin, Raymond. Nothing Gained by Overcrowding. 1912. 24 pp. Illustrated. Duty extra. 10 cents Arguing that "the greater the number of houses crowded upon the land, the higher the rate which each occupier must pay for every yard of it which his plot contains, the smaller will be the total return to the owners of land in increment value, and, indeed, the less will be the real economy in the use of the land." Presenting the argument by a study of two exactly similar areas of ground and working out the costs of development with the larger and the smaller number of houses to the acre. Veiller, Lawrence. Housing Reform. 1910. xii -f- 213 pp. $1.25 A handbook for use in American cities. Describes housing evils and their significance, and tells how to start a movement for reform, the methods to be used and the objects to be sought. Initiative, Referendum and Recall American Academy of Political and Social Science. The Initiative, Referendum and Recall. Septem- ber, 1912. v + 352 pp. Paper, $1.00; cloth, $1.50 Articles by the following: Jonathan Bourne, Jr., United States Senator from Oregon; George W. Guthrie, formerly Mayor of Pittsburgh; Charles M. Hollingsworth, Washington, D. C. ; John A. Lapp, Legislative Reference Librarian, Indiana State Library; Henry Ford Jones, Professor of Politics, Prince- ton University; C. B. Galbreath, Secretary of the Ohio Consti- tutional Convention; William E. Rappard, Instructor in Eco- nomics, Harvard University; John A. Fairlie, Ph. D., Professor of Political Science, University of Illinois; J. William Black, Ph.D., Professor of History, Colby College; S. Gale Lowrie, Ph.D., of the Wisconsin State Board of Public Affairs; Robert Crosser, chairman of the Committee on the Initiative and Refer- endum (Ohio); W. F. Dodd, University of Illinois; H. S. Gil- bertson, Assistant Secretary of the Short Ballot Organization; Fred Wayne Catlett, Secretary to the Mayor of Seattle; Rome G. Brown, attorney-at-law, Minneapolis; James A. Metcalf, edi- tor, Glendive, Mont.; Alpheus Henry Snow, attorney-at-law, Washington, D. C; William Draper Lewis, Dean of the Law School, University of Pennsylvania. Bacon, Edwin M., and Wyman, Morrill. Direct Elections and Law-Making by Popular Vote; the Initiative, the Referendum, the Recall, Commission Government for Cities, Preferential Voting. 1912. iv -f- 167 pp. $1.07 The purpose of this little book is to give to citizens definite information, in concise form, with regard to the various electoral devices now before the country and already established in a num- ber of states, designed to secure direct legislation by popular vote in place of the methods of deliberative representative gov- ernment. The data are brought up to the spring of 1912. 27 INITIA T IV E~ Continued Beard, Charles A., and Shultz, B. E. Documents on the State -Wide Initiative, Refer- endum and Recall. 1912. viii + 394 pp. $2.12 This volume includes all of the constitutional amendments pro- viding for a state-wide system of initiative and referendum now in force or pending at the election of 1912, together with the enabling acts passed in the different states. The introduction states the relation of direct legislation to the representative sys- tem of government, and the political conditions which have caused the adoption of the initiative and referendum. While no attempt has been made to go into the subject of the initiative, referendum and recall as applied to local and municipal govern- ment, some illustrative papers showing the system in ordinary municipalities and commission-governed cities have been included. Boyle, James. The Initiative and Referendum: Its Folly, Fal- lacies and Failure. 1912. 120 pp. Paper, 35 cents; doth, $1.00 Presenting "The Case Against the Initiative and Referendum," with chapters on "Switzerland's Experience," "The Muddle in Oregon," etc. Eaton, Allen H. The Oregon System. 1912. ix -f- 195 pp. $1.07 The story of direct legislation in Oregon. A presentation of the methods and results of the initiative, referendum and recall in Oregon, with studies of the measures accepted or rejected, and special chapters on the direct primary, popular election of senators, advantages, defects and dangers of the system. Lowell, A. Lawrence, President of Harvard University. Public Opinion and Popular Government. (American Citizen Series.) 1913. xiv -f- 415 pp. $2.38 Dealing with the problem of transmitting the force of individual opinion and preference into public action. The author shows the psychological forces leading to states of mind which are finally translated into laws and decisions, and in Part III, on "Methods of Expressing Public Opinion," presents a study of representative action and of the various forms of direct legislation. Results of the referendum and initiative in Switzerland and America are fully given in the appendices. The arrangement of the material makes the book available for high school and college classes. Munro, William Bennett, Editor. The Initiative, Referendum and Recall (National Municipal League Series.) 1912. viii -f- 364 PP. $1.62 The following is the table of contents: Introductory. By the Editor. Nationalism and Popular Rule. By Colonel Theodore Roosevelt. The Issues of Reform. By Governor Woodrow Wilson. The Development of Direct Legislation in America. By Robert Treat Paine. The Referendum in the United States. By President A. Law- rence Lowell. Direct Legislation as an Ally of Representative Government. By Professor Lewis Jerome Johnson. Representative as Against Direct Legislation. By Congressman Samuel W. McCall. A Defense of Direct Legislation. By Senator Jonathan Bourne, Jr. The Practical Workings of the Initiative and Referendum in Oregon. By Joseph N. Teal. A Year of the People's Rule in Oregon. By Professor George H. Haynes. The Unfavorable Results of Direct Legislation in Oregon. By Frederick V. Holman. The Use of the Recall in the United States. By Herbert S. Swan. The Recall as a Measure of Popular Control. By Thomas A. Davis. The Recall in Los Angeles. By Charles Dwight Willard. The Recall in Seattle. By Fred Wayne Catlett. Sources and Literature. Appendix (containing a list of the measures submitted to the people of Oregon in the last four elections). Index. 28 INITIATIVE, Continued— INSECT EXTERMINATION The National Economic League. The Initiative and Referendum. 1912. 71 pp. Paper, 25 cents; cloth, 50 cents Containing arguments for and against the initiative and refer- endum by the following special committee of the National Econo- mic League: For the affirmative — Robert L. Owen, United States Senator from Oklahoma; William Allen White, editor of the Em- poria (Kan.) Gazette; Frederic C. Howe, Director of the Peo- ple's Institute of New York; Lewis J. Johnson, Professor of Civil Engineering, Harvard University. For the negative — George Sutherland, United States Senator from Utah, and Emmet O'Neal, Governor of Alabama; Frederick P. Fish, former President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company; Charles F. A. Cur- rier, Professor of History and Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Oberholtzer, Ellis Paxson. The Referendum, Initiative and Recall in America. 1912. 513 pp. $2.40 When the first edition of this book was published (under the title of "The Referendum in America), the country had had no practical experience whatever with the referendum or initiative, the # recall or the commission form of government. Actual ex- periments in all these various governmental schemes in the United States are described and their results carefully analyzed in this new edition. Phelps, E. M., Editor. Selected Articles on the Initiative and Referen- dum. (Debaters' Handbook Series.) xxxi -f- 164 pp. $1.00 Containing a bibliography, a brief, and articles on all phases of the subject. Wilcox, Delos F., Ph. D. Government by All the People. 1912. 324 -f xi pp. $1.62 The sub-title of this book — "The Initiative, the Referendum and the Recall as Instruments of Democracy" — indicates its scope. The book is divided into five parts. Part I outlines some of the conditions that invite a partial revival of pure democracy in the present age. In Parts II, 111 and IV are given the objec- tions to, and arguments in favor of, the Initiative, Referendum and Recall. Part V considers the general subject of majority rule. There is also an excellent index; and the proposed initia- tive and referendum constitutional amendment in Ohio is printed in an appendix. The book is distinctly favorable to "govern- ment by all the people," and is an exceedingly valuable contribu- tion to the literature of "the irrepressible conflict that lies be- tween two theories of government. Insect Extermination Doane, Rennie Wilbur, Assistant Professor of Ento- mology in Stanford University. Insects and Disease. 227 pp. 96 original illus- trations. $1.62 This non-technical work brings the most important facts, largely from sources at present inaccessible to the general reader, and even to many physicians and entomologists, in regard to the de- velopment, habits, structure, life histories and methods of ex- termination of the insects that are concerned. The chapters are entitled: Parasitism and Disease ;' Bacteria and Protozoa; Ticks and Mites; How Insects Cause or Carry Disease; House Flies or "Typhoid-flies;" Mosquitoes; Mosqui- toes and Malaria; Mosquitoes and Yellow Fever; Plague and Fleas; Other Diseases, Mostly Tropical, Known or Thought to be Carried by Insects. Doty, Alvah H., M. D. The Mosquito: Its Relation to Disease and Its Extermination. 1912. 79 pp. Illustrated. 82 cents A useful little book describing the entire life of the mosquito and the means for ridding communities of the pest. INSECT EXTERM'N, Cont.— LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE Hewitt, C. G., D. Sc., Dominion Entomologist, Ottawa, Canada. J 4l House-Flies and How They Spread Disease. 1912. xii -f- 122 pp. Illustrated. 46 cents This little book is the result of years of study of the structure, development and biology of the fly, with especial reference to its relation to the dissemination of disease. It is written with the idea of influencing action to eradicate as far as possible this potential disease carrier and constant frequenter of filth. Howard, L. O., Chief of the United States Bureau of Entomology. The House Fly — Disease Carrier. 1912. 312 pp. 41 illustrations. $^75 This is the story of the so-called typhoid fly. The chapters on "The Carriage of Disease by Flies" and "Remedies and Pre- ventive Measures," are especially important. A very profitable section is the one devoted to what women's clubs, civic associa- tions, school boards and boards of health may do to exterminate the fly. O'Kane, Walter C, Entomologist to the New Hamp- shire Experiment Station, and Professor of Eco- nomic Entomology in New Hampshire College. Injurious Insects: How to Recognize and Con- trol Them. 1912. xi -f- 414 pp. Many illustra- tions. $2.18 Written out of a large, scientific knowledge, but in a popular style, this book discusses concisely, and yet fully, the characteris- tics, life histories, and means of control of the more common injurious insects. An unusual feature of the work is the illus- trations, numbering more than 600, which have been prepared with the purpose of showing, entirely independently of the text, the characteristic injurious stage, or the typical work of the insect where that is characteristic. Ross, Edward Halford. The Reduction of Domestic Flies. 1913. viii + 103 pp. Illustrated. $1.60 In this book the nature of the house-fly is described — its life and its danger to human beings — thereby to stimulate measures of fly-reduction. The conduct of a fly-campaign, as outlined, in- cludes the making of a fly-map showing the exact location of every breeding-place of flies in the town, and also the compiling of a fly-directory, a process which will teach inspectors more about sanitary conditions than they knew before. Dealing with the fly- lairs follows in detail, and making the fly-campaign an established organization for the^ prevention of disease. The illustrations add much to the emphasis of the text. Landscape Architecture See also City Planning, Garden Cities, Gardens, etc. American Society of Landscape Architects. Transactions of The American Society of Land- scape Architects (1899-1908). 1912. 127 pp. Illus- trated. $2.00 A reference book on the events and current thought of the Society, useful not only to its members, but to many others in- terested 'in the betterment and beautification of cities. Containing articles dealing with parks, gardens, city planning, planting, etc. The editors of the volume are Harold A. Caparn, James Sturgis Pray and Downing Vaux. Eliot, Charles W., Editor. Charles Eliot. Landscape Architect. 760 pp. 2 maps. 112 illustrations. Bound in 1 vol., $3.79; bound in 2 vols., $4.33. Aside from its autobiographical interest, it is of decided value to students and practitioners of landscape art, and to all persons interested in the creation or management of fine public or private estates, large or small. Containing unique notes of travel in Europe and America for landscape, garden and park study, it teaches students of beauty on land and water to observe with more intelligence and enjoyment, and at the same time furnishes much information and innumerable suggestions. LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE— Continued Hemenway, H. D. How to Make Home and City Beautiful. 106 pp. Illustrated. $1.10 Tells how to plant a garden, test seeds, pot plants, set trees, make hotbeds, and how to care for various plants and flowers. The beautifying of home grounds, grading and shrubbery are dealt with. There are chapters on grafting, plant enemies, spraying, etc. The book is written with a view to furnishing in- struction and help to those who want to make their homes attractive and the city a cleaner, healthier, better and prettier place in which to live. Kemp, Edward. Landscape Gardening; or, How to Lay Out a Garden. New American edition, entirely revised and in many parts newly rewritten by F. A. Waugh, Professor of Landscape Gardening, Massachusetts Agricultural College. 191 1. 292 pp. 100 illus- trations. . $1.61 Intended as a general guide in choosing, forming or improving an estate (from a quarter of an acre to a hundred acres in extent), with reference to both design and execution. The American edition is from absolutely new plates, with much new matter, adapting the work to conditions in North America, with many new illustrations and with old illustrations redrawn and newly engraved. Mawson, Thomas H. Art and Craft of Garden Making. 1912-1913. Fourth edition, x -f- 404 pp. 435 plans, sketches and photographs, and 7 full-page color plates. $20.00 After dealing very briefly with the history and present posi- tion of garden design in this country, the various practical de- tails of garden formation are taken up and described, from the choice of the site and its general subdivision down to the finish- ing touches, such as statuary and garden furniture. Technical terms are avoided, and the whole of the matter is so written as to be equally serviceable to the landscape architect in general practice or the amateur. The tasteful use and disposition of all forms of garden decoration are specially dealt with. The chapter on horticultural building covers the esthetic and practical details of such features in a readable and concise way, and is illustrated with plans and constructional drawings. The examples of garden design, which conclude the volume, have been thoroughly re- vised and brought up to date, and descriptions of several new and exceptionally interesting gardens have been added. The chapters dealing with planting have been improved and revised. Maynard, Samuel T., formerly Professor of Botany and Horticulture at the Massachusetts Agricul- tural College. Landscape Gardening as Applied to Home Decoration, xvi -J- 33§ PP- 168 figures, including many full-page half-tones. $1.50 The contents include: Landscape Gardening and Home Orna- mentation; Ornamenting New Homes; Preparation of the Land; Treesi — Their Planting ana Care; Shrubs, Hedges and Hardy Climbers; Walks and Drives; Renovating and Improving Old Homes; Country Roads and Roadside Improvements; Parks, Public Squares, School Yards, etc.; Description of Trees; Ever- green Trees; Ornamental Shrubs; Hardy Herbaceous Plants, Tender Bedding and Climbing Plants, etc. ; Aquatic Plants, Hardy Ferns, and Ornamental Grasses; Insects Injurious to Orna- mentals; The Home Fruit Garden. Nolen, John. Repton's Art of Landscape Gardening. 275 pp. Illustrated. $3.18 This volume is the first of a series of authoritative books pub- lished at the suggestion and with the cooperation of the American Society of Landscape Architects. It includes Repton's most val- uable writings and illustrations, and shows that the art of laying out ground is founded, like all other arts, upon fixed principles and not upon mere caprice and fashion. Parsons, Samuel. Landscape Gardening Studies. 107 pp. 32 illus- trations. $1.58 Showing by picture and pen how some problems of landscape gardening were solved by the author. These problems represent 31 LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE, Continued— LAW certain leading types of work and in a simple way some of the basis principles of the art. No reference is made to the actual design of architectural structures, a matter really outside the domain of the landscape gardener. Underwood, Loring. The Garden and Its Accessories. 215 pp. 100 full-page illustrations. $1.11 Designed to meet the needs of people contemplating large im- provements, as well as those of anyone planning inexpensive beautifications. It deals with summer houses, arbors, sun-dials, small decorative accessories, fountains and pools, enclosures and building materials. Waugh, Frank A., Professor of Horticulture and Landscape Gardening, Massachusetts Agricultural College, Amherst, Mass. The Landscape Beautiful. 336 pp. 49 full-page engravings. $2.15 A popular work which argues for the beauty and the utility of the natural landscape. The works of landscape gardeners should show the landscape at its best. This book tells what has been accomplished in this field, especially in America. Law, Municipal Abbott, Howard S. Public Corporations. 1908. 800 pp. $6.00 A brief book on this subject has been demanded by many of the profession whose practice does not warrant the purchase of a more exhaustive treatise. This volume has been written with Mr. Abbott's three-volume work on "Municipal Corporations" as a model, presenting, the principles concisely, yet clearly, and taking great care in the selection of cases cited. Beale, Joseph Henry, Carter Professor of General Jurisprudence in Harvard University. A Selection of Cases on Municipal Corporations. 191 1. xxvii -f- 686 pp. $4.00 This volume covers cases under the following heads: The Nature of Municipal Corporations; External Constitution (creation, alteration, dissolution and legislative control) ; Inter- nal Constitution (organization, legislative and administrative de- partments, officers) ; Powers of a Municipal Corporation (general principles, legislative and police power, power to tax, to expend money, to contract, power to acquire, manage and dispose of property); Liability (on contracts and for torts, including gen- eral principles of liability, negligence in executing governmental functions, in the performance of municipal and commercial func- tions) ; Remedies. Dillon, John R, LL. D., formerly Circuit Judge of the United States for the Eighth Judicial Circuit and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Iowa. The Law of Municipal Corporations. 