Problems in Municipal Government.-By A. Chester Hanford, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Government, Harvard University. A. W. Shaw Co., Chicago and New York. 1926. XI + 457. $5.00.

Applying the case method to the study of municipal government and administration, Professor Hanford presents some 100 specific problems that have arisen recently in American cities, with concrete questions stated, to be answered by the student on the basis of the facts presented and the references given. These cases are intended to link up text-book principles to definite situations and develop other principles and ideas; to engender classroom discussion; and to provide correlative reading. The stimulation of original thinking is, of course, a central aim. Topics presented include city and state relations, charters, legal aspects, the various forms of city government, reform organizations, employment policies, city planning, zoning, recreation, public works, police, courts, fire prevention and control, public health and welfare, schools, housing, public utilities and finance.

Land Values-Distribution Within New York Region and Relation to Various Factors in Urban Growth.Monograph No. 3, Engineering Series, of the Regional Plan of New York and Its Environs. It has been prepared by Harold M. Lewis, Executive Engineer, Wayne D. Heydecker, and Raymond D. O'Hara, and carries a foreword by Thomas Adams, General Director of Plans and Surveys, dated May, 1927. An introduction dis cusses land values in relation to the Regional Plan; Part I is on Distribution of Land Values, and Part II on Factors That Influence Land Values. There are 72 pages of text, and 4 plates; the text contains many diagrams, tables and maps. While necessarily in less detail than would be desirable in a single city-planning study, this monograph represents a fundamental and comprehensive study of great value in metropolitan regional planning and of general importance to others interested in city development. Two topics, the treatment of which is of particular interest, are the effect on land values of skyscraper development and the somewhat related phenomenon and factor of the existence of a large amount of vacant land (nearly 50 per cent even in Greater New York.) $2.00. (Apply to the Plan, 130 East 22d St., New York.)

The Book of Bridgeport, Connecticut.-A 51-page booklet published by the Bridgeport Chamber of Commerce, and constituting a hand-book of civic, industrial and commercial information about that city. The cover shows an airplane view of Bridgeport. (Apply to the Chamber, 991 Broad St., Bridgeport, Conn.)

Government Expenditures and Business Stability.Four addresses or papers presented at the semi-annual meeting of the Academy of Political Science in the City of New York, covering 47 pp. in the Proceedings of the Academy for July, 1927. It is edited by Parker Thomas Moon. Expenditures of cities and states, as well as of the Federal government, were considered. The topic forms part of a series on "Stabilizing Business," presented in the same volume. $2.50. (Apply to the Academy, Fayerweather Hall, Columbia University, New York.)

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Demonstrating Child Health, 1923-1927.-The Child Health Demonstration Committee, under date of June, 1927, issued Bulletin No. 4, having the above title and being concerned with the four demonstrations begun five years ago under the Commonwealth Fund. previous bulletins, dealing with these demonstrations, were briefly reported at p. 861 of THE AMERICAN CITY for June. 44 pp. (Apply to the Committee, 370 Seventh Ave., New York.)

A Survey of Public Health Work in Fargo, N. D.Bulletin No. 5 of the Commonwealth Fund Child Health Program, dated June, 1927, reporting a survey of the whole range of public health work in Fargo, at the request of the City health authorities, by Dr. W. F. Walker, Field Secretary of the American Public Health Association. The survey was made in February, 1927, during the course of the five-year child health demonstration carried on in Fargo by the Child Health Demonstration Committee. 32 pp. (Apply to the Committee, 370 Seventh Ave., New York.)

City Health Administration.-By Carl E. McCombs, M.D., National Institute of Public Administration and New York Bureau of Municipal Research. The Macmillan Co., New York. 1927. X +524 pp. $5.50.

Having been in close contact for fifteen years with state and local health administration, largely in the making of surveys, and having conducted courses in the subject at the Training School for Public Service, Dr. McCombs has produced a book to meet the need of a comprehensive but generally non-technical treatment of a field that has received meager attention in the general educational movement and even in postgraduate courses in government. It is clearly and simply written and is marked by strong common sense coupled with a high appreciation of public health service. There are three main divisions: Municipal Health Functions; The Organization and Administration of Sickness Preventive Functions, and of Sickness Treatment Functions. A selected bibliography is included. Chapter V, entitled The Health Officer, His Duties and Salary, is given in full in the current number of this magazine.

Paris s'étend (Paris Spreads Out).-A 96page booklet in French, by Georges Benoît-Lévy, Director, Town Planning and Garden City Association of France. It reviews various regional planning problems of Paris (and other cities) and proposals for their solution, and presents the author's views. He cites many American and English situations, theories and authori ties, and particularly discusses the "linear city" and regional and national planning. $1.50. (Apply to the author, Boulevard de Garavan, Menton (A.-M.), France.)

