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By Jane Addams, Head of “Hull House,” Chicago; joint author of “Philanthropy and Social Progress.” (Now ready.)
Miss Addams’ Settlement Work is known to all who are interested in social amelioration and municipal conditions. As the title of her book shows, it will be occupied with the reciprocal relations of ethical progress and the growth of de democratic thought, sentiment, and institutions.
By Richard T. Ely, LL.D., Professor of Political Economy and Director of the School of Economics and Political Science in the University of Wisconsin; President of the American Economic Association; author of “Monopolies and Trusts,” etc.
Topics treated under Custom include the Rent of Land and Custom; Interest and Custom; The Remuneration of Personal Services and Custom; Custom and Commerce.
Competition is first discussed with reference to the biological aspects of the question, and the significance of subhuman competition is confined and a careful classification of its various kinds is presented. One of the main topics of the book is Competition as a Principle of Distribution, and its treatment of the subject of price admirably supplements the theoretical discussion in ‘‘Monopolies and Trusts.”
By Charles Zueblin, B.D., Associate Professor of Sociology in the University of Chicago.
This work takes up the problem of the so-called public utilities, public schools, libraries, children’s playgrounds, public baths, public gymnasiums, etc. The discussion is from the standpoint of public welfare and is based on repeated personal investigations in leading cities of Europe, especially England and the United States.
By Paul S. Reinsch, Ph.D., LL.B., Professor of Political Science in the University of Wisconsin; Author of “World Politics at the End of the Nineteenth Century as Influenced by the Oriental Situation.”
By the author of the ‘‘World Politics,” which met so cordial a reception from students of modern political history. The main divisions of the book are: Motives and Methods of Colonization; Forms of Colonial Government; Relations between the Mother Country and the Colonies; Internal Government of the Colonies; The Special Colonial Problems of the United States.
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