191 1. Fifth edition; thoroughly revised and enlarged from two to five volumes, lxi -f- 3064 -f- 738 pp. $32.50 A monumental work on the subject of municipal corporations, being an exposition and discussion of the principles of the law, designed for the practicing lawyer and of great value to students of municipal government. This new edition brings the treatment of the subject up to the present condition of the law, and con- tains more than two and one-half times the matter contained in the fourth edition. More than 40,000 cases are cited. New chapters have been added upon the following subjects: Public Utilities (including discussion of municipal trading and municipal ownership of public utilities, the relations between the city and the grantee of franchises, duties to consumers, regulation of rates, etc.); Constitutional Limitations of Municipal Indebted- ness; Special Legislation; and Municipal Warrants. Among the new subjects discussed and treated in connection with the exist- ing text are the following: Freeholders' Charters (under recent constitutional provisions permitting cities to frame their own charters); The Right of Local Self-Government; Mandatory Legislation as to Hours of Labor, Wages and Union Labor on Municipal Works; Municipal Pensions; Municipal Civil Service Laws; Regulation of Rates for Supply of Water, Gas, etc. Ordi- LAW, MUNICIPAL— Continued nances exercising the police power have been treated in a sepa- rate chapter, and cover regulations of occupations, intoxicating liquids, health ordinances, hospitals, cemeteries, nuisances, mar- kets, fire limits; also regulation of the use and control of private property, regulation of height of buildings, of signs and bill- boards, of automobiles, speed of trains, operation of railroads; tenement houses, suppression of the smoke nuisance, removal and disposal of garbage and refuse matter and dead animals, regula- tion of slaughter houses, stables, etc. The subject of Contracts is treated separately from Municipal Securities. To the subject of Municipal Bonds 230 pages are devoted, and include new sec- tions dealing with the recent development of the law. The author has for years given to municipalities and investors about 200 opinions annually on the validity of municipal bonds. The subjects of Assessments, Taxation, Actions, and Liabilities, Ex Contractu and Ex Delicto, are fully treated. The fifth volume is given up to the table of cases cited and the index. Elliott, Charles B., Ph. D., LL. D. Municipal Corporations. 1910. Second edition ; revised, enlarged, rewritten and brought to date by- John E. Macy, of the Boston Bar. 364 pp. $4.00 A concise treatment of the essential principles and rules of law governing the formation, management, rights and liabilities of public corporations, townships, counties, school districts, in- corporated towns, villages and cities. The scope of the work is broad, but the volume of matter has been reduced to the smallest reasonable compass by concise and condensed treatment of well- settled subjects. New chapters and sections have been added on the creation of corporations, streets and highways; power to contract and own property; delegation and restriction of power; alienation of property, etc. Other alterations have been made which secure accuracy, smoothness and clearness. The order of arrangement has been changed, the notes have been enlarged, old citations verified and references to the Reporter System and others inserted. La Salle Extension University. American Law and Procedure. 1912. 14 vols. Vols. I-XII prepared under the editorial super- vision of James Parker Hall, A. B., LL. B., Dean of Law School, University of Chicago; Vols XIII-XIV by James De Witt Andrews, LL. D., formerly of the Law Faculty, Northwestern University. $49.00 This work is designed to present briefly and accurately the more important principles of American law in a form which will be useful not only to lawyers but to intelligent readers without tech- nical legal training. The method of treatment is by illustrations drawn from leading cases in actual litigation. Unimportant de- tails are mentioned only briefly, and a system of cross-references in articles upon related subjects avoids duplication of matter. Various technical matters are explained in the introductory volume, in the glossary, and in connection with each special topic. Each volume contains a number of simple concrete problems, de- signed to test the reader's comprehension of what he has read. McQuillin, Eugene, of the St. Louis Bar, Judge of the Eighth Judicial Circuit. Municipal Corporations. 1912-1913. 6 vols. $39.00 This exhaustive treatise, covering the rights, duties and liabili- ties of cities, villages, townships, counties and all public corpora- tions, has been in preparation for the last fifteen years and is eminently a practical work from every point of view. It is so prepared as to render available the rule of law, tersely stated, on every proposition that has been determined by the courts, and shows clearly the essential facts to which the legal principle has been applied. The numerous judicial decisions dealing with every phase of municipal corporation law have been studied, analyzed and compared, and the principles deduced therefrom, together with the reasons supporting them, wrought into text and notes in a form which will prove most convenient and easily accessible. Speaking in the broadest sense possible, the work covers every phase of municipal corporation law and embraces all the latest decisions of the courts. There will be 200,000 citations. Among the leading topics thoroughly treated may be mentioned: Legislative control of municipal corporations; the municipal char- ter; municipal offices and officers and municipal departments; municipal ordinances; public utilities; public improvements of every nature, including special taxation and local assessments; powerof municipal corporations; municipal bonds, warrants, and municipal indebtedness; public service corporations, municipal liability for torts; municipal liability for defective highways. Education, penal institutions, charities and correcton and many other subjects are carefully treated. LAW MUNICIPAL, Continued— LIBRARIES McQuillin, Eugene. Municipal Ordinances. 1,000 pp. $6.00 A work for lawyers, municipal officers, civil engineers, city con- tractors and students of municipal problems. This treatise pre- sents every phase of the law of municipal ordinances, including charter authority to pass ordinances of every character; power to enact and enforce local police and sanitary regulations; ordi- nances relating to local taxation and license tax; public improve- ments; privileges, franchises and contracts to use streets and public ways by public service companies, as for railroads, water and gas pipes, poles and electric wires, underground conduits, subways, etc.; as well as ordinances for the efficient control of municipal government, its departments and officers. It treats the constitutionality and validity of legislation of municipal councils and boards, and methods for the passage, the sufficient record, the repeal and amendment of municipal ordinances. In a word, it covers the legal phases of matters affecting the daily life of the city population. Macy, John E., LL. M., Professor of Law, Boston Uni- versity Law School. A Selection of Cases on Municipal or Public Corporations. 191 1. xiv -f- 503 pp. $4.00 A comprehensive work in which the cases and their arrange- ment represent very careful research in the process of selecting representative cases from those used at various times in the author's classes. An effort has been made to select cases which present the most fundamental principles, and to state the facts of each case so clearly as to make the record of definite value to students. Libraries American Library Association. Papers and Proceedings of the Thirty-fifth An- nual Meeting of the American Library Associa- tion. Held at Kaaterskill, N. Y., June 23-28, 1913. (Bulletin of the American Library Association.) July, 1913. 341 pp. $2.00 Among the papers and addresses contained in this volume are the following: "Library Work in Great Braitain"; "The Immi- grant in the Library"; "Immigrants as Contributors to Library Progress"; "The Man in the Yards"; "What of the Black and Yellow Races?"; "The Working Library for the Artisan and Craftsman"; "The Woman on the Farm"; "Book Influences for Defectives and Dependents": "Changing Conditions of Child Life"; "How the Library is Meeting the Changing Conditions"; "Normal Schools and Their Relationship to Librarianship"; "The Present Status of Reference Legislative Work"; "State- Wide In- fluence of the State Library"; "Making a Library Useful to Busi- ness Men"; "Libraries in Business Organizations"; "The Munici- pal Reference Library as an Aid in City Administration"; "The Friendly Book"; "How to Discourage Reading." Bostwick. Arthur E., Ph. D., Librarian St. Louis Pub- lic Library. American Public Library. 394 pp. Illustrated. $1.62 The book is intended especially for the general reader who is unfamiliar with the development of the public library in this country;_ for the librarian, the young library assistant and the student in library training class, to whom is presented a read- able account of the general aims and tendencies of American library work. It shows what our libraries are trying to do and how far they have succeeded in doing it. Dana, John C. A Library Primer. 202 pp. 32 illustrations. $1.09 This book includes a discussion of agitation for and establish- ment and organization of a public library. It is a useful book for trustees, librarians, and, especially, for library workers who have not had experience in a large and well-organized library. Some of the chapter heads are: What Does the Public Library Do for a Community?; Rooms, Building, Fixtures, Furniture; Reference Books for a Small Library; Buying Books: The Pub- lic Library for the Public; Rules for Trustees and Employees; Library Legislation; How Can the Library Assist the Schools? 34 LIBRARIES, Continued— LIGHTING Marvin, Cornelia. Small Library Buildings. 102 pp. 63 illustra- tions. $1.25 A collection of plans contributed by the League of Library Commissions. Soule, Charles C. How to Plan a Library Building for Library Work. 1912. xxiv + 403 PP- $2.50 The author had an effective training in library science, having been from 1879 until his death, which occurred recently, a work- ing member of the American Library Association. During the last five years -he was frequently called on as an expert adviser with librarian and architect on several large new library build- ings. The book is a practical treatise covering all the points that are likely to come up when a library building is planned or altered. The copious index, containing many references to sources of information, showing what others who have had ex- perience in building libraries have said, is one of the features of the volume. Lighting Bell, Louis, Ph. D. The Art of Illumination. 19 12. x -f 353 pp. 127 illustrations. $2.50 A treatise dealing with scientific, as well as artistic, use of modern illuminants. Bryant, J. M., and Hake, H. G. Street Lighting. (Bulletin No. 51 of the University of Illinois.) 191 1. 64 pp. 35 cents This bulletin is designed to be of assistance to central-station superintendents and to the general public in selecting the proper lamp and fixing the charge for the same. It is also designed to be of value to the illuminating engineer and to the manufacturer, and in clearing up, or perhaps in preventing, misunderstandings which so frequently arise between municipalities and power com- panies. Numerous diagrams and tables. Horstmann, Henry, and Tousley, Victor H. Modern Electric Illumination — Theory and Prac- tice. 1912. 275 pp. Illustrated. $2.00 The authors are both connected with the Department of Elec- tricity of the city of Chicago, and the information given is the result of years of practical work in big undertakings. The book is intended to furnish the workman, contractor and architect a reliable working basis for the installation and planning of cor- rect illuminating systems, and so to inform the users of light that they can accurately decide on the proper kind of lighting for any building or outdoor use. Sufficient theory is given to insure comprehension of underlying principles, but especial emphasis is laid on the practical points necessary to actual work and plan- ning. The style is clear and terse, free from technicalities Specific examples of successful work are given; indirect lighting is explained, and there is a chapter on selecting the proper fixtures to harmonize with any decoration or architecture. Illuminating Engineering Society. Light: Its Use and Misuse. 1912. 20 pp. Illus- trated. 12 cents A primer of illumination, designed to assist the user in making artificial light effective, whether produced by oil, gas, electricity or otherwise. National Electric Light Association. Ornamental Street Lighting. (Designed and writ- ten by Waldemar Kaempffert.) 1912. 48 pp. Illus- trated. 20 cents An attractive pamphlet presenting practical consideration of the following topics: The business side of street lighting; right and wrong municipal lighting; how business and residential sec- tions should be lighted; how electric signs and window lighting affect the street; systems of ornamental street lighting; what it costs to light a street; posts, old and new standards, globes, re- flectors and accessory apparatus. Lists of cities that have or- namental street lighting, decorative arch lighting and arc in- stallations, are given, and others of manufacturers of ornamen- tal posts, regulators and compensative apparatus, glassware, steel reflectors and incandescent electric lamps. MARKETS—MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP Markets, Municipal See also articles in The American City for Feb- ruary and April, 1913 Black, Mrs. Elmer, member of the Advisory Board of the New York Terminal Market Commission. A Terminal Market System. New York's Most Urgent Need. 1912. 32 pp. Illustrated. 25 cents The result of an Investigation of markets on both sides of the Atlantic. Describing the administration and management of markets in the British Isles, Germany, France, Austria-Hungary, Holland and Belgium, with comments on New York City's need of a terminal market system. Carter, J. F., Secretary, San Antonio (Texas) Chamber of Commerce. Public Markets and Marketing Methods. (In The American City, February, 1913.) 18 pp. Il- lustrated. 25 cents A symposium of information received from an inquiry into marketing conditions in seventy-one American cities. Miller, Cyrus C, President, Borough of the Bronx. Municipal Market Policy. 1912. 18 pp. 10 cents From a speech before the City Club of New York. Setting forth the proper function of the middleman. Outlining market conditions in a few American cities and in Berlin, Cologne, Budapest, Vienna, Paris, Lyons, Liverpool, Glasgow and Monte- video. Giving the main features of a proposed distributing depot in the Bronx. Miller, Cyrus C, Chairman, Mayor's Market Commis- sion, New York City. Wholesale Terminal Markets. (In The Ameri- can City, April, 1913.) 9 pp. Illustrated. 25 cents A new idea in public markets for American municipalities ; interesting data on marketing methods in leading European cities. Municipal Ownership See also Public Utilities Darwin, Major Leonard. Municipal Ownership. 149 pp. $1.32 Arguments against municipal trading. Holcombe, A. N., Ph. D., Instructor in Government in Harvard University. Public Ownership of Telephones on the Conti- nent of Europe. 1911. xx -f- 482 pp. $2.17 This volume is the result of two years' impartial study and in- vestigation abroad. It has not been written to prove that any one mode of conducting the telephone business is the best for all countries and under all circumstances, but to make available the evidence upon which the reader may form his own opinion of the value of the various policies that have been adopted. Com- parisons have been made between American and European condi- tions with the idea of making clear the nature of the European situation. The sources of necessary evidence have been pains- takingly and thoroughly searched. Howe, Frederic C. The British City: The Beginnings of Democ- racy, xvi + 370 pp. $1.62 A study of the administrative efficiency of the British city and its achievements in ownership of street railways, gas, water and electric lighting undertakings. A comparison of the cities of Great Britain and America, and the causes which have pro- duced efficiency in the former country. Howe, Frederic C. The City: The Hope of Democracy. xiii + 319 pp. $ I# 62 Inspirational book, suggesting the possibilities of the city of to-morrow and the causes of our present failures. It deals with the possibilities of the city when organized to promote human welfare and when it is equipped with proper tools for expressing the will of the people. The book sprang from the author's expe- rience in city administration in Cleveland. 36 •••if*" MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP, Continued— NOISE Knoop, Douglas, Lecturer on Economics in the Uni- versity of Sheffield. Principles and Methods of Municipal Trading. 1912. xvii -f- 4°9 PP« $34 I Mr. Knoop has studied municipal trading at work, and has de- voted a considerable part of his book to an examination of the policies and methods commonly adopted by local authorities in respect of their trading undertakings. Morgan, J. E., and Bullock, E. D., Editors. Selected Articles on Municipal Ownership. 191 1. xxiv + 219 pp. $1.00 Containing a bibliography, a brief, and articles on all phases of the subject. Porter, Robert P. The Dangers of Municipal Ownership. 350 pp. $1.96 While the writer is, frankly, from the title page, an opponent of municipal ownership as it exists, he presents a vast array of interesting facts and figures to substantiate his position, citing in detail results in specific cases where municipal trading has been tried. Mr. Porter has illumined his facts and figures, and the result is a popular, readable and easily understood discussion of the question. Shaw, Bernard. The Commonsense of Municipal Trading. 191 1. xii -f- 120 pp. 85 cents In favor of municipal socialism. Noise, Unnecessary Bell, Stoughton, A. B., LL. B., Boston, Mass. Existing Legal Provisions with Regard to the Suppression of Unnecessary Noises. (Reprinted from the Transactions of the Fifteenth Interna- tional Congress on Hygiene and Demography, held at Washington, D. C., September 23-28, 1912. 5 pp. 10 cents Outlining some of the general principles governing the regula- tion of noise, and making suggestions as to preventive legislation. Followed by a brief discussion by Prof. James J. Putnam of Bos- ton. Chicago Municipal Reference Library. Anti-Noise Ordinances of Various Cities. (Com- piled for the Committee on Health of the Chicago City Council; Dr. Willis t O. Nance, Chairman.) Typewritten copy. 1913. 93 pp. 10 cents The ordinances are classified as having reference as follows: (1) Occupational Noises; (2) By Motor Vehicles; (3) By Steam Whistles; (4) By Animals and Fowls; (5) Zones of Quiet. Morse, Edward S., Massachusetts. The Steam Whistle a Menace to Public Health. (Read before the Massachusetts Association of Boards of Health, at Boston, January 27, 1905.) 14 PP- 5 cents Discussing such questions in regard to the steam whistle as: Has there been any attempt at amelioration? Does it depreciate real estate? Is it indictable? Is it necessary? Can it be sup- pressed? Morse, Edward S., Salem, Mass. The Suppression of Unnecessary Noise. (Read under the auspices of the Ninth International Otological Congress in Boston, August 14, 1912.) 11 Pp. 5 cents Presenting to a body of experts on the ear a discussion of the injurious effects of noise and a plea for the legislative prohibition of all noise that is avoidable. 