Scientific Real Estate Assessments.-A pamphlet of 32 pages, published by The Manufacturers' Appraisal Co., presenting the merits of the Somers system, and methods of applying it. (Apply to the Company, 4021 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa.)

Our Crippled Children. This is the special topic of the June number of the Bulletin of the City of Chicago Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium, consisting of 24 pages. It describes the Spalding and Christopher Schools, Happy Haven Camp, and other phases of the work for crippled children. (Apply to the Sanitarium, 5601 North Crawford Street, Chicago, Ill.)

Personal Initiative and Civic Progress in Delaware. -The report to the annual meeting of the Service Citizens of Delaware, May 6, 1927, by Joseph H. Odell, Director, covering the activities of that organization, formed in 1918, and of the Delaware School Auxiliary Association. 33 pp. (Apply to Mr. Odell, 4116 DuPont Building, Wilmington, Del.)

Adult Education.-A selected bibliography on this subject, covering three printed pages, prepared by Frederick Warren Jenkins, Librarian, Russell Sage Foundation Library, and comprising Bulletin No. 83 of the Library. (Apply to the Library, 130 East 22nd Street, New York.)

The 1926 Movement of Manufacturing Industries. A 7-page mimeographed report giving an analysis of replies received from 87 chambers of commerce, to a questionnaire sent out by the United States Chamber of Commerce, inquiring as to new establishments of industries in the cities involved, in 1926. Of 618 new industries, most were of local origin, one-seventh were removals from other cities, and somewhat more branch plants. (Apply to Organization Service, Chamber of Commerce of the U. S., Washington, D. C.)

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Measuring Oil in Underground Tanks and Tank Wagons.--Report No. 2284 of the New York State Bureau of Municipal Information, giving in two mimeographed pages suggestions from five cities in New York State, on the subject in question. (Apply to the Bureau, City Hall, Albany, N. Y.)

Heating and Ventilating School Buildings.-An article in the American Educational Digest for July, by H. W. Schmidt, consisting of three pages of discussion of the various systems. 35 cents. (Apply to the Educational Digest Co., 1126 Q Street, Lincoln, Neb.)

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American Citizenship.-By Frederick A. Cleveland, Ph.D., LL. D., Professor of United States Citizenship on the Maxwell Foundation, Boston University. Ronald Press Co., New York, 1927. VII+ 475 pp. $4.00.

The first of a series dealing with the general subject of citizenship, this book carries the phrase, "As Distinguished from Alien Status,' as a limitation of the title. It aims to present the meaning and implications of American citizenship as defined in the constitutions of the Nation and the states, in statutes, the decisions of courts, and the utterances of government officials; it is thus a somewhat informal legal digest, topically and consecutively arranged, and rounded out with interpretive matter. There are three main parts, entitled: I-Citizens as Members of Political Society; II-Citi zens and Aliens as Beneficiaries; and III-Citizens and Aliens as Subjects. The distinguished author recognizes a changing attitude of America toward the alien, with the increasing scarcity of land and increas ing complication and conflict in the control of wealth. His book is a notable setting-forth of the nature, importance and distinctiveness' of United States citizenship, as called for by the purposes of the Founda tion with which his professorship is associated.

The Philosophy of Athletics. By Elmer Berry, Associate Director of Physical Education, International Young Men's Christian Association College, Springfield, Mass. A. S. Barnes and Co., New York. 1927. XIV +214 pp. $2.00.

This book is intended primarily for teachers of physical eduction and athletic coaching, and for the coaches themselves. On the thesis that physical education is an essential factor in general education, it presents the psychological basis of athletics, and its social, ethical, emotional and character-building values. Present ethical conditions in athletics are reviewed, and the question whether high ideals of sportsmanship can be maintained by athletic leaders is considered; the results of questonnaires submitted to the Y. M. C. A. College alumni, to football coaches (166 replying) and to Y. M. C. A. College students, are analyzed. Methods of securing ethical values from athletics are described and discussed. A concluding section of the book deals with the psychology of football and baseball coaching.

Extracts from Ordinances to Prevent Obstruction of Sidewalks by Merchandise.-Nine closely typewritten pages prepared by Frederick Rex, librarian of the Chicago Municipal Reference Library, inade up of excerpts from ordinances of various cities having for their purpose the prevention of the use or obstruction of sidewalk space for the display and sale of produce and merchandise. Eighteen cities are represented. July, 1927. (Apply to the Library, 1005 City Hall, Chicago, Ill.)

The Water Debt.-A memorandum on the liquidation of the bonded debt of the Bureau of Water of Buffalo, N. Y., by the Buffalo Bureau of Municipal Research, Inc., dated June, 1927. Recommendations are made for overcoming sinking-fund inadequacy. 8 pp. text, 12 pp. tables. (Apply to the Bureau, White Building, Buffalo, N. Y.)

