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| Published date | 01 September 1912 |
| Date | 01 September 1912 |
| DOI | 10.1177/000271621204300120 |
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Addams,
Jane.
A
New
Conscience
and
an
Ancient
Evil.
Pp.
xi,
219.
Price
$1.00.
New
York:
Macmillan
Company,
1912.
Jane
Addams’
essays
are
always
full
of
grace
and
dignity.
Few
persons
could
take
the
great
mass
of
evidence
revealed
by
investigations
of
the
social
evil
in
Chicago,
eliminate
the
gruesome
details,
and
still
give
so
clear
an
insight
into
its
horrors,
and
leave
such
a
feeling
of
sympathy
for
its
victims
as
Miss
Addams.
No
one
can
take
exception
to
the
treatment
or
fail
to
be
roused
by
her
arguments.
Just
as
slavery,
though
strongly
entrenched
as
a
vested
interest,
was
finally
destroyed,
so
may
prostitution.
This
involves
not
merely
a
frontal
attack
on
the
evil
and
those
who
profit
therefrom
but
more
attention
to
the
education
of
children,
the
supervision
of
amusements,
and
the
raising
of
wages
of
working
girls.
The
elimination
of
disease
must
be
sought.
In
this
new
exercise
of
social
control
women
must
take
active
part-another
reason,
in
the
author’s
opinion,
for
the
suffrage.
Alden,
Percy.
Democratic
England.
Pp.
xii,
271.
Price
$1.50.
New
York:
Macmillan
Company,
1912.
Compared
with
several
of
the
continental
countries,
England
began
late
to
develop
a
program
of
social
legislation.
But
under
the
present
liberal
ministry
the
late
beginning
has
been
more
than
neutralized
by
a
progress
that
bids
fair
soon
to
put
England
in
the
van
of industrial
nations
that
are
striving
to
raise
the
weak
to
the
level
of
the
strong.
No
more
sympathetic
nor
telling
picture
of
this
movement
could
be
outlined
than
this
timely
book
affords.
The
problem
of
the
child,
of
sweating,
and
of
the
unemployed,
are
portrayed
from
the
standpoint
of
the
legislation
of
the
past
decade;
sickness
and
old
age
are
set
forth
as
sources
of
ills,
both
mitigable
and
removable
by
legislation
and
social
action;
and
housing,
municipal
utilities,
and
the
uses
of
land
likewise
are
treated
as
objects
of
govern-
mental
concern.
The
old
laissez-faire
attitude
has
indeed
disappeared,
and
in
its
stead
has
come
the
determination,
seconded
by
action,
that
the bodies
and
spirits
of
men
and
women,
who
have
sacrificed
themselves
for
the
race,
shall,
no
longer,
be
trodden
down
by
&dquo;the
hungry
generations.&dquo;
Antin,
Mary.
The
Promised
Land.
Pp.
xv,
373.
Price
$1.75.
Boston:
Hough-
ton,
Mifflin
Company,
1912.
A
remarkable
story
written
in
simple
and
fascinating
fashion.
It
is
the
auto-
biography
of
a
woman
who
was
born
in
Russia,
a
Jewess,
whose
family
lost
its
possessions
and
sank
into
abject
poverty.
The
author
came
with
her
family
to
America
early
in
her teens.
The
gradual
translation
as
it
were
into
an
American
with
most
intense
pride
in
our
country
and
hopefulness
as
to
its
future
is
most
encouraging
in
these
days
when
the
air
is
full
of
problems.
The
volume
deserves
wide
reading.
In
quality
it
compares
favorably
with
the
best
of
such
immigrant
interpreters
as
Riis
and
Steiner.
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