31 PARKS AND PARKWAYS— POLICE AND PRISONS Parks and Parkways See also City Planning, Garden Cities, Land= scape Architecture American Academy of Political and Social Science. Public Recreation Facilities, v -j- 266 pp. Paper, $1.00; cloth $1.50 The contents are as follows: "The Parks and Recreation Fa- cilities in the United States," by John Nolen; "Our National Parks and Reservations," by William Eleroy Curtis; "National Forests as Recreation Grounds," by Treadwell Cleveland, Jr.; "Forestry Policy of Typical States — New York," by Hon. Austin Cary; "Forestry Policy of Typical States — Pennsylvania," by Hon. Joseph T. Rothrock; "State Forests in Michigan," by Prof. Filibert Roth; "Park System of Essex County, New Jersey," by Frederick W. Kelsey; "The Park System of Hudson County, New Jersey," by Walter G. Muirheid; "The Boston Metropolitan Park System," by William B. De Las Casas; "City Planning and Philadelphia Parks," by Andrew Wright Crawford; "The Park Movement in Madison, Wisconsin," by Charles N. Brown; "Recreation Developments in Chicago Parks," by Graham Romeyn Taylor; "Play and Social Progress," by Howard S. Braucher; "Public Provision and Responsibility for Playgrounds," by Henry S. Curtis; "The Playground as a Social Center," by Mrs. Amalie Hofer Jerome; "Educational Value of Public Recreation Facilities," by Charles Mulford Robinson; "Our Recreation Facilities and the Immigrant," by Victor Von Borosini; "The Social Significance of Play," by Otto T. Mallery; "The Playground for Children at Home," by Beulah Kennard; "The Unused Assets of Our Public Recreation Facilities," by Benjamin C. Marsh; "Music and Refreshments in Parks," by Philip H. Goepp; "The Appalachian Mountain Club," by Prof. Charles E. Fay; "The Southern Appalachian Park Reserve as a National Playground," by George T. Surface; "The Field and Forest Club of Boston," by G. W. Lee and L. G. Howes; "The Sierra Club," by Marion Randall Parsons; "Recreative Centers of Los Angeles, California," by Bessie D. Stoddart; "The Colum- bia Park Boys' Club, a Unique Playground," by Eustace M. Peixotto; "The 'Heide Park' of the Society for the Advancement of the Commonweal in Dresden," by Dr. Wilhelm Bohmert. Weed, Howard Evarts, M. S., Landscape Architect. Modern Park Cemeteries. 1912. 145 pp. 21 illus- trations. $1.60 A condensed treatment of modern methods of laying out and maintaining park cemeteries, together with information regarding burial customs and the regulation of the use of cemeteries. "Simplicity is the keynote of the modern park cemetery." The chapters on "The Cemetery plan," "General Construction Work," "Road Construction" and "Landscape Development" are of special interest. Police and Prisons Aschaffenburg, Gustav, Professor of Psychiatry in the Cologne Academy of Practical Medicine. Crime and Its Repression. (Translated by Adal- bert Albrecht; with an Editorial Preface by Maurice Parmelee and an Introduction by Arthur C. Train.) 1913. xxvii pp. Tables, diagrams, one drawing. $4« I 9 This volume is No. VI in the Modern Criminal Science Series, published under the auspices of the American Institute of Crim- inal Law and Criminology. Reliable penal and criminal statistics in the United States are not available; this book has a message for all countries. Its author, one of the most notable leaders of thought in modern criminal science in Germany, applies social statistics to theories of criminal law in illuminating and cautious analysis. In the first two parts of the book he studies the social and individual causes of crime with a discriminating, well-balanced mind, and in Part III discusses reforms and remedies. He be- lieves in abolishing the fixed term of punishment and in the prin- ciples of suspended sentence and probation. A closer understand- ing by the judge of the criminal and the sort of penalty he needs is considered absolutely essential, also that the judge should supervise the execution of the sentence and assist in shaping the prisoner's future. The book is far from prosy. It makes strong appeal to the intellect and the wholesome sympathy of the reader. It urges as most important the necessity for the highest type of prison officials. ' 38 POLICE AND PRISONS, Cont.— PUBLIC UTILITIES Fuld, Leon hard Felix, M. A., LL. M. Police Administration. 551 pp. $3.19 A critical study of police systems in the United States, with comparative reference to similar organizations in other countries. It is of value to city officials who wish to inform themselves as to the organization, the functions and the problems of the police force, and it contains much material that is sufficiently non- technical and informing to be of interest to the average citizen. Twelve of the seventeen tables show the methods of organiza- tion, service, examination, appointment, pay, promotion and re- moval in relation to 75 cities, with the ways in which they deal with prostitution, gambling and the liquor traffic. The remain- ing five tables show various record forms in use in New York. Henderson, Charles Richmond, Ph. D., Editor. Correction and Prevention Series. Four volumes prepared for the Eighth International Prison Con- gress. 1910. Price per set, $10.00; per volume, $2.70 The titles and authors are as follows: Prison Reform and Criminal Law. By Charles R. Henderson, F. B. Sanborn, F. H. Wines, Eugene Smith and others; Penal and Reformatory Insti- tutions, by sixteen leading authorities; Preventive Agencies and Methods, by Charles Richmond Henderson, Ph.D.; Preventive Treatment of Neglected Children, by Hastings H. Hart. Whitlock, Brand. The Enforcement of Law in Cities. 19 13. 95 pp. 81 cents A brief, comprehensive discussion of present-day social and moral conditions in American municipalities. It deals chiefly with the question of present possibilities in civic reform as re- lated to civic righteousness. The opinions set forth in this work represent the mature conclusions reached after more than a de- cade of actual contact with and study of the issues involved. Public Utilities, Their Regulation and Valuation See also Municipal Ownership American Academy of Political and Social Science. The Control of Municipal Public Service Cor- porations. 746 pp. Cloth, $1.50; paper, $1.00 Contains seventeen papers on the various phases of the subject. Floy, Henry, Consulting Engineer. Valuation of Public Utility Properties. 19 12. viii + 390 pp. $5.18 An important point emphasized by this work is that of the value of the non-physical part of property. The author aims to bring together theory and practice in this matter, in order to determine a standard method of procedure. To this end a num- ber of examples of important appraisals are referred to as estab- lishing precedents. There is a chapter on appraisals of public utility properties in Greater New York. Depreciation is thoroughly dealt with, and curves and tables give aid in de- termining it. Other chapters include the following divisions of the subject: Public service commissions; procedure in making an appraisal; structural costs; development, intangible and over- head expenses and non-physical costs; franchises, good- will, go- ing value and contracts. Foster, Horatio A., Consulting Engineer. Engineering Valuation of Public Utilities and Factories. 1912. xvi + 345 pp. $3.19 Treating in an elementary way, which is designed to show the real simplicity of the essential points of valuation, the methods of making appraisals of public utilities. The opinion of Judge Savage, of Maine, is given in full, because the author con- siders its instructions for valuation the best he knows. Many other quotations from court decisions are given throughout the 39 PUBLIC UTILITIES— Continued volume, each one to give backing to a statement. Many forms are given for making accurate inventories and for the proper presentation of data; some of these are original with the author, and others have been used by the Joint Engineering Staff of the Wisconsin Railroad Commission and the Wisconsin Tax Com- mission. King, Clyde Lyndon, Ph. D., Editor. The Regulation of Municipal Utilities. (National Municipal League Series.) 1912. ix + 404pp. $1.63 Containing the most important papers on the franchise problem which have been presented to the National Municipal League, brought up to date with considerable additional material by the editor. Among the elements of the problem as presented are "Municipal Ownership vs. Adequate Regulation," with an illus- trative article on "The Minneapolis Gas Settlement;" regulation through franchise, in relation to gas, telephones and street rail- ways; regulation through municipal utility commissions, as illus- trated in Los Angeles, Kansas City and St. Louis, and regulation through state public utility commissions, as conducted in Massa- chusetts, Wisconsin and New York. The National Civic Federation. (Department on Regulation of Inter-State. and Municipal Utilities.) Commission Regulation of Public Utilities. 1913. 1,284 pp. $8.50 A compilation and analysis of the laws of 43 states and of the Federal Government for the regulation, by central commissions, of railroads and other public utilities. The information is classi- fied as follows: Jurisdiction of Commissions and Definitions; Organization of Commissions; General Powers of Commissions; Basis of Rate Making; Establishment and Change of Rates; Pub- licity of Rates; Discrimination in Rates and Service; Service; Safety of Operation; Accounts; Reports; Franchises; Stock and Bond Issues; Intercorporate Relations; Commission Procedure and Practice; Enforcement. United States Bureau of Standards. State and Municipal Regulations for the Quality, Distribution and Testing of Illuminating Gas. (Circular No. 32 of the Bureau of Standards.) April 1, 1912. 133 pp. 20 cents Part I gives a summary of the municipal gas ordinances now operative, presents a general discussion of municipal gas require- ments, and proposes an ordinance which has been prepared as a compilation of the best ordinance requirements now in force, as determined by consultation with a considerable number of well- known engineers and inspectors. Part II deals similarly with state control of gas questions, and proposes technical rules pre- pared in the same way as the proposed ordinance of Part I. Part III quotes a few of the ordinances now in force in this country, selected as representative of recently enacted ordinances, and gives all portions of the state gas laws now in force which are of any considerable importance to the subjects considered in this circular. Whitten, Robert H., Ph. D. Valuation of Public Service Corporations. 1912. xl + 798 PP. $5.50 In preparing this volume, the author has examined not only /he published decisions of courts, but the unpublished reports of special masters in equity, the reports of special arbitrators and appraisal commissioners appointed by the courts, the decisions of state railroad and public service commissions and the reports of appraisers appointed by local authority. Very full quotations from this material are given, with sufficient additional informa- tion to give the reader an accurate knowledge of the essential facts. Published law reports are also quoted and annotated for the aid of lawyers, public utility managers, accountants, en- gineers and others. In connection with each subject there is a brief summary of the law and precedents, with a statement or discussion of the economic principles involved. The closing chap- ter contains a bibliography of valuation and depreciation, sup- plemented by a table of cases annotated so as to indicate the im- portant topics of valuation treated in each case:. The index has been prepared with special care. Wilcox, Delos F., Chief of the Bureau of Franchises of the Public Service Commission for the First District of New York. Municipal Franchises. In 2 vols, xx + 710 pp. and xxi -f- 885 pp., respectively. Each $5.18 The first comprehensive treatise on municipal franchises, aside from purely legal works, that has ever been published in this 40 PUBLIC UTILITIES, Continued— PUBLIC WORKS country. Volume One includes five chapters devoted to the general discussion and analysis of franchise problems, followed by sixteen chapters devoted to a history and description of the franchise conditions in a large number of typical American cities, affecting electric light and power, telephone, telegraph, electrical conduits, messenger and signal service, private water plants, central heating establishments, refrigeration, pneumatic tubes, oil pipe lines, private sewer plants and artificial and natural gas. Volume Two includes a part devoted to a descrip- tion of local transportation franchises in a large number of American cities. The utilities considered are street railways, elevated railroads, subways, interurban railways, bridges, viaducts, toll roads, depots, belt line railroads, spur tracks, docks, markets, ferries and omnibus lines. The chapter on "Elements of a Model Street Railway Franchise" is especially important. The discus- sion in the last part of the book relates to a number of interesting and important items in the general franchise problem, such as the regulation of public utilities by state and local commissions, franchise taxation, capitalization and municipal ownership. Wyer, Samuel S., M. E., Consulting Engineer, Colum- bus, Ohio. Regulation, Valuation and Depreciation of Pub- lic Utilities. 1913. 313 pp. 47 illustrations. 15 reference tables. $5.00 A brief, concise treatment of the economic, engineering and le- gal facts regarding the relations between the public and public utilities. Numerous quotations from expert opinions and judicial decisions are made, and their sources are shown by references to the select bibliography in chapter 16. The other chapter heads are as follows: The Public and the Public Utility; Funda- mental Definitions; Economics of Utilitv Problems; Governmen- tal Power to Regulate Utilities; Protection of Utilities from Ad- verse Regulation; Requirements of Regulations; Relief from Op- pressive Regulation: Depreciation; Electrolysis as a Form of De- preciation; Legal Status of Electrolysis; Valuation; Going Value, and Going Concern Value of Utilities; Principles Governing Cost of Utility Service; Engineering Data Pertaining to Utility Regu- lation; Valuation and Depreciation Problems; Reference data. Public Works See also Health and Sanitation, Roads and Streets, Waste Disposal, Water Supply and Water Works Frye, Albert I., M. Am. Soc. C. E., Civil Engineers' Pocketbook. 1913. 1,658 pp $5.00 A condensed treatise on civil engineering, filled with data and tables, imny of which are now printed for the first time. McCullough, Ernest, M. W. S. E. Engineering Work in Small Cities and Towns. 502 pp. $3.00 A practical work for officials of towns and cities of less than 20,000 inhabitants; useful for city engineers and surveyors, as well as for those having no technical education. Contains pro- gressive information and detailed instruction on the duties of the city engineer, on roads and streets, sanitation, drainage and sewage, water supply, concrete, contracts and specifications, office systems, city engineer's records, field work and engineering, and miscellaneous data. Maxwell, W. H., A. M.I. C. E., and Brown, J. T., M. R. San. Inst, Editors. The Encyclopaedia of Municipal and Sanitary Engineering. 1910. 561 pp. Illustrated. $10.00 This comprehensive volume is intended to serve as a handy, practical guide on all matters connected with municipal and sani- tary engineering and administration. The information is in dic- tionary form, and in order to facilitate reference the longer articles are divided into sections, the pith and scope of the article being indicated by an index placed at the commencement. All acts of Parliament affecting a subject are quoted and a very com- plete system of cross-referencing has been followed. Technical expressions are lucidly defined and the illustrations are numerous and valuable. 41 PUBLIC WORKS, Continued— RECREATION Merriman, Mansfield, Editor-in-Chief. American Civil Engineers' Pocket Book. (Sec- ond edition, enlarged.) 191 2. viii + 1,473 PP- 1,200 cuts. 500 tables. $5.00 This new edition embodies important changes as follows: Two new sections, on steam and electric engineering, and the con- struction and maintenance of highways and streets; additions to the chapter on Earthwork Computations; a revision of the chap- ter which formerly treated of roads and railroads, with new material, so that it now treats entirely of steam and electric rail- roads; correction of errors, ambiguities and deficiencies; the in- dex revised and reset; 23 articles, 43 tables and 18 cuts more than in the first edition. The section heads are: Mathematical Tables; Surveying, Geodesy, Railroad Location; Steam and Elec- tric Railroads; Materials of Construction; Plain and Reinforced Concrete; Masonry, Foundations, Earthwork; Masonry and Tim- ber Structures; Steel Structures; Hydraulics, Pumping, Water Power; Water Supply, Sewerage, Irrigation; Dams, Aqueducts, Canals, Shafts, Tunnels; Mathematics and Mechanics; Physics, Meteorology, Weights and Measures; Steam and Electric En- gineering; Highways and Streets. Trautwine, John C. Civil Engineers' Pocketbook. 191 1. Revised and enlarged edition. 1,257 pp. Illustrated. $5.00 Its articles are not merely outlines of th* general principles of the several branches of engineering discussion, but are packed close with practical tabular and other information, carefully studied and so arranged as to secure convenience for quick reference. It is a book designed for the working engineer on h»s work. Rules are put in the shape of formulas, which have "the great advantage of showing the whole operation at a glance, of making its whole principle more apparent, and of being much more convenient for reference." The most notable of the new features of the revised edition is the series of articles on con- crete, in which special attention has been given to the rules and results of modern practice in concrete construction. Whinery, S., Consulting Engineer to the Department of Public Works, Manhattan. Municipal Public Works. 241 pp. $1.62 Intended for the inexperienced citizen official and for the urban citizen. Of value to the men who, upon assuming the duties and responsibilities of public office, feel that they are deficient in the special knowledge necessary for them to dis- charge their duties intelligently and efficiently. Technical treat- ment of subjects has been avoided, and statistics and details have been introduced only when they seemed necessary to illustrate or enforce the general statements. Recreation See also Celebrations, Civic; Social Centers; Social Research and Service Addams, Jane. The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets. 162 pp. $1.37 The first four chapters contain a powerful argument for the need of wholesome recreation for the young people of our cities. The concluding chapters deal with the effect of the unrelieved monotony of factory work upon the child from fourteen years upward, the harmful forms of revolt or the more deadly acquies- cence, and the inadequacy of our educational system to train the child with special inclinations or gifts. American Academy of Political and Social Science. Public Recreation Facilities. See Parks and Parkways. Angell, Emmett Dunn, Department of Physical Edu- cation, University of Wisconsin. Play. 190 pp. 52 illustrations from photographs, besides diagrams. 1.61 A careful selection of over 100 games suitable for kinder- garten, playground, schoolroom and college, including water sports, for indoors and outdoors. Thirty-two of these games are original with the author, and many of them have been taught by him at the Harvard Summer School of Physical Training. 42 RECREA TI ON— Continued Bancroft, Jessie H., Assistant Director of Physical Training, New York City Public Schools. Games for the Playground, Home, School and Gymnasium. 