Trees. Three booklets of The American Tree Association entitled, respectively, Common Trees of New York, by Joseph S. Illick; Tree Planting Book; and Forestry Legislative Survey. The first is a pocket manual, presented to the schools of New York by the Charles Lathrop Pack Forestry Trust; it has 123 pages. The second, 40 pages, gives directions for planting shade and forest trees, with a few Arbor Day exercises. The third presents a survey of state forestry laws and activities, to July, 1927 (67 pages). (Apply to the Association, 1214 Sixteenth St., N. W., Washington, D. C.)

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Recreation for Blind Children.-Children's Bureau Publication No. (172) by Martha Travilla Speakman. handbook intended for the use of teachers of the blind in institutions and day classes, and of other persons associated with the blind, such as club leaders and parents. Descriptions of many games are given. There is a three-page list of references. Single copies may be obtained free upon application to the Children's Bureau at Washington; additional copies may be obtained at 15 cents each from the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C.

Reapportionment in Illinois. A symposium of arguments of various persons in favor of a fairer apportionment of representation in Illinois and a removal of the disadvantage now suffered by Chicago and Cook County. 23 pp. Postage 2 cents. (Apply to Illinois Apportionment Committee, 109 North Dearborn Street, or to Municipal Reference Library, 1005 City Hall, Chicago, Ill.)

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Our City Dallas.-By Justin F. Kimball, M.A., LL.D. Kessler Plan Association, Dallas, Texas. XXIX + 384 pp. Postpaid, fabrikoid $2.50, cloth $1.50.

Written by a man who as superintendent of schools, on the one hand, has experienced the need of such a textbook dealing with certain fundamental problems to be faced by tomorrow's citizenship in Dallas, and who as a city plan commissioner, on the other hand, has experienced the need for coverting the community to city planning ideals, this book represents a new departure in community civics. It is designed especially to be used in the seventh grade of the city schools of Dallas, but is expected to prove useful also to civic leaders, chamber of commerce committes and city planing commissions; and while based on conditions in Dallas it contains considerable material of general interest and application. A group of chapter headings will indicate the value of the work in educational campaigns for city planning elsewhere: "How Dallas Began"; "How Dallas Grew and Why''; "The Probable Growth of Dallas''; "The Streets of Dallas"; "American City Building"; "How Other Cities Have Been Planned"; "The Coming of George E. Kessler''; "The Kessler Plan, Then and Now.' Subjects interrelated to city planning are considered under such heads as Zoning and Housing,'' Blighted Areas," and "Down Town Traffic." Some of the more general phases of local government are dealt with under such heads as How American Cities Are Governed," "Municipal Functions,'' County and City," etc., while a final chapter, "Helping Dallas," discusses some of the needs of the city and appeals to the civic idealism of the student in assisting to get them.

The Lighting of a Swimming Pool. An article by Arthur J. Sweet, consulting engineer, Milwaukee, Wis., in the July Transactions of the Illuminating Engineering Society. Various considerations in the effective lighting of swimming pools are discussed. 8 pp. and illustrations. $1.00. (Apply to the publication, Easton, Pa.) Nationality, Color, and Economic Opportunity in the City of Buffalo.-A 100-page booklet by Niles Carpenter, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology in the University of Buffalo, and associates, published under the direction of the Committee on Publications, on the Roswell Park Publication Fund of the University of Buffalo, in coop. eration with The Inquiry, New York. The industrial and ethnic make-up of Buffalo is analyzed and the attitudes of employers and of trade unions to negroes and immigrants are gone into. A large number of individual cases were investigated. 50 cents. (Apply to The Inquiry, 129 East 52d St., New York.)

Statistical Report of Infant Mortality for 1926.A printed booklet of 22 large pages, giving statistics on infant mortality in 675 cities of the United States for 1926 and the five preceding years, with averages back to 1916. It is prepared and published by the American Child Health Association, and is the eighth annual report of the latter upon this subject. There is a large folded insert showing graphically the 1926 infant mortality rate for each city. (Apply to the Association, 370 Seventh Ave., New York.)

Palos Verdes Estates.An article by Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., in the July number of Landscape Archi tecture, describing the history, planning, control and administration of the unique and exclusive residential development by the above name, near Los Angeles. There are many illustrations and maps, and a copy of the principal restrictions applying to the area. 25 pp. 75 cents. (Apply to Landscape Architecture, 9 Park Street, Boston, Mass.)