456 pp. 23 illustrations. $1.70 Designed not only for home and school work, but for public playgrounds, gymnasiums, boys' and girls' summer camps, adult house parties and country clubs, settlements, children's parties, etc., at all seasons, indoors and out. The more familiar games long known in America are supplemented by a wide variety of games brought to us by immigrants. Bergquist, Nils W., Instructor of Physical Culture, New York City. Swedish Folk Dances. 78 pp. Illustrated. $1.65 The directions indicate exactly the movements which accom- pany each measure of the music. The music itself is presented in regular sheet size, and, so far as possible, facing the descrip- tion to whicn it belongs. The pictures suggest correct costumes. Bremner, Kate F. A Book of Song Games and Ball Games. 40 pp. 35 illustrations. $1.40 For playgrounds and schools. A large part of the collection has been taken from Sweden. The little songs that accompany most of them have been adapted for English-speaking children with rare understanding of what really appeals to the child. The music is presented in convenient size. The directions are con- cise and are amplified by diagrams. Burchenal, Elizabeth, Chairman Folk Dance Com- mittee of Playground Association of America. Dances of the People. (A second volume of Folk Dances and Singing Games.) 1913. Quarto. 83 pp. Illustrated. Paper, $1.50; cloth, $2.50 Twenty-seven folk dances of England, Scotland, Ireland, Den- mark, Sweden, Germany and Swtzerland, with the music; full directions for performance, and numerous illustrations. BURCHENAL, ELIZABETH, and Crampton, C. Ward, Compilers. Folk Dance Music. 54 pp. Paper, $1.00; cloth, $2.00 A collection of 76 characteristic dances of the people of various nations; adapted for use in schools and playgrounds for physical education and play. Chubb, Percival, and Associates. Festivals and Plays in Schools and Elsewhere. 1912. xxii -f- 403 pp. Illustrated. $2.14 After long preparation, the authors, who have been leaders in the American development of festivals, plays, and allied arts, have completed a comprehensive and authoritative work on this many-sided subject. It has been found impossible by any title to suggest the full scope of this volume. The word "festival," as commonly understood, does not cover the wide range of activities that are dealt with here. These varied forms of festival involve all the festal arts of drama and pageantry, song and dance, rite and ceremony; and these call for the lively cooperation of the minor arts and crafts, of the history, and of the folk lore and legend which are practiced or studied in the school. In short, here is a fruitful synthesis of the arts of civilization. Practical explanations and illustrations are given in the fullest measure. The authors of the book have worked out the problems of festival together as members of the Festival Committee of the Ethical Culture School. Crampton, C. Ward., M. D., Director of Physical Train- ing, New York City. The Folk Dance Book. 191 1. x -f 82 pp. $1.65 Presenting 41 of the best dances which have been for genera- tions a part of the life of the people in many of _ the older European countries. Clear and easily followed directions. The music to which they are danced in their native countries is given in form large enough for convenient use at the piano. 43 RECREATION- Continued Crawford, Caroline, Teachers' College, Columbia Uni- versity. Folk Dances and Games, x -j- 82 pp. With frontispiece. $1.65 The author has done much in working out the educational possibilities of the dance in physical training. This is a collec- tion of the dances she found in their native countries. Gulick, Luther Halsey, M. D. The Healthful Art of Dancing. 288 pp. 66 illus- trations. $i-55 This is a volume upon the universality and necessity of rhythm in human life, by a distinguished and forceful writer in the new movement for recreation and play as a part of education. Johnson, George E. Education by Plays and Games. 234 pp. Many illustrations. 90 cents A study of the educational value of play, in which 140 games are analyzed and arranged in groups of different grades, on the basis of their usefulness in developing certain parts of the mind or certain parts of the body. A good reading list is appended. Leland, Arthur, and Leland, Lorna Higbee. Playground Technique and Playcraft. 284 pp. 206 illustrations, plans and figures. $2.50 Deals with playground architecture and landscape gardening, instructions for grades and drainage, for playing surfaces and equipment. Shows how playground interests may include practical forestry and gardening, model housekeeping in a workman's model home, and industrial play. Successful playgrounds in various places are described and illustrated. Index and biblio- graphy. Lincoln, Mrs. Jennette E. C. The Festival Book. 1912. xviii + 74 PP- Many illustrations. $1.65 This book is the result of a wide study of old May-Day pastimes and customs, and the experience gained in adapting them and actually presenting them at May-Day f€tes. The ma- terial is conveniently arranged and supplied with music, dia- grams of the figures, sketches of costumes, working drawings of "stage properties," and many photographs of groups of dancers in action in full costume. In addition to the traditional May- Day dances, revels and pantomimes, a number of the best folk dances of other nationalities have been introduced. All direc- tions are explicit, clearly stated and easily followed. Lyman, Edna. Story Telling— What to Tell and How to Tell It. 1913. 229 pp. 82 cents The author has provided in the most concise manner the very suggestions which the parent or teacher untrained in the tech- nique of the art of story telling needs most to know. In so do- ing she has placed all lovers of children under obligations to her. The book will bring to many seekers of the inner path to the child life the direction for which they have wished. Mackaye, Percy. The Civic Theater in Relation to the Redemp- tion of Leisure. 1912. 308 pp. $1.50 A collection of public addresses and magazine articles, with three hitherto unpublished articles and a set of appendices, combined in what the author calls "A Book of Suggestions." It treats the various aspects of the civic theater as the solution of the problem of the producer's leisure evenings. The author recognizes the universal human craving for art, and the constructive value of the association of men and women in the creation of art. The chap- ter on the scope and organization of the civic theater and the one on "The Civic Functions of the Theater" are especially note- worthy. Mero, Everett B. American Playgrounds. 400 pp. 125 illustrations. $2.00 To show the value of recreation as a feature of city service to children and grown-ups, and to explain how to construct and equip a playground in the broad sense of "recreation center," is 44 RECREATION, Cont -ROADS, STREETS, PAVEMENTS the main object of thi« book. This is accomplished by giving the detailed experience and instruction of experts, illustrating by an account of Chicago's successful system of public recreation and by numerous photographs and diagrams of playground equipment and activities. National Board of Censorship of Motion Pictures. Suggestions for a Model Ordinance for Regu- lating Motion Picture Theaters. 1913. 15 pp. 10 cents The National Board of Censorship has formulated these sug- gestions after studying the methods of regulation in practice in the United States and foreign countries. Most of the sugges- tions are taken from the report of the Commissioner of Accounts of New York City and of the Mayor's Commission on Motion Pictures. General considerations and facts are first given, and then details of regulation applicable in all our cities. The sub- ject is handled with full recognition of the place which motion pictures fill in the field of public education. Parsons, Belle Ragner. Plays and Games for Indoors and Out. xxxvii -f 215 pp. Illustrated. $1.63 Physical exercises for the classroom, playground and gym- nasium. Stimulating the children's imagination by imitating the activities of nature and of the industrial, social, heroic and his- toric life of man. Stecher, William A., B. S. G., Director of Physical Education in the Philadelphia Public Schools. Games and Dances. 1912. xv -f- 165 pp. Illus- trated. $i-37 The plan followed by this book is to present collectively games and dances suitable for children or adults of each particular school grade or age group. This procedure places in the hands of a teacher a graded selection of games and dances, arranged in nine progressive grades. Games marked (R) can be played in a room as well as in a playground. In an appendix a limited number of "quiet games" and "problems" for hot weather is presented, following which is a list of track and field events which may be undertaken in the average playground. Con- nected with this is a record of the tests which the average boy and girl should attain. Last come three selections of exercises suitable for mass drills on play-days or field days. Stecher, William A. Handbooks of Lessons in Physical Training and Games. In three parts. Over 60 pp. each. Part I (over 30 illustrations. 35 cents Part II (over 75 illustrations). 35 cents Part III (over 75 illustrations). 50 cents Prepared by a teacher who by years of personal experience knows the needs of the class teacher. While not prepared spe- cifically for the professional teacher of gymnastics, the lessons will be found valuable in association and society work. A list of serviceable play apparatus suitable for school yards is given. Roads, Streets and Pavements See also City Planning American Highway Association. Good Roads Year Book. (Edited by J. E. Penny- packer.) 1913. xii + 548 pp. Illustrated. $1.00 This volume summarizes important data on road legislation, construction and maintenance, presented in non-technical form. It is an excellent reference book and guide to further reading as suggested in the bibliographies given. The chapter on bond issues is based upon reports from more than SO per cent of the counties in the United States, and has been compiled and checked with great care. The chapter on "Road Systems of Foreign Countries" is a feature not heretofore treated in the Year Book. The various progress reports from state highway departments bring out some interesting points. 45 ROADS, STREETS AND PAVEMENTS— Continued American Road Builders' Association. Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Convention (held at Cincinnati, Ohio, December 3-6, 1912), together with Reports of the Executive Committee, Secretary and Treasurer. (Presented at the an- nual meeting, February 7, 1913.) 1913. 315 pp. 1 illustration. $2.00 t The book contains also the revised constitution of the Asso- ciation. The following papers are given: "Organization of a State Highway Department," by Major W. W. Crosby; "The Organization of a Highway Department for a Large City," by William H. Connell; "County and Township Organization of Highway Work," by A. N. Johnson; "Bituminous Pavements for City Streets," by George W. Tillson; "Creosoted Wood Block Pavement in the City of Minneapolis, Minn., as Laid by the City by Day Labor," by Ellis R. Dutton; "Cuts in Newly-Paved Streets," by Tames E. Barlow; "The Development of a Plan for a State Road System," by James R. Marker; "The Contractor's Point of View," by Hugh Murphy; "Plant Equipment," by F. E. Ellis; "Some Features of Macadam Construction," by T. R. Agg; "Earth and Gravel Roads," bv Robert C. Terrell; "High- way Bridges and Culverts," by W. A. McLean; "The Economics of Highway Construction," by Clifford Richardson; "The Traffic Census as a Preliminary to Road Improvement," by Col. William D. Sohier; "The Laying of One Hundred and Two Miles of Smooth Road Surface in One Borough in Five Months," by G. Howland Leavitt. There is interesting and illuminating dis- cussion on these papers and on the following topics: "Convict Labor on Road Work"; Division of Expense of Road Improve- ment Over Town or Similar Local Unit, County, State or Na- tion"; "Correction of Alignment and Grade in Existing High- ways"; "Dust Prevention." Blanchard, Arthur H., C. E., A. M., Professor of Highway Engineering in Columbia University, and Drowne, Henry B., C. K, Instructor in Highway Engi- neering in Columbia University. Highway Engineering. As Presented at the Sec- ond International Road Congress, Brussels, 1910. 191 1. x -f 299 pp. $2.00 The material has been grouped by countries under headings familiar to American engineers, such as foundation and drain- age, bituminous surfaces and pavements, road machinery and tools, garbage removal, cleaning and watering, pipe systems in roads and streets, etc. This gives a comprehensive review of en- gineering methods in various parts of the world. Blanchard, Arthur H., and Drowne, Henry B. Text-Book on Highway Engineering. 1913. xiii -\-762 pp. 234 illustrations; 4 charts. $4.50 This_ book treats all phases of modern highway engineering. It is intended primarily for the use of students and teachers, and the subject-matter is chosen and arranged to cover for them the principles and practice of the best authorities. It contains also sufficient material to serve as a comprehensive reference book for experienced engineers.^ There are two hundred and forty pages devoted to the subject of bituminous materials and their use in roads and pavements. Expert views on special sub- jects are given, and practice throughout the United States is represented in the standard specifications and reports of National societies quoted. Frost, Harwood, B. A. Sc. The Art of Roadmaking. 1910. 544 pp. Illus- trated. $3.00 In the comparatively small space of this book is condensed a history of roadbuilding and a review of the fundamental and essential principles of the roadbuilder's art as it has been re- corded by the most reliable authorities. The reader who is un- acquainted with the subject is given a good general knowledge of it, and the technical man is furnished an outline of the principal facts and a statement of where further specialized information may be found. Harger, Wilson G., and Bonney, Edmund A. Handbook for Highway Engineers. 191 2. xiv -f- 493 PP- Illustrated. $3.00 This is a book for the roadbuilder, taking up "the theory of design" and "the practice of design and construction" of the more expensive types of road construction in New York, with detailed accounts of work in other places. 46 ROADS, STREETS AND PAVEMENTS— Continued Hubbard, Prevost, Assistant Chemist of the Office of Public Roads, U. S. Department of Agriculture. Dust Preventives and Road Binders. 1910. vii + 416 pp. Illustrated. $3'00 Designed to give road engineers a working knowledge of the characteristic properties of dust prevention and road binders in use, and how to select and apply them. Judson, William P. City Roads and Pavements. 1909. Fourth edition. 197 pp. $2.00 A treatise on roads and pavements suited to cities of moderate size. JUDSON, W. P. Road Preservation and Dust Prevention. 1908. 144 pp. Illustrated. $1.50 Methods, costs and tests on preservation of surface and the prevention of dust on roads. Page, Logan Waller, Director United States Office of Public Roads. Roads, Paths and Bridges. 1912. 263 pp. Illus- trated. $1.10 It is the purpose of this book to give in a concise and ele- mentary form the fundamental principles governing the con- struction of roads, paths and bridges for farm and neighborhood purposes, and to set forth the details of construction and main- tenance so that they may be followed without great difficulty. Richardson, Clifford, Consulting Engineer. Asphalt Construction for Pavements and High- ways. 1913. ix -{- 155 pp. Illustrated. $2.00 A pocket-book of reference for engineers, contractors and in- spectors. The instructions given are based on the writer's ex- periences and observations through many -years, and include a statement of the procedure to be followed to secure a sheet as- phalt surface that will resist the most trying conditions. Heavy travel and continued moisture made such construction a difficult problem in London, when the author undertook, in 1894, to super- vise the introduction there of the American type of sheet asphalt pavement, but the essential principles of successful methods were determined and pavements laid in accordance with these prin- ciples are said to have given entire satisfaction. This handbook makes the information available in convenient, direct and simple form for engineers and contractors of limited experience. Robinson, Charles Mulforb. The Width and Arrangement of Streets. 191 1. 199 pp. 43 illustrations. $2.00 The message which Mr. Robinson gives us in his latest book represents the beliefs of students of town planning in all coun- tries, and shows conclusively that no one street pattern can serve all cities — industrial, commercial, capital or residential — equally well. The first few chapters point out the defects of street de- sign which make it impossible for a city to do its work efficiently: the rest of the book shows better ways of planning. Spalding, Frederick P., Professor of Civil Engineering, University of Missouri. A Text-Book on Roads and Pavements. 1912. xi -f- 408 pp. Illustrated. $2.00 The new editions of this work have brought it up to date in dealing with the problems due to new kinds of traffic and the public demand for more careful and scientific study of materials and methods. In the present edition there are new chapters on bituminous macadam and concrete pavements, and changes have been made in the chapters on brick, asphalt and wood pavements. The style of the book is simple and direct. Its purpose is to discuss from the engineering standpoint the elementary principles of successful highway construction and to outline the more im- portant systems in use, rather than to give a mass of detailed examples and statistics of such work. Two chapters deal with the location, improvement and maintenance of country roads. Tillson, George W., C. E. Street Pavements and Paving Materials. 1912. xii + 532 pp. 60 illustrations. $4.00 A manual of city pavements, giving the methods and materials of their construction. For the use of students, engineers and city officials. 47 ROADS, STREETS AND PAVEMENTS, Cont.— SCHOOLS Whinery, S. Specifications for Street Roadway Pavements. 1913. Second edition ; revised, enlarged and entirely reset, x -f- 116 pp. $1.00 Part II of this new edition includes "Instruction to Inspec- tors on Street Paving Work," covering 28 pages. Originally pre- pared for a definite city, these instructions have been in part rewritten _ in more general form, with the purpose of suggesting to municipal engineers points that need to be covered in any city. To the main part of the volume have been added specifi- cations for two comparatively new kinds of roadway pavement — bituminous concrete and hydraulic concrete — and for concrete sidewalk and concrete combined curb and gutter. Wood, Francis, Borough Surveyor of Fulham, England. Modern Road Construction, xi -j- 137 pp. Illus- trated. $1.50 The Engineering News says: "The book presents in an extremely satisfactory way the re- sults of recent experience in the construction of highways in meeting the conditions which modern traffic imposes upon the highway engineer, both in town and country, and it is but fair to say that no book of its kind has presented the matter in a more concise form and more satisfactorily. The opinions which the author expresses are plainly founded upon a practical expe- rience in England, and are applicable to conditions existing in the United States. They are generally sound, and the book can be highly recommended to every one who is interested in the road problem as it exists to-day." Schools See also Child Welfare; Health and Sanitation, Public; Recreation; Social Centers; and Text Books on Civics Ayres, Leonard P., Ph. D. Open-Air Schools. Illustrated. 171 pp. $1.32 The material is taken largely from reports of schools in Ger- many, England and America, and the methods and results of each are described. The chapters on Cost, Construction and Cloth- ing and Record-Making are distinct contributions to our practical information on this subject, and the bibliography of magazine articles and reports in English and German is valuable. Burks, Frances Williston, and Burks, Jesse D., Director, Bureau of Municipal Re- search, Philadelphia. Health and the School. (With an introduction by Frank M. McMurry, Professor of Elementary Edu- cation, Teachers College, New York.) 191 3. xx + 393 PP- Illustrated. $1.62 An attractive and interesting presentation of health facts and their application, given in conversational form by a group of typical citizens in conference about school and family health affairs. These persons are: the superintendent of schools; a mem- ber of the school board; a self-made business man and his su- perior wife; a social worker; and a physician. Each investiga- tion and reform credited to these persons is said to have taken place in some town, and every statistical item reported to have been secured through actual investigation in various cities and States. The suggested conference method of procedure will be helpful to communities that do not know how to begin work. Numerous references fot further reading are given. Chancellor, William Estabrook. Our City Schools; Their Direction and Manage- ment, vii -f 338 pp. $1.25 The author indicates a new point of view and a wider horizon than are found in the numerous works on educational questions that have appeared in recent years. He addresses all persons in any way concerned with American schools. He has had ex- perience in the blundering ways in which the educational in- terests of a democratic people are often administered, and the practical wisdom he has distilled therefrom should be profitable to members of educational boards, superintendents, principals and others. His belief is that "the hope of good schools does not 43 . SCHOOLS— Continued rest in boards of education, but in the educational policy of the general public," which it depends upon the superintendent to develop and lead. Denison, Elsa. Helping School Children. 1912. xxi -f- 349 pp. Illustrated. $i-53 It gives hitherto unsought information concerning all parts of the country and all kinds of contact with schools; to its preparation have contributed 350 city and state superintendents of instruction and 650 business men, club women, physicians, dentists, ministers and editors. It is itself a volunteer study, and suggests numerous kinds of profitable activity for thousands of college graduates and other citizens who have a super-interest in public welfare; it illuminates from many angles the intimate connection of public schools with two other vast fields^— a private giving for public purposes and general government efficiency. Its message and its facts are needed wherever there is a public school or a civic organization. Dresslar, Fletcher B., Ph. D., Specialist in School Hygiene and School Sanitation, United States Bureau of Education. School Hygiene. 1913. xi + 369 pp. Illustrated. $1.38 This book is not written for the specialist in school hygiene, but presents to teachers, in a simple and untechnical form, the most important requirements for wholesome, healthful school life. The chapter heads are as follows: The Meaning of Hygiene and Its Relation to Education; Play and Playgrounds; Location and Constructioji of School Buildings; Lighting of Schoolhouses; School Desks; School Baths; Convenient and Sanitary Water Supply for School Buildings- Drinking Cups and Drinking Foun- tains; Toilets for Schools; The Need of Pure Air; Ventilation; Open-Air Schools; Heating of Schoolrooms; Humidity in the Schoolroom; Eye Defects and School Conditions; The Hearing of School Children; The Teeth of School Children; Stuttering; Fatigue; Hygiene of Instruction; The Care of Exceptional Chil- dren; Medical Inspection of School Children; Hygiene of School Utensils and Books; Cleaning Schoolrooms; Qualifications and Duties of a School Janitor; Disinfectants; Topics for further study follow each chapter, with a list of selected references. Gilbert, Charles B., Formerly Superintendent of Schools of St. Paul, Minn., Newark, N. J., and Rochester, N. Y. What Children Study and Why. 1913. vi + 33L $i-5o In the Preface the author says: "What particular gift has each of the conventional school studies to bestow upon the children, and hence upon society, as justification for its place in the curri- culum and as compensation for the labor, the tears, the time of the students, and the care, the effort and the financial expendi- tures of the community? These are questions that should be answered by teachers, parents and public officials, if the best results are to be obtained from the schools." The book deals with present conditions in elementary schools, and criticises helpfully the traditional course of study. Its dis- cussions are fresh, enlivening and practical, and show how to re- late all teaching to the lives of the pupils. Gregory, B. C., Late Superintendent of Schools in Tren- ton, N. J., and in Chelsea, Mass. Better Schools. Edited by James L. Hughes, Chief Inspector of Schools, Toronto, Canada. 1912. vii + 283 pp. $1.35 Dr. Gregory believed that the child is far more important in school life than the knowledge given him, and that children de- velop only by self-activity. This collection of articles by him deals with the necessity of coordinating school work with the world's life and work. In summing up, the author says: "No child is truly educated unless he has been trained to produce and achieve, and has the tendency to produce and achieve well developed as the true basis of his happiness and of his moral evolution as a member of society." Hamlin, Prof. A. D., and others. Modern School Houses. 213 pp. $7.50 A collection of 150 pages of illustrations of recently con- structed school houses, supplemented by a series of authoritative articles. Designed to meet the needs of communities varying in size from the small town to the large city, together with plans, elevations, working drawings and descriptions. 49 SCHOOLS— Continued Jenks, J. W. Citizenship and the Schools. 264 pp. $1.35 Addresses and essays on the nature of public life and public duty and the best ways of training children to become useful citizens. Leake, Albert H., Inspector of Technical Education, Ontario, Canada. Industrial Education: Its Problems, Methods and Dangers. (Hart, Schaffner & Marx Prize Essay Number XV.) 1913. xi -f- 205 pp. $1.25 The purpose of this essay is to analyze the problems of in- dustrial education in a way that will stimulate suggestions for their solution and for getting full value, in efficient workers, for the enormous sums spent on public education. In studying the methods by which this may be done, the following topics are considered: "The Elementary Schools and Their Revitaliza- tion"; "Manual Training: Its Successes, Its Failures, and Its Reorganization in Response to Present Conditions"; "Some New Types of Schools and Principles Underlying Their Organization and Management"; "Various Problems Relating to Supplementary Education in Day and Evening Continuation Schools"; "Ap- prenticeship"; "Vocational Guidance"; "General Considerations." There is also a chapter on "Dangers Arising from the Misinter- pretation of Foreign Systems and Other Causes." Perry, Arthur C, Jr., Ph. D. Outlines of School Administration. 1912. viii + 452 pp. $1.52 Not only the school administration of this country is treated, but the author has involved repeated revtew of the systems of other nations. United States Bureau of Education. Bibliography of Industrial, Vocational and Trade Education. (Bulletin, 1913, No. 22.) 99 pp. 10 cents This is considered to be the first extensive list of its kind. It was prepared by Henry R. Evans, of the editorial division of the Bureau, assisted by members of the library staff. About 800 care- fully selected titles are listed, and the more important works are summarized for the busy reader who wants to see at a glance what a book contains. Some of the topics covered are: Work and citizenship; apprenticeship^ "blind-alley" employments; con- tinuation schools; vocational legislation; cooperative courses; eco- nomic and social value of industrial training; industrial efficiency; industrial education in foreign countries; attitude of trade unions; vocational guidance. ' Weeks, Arland D., Professor of Education, North Dakota Agricultural College. The Education of To-Morrow: The Adaptation of School Curricula to Economic Democracy. (With an Introduction by M. V. O'Shea, Professor of Education, University of Wisconsin.) 1913. x + 232 pp. $1.36 A dignified, broad, practical treatment of the means of adapt- ing courses of study to the making of the truly cultivated man — "the one who knows how to handle himself effectively in every- day life." The author analyses the situations in which the typical individual is placed, thus determining the kinds of knowledge necessary to his solving every-day problems. Part I deals with the kinds of knowledge, Part II with the means of disseminating knowledge — through newspapers, magazines, the church, ordinary converse, correspondence, etc., as well as through schools — and Part III contrasts the cultural and the productional curriculum and formulates a democratized course of study. The chapter on "Some Places Where Knowledge is Needed" is particularly con- crete and vital. Woolman, Mary Schenck, Professor of Domestic Art, Teachers College, New York. The Making of a Trade School. iv -f- 101 pp. 50 cents The book is of value first to those studying vocational and trade education, but has vital interest for all educators, since it not only criticises the regular school routine as a preparation for life, but tells what to do to improve it. It has also a message for all who are concerned with the economic and social betterment of the youngest wage-earners. The subjects discussed are Or- ganization and Work, the Problems, Equipment and Support, Outlines and Accounts of Department Work. 60 SMOKE NUISANCE— SOCIAL CENTER.' Smoke Nuisance See also Health and Sanitation Cohen, Julius B., Ph. D., B. Sc. F. R. S., Professor of Organic Chemistry in the University of Leeds, and Ruston, Arthur G., B. A., B. Sc v Science Tutor in the Department of Agriculture, University of Leeds. Smoke. A Study of Town Air. 1912. 88 pp. $1.47 Giving records, made by the authors and others, of the effect of smoke on vegetation and the stonework of buildings, with a subordinate discussion (by Dr. Ascher. Medical Officer of Hamm, Westphalia) of its effect on health. The effects of the solid particles of smoke and of its gaseous impurities are treated sepa- rately. There is an interesting chapter on "Town Fog," as to the fact that the nucleus of each drop of rain or dew or fog is a speck of dust. No attempt has been made to give the cause and the cure for smoke; the book merely collects data of the results of imperfect combustion of coal, and illustrates them with numerous photographs and diagrams. Flagg, Samuel B. City Smoke Ordinances and Smoke Abatement. (Bulletin 49 of the Bureau of Mines.) 1912. 55 pp. 5 cents Dealing with the factors affecting smoke conditions in cities, and with an investigation of smoke abatement activities in 328 municipalities. Containing also the essential features of smoke ordinances * adapted to cities of different sizes, and the exact phraseology of some of the smoke-abatement ordinances now in force. Nicholson, William. Smoke Abatement. 1005. xiii + 2 56 pp. 59 illustrations. (Published in England.) Duty ex- tra. $1.00 A practical handbook of the subject for the use of manufac- turers, inspectors, medical officers of health, engineers and others. Olmsted, Frederick L., and Kelsey, Harlan P., and others. The Smoke Nuisance. 191 1. 56 pp. Illustrated. 25 cents This pamphlet is intended to provide an interchange of ideas dealing with the smoke nuisance and to_ promote a tendency to- wards uniform legislation, to create an intelligent public opinion on the smoke nuisance and to undertake measures of effective remedy. It contains charts, diagrams, model ordinances and special chapters on "The Smoke Nuisance and the Law," by Cyrus Locher, of Cleveland; "Railroad Smoke," by George W. Welden, New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad; and "The Rail- way Smoke Problem," by A. W.' Gibbs, Pennsylvania Railroad. Social Centers See also Recreation, Social Research and Service Perry, Clarence Arthur. Social Center Features in New Elementary School Architecture and the Plans of Sixteen Socialized Schools. (Published by the Russell Sage Foundation.) 1912. 56 pp. Illustrated. 25 cents "The purpose of the pamphlet is to make available to those who are engaged in constructing new buildings some of the most ad- vanced plans that have been adopted in American cities." More than forty pages are given to plans and views of school buildings which are used as social centers. The pamphlet meets a dis- tinct need. Perry, Clarence Arthur. How to Start Social Centers. (Department of Recreation, Russell Sage Foundation.) 1913. 40 pp. 10 cents These are some of the stages in the work of promoting a social center, as dealt with in this pamphlet: Getting the Idea; Or- 51 SOCIAL CENTERS—SOCIAL RESEARCH ganizing the Promoting Agency; Taking Up the Matter with the School Board; Removing the Legal Obstacles; Creating Public Sentiment; The Demonstration; Adapting the School Building. There is an interesting section on "What a Superintendent of Schools Can Do to Develop Social Centers Without an Appro- priation." The appendices include: An account of the successful campaign for a model school building conducted by the Civic League of Lexington, Ky. ; the essential provisions of the New York State social center law; and a bulletin of neighborhood activities in Evanston, 111. Perry, Clarence A. Wider Use of the School Plant. 423 pp. 51 illus- trations. $1.25 Chapters on: Evening Schools; Vacation Schools; School Play- grounds; Public Lectures and Entertainments; Evening Recrea- tion Centers; Social Centers; Organized Athletics, Games and Folk Dancing; Meetings in School Houses; Social Betterment Through Wider Use. References are made to the "wider-use" activities in 80 cities in this country and abroad. Forms of ad- ministration are outlined and practical details as to cost and maintenance are furnished. Ward, Edward J., Adviser ;n Civic and Social Center Development, University Extension Division, University of Wisconsin, Editor. The Social Center. (National Municipal League Series.) 1913. xi -f 359 pp. $1.61 Mr. Ward believes that the social center is "the fundamentally and supremely essential institution of our government," and that the ballot box should be placed in the school house\ Some of the suggestive chapter heads of this volume are: -Beginnings in Rochester and Eleswhere; the Public Lecture Center; the Branch Public Library; the Public Art Gallery; the Music Center; the Festival Center; the Motion Picture Theater; the Recreation Center; the Vocation Center and Employment Bureau; the Pub- lice Health Office; the Social Center in the Rural Community; the Social Center and the University; the Magnified School. The appendix contains a suggested constitution for a neighborhood civic club, and a bibliography on social centers. Woods, Robert A., and Kennedy, Albert J. Handbook of Settlements. 1911. 360 pp. Cloth, $1.50; paper, 75 cents Contains a section dealing with the historical antecedents of the settlement in England and America, a general bibliography and an address list of foreign settlements. It lists 413 settlements and presents an outline of the material facts about every settle- ment in the United States, including non-residential neighbor- hood centers. A characterization of the local community serves as a background against which the specific plan of work is pro- jected. Social Research and Service Addams, Jane. A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil. 1912. 219 pp. $1.12 Jane Addams has an understanding way of looking at things. Hers is not to censure or to blame, but only to help humanity. That is the purpose of her new book, in which she takes up a question that civilization will always have with it, the greatest social evil of our times. Miss Addams' treatment is at all times frank, and there can be no doubt that such a plain statement of the conditions and the source of the trouble, coupled with significant suggestions as to how these conditions may be bettered, will do muchto bring about that happier state which, in Miss Addams' opinion, is forecasted by the "new conscience." Addams, Jane. Twenty Years at Hull House, xvii -f- 462 pp. Illustrated. $2.67 The chapters which deal with efforts for city betterment are of vital interest to civic workers. They show the far-reaching civic power of a wisely conducted settlement. Alden, Percy, M. P. Democratic England. 1912. 271 pp. $1.62 In this concise statement of the important social problems confronting the British electorate to-day the author reviews such questions as the child and the state, the problems of sweating, of unemployment, of old age, of housing and the national health in- surance bill. 62 SOCIAL RESEARCH— Continued Antin, Mary. The Promised Land. The Autobiography of an Immigrant. 1912. 2>73 PP- Illustrated. $1.90 An absorbing story of the life of a Russian Jewess who came to America as a child, showing the wonderful transforming power of the city school and the neighborhood settlement. A telling, vivid and convincingly hopeful view of the immigrant problem. Bartlett, Dana W. The Better City. 248 pp. 32 illustrations. $1.09 A study of civic betterment, illustrated by its progress in Los Angeles, Cal. The civic and philanthropic work of the women's organizations receives a dignified tribute, and especial interest attaches to the account of the care given to children through in- stitutions of various kinds, notably through the Juvenile Court. Boyd, James Harrington, A. M., ex-Chairman of the Ohio Employers' Liability Commission and mem- ber of the Toledo Bar. Workmen's Compensation and Industrial Insur- ance Under Modern Conditions. 1913. 2 vols. xxx -f- 1,622 pp. $9.00 This is the first complete presentation of this most important subject. The author has studied it for some twenty years, during which he spent tv/o years in Europe studying systems of work- men's compensation and insurance where they originated. He distinguishes between the laws for the relief of injured workmen and shows the economic effects of the operation of such laws from the ethical, social and political points of view. The his- torical evolution of these laws is traced, their constituent ele- ments are analyzed and their fundamental legal principles ex- plained. The methods of procedure and administration by which these laws operate in our country are completely set forth. The book is especially offered to students of industrial economics and to members of the bar to whom the task of interpreting and ad- ministering these laws is largely given. Chicago School of Civics and Philanthropy. City Welfare Aids and Opportunity. October, 191 1. 76 pp. 20 cents A bulletin of general information for social and civic workers, showing public sources of information and civic aid. Including lists of what is available, under the following heads: Civic and child welfare exhibits; lectures; entertainment programs, educa- tive picture shows; library material and facilities on civics; civic clubs, schools and other organizations; trained civic workers. Devine, Edward T. The Spirit of Social Work. 191 1. 231 pp. $1.00 Containing addresses under the following titles: To Social Workers; The Conservation of Human Life; The Tenement Home in Modern Cities; The Substantial Value of Woman's Vote; The Attitude of Society Towards the Criminal; The Cor- rection and Prevention of Crime; The Problem of the Police; The Religious Treatment of Poverty; The Dominant Note of the Modern Philanthropy; The Next Quarter Century. Earp, Edwin L., Professor of Christian Sociology, Drew Theological Seminary. The Social Engineer, xxiii + 326 pp. $1.61 The issuance of this book by a religious publishing house testi- fies to the Church's growing appreciation of its social service duties and opportunities. The purpose of the manual, as stated by the author in his preface, is "to meet a felt need now being given intelligent expression by men's clubs, brotherhoods, Bible classes, Young Men's Christian Association classes, and other organizations with philanthropic motives, for a text book on social studies and actual social service." Its usefulness, how- ever, is by no means confined to its adaptability as a textbook, for the work will be found helpful, as an incentive and a guide, for individual reading. Harvard University. A Guide to Reading in Social Ethics and Allied Subjects. 225 pp. $1.38 Twenty-three instructors in Harvard University have united in the preparation of this bibliography. The titles are chosen mainly from recent literature, and foreign works are referred to only when there is no equivalent available in English. Section III deals with social service, and includes housing and town planning, juvenile delinquency and public recreation. 53 Janney, O. Edward, M. D., Chairman of the National Vigilance Committee for the Suppression of the White Slave Traffic. The White Slave Traffic in America. 191 1. 201 pp. 56 cents A book for parents, teachers, social workers and many others who need to be informed about the dangers that threaten young women through the white slave traffic. An account of the move- ment for the suppression of the traffic and of the methods that may be employed to accomplish that end. Johnson, Alexander. The Almshouse: Construction and Management. 191 1. 274 pp. 20 illustrations. $1.25 This book shows what the almshouse may be at its best, and how it may be raised to that best. "The problem of the alms- house is not merely the problem of economical administration, nor of human comfort and happiness. It is a part of the great social problem of poverty which confronts us, and must be con- sidered in its general relations, especially its relations to the causes, the relief and the prevention of destitution." Kellogg, Paul U., Editor. The Pittsburgh Survey.- Findings in six volumes. Profusely illustrated, with photos by Hine, and drawings in tint by Joseph Stella; maps, charts and tables. Price per set, $10.00; per volume, $1.72 The titles and authors are as follows: Women and the Trades. By Elizabeth B. Butler; Work-Accidents and the Law. By Crystal Eastman; Homestead; The Households of a Mill Town. By Margaret F. Byington; The Steel Workers. By John A. Fitch. In preparation, The Pittsburgh District. Symposium by John R. Commons, Robert A. Woods, Florence Kelley, Charles Alulford Robinson and others; Pittsburgh: The Gist of the Sur- vey. By Paul U. Kellogg. Laselle, Mary A., and Wiley, Katherine E., Instructors in the Technical High School, Newton, Mass. Vocations for Girls. (Introduction by Meyer Bloomfield, Director of the Vocation Bureau of Boston.) 1913. x + 139 pp. 85 cents A useful volume in the modern effort to fit the girl worker to the best work she can do. The book can be used as classroom material and for reference by those who seek advice about ad- vanced training for profitable employment. The Introduction says: "To the social worker and that increasing number of voca- tionally alert officials connected with Young Women's Christian Associations, child-welfare agencies, public libraries and other institutions, this book will be a valuable addition to the all too few instruments now at hand for helping our young people to find both a life and a livelihood in the work of the world." McCulloch, James E. Editor. The South Mobilizing for Social Service. Ad- dress delivered at the Southern Sociological Con- gress, Atlanta, Ga., April 25-29, 1913. 702 pp. 2 portraits. $2.28 Containing 68 papers by specialists on sociological matters, grouped under the following section heads: Conservation of National Efficiency; Public Health; Courts and Prisons; Child Welfare; Organized Charities; Saving People in Transit; Race Problems; The Church and Social Service. These papers express vividly the inspiring challenge which the Southern Sociological Congress presents to the whole South. The section which covers the organization of the Congress contains also a bibliography on the various phases of its work. Macfarland, Charles S. Spiritual Culture and Social Service. 1912. 222 pp. $1.08 A stirring call to service. Dr. Macfarland, as pastor of churches in large industrial centers, has had first-hand expe- rience in some of the most pressing problems now confronting the Church. As secretary of the Social Service Commission of the Federal Council he is now engaged in solving the problem in a larger way. He has a message to deliver and he presents it with a force and conviction that cannot fail to deeply impress and influence the reader. 54 SOCIAL RESEARCH— Continued Nearing, Scott, Ph. D. Social Adjustment. 191 1. 377 pp. $i-6o This volume discusses two groups of social maladjustments; first, those which may be remedied by an awakened conscience—- uniformity in education, low wages and standards, congestion of population, dependence of women, duration of the working life, etc.; second, the maladjustments which are now understood and which it is possible for immediate legislation to remedy — over- work, unemployment, child labor and dangers and accidents in labor. N earing, Scott, Ph. D. Social Religion. 1913. xvi -f- 22 7 PP- $1.08 An interpretation of Christianity in terms of modern life. "Truth is the only light that can banish the darkness of malad- justment. Teach the truth in your churches and your schools — the truth about the appalling maladjustments which threaten the foundations of civilization; about cooperative industry; about progress and brotherhood in society; about the innate goodness and capacity of man; about Social Religion." Post, Louis F. Social Service. vii -f- 361 pp. Paper, 40 cents; cloth, 75 cents This book explains, in story form, the laws of human relation- ship, including competition and equality of freedom, and culmi- nating in the great law of mutual social service. Richmond, Mary E. The Good Neighbor in the Modern City. 191 1. (Fifth edition.) 152 pp. Cloth, 66 cents A study of neighborliness in relation to the child in the city; the child at work; the adult worker; the tenant; the man on the street; the family in distress; the invalid; the contributor; the church member. Seligman, Edwin R. A., LL. D., McVickar Professor of Political Economy, Columbia University, Editor. The Social Evil. With Special Reference to Con- ditions Existing in the City of New York. Second edition; revised, with new material. 1912. xvii -f- 303 PP. $1-89 A report prepared (in 1902) under the direction of the Com- mittee of Fifteen. Since the first edition of this report was issued, ten years ago, the subject has come to be more frankly discussed in the light of recent medical knowledge and with a broader understanding of the principles of modern ethics and economics. Part III of the present volume contains the new matter, under three chapter headings: The European Move- ment; The White Slave Traffic in Europe and America, and Ten Years' Progress in the United States. The appendix includes an address by the author on the sanitary supervision of the social evil, and a bibliography which covers the United States, England, France, Germany and Japan. Stelze, Charles, Superintendent, Bureau of Social Service, the Board of Home Missions of the Pres- byterian Church in the United States of America. American Social and Religious Conditions. 1912. 240 pp. Illustrated. $1.10 The findings of Men and Religion surveys in seventy principal cities, of which the author had charge. A unique, graphic and thought-arresting presentation of the social problems which con- front the United States. Combined with the numerous charts, which tell a whole story in themselves, are terse, enlightening, practical chapters on our social ills and how best to remedy them. An important hand-book for the Christian social worker. Tolman, William H., Ph. D. Social Engineering. viii + 384 pp. Illustrated. $2.21 Dealing with the following phases of the subject: Efficiency promotion; the social secretary; hygiene; safety and security; mutuality; thrift; profit sharing; housing; education in the fac- tory and after hours; recreation; communal or social betterment. 55 SOCIAL RESEARCH, Cont.— TEXTBOOKS ON CIVICS Tolman, William H., Ph. D., Director of the American Museum of Safety, and Kendall, Leonard B. Safety: Methods for Preventing Occupational and Other Accidents and Disease. 1913. xii -j- 422 pp. Many illustrations. $3.19 A comprehensive treatment of one of the essential elements ot successful modern industry — the promotion of safety to workers by practical safeguards and attention to the principles of hygiene. The book is based upon wide first-hand knowledge of actual in- dustrial conditions here and abroad. The subject is presented under four heads: General Conditions; Danger Zone; Industrial Hygiene; Social Welfare. Van Schaack, David, Editor. Safeguards for the Prevention of Industrial Acci- dents. (Published by the Accident and Liability Department of the ^Etna Life Insurance Company.) 1913. Second edition. 187 pp. Illustrated. 10 cents A direct and simple presentation of the causes of industrial accidents and ways of preventing them by greater care, common- sense provisions and safety appliances.^ Illustrated by many dia- grams and views of safeguards. Waters, Yssabella Visiting Nursing in the United States. 367 pp. 4 illustrations. $1.25 The whole book is so practical and the suggestions are so con- crete that any group of people wishing to establish visiting nursing will find it an efficient guide, and those interested in existing organizations can gain from it many new ideas of ad- ministration and efficiency. Textbooks on Civics Clark, Eleanor J. Outlines of Civil Government. 176 pp. 75 cents A school principal who has used this book in his classes says: 'T do not remember that I have ever seen a little book so full of work and so free from nonsensical, platitudinous padding as this. The outlines are magnificent, and the notebook work as outlined makes it impossible for a youngster to leave it without a fairly clear idea of this very important subject." Dunn, Arthur William, Head of Department of His- tory and Civics, Shortridge High School, Indian- apolis, Ind. The Community and the Citizen, xii + 266 pp. 50 or more illustrations. 75 cents This book is unique in its content and method. It deals with the principles underlying community life rather than with mere details of civic procedure. It aims to develop interests and sympathies that will remain dominant after school life. At the same time it gives adequate space to local, state and national government. It makes good citizenship the natural result. Fowler, Nathaniel C, Jr. How to Obtain Citizenship. 1913. viii + 288 pp. $1.62 This book contains plain, simple, concise directions for the foreigner who wishes to become a citizen of the United States. The questions which may be asked the foreigner by the court or examiner are given, with answers. The portions of the book that cover the process of naturalization are given in English, Italian, German, French and Yiddish. Complete copies are included of all legal papers to be filled out and signed. The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States are given, with notes and explanations. The book contains consider- able information about the United States, its customs and people; how to invest money without undue risk, and what to do to be more patriotic and successful. Giffin, William M. Civics for Young Americans — First Lessons in Government. 171 pp. 70 cents The author has shown in a novel and interesting way, and in language intelligible to a ten-year-old boy, the necessity of gov- ernment, the different forms of government, and the advantages of our government over all others. The appendix treats fully of state, county, city and town governments. 56 TEXTBOOKS, Cont— TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORTATION Jewett, Frances Gulick. Town and City, viii + 278 pp. Illustrated. 50 cents Included in the series of school textbooks on hygiene planned by Dr. Luther H. Gulick. Telling in a simple, interesting way. adapted to children in the lower grades, of the health problems of municipalities and their solution. Its practical school use is aided by a bibliographical list, a glossary, an index and a set of questions on each chapter. The five chapters on water supply are especially important. Boys and girls can be interested in this book in their own homes. Moody, Walter D. Wacker's Manual of the Plan of Chicago. 1912. 147 pp. 138 illustrations. 75 cents A textbook in municipal economy; especially prepared for study in the schools of Chicago; descriptive of the Chicago Plan, and a presentation of the principles of city planning in general. Plass, Anna A., Teacher of English to Foreigners in Day and Evening Schools, Rochester, N. Y. Civics in Simple Lessons for Foreigners. 1012. vi + 187 pp. Illustrated. 50 cents This textbook is an important tool in the work of molding the foreigner into the loyal American citizen. In simple language, the foreigner's earliest interests are first taken up — the features of our government which he sees on the street and in the home. This leads to a study of the purposes of our laws and of the fundamental principles of our government and its essential out- lines, to the important facts of our history and to the choosing of officers, methods of registration and voting, and the legal re- quirements for naturalization, with the blank forms used in the process and the usual questions asked. There is a vocabulary of Ttalian, German, Swedish. French, Polish, Greek and Yiddish equivalents of all the words used in the book. Richman, Julia, and Wallach, Isabel Richman. Good Citizenship. 108 pp. Illustrated. 45 cents This book is planned to meet the needs of fourth-year children, but in the hands of an intelligent teacher it can be used both in higher and in lower grades. Although designed as a supple- mentary reader to fit a graded course in civics, it contains much of dramatic interest, many ethical lessons and a clear statement of the child's opportunities for rendering civic service. It is also suited for use in evening schools for immigrants and for juvenile clubs. Roberts, Peter, Ph. D. Civics for Coming Americans. 1912. 52 pp. Il- lustrated. 15 cents This booklet is intended to help foreign-speaking immigrants to pass the examination for naturalization, and it should be used for this purpose by evening schools, clubs, settlements, the Y. M. C. A., etc., to give the much-needed aid. The course of study outlined can be pursued by lessons once a week during the ninetv days that must elapse after the filing of the petition for second papers and before the examination. Traffic and Transportation See also Municipal Ownership and Public Utilities Eno, William Phelps. Street Traffic Regulation. 1909. Quarto. 63 pp. Illustrated. $2.00 Dealing with the control of street traffic in New York City, giving its history and stating the general and special regulations. The volume includes articles by the author on automobile li- censes, numbers, speed, signs, etc., and on street traffic and gen- eral police work, and on "How to Improve City Car Service." Many views and diagrams add to the value of the book. Johnson, F. W., Superintendent, Bureau for Prevention of Accidents, Philadelphia Rapid Transit Com- pany. The Prevention of Accidents. 1910. Third edition. Entirely rewritten. 50 pp. Snecial prices on lots of 25, 100 and 500. Single copies, 25 cents This booklet will interest motormen and conductors. Some of the largest street railway systems have bought quantities to dis- tribute among their men free of charge. 67 TREES, PLANTING AND PRESERVATION OF Trees, Planting and Preservation of See also Landscape Architecture Bailey, L. H. The Pruning Book. 1912. ix -f 545 pp. Illus- trated. $1.66 A monograph of the pruning and training of plants as applied to American conditions. Written in an intimate, friendly, con- versational style, with many illustrations. Under "The Funda- mentals" there are studies of the philosophy of pruning, the fruit-bud, the healing of wounds and the principles of pruning. Under "The Incidentals" some specific advice is given as to details of practice which are largely personal opinions and, there- fore, of restricted application, but are designed to suggest some of the methods which may be employed to secure given results. This section deals not only with trees, but berry bushes, hedges, ornamental plants, grape vines, etc. Blakeslee, Albert Francis, Ph. D., Professor of Botany and Director of Summer School, Connecti- cut Agricultural College, and Jarvis, Chester Deacon, Ph. D., Horticulturist, Storrs Experiment Station. Trees in Winter: Their Study. Planting, Care and Identification. 1913. 446 pp. Many illustra- tions. $2.22 Under Part I, Planting and Care of Trees, the chapter heads are: Structure, Life and Growth of a Tree; The Propagation of Trees; Tree Planting in Rural Districts; Tree Planting in Towns and Cities; The Selection of Trees for Special Purposes; How Trees Are Planted; The Care of Trees; Common Injuries to Shade Trees; The Control of Parasites; Insecticides, Fungicides and Spraying. Part II covers the identification of trees, with analytical key to genera and species, and descriptions of many species, also glossary and index. Fernow, B. K, Professor of Forestry in the University of Toronto. The Care of Trees in Lawn, Street and Park, x -{- 392 pp. Illustrated. $2.17 A book for tree owners and tree lovers. Filled with detailed, practical information about the structure, growth and life of trees, their diseases and the treatment of them. Much attention is given to tree surgery, which is well illustrated. More than 100 pages, with many illustrations, are given to a descriptive list of trees for shade and ornament, followed by a general list of shrubs and selected lists of trees and shrubs for special purposes. Levison, J. J.. M. F., Forester to the Department of Parks, Brooklyn, N. Y. Studies of Trees. (The Wiley Technical Series. Edited by J. M. Jameson.) 1913. Loose-leaf 8 x ioj^-inch pamphlets. Illustrated. Nine ready. The first eight, 5 cents each ; the ninth, 10 cents. A concise, systematic non-technical treatment of the subject. It deals with the identification of trees, their nature, habits and growth; insects and diseases which attack them; their grouping and planting; the pruning and care of trees; and forestry in its many aspects. A guide for practical field work. Each tree is identified by its most prominent characteristic which distinguishes it at a glance from all others at all seasons, and careful compari- sons are made between trees of different species and similar ap- pearance. Pamphlets on the following subjects are now ready: The Pines; The Spruce and Hemlock: The Arbor Vita: and Cedar; The Larch and Cypress; The Horsechestnut, Ash and Maple; Trees Told bv Their Form: Elm, Poplar, Gingko and Willow; Trees Told by Their Bark or Trunk: Sycamore, Birch. Beech, Blue Beech and Hackberry; What Trees to Plant and How; Insects Injurious to Trees and How to Combat Them. Peets, Elbert. Practical Tree Repair. 1913. vii + 2^5 PP- Il- lustrated. $2.14 This book deals with one division of the science of arboricul- ture. It has little to say about planting, fertilization, pruning or spraying of trees, but is devoted to the prevention and repair of physical injuries to the framework of the tree, caused by storms, the ignorance and carelessness of men, the attacks of insects and of rot-producing fungi. 58 TREES, Continued— TUBERCULOSIS CAMPAIGN Solotaroff, William, B. S., Secretary and Superin- tendent of the Shade Tree Commission of East Orange, N. J. Shade Trees in Towns and Cities, xviii -f 2 &7 PP- 251 illustrations. $3'00 The selection, planting and care of shade trees as applied to- the art of street decoration; their diseases and remedies; their municipal control and supervision. The illustrations are from original photographs by the author. Tuberculosis, Campaign Against See also Health and Sanitation, Public Behring, Emil von, M. D., University of Marburg. The Suppression of Tuberculosis. Translated from the German by Charles Bolduan, M. D. vi + 85 pp. $1.00 With observations concerning phthisiogenesis in man and ani- mals and suggestions concerning the hygiene of cow stables and the production of milk for infant feeding, with special reference to tuberculosis. Carrington, Thomas Spees, M. D. Fresh Air and How to Use It. 19 12. 250 pp. 150 illustrations. $1.00 The aim of the book is not primarily to suggest methods of treating disease in the open air; it is rather a hand-book for everyone who wishes to ward off disease in his own body and in those of the other members of his family. Dr. Carrington's method of treating the subject is practical. He aims to be so concise that anyone may be able to follow out his instructions in securing or making the devices of which he speaks. Some of the topics which he discusses are window tents, home-made and manufactured; roof bungalows, with suggestions for building; temporary fresh-air porches for country use; wall houses and iron frame porches for city use; tents and tent houses; open-air bungalows and cottages; roof playgrounds for children; and clothing, bedding and furniture necessary for outdoor living and sleeping. Carrington, Thomas Spees, M. D. Tuberculosis Hospital and Sanatorium Construc- tion. 191 1. 164 pp. no illustrations. $1.50 Written for the National Association for the Study and Pre- vention of Tuberculosis, with the idea that careful preliminary planning is the chief factor in subsequent economical operation of institutions. The section heads are: Site and Grouping; Ad- ministration Buildings; Administration Buildings and Patients' Quarters Combined; Hospitals for Advanced Cases; Infirmaries and Reception Hospitals; Patients' Quarters, Lean-to Type of Building; Patients' Quarters, Cottage Type of Building. Davis, N. S., M. D., Professor of Principles and Prac- tices of Medicine, Northwestern University Medi- cal School, Chicago. Consumption: How to Prevent It and How to Live With It. 1908. 172 pp. $1.00 Discusses practically the greatest plague of the present day. Contains invaluable suggestions concerning the different climates and the important part each plays in the treatment of the disease. The hygienic rules essential to the successful treatment of the disease are stated in a succinct and intelligible manner. International Congress on Tuberculosis (Washing- ton, D. C, September 28-October 5, 1908). Transactions of the Sixth International Congress. 6 vols. Many illustrations. Per vol., $3.00 A large and rich collection of papers which truly record the status of the universal struggle against tuberculosis. Each vol- 59 TUBERCULOSIS CAMPAIGN, Cont.— WASTE DISPOSAL urne has its own index. Some of the papers are in French, some in German; the majority are in English. The supplement con- tains a series of public lectures specially prepared for the Congress. Jacobs, Philip P., Ph. D., Assistant Secretary National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis, Compiler. A Tuberculosis Directory. 1911. 331pp. 50 cents Containing a list of institutions, associations and other agencies dealing with tuberculosis in the United States and Canada. Com- piled for the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis. Knopf, S. Adolphus, M. D. Tuberculosis as a Disease of the Masses, and How to Combat It. International Prize Essay. Seventh American edition, thoroughly revised and greatly enlarged. 191 1. 124 pp. 64 illustrations. Paper, 25 cents; Cloth, 50 cents This book has been a great factor in the dissemination of practical knowledge in the warfare against pulmonary consump- tion. It speaks in clear, simple, direct English; its illustrations show the methods and utensils which aid the cure, including arrangements for outdoor sleeping and views of sanatoria and preventoria. It is essentially practical; it does not theorize, but tells exactly what to do to prevent and cure the disease. National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis. Transactions of the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Association, Washington, D. C, May 30-31, 1912. 1912. 570 pp. $1.00 Exceedingly valuable reports of various departments of the anti-tuberculosis campaign. Preceding volumes are also obtain- able. Otis,, Edward O. The Great White Plague. 321 pp. $1.10 A popular study of the cause and cure of tuberculosis, giving a history of the disease and the warfare against it, the analysis of its dangers, and the instructions for treatment in a compre- hensive, detailed and non-technical way. It characterizes the "consumption terror" as a cowardly evil. Waste Disposal, Including Garbage, Sewage and Other Wastes See also Health and Sanitation; and Public Works FOLWELL, AMORY PrESCOTT. Sewerage. 1910. Sixth edition. 506 pp. Illus- trated. $3.00 Treating of the general subject of the design and construction of sewerage systems, their operation and cost, and discussing to some extent the problem of sewage disposal. Fuller, George W., Consulting Engineer and Sanitary Expert. Sewage Disposal. 1912. xv -f- 767 pp. 80 illus- trations. $6.00 A full and careful study of important modern methods of sewage disposal, mainly as practiced in America, but with refer- to European experience. It is the product of many years of professional work and of study of the problems of sanitary en- gineering. The discussion of the physical, chemical and bio- logical conditions which must be understood by the engineer of disposal works includes a thorough review of the relation of sew- age bacteria to shellfish pollution. Sewage disposal by dilution, and the preparation of the more important devices found in practice for the treatment of sewage, with special attention to nitration matters, are fully described. The present efficiency and standing of various methods are clearly defined. WASTE DISPOSAL— Continued Goodrich, W. Francis. Modern Destructor Practice. 1912. xvi -f- 278 pp. Illustrated. $4.50 Treating of various types of British refuse destructors and of German and American furnaces; of destructors combined with sewage works and with electricity works; of destructor sites, specifications, design and operation, and of the utilization of resi- duals. Based on thorough experience with one of the most suc- cessful British destructors, and on information regarding the best work of the kind by British and foreign designers and builders. Kershaw, G. Bertram. Modern Methods of Sewage Purification. 191 1. 356 pp. Illustrated. $7-50 A guide for the designing and maintenance of sewage purifi- cation works. Including the following topics of discussion: Va- riations in Flow of Sewage; Classification of Sewages; Considera- tions to Be Observed in Selecting the Site for Sewage Disposal Works; Preliminary Processes; Disposal of Sludge; Land Treat- ment of Sewage; Contact Beds; Percolating Filters; Trade Wastes; Purification Works in Actual Operation. Kinnicutt, Leonard Parker, and Winslow, Charles-Edward A., and Pratt, R. Winthrop. Sewage Disposal. 1910. xxvi -f- 436 pp. Illus- trated. $3.00 The authors say: "It has been our aim to discuss somewhat fully the funda- mental principles of chemistry and bacteriology which are in- volved, and yet to include also the more important aspects of the engineering works designed to carry them into operation. It is hoped that the book may be useful to the student of sanitary en- gineering who aims to fit himself for the construction of sewage disposal works, to the engineer who, after working in other lines, is drawn into this growing field, and to the chemist, the bacteriologist and the public health official concerned in the operation of disposal works after they are built." Lemmoin-Cannon, Henry, P. A. S. I., A Textbook on Sewage Disposal in the United Kingdom. (Published in England.) 1912. xx -f 320 pp. Illustrated. Duty extra. $2.00 The author has endeavored to give a brief, yet comprehensive, outline of the present position in regard to sewage _ disposal which would be useful, not only to those surveyors, sanitary en- gineers and local-government officials who are especially con- cerned, but also to candidates for the different examinations (including that for the Medical Officer's Diploma in Public Health) in which sewage disposal is one of the subjects. The short chap- ters and the analytical table of contents make it easy of reference. The appendices contain laws on pollution of rivers, on drains, sewers, sewage, etc., and on the acquisition of lands therefor in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. Morse, William R, Sanitary Engineer. The Collection and Disposal of Municipal Waste. 1908. 500 pp. 91 illustrations. 100 tables. $5.00 An exhaustive treatise upon methods, apparatus and processes for the collection, treatment and final disposition of waste of American municipalities. Prepared specially for city engineers, boards of health, technical schools, students of engineering and civic associations. Ogden, Henry N., M. Am. Soc. C. E., Professor of Sanitary Engineering, Cornell University, and Cleveland, H. Burdett, Assoc. M. Am. Soc. C. E., Principal Assistant Engineer, New York State Department of Health. Practical Methods of Sewage Disposal — For Residences, Hotels and Institutions. 1912. vi + 132 pp. 50 illustrations. $1.50 A simple, non-technical explanation of the construction of a small_ plant for sewage disposal for single houses where the sew- age is of normal composition. Besides the introduction, the chapter heads # are as follows: The Settling Tank; Valves, Si- phons and Siphon Chambers; Sub-Surface Irrigation; Sewage Filters; Broad Irrigation; Estimates of Cost. 61 WASTE DISPOSAL, Continued— WATER FRONTS Ogden, Henry N. Sewer Construction. 1908. xii -J- 335 pp. Illus- trated. $3.00 A practical treatise on the general problems involved in sewer construction. _ It takes up such details as manholes, catch basins, sewer ventilation, etc. Raikes, Hugh P. The Design, Construction and Maintenance of Sewage Disposal Works. 1008. 429 pp. 72 illus- trations. $4.00 Information on the practical engineering side of the subject in distinction from the chemical and biological aspects of sewage disposal. The chapter heads are: Purification of Sewage Due to Action of Bacteria; Alternative Methods of Treatment and Pre- liminary Considerations Affecting the Design and Construction of Works; Diffusion in Tidal Waters; Irrigation and Land Fil- tration; Removal of Matters in Suspension by Screening and Treatment in Tanks; Chemical Precipitants and the Disposal of Sewage Sludge; Filtering Media for Bacteria Beds; Contact Beds and Their Operation; Percolating Filters, Alternative Methods of Construction and Working; Distribution Over Percolating Filters; The Separation and Disposal of Storm Water; Purifica- tion of Trade Wastes; Maintenance and Management of Sewage Disposal Works. SCHMEITZNER, RUDOLPH. Clarification of Sewage. Translated by A. E. Kim- berley. 1910. 113 pp. Illustrated. $1.50 One of the best treatments of screen and tank methods of sewage purification, with particular reference to design and con- struction. Shenton, H. C H., F. S. E. Practical Sewerage and Sewage Disposal. (Pub- lished in England.) 1912. vii -f 148 pp. Illus- trated. Duty extra. $1.40 A useful, practical discussion of British methods of sewerage and sewage disposal, designed to give advice to those in charge of such work, and omitting unessential material. Taylor, F. Noel, G E. The Main Drainage of Towns. 1912. xi -f 313 pp. Illustrated. $4.50 "The plan adopted is to place before the reader the successive stages of a sewage scheme so far as engineering work is con- cerned, laying special stress upon modern methods of construc- tion in populous districts. Systems for raising sewage by artificial means, such as local pumping, either hydraulic or electric, are considered in detail. Consideration is given to various systems of sewage irrigation and intermittent filtration through land; to chemical treatment by earthy salts used in connection with the precipitation of sewage; to the so-called polarite filter; as well as to sewage sludge, and the means of disposing of it." Designed to be useful to those who are required to carry out moderate- sized schemes, and who know that good design and workmanship are needed, since a small scheme may quickly develop into a large one. Watson, Hugh S. Sewerage Systems. 191 1. 330 pp. Illustrated. $4.00 An English treatise on design, construction and maintenance, with examples of existing works. Water Fronts Clapp, Edwin J., New York University. The Port of Hamburg. 191 1. xiii -f- 220 pp. Illustrated. $1.66 This book is the result o* two years' study of German water- ways and ocean terminals. It lays particular stress on the de- velopment of the River Elbe, which cooperates to the fullest extent through the most modern forms of transportation, splendid terminals and the working together of the railroads to promote Germany's foreign trade. The volume contains much vital matter for those interested in modernizing terminals on our oceans, great lakes and rivers, in resuscitating river transportation, in creating an American merchant marine, and in the expansion of our foreign trade. 62 WATER FRONTS, Cont.— WATER SUPPLY Cresson, B. F., Jr., First Deputy Commissioner, and Staniford, Charles W., Chief Engineer, Department of Docks and Ferries, New York City. Report on the Mechanical Equipment of New York Harbor. (Submitted by Calvin Tomkins, Commissioner of Docks.) December 19, 1912. 96 pp. Illustrated. 10 cents Describing the freight-handling equipment and methods of New York harbor. Including a brief statement of European methods. Many illustrations of the mechanical equipment in use in New York harbor, and many diagrams showing methods of operation of some of the mechanical devices illustrated. Staniford, Charles W., Chief Engineer, Department of Docks and Ferries, New York City. Report on Physical Characteristics of European Seaports. (Submitted by Calvin Tomkins, Com- missioner of Docks.) 191 1. 47 pp. Illustrated with diagrams. 10 cents This report is the result of a study by its author of the prin- cipal harbors of Northern Europe. The ports decribed are Ant- werp, Rotterdam, Hamburg, Bremen, Havre, Southampton, Lon- don, Liverpool, Birkenhead and Glasgow. There is a supplement by Calvin Tomkins on "Improved Methods for the Transfer of Freight Between the Waterfront, the Railway and the Ware- house." The Toronto Harbor Commissioners. Toronto Waterfront Development, 1912-1920. 1913. 32 pp. Views and Plans. Describing and illustrating a remodeled waterfront for Toronto, to be completed in eight years' work, with an estimated total ex- penditure of $19,142,088. Water Supply and Water Works See also Health and Sanitation; and Public Works American Water Works Association. Proceedings of the Thirty-second Annual Con- vention of the American Water Works Associa- tion. (Held at Louisville, Ky., June 3-7, 1912-1913. xvi + 471 pp. Illustrated. $5-oo Including papers on the following subjects: "Ancient and Modern Water Works"; "Floor Area Unit as a Basis for Esti- mating Consumption"; "More than Fifty Years' Reminiscence in Water Works"; "Organization of the Bureau of Water Supply, City of New York"; "The Philosophy of Purchasing Supplies"; "The Principles of Efficiency Applied to Water Works"; "The Value of a Continuous Settling Basin, and a Discussion of the Economic Principles of Design of Such Reinforced Concrete Structures"; "Turbine-Driven Centrifugal Pumps for Water Works Service"; "Progress in Adoption of the National Standard Hose Coupling and Hydrant Fittings for Public Fire Service"; "Laying Water Mains Under Streams, or How We Crossed Two Streams with Ward Pipe at Rome, Ga."; "Electrolysis from Stray Electric Currents"; "Water Softening at Owensboro, Ky."; "Chlorination at Cleveland, Ohio"; "Hypochlorite Sterilization at Kansas City. Mo."; "The Cost of Leaks: Does it Pay to Stop Them?" "Methods and Costs of a Leakage Survey at Lancaster, Pa."; "To What Degree Must Sewage be Purified?" "Phenom- enal Growth of the Water Works of Edmonton, Alta."; "Ice Troubles at Buffalo"; "A Method of Increasing the Depth of a Large Wooden Settling Tank"; "A Reliable Presumptive Quanti- tative Test for B. Coli"; "Forty-Eight-Inch Wood Stave Force Main Built for the Water Department of Atlantic City." Much discussion of these and other topics is given. Don, John, F. I. C, A. M. I. Mech. E., and Chisholm, John, A. M. I. Mech. E. Modern Methods of Water Purification. 191 1. 368 pp. Illustrated. $4.38 The authors of this volume have done considerable experi- mental work in the purification of water, and are familiar with many of the most important plants in England and other coun- tries. They make use of the work of eminent authorities, be- sides dealing in detail with their personal knowledge of the most modern methods of securing a pure water supply. The particular service of the book is to the technical man whose mind is trained to understand the processes and apparatus involved. G3 WA TER SUP PL Y— Continued Goodell, John. Water Works for Small Cities and Towns. 1899. 281 pp. Illustrated. $2.00 Excellent material on water, dams, reservoirs, pumps, etc., for small plants. Hague, Charles Arthur. Pumping Engines for Water Works. 1907. 372 pp. 141 illustrations. $5.00 Contents: The Pumping Station; Historical; Economic Steam Duty; The Advent of Triple Expansion; The Mariotte Curve; Steam Jackets; Coal Duty of Pumping Engines; Actual Condi- tions of Pumping; The Worthington Duplex Pumping Engine; The Holly Quadruplex Pumping Engine; The Gaskill Pumping Engine; The Reynolds Triple- Expansion Pumping Engine; Va- rious Types and Classes; Pumping Engines Adapted to Condi- tions; Installation of Pumping Engines; Investment Value of Pumping Engines; Suction Lift and Suction Pipes; Water Passages and Water Valves; The Water Plungers; Air Chambers; Steam Piston; Steam Cylinders; Cross Heads; Frames and Bed Plates; Material for Pumping Engines; Duty Tests of Pumping Engines Hazen, Allen. Clean Water and How to Get It. 1907. vi -f 178 pp. 14 full-page illustrations. $1.50 Treating of the purity of water from various sources, of water purification by various means, and of the financial management of publicly owned waterworks. , Hazlehurst, J. N., Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers ; Member of the Louisiana Engineering Society. Towers and Tanks for Water Works. 1907. x + 3 2 5 PP- 61 illustrations. $2.50 The theory and practice of their design and construction. Hubbard, Winfred D., and Kiersted, Wynkoop. Water Works Management and Maintenance. 1907. vi + 4 2 9 PP- 1 3 2 illustrations. $4.00 Contents. — Part I — On the Methods and Principles of De- veloping, Improving and Storing Water Supplies: Ground- Water Supply; River-Water Supply; Pumping Engines; Impounded Sup- plies. PartH — Maintenance and Operation: Plans and Records; Extensions; Service Connections; Meters; Care of Appurte- nances; Alterations and Repairs; Maintenance of Quality; Water Waste; Electrolysis; Fire Protection; Accounts; Financial Man- agement; Rules and Regulations; Annual Reports. Part III — Franchise: Water Rates; Depreciation. Mathews, John L. The Conservation of Water. 1910. viii -f- 289 illustrations. $2.15 The chapters comprise: Water as a Resource; Floods and Flood Prevention; Storage; Municipal Supply and the Purifica- tion of Rivers; Water Power; The Mining of the White Coal; Water Power in National Development; Swamp Drainage; Irri- gation; Conservation of the Soil; Navigation; The Results of the Conservation of Water. Turneaure, F. E., Q. E., Professor of Bridge and Sani- tary Engineering, University of Wisconsin, and Russell, H. L., Ph. D., Professor of Bacteriology, Uni- versity of Wisconsin. Public Water Supplies. With a chapter on Pump- ing Machinery by D. W. Mead, C. K, 191 1. xv -f- 808 pp. 229 illustrations. $5.00 Under Requirements and Resources, this volume treats of the quantity of water required, the sources of supply and the quality of water supplies. Under the Construction of Water Works it treats of works for the collection, the purification and distribution of water. Turneaure, Frederick E. Water Supply. 160 pp. 45 illustrations. $1.00 A compendium for sanitary and waterworks engineers and all interested in matters affecting public health. This work coven the entire field of water supply and consumption, construction of wells, reservoirs, dams, conduits, pipe lines, drainage systems, filtering and purification plants, etc. 64 WATER SUPPLY, Cont.— WOMAN'S GWtC WORK Whipple, George C. The Value of Pure Water. 1907. viii 4" 84 pages. $1.00 Contents. — Introduction; Pure and Wholesome Water; Sani- tary Qualities; Attractiveness; Hardness; Temperature; Summary of Formulas; Application of Formulae; Effect of Contamination; Effect of Turbidity, Color and Odor; Effect of Hardness; Bene- fits of Filtration; Sanitary Quality; Physical Quality; Water- Softening; Cost of Filtration; Summary; Pure and Wholesome Water; Difficulty in Defining- Epithets Especially Applicable to Waters in a Natural State; Epithets Applicable to Water with Artificial Substances Admixed; The Disadvantages of Hard Water; Hard Waters; Use of Hard Water in the Household; Use of Hard Water in the Industry; Use of Hard Water in Steam-making; Financial Loss from the Use of Hard Boiler Water. Women's Civic Work See also Social Research and Service Allen, William H., Director of the Bureau of Munici- pal Research, New York City. Woman's Part in Government Whether She Votes or Not. 1912. xv -f- 377 pp. $1.62 At this time, while Woman Suffrage is a burning question, Dr. Allen's book on the place that woman can occupy in our govern- ment, whether or not she possesses the right to use the ballot, is of unusual timeliness and importance. Suffragists and "Antis" alike will find here food for thought. And serious-minded women, and men as well, will be surprised at the extent of the power for good government which women possess, whenever they choose to exercise their rights as citizens. The Civics Society, Chicago. The Woman Citizen's Library. 1913. 12 vols. Over 3,000 pp. Illustrated. $19.50 More than 50 expert authorities have contributed in the pro- duction of this work. It contains courses of reading in political science, practical politics, municipal government, woman suf- frage, laws of the states affecting women; also on social sub- jects: — child labor, juvenile protection, prevention of vice, eugenics, public health, factory inspection, public recreation, schools, immigration, trade unionism, budget-making, City Beauti- ful, peace and arbitration, etc. The aim has been not only to furnish scientifically sound instruction on these pressing prob- lems and present conditions, but to show how to organize and what to do to secure needed reforms. To members of suffrage associations, women's clubs, settlement and social workers, teach- ers, and every woman interested in the preservation of the home and in public welfare, this Library is valuable. Coolidge, Mary Roberts. Why Women Are So. 1912. viii -f- 37i pp. $1.62 This book, dedicated to the new men "who set human quality above femininity in women," is a study of the domestic type that has been produced by the sex-traditions of the past, showing the effect which these traditions have had upon the "temperament," physique, occupations and interests of women. The author traces finally the_ passing from femininity to womanhood — to the larger life and citizenship. Dorr, Rheta Childe. What Eight Million Women Want. 339 pp. Many illustrations. $2.20 "Woman's place is home. Home is the community. The city full of people is the" family." This is the theme of this volume, an interpretation of the collective opinion of women, which, through fhe activities of the women who have consciously or- ganized themselves into clubs and associations for the purpose of self-improvement and civic betterment in every way, is receiving expression for the first time since the^fcld began. Emphatically the book is not a discussion of the sifKKec question; far broader than that, it is a detailed statement (HRie things that effective women are doing and thinking in the world to-day. 65 WOAf&WS CIVIC WORK- -Continued Key, Ellen. The Woman Movement. 1912. xvii -{- 224 pp. $1.60 Translated by Mamah Bouton Borthwick; with an introduction by Havelock Ellis. This volume is not a history of the woman movement, but a statement of what Ellen Key considers to be the new phase it is now entering on, a phase in which the claim to exert the rights and functions of men is less important than the claims of woman's rights as the mother and educator of the coming generation. SCHIRMACHER, Dr. KaETHE. The Modern Woman's Rights Movement. Trans- lated from the second German edition by Carl Con- rad Eckhardt, Ph. D., Instructor in History in the University of Colorado. 1912. 280 pp. $1.62 In this thorough and authoritative historical account of the modern woman's rights movement of all the countries of the world, the general reader is put into possession of a vast amount of material that has not hitherto been collated. Woman's effort and achievement in educational, professional, industrial, political, moral and sociological fields are all considered, the latest facts being included by the author. Tarbell, Ida M. The Business of Being a Woman. 1912. ix -f 242 pp. $1.33 Miss Tarbell says: "Learning, business careers, political and industrial activities — none of these things is more than incidental in the national task of woman. Her great task is to prepare the citizen. The citizen is not prepared by a training in practical politics. Some- thing more fundamental is required. The meaning of honor and of the sanctity of one's word, the understanding of the principles of democracy and of the society in which we live, the love of humanity and the desire to serve — these are what make a good citizen. The tools for preparing herself to give this training are in the woman's hands. It calls for education, and the nation has provided it. It calls for freedom of movement and expres- sion, and she has them. It calls for ability to organize, to dis- cuss problems, to work for whatever changes are essential. She is developing this ability. It may be that it calls for the vote. I do not myself see this, but it is certain that she will have the vote as soon as not a majority, but an approximate half, not of men — but of women — feel the need of it." Education Committee, Wisconsin Woman's Suffrage Association. Social Forces. A Topical Outline, witih Bib- liography. 1913. 83 pp. 15 cents A booklet of practical suggestions for education in the duties and responsibilities of citizenship, designed as an outline of study for suffrage organizations and civic leagues. It gives (1) a list of one-ray programs on civic and social topics; (2) an outline of seventy or eighty topics, with numerous sub-topics, arranged un- der ten general divisions, with bibliography and other material -.mder each topic, each of these topics being designed to occupy at least one club session; (3) the introduction into the public schools of instruction and training in citizenship and morals. Under each division of the second section is given a list of per- sons prominent in carrying on the work outlined in that divi- sion, followed by a list of things which clubs and individuals can do to carry out that particular work. The book is not intended as a year book, but presents a course of study which should ex- tend over several years. Selected List of Municipal and Civic Books Baths and Swimming Pools, Public Cross, Alfred W. Public Baths and Wash-Houses. 281 pp. 274 illustrations. (Published in England.) $7.50 A treatise on their planning, design, arrangement and fitting, with chapters on Turkish, Russian and other special baths. Gerhard, William Paul, C. E. Modern Baths and Bath Houses, xvi -+- 311 pp. 130 illustrations. $3« Besides a general discussion of baths and bathing, all the dif- ferent kinds of baths are described, both public and private. There is a chapter on the water supply and plumbing of bath houses, containing specifications for a municipal bath house. Hanger, G. W. W. Public Baths in the United States. (In Labor Bulletin, No. 54, 1904.) 123 pp. Illustrated. $1.00 Reports of municipal and non-municipal baths in many places, with numerous views and plans. Billboards and Signs The Civic League of St. Louis. Billboard Advertising in St. Louis. 1910. 40 pp. Illustrated. 10 cents Report of the Signs and Billboards Committee of the Civic League. Showing the difficulties in the way of desirable legal restrictions on billboard advertising, in order to indicate the gradual growth of judicial and public opinion in many places in regard to this method of publicity, and to point out the various means by which an effective campaign can be carried on against signs and billboards. Fosdick, Raymond B., Commissioner of Accounts, New York City. An Investigation of Billboard Advertising. August 27, 1912. 39 pp. Illustrated. 10 cents Showing the extent of billboard advertising in the city of New York; the legal control of billboards and sky signs; violations of the law; the classes of advertisements displayed; the necessity for regulation. This report is of interest to other cities, especially on account of its review of court decisions regarding billboards in various places, and also because of its information on methods 3f regulation for the control of billboard advertising in American and foreign cities. Tentative suggestions for a new ordinance n New York on this matter are given. New York City. Report of the Mayor's Billboard Advertising Commission. August i, 1913. 151 pp. Illus- trated. 10 cents Containing a summary of the work of the Commission and seventeen recommendations, also a general review of the extent )f the outdoor advertising business, and a detailed consideration of the arguments covering recommendations on the following mases of the billboard problem: Esthetics and the Constitution; mblic health and morality; public safety; transit line conditions; idministrative machinery; local option; regulation by taxation. Municipal regulations in New York and other American cities are [iven, also state regulation in New York, Connecticut, Massachu- ;etts and Ohio, and regulations in England, France, Germany, Belgium and South American cities. Proposed ordinances, a pro- 272^45 BRIDGES posed statute and constitutional amendment are given, embodying recommendations of the report, and there is a statement of ex- isting statutes and ordinances to be considered in drafting new regulations for New York City. The illustrations include views of actual billboard conditions in New York City, also three typical street advertising structures abroad. Bridges, Culverts and Viaducts Ketchum, Milo S., Dean of College of Engineering and Professor of Civil Engineering, University of Colorado. The Design of Highway Bridges and the Calcu- lation of Stresses in Bridge Trusses. 1908. 540 pp. 300 illustrations, 8 folding plates, Jj tables. $4.00 It aims to give a brief course in the calculation of stresses in bridge trusses due to uniform loads and concentrated engine loads, following which is a systematic discussion of the details and design of highway bridges. It covers the design of steel, masonry, reinforced concrete and timber bridges, and includes the design of the abutments as well as the superstructures. Moorefield, Charles H., Highway Engineer, Office of Public Roads. Data for Use in Designing Culverts and Short- Span Bridges. (Bulletin No. 45 of the Office of Public Roads.) 1913. 39 pp. Illustrated. 15 cents Designed for engineers and experienced foremen. Department of Bridges, City of New York. Annual Report, Year Ending December 31, 1912. Embracing a summary of reports for years 1905- 1912, inclusive. 357 pp. Many views and dia- grams. 10 cents In submitting the report, Commissioner Arthur J. O'Keefe says: "In addition to the purely official report of the Commissioner of Bridges, other information is given, partly of general and popular interest, and partly of a more technical nature, of value to the engineering profession at large, which looks to this department for information on the specialty of large bridges, as well as for current results of experience with smaller bridges. Special atten- tion is called to the illustrations and descriptions of the proposed architectural and traffic developments of the terminals of the four great East River bridges, not only on account of their great prac- tical value, but also for their artistic dignity and beauty as pait of an architectural development worthy of a world's capital." Tyrrell, Henry Grattan, C. E. Artistic Bridge Design. (With an Introduction by Thomas Hastings, of Carrere & Hastings, archi- tects.) 1912. xvi -f- 294 pp. 242 illustrations $3.00 The artistic element of bridge design is emphasized in this book, together with the need of cooperation between engineers and architects in the construction of bridges, which are conspicuous and interesting features of the landscape. The basis of the volume is a series of articles by the author on ornamental bridge construction, published in The American Architect in 1901. The illustrations, with their descriptions, are a valuable part of the book. The subject matter is given under the following heads: Importance of Bridges; Reasons for Art in Bridges; Standards of Art in Bridges; Causes for Lack of Art; Special Features of Bridges; Principles of Design; Ordinary Steel Structures; Canti- lever Bridges; Metal Arches; Suspension Bridges; Masonry Bridges. The author states the requirements for beauty and gives examples of the application and of the lack of these requirements. The use of the arch is recommended in artistic treatment. Pier and abutment design are discussed, and attention is given to viaducts and to small bridges, as well as to larger structures. The book is not merely critical, it is constructive. Tyrrell, Henry Grattan. Concrete Bridges and Culverts. For both Rail- roads and Highways. 1909. 272 pp. 66 illustra- tions. $3.00 The subject is presented in the simplest possible manner, mathe- matical formula; being omitted as far as practicable. Only such material is given as is directly required in the design and con struction of ordinary concrete or masonry arches, in order to INFORMATION PUT TO USE The books described in this catalogue contain an immense aggregate of practical information on municipal and civic sub- jects. Such information is of value, however, only, if put to use. Often the one thing lacking is an aroused public opinion, and the chief problem facing mu- nicipal officials and civic workers is to coordinate and render effective the latent civic spirit of the community. In such cases effective aid can be secured from illustrated lectures and wisely planned exhibits. The American City Bu- reau is especially well equipped to render such service. Its elaborate EXHIBITION OF AMERICAN AND FOREIGN CITY PLANNING is now available as a traveling exhibition. To minimize cost and secure a choice of dates, engage- ments for the local display of this exhibition should be booked as long in ad- vance as possible. For terms address The American City Bureau Department of Exhibits 93 Nassau Street New York CHY BANNING EXHIBITION This is a reproduction in miniature of the poster of an exhibition prepared for the City of New York and the Merchants Association of New York by The American City Bureau and now available for dis- play in other cities. (See preceding page) Tfl* American City Bureau A CLEARING HOUSE FOR INFORMATION CONCERNING MUNICIPAL IMPROVE- MENTS AND COMMUNITY ADVANCE RESULTS ARE ACHIEVED 1 — Through placing commercial and civic organiza- tions upon a firm financial basis. 2 — Through studying the efficiency of city depart- ments and making surveys of social conditions. 3 — Through supplying photographs, charts and dia- grams for civic exhibits. 4 — Through furnishing lecturers and lantern slides for public meetings. 5 — Through handling the sale of books and pam- phlets on matters relating to applied municipal economics. 6 — Through the preparation of publicity and the crit- icism of advertising plans. ADVISORY COUNCIL Arthur H. Blanchard, Professor of Highway Engi- neering, Columbia University. Richard S. Childs, Secretary, National Short Ballot Organization. E. G. Culpin,* Secretary, Garden Cities and Town Planning Association, London. George B. Ford, Lecturer on City Planning, Columbia University. Werner Hegemann, Town Planner, Berlin, Germany. Charles O'Connor Hennessy, Vice-President, Frank- lin Society, New York. Frederic C. Howe, Director, The People's Institute, New York. j. J. Levison, Secretary, The American Association of Park Superintendents. Nelson P. Lewis, Chief Engineer, Board of Estimate and Apportionment, New York. Sam A. Lewisohn, Treasurer, Municipal Government Association of New York State. J. Horace McFarland, President, American Civic Association. Le Grand Powers, Chief Statistician, Bureau of the Census, Washington, D. C. William Jay Schieffelin, Chairman, Citizens' Union, New York. George C. Whipple, Professor of Sanitary Engineer- ing, Harvard University. Delos F. Wilcox, Franchise Expert, New York. OFFICERS President Harold S. Buttenheim Vice-President Daniel A. Reed Treasurer Edgar J. Buttenheim Executive Secretary - - - J. Harold Braddock Field Secretary Lowry W. Statler THE AMERICAN CITY BUREAU 93 NASSAU STREET, NEW YORK LONDON OFFICE: 3 GRAY'S INN PLACE, GRAY'S INN, LONDON. W. C. To Keep its Reader. Up to Date ■ from month to month on as many as possibl of the subjects such as are listed in this cata logue is the aim of a I An Illustrated Monthly Review of Municipal Prolj lems and Civic Advance Five years ago the compilation of this catc ; logue would not have been possible. Mo of the books had not then been written; 1 many cases, indeed, the improvements whic! they describe or the very ideas which the; advocate did not exist. To-day progress in municipal governmei; and civic advance is remarkable in its rapidiij and world-wide in its extent. To record ai encourage such progress is the object of Tl American City's existence. In fulfilling mission the magazine has the cooperation an Advisory Board of some fifty leaders municipal and civic activities in America ai Europe. It also numbers among its cc tributors many of the men whose books listed in this catalogue, and others compete to write on such subjects. The subscription price of the magazine] $2.00 per annum; single copies, 25c. eat To municipalities and commercial civic ganizations which subscribe regularly for fnj 5 to 50 copies of The American Cr special club rates are quoted. A limif number of sets of bound volumes for the three years are still available. PUBLICATION OFFICE: 93 NASSAU STREET, NEW YORK cipal and civic books. 1914 * ' " S i; s oc ( . ■L^—-i 272345 Ac UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LIBRARY