Architectural Control of Private Property.-Papers by Charles H. Cheney, city planner, and Elvon Musick, attorney, of Los Angeles, Calif., presented at the National Conference on City Planning (1927). Mr. Cheney, a digest of whose opinions and conclusions appeared at page 199 of THE AMERICAN CITY for August, discusses the lack of prevailingly good architecture in most of our cities and the progress being made in architectural control. Samples of a control ordinance and of a form of restriction of record, and a list of art juries, art commissions and architectural boards in the United States, are given in appendices. Mr. Musick discusses the legal authority for architectural control, private and public. 36 pp. 25 cents. (Apply to the Secretary, National Conference on City Planning, 130 East 22d Street, New York.)

Chicago Airports.-Chicago Commerce, published by the Chicago Association of Commerce, contains several articles in its July 2 number on aviation and airports, with particular reference to developments in Chicago, and that city's further possibilities. Airplane photographs of various Chicago airports and a map included. 10 cents. (Apply to Chicago Commerce, 10 South LaSalle Street, Chicago, Ill.)

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The Activated Sludge Process.-By Arthur J. Martin, Consulting Engineer, Past President, Institution of Sanitary Engineers, England, M. Inst. C.E., M. Inst. Water Engrs., M. Cons. E., F.G.S., F.R. San. I. Macdonald and Evans, 8 John St., Bedford Row, W. C. 1, London, England, 1927. XIV 415 pp. Tables and illustrations. 30 shillings, plus duty.

A most illuminating book on the outstanding method of sewage treatment today. The book covers both large and small plants in England and the United States, discussing freely mechanical agitation as well as the use of diffused air. A complete summary of the history of the activated sludge process is included as well as suggestions for the improvement of the process, costs, possible methods of reduction of costs, and chapters devoted to possible lines of advance and to the problem of sludge disposal. Several appendices are devoted to particulars of British plants using diffused air and of British plants using mechanical agitation as well as particulars of American plants. A very complete bibliography is included.

Report on the Street Traffic Control Problem of San Francisco.-The San Francisco Traffic Survey Committee, appointed last year, engaged Dr. Miller McClintock, Director of the Albert Russel Erskine Bureau of Harvard University, to organize and conduct a comprehensive engineering survey. The present report of 370 pages is the result of about a year of intensive investigation. It presents the facts of street traffic conditions and sets forth recommendations for a system of street traffic control and proposals for administrative organiza tion and methods to meet future problems. A proposed traffic ordinance is included. Details of traffic flow and traffic speed studies are given in an appendix. Busi. ness interests of San Francisco contributed to the support of the work. Buckram, $5.00, postpaid. (Apply to Mr. Ralph Robinson, Executive Secretary of the Committee, 426 Foxcroft Building, San Francisco, Calif.)

The first edition of this book appeared in 1919, as a pioneering study of the small town, for itself and in relationship to its surrounding country area, and to provide or suggest stimuli for democratic civic progress. It has now been revised to a limited extent, in the light of the 1920 census and the recent investigations of the American village by the Institute of Social and Religious Research. It is to be regretted that a more complete revision was not entered upon, bringing the entire book up to date-as a statement on the jacket would lead one to expect had been done--and keeping it as valuable in its field as when first published. The bibliography does not seem to have been added to at

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Do Forests Prevent Floods? An article by Raphael Zon, Director, Lake States Forest Experiment Station, reprinted from American Forests and Forest Life. Mr. Zon discusses the fundamental importance of reforestation and forest management in any scheme of floor control. 7 pp. (Apply to The American Forestry Association, Washington, D. C.)

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An Improved Efficiency Rating System for Cincinnati. -Report No. 8 of the Cincinnati Bureau of Municipal Research dated May, 1927. There are 14 pages of text, supplemented by three sample forms and a table. report is submitted to the City Manager and the Chairman of the Civil Service Commission of Cincinnati by John B. Blandford, Jr., Director of the Bureau; it deals with the defects of the present rating system, suggests a simpler and more reliable method, and points out the worth of an accurate system while warning against a tendency to over-value such ratings. (Apply to the Bureau, 312 W. 9th St., Cincinnati, Ohio.)

Aviation Edition, The Buffalo Journal of Commerce.This is the July number of the monthly magazine of the Buffalo Chamber of Commerce, and is its fourth annual aviation edition. It contains several articles on the present and future status of aviation, both generally and with special reference to Buffalo. 15 cents. (Apply to Journal of Commerce, Chamber of Commerce Building, Buffalo, N. Y.)

Governmental Responsibility in the Field of Social and Welfare Work. An address by Leyton E. Carter, Director of the Municipal Research Bureau of Cleveland, delivered at the 53d annual session of the National Conference of Social Work. It is reprinted in mimeograph form, particularly for distribution among nicipal research agencies. Arguments are presented for increased responsibility for governments in the welfare field. 3 pp. (Apply to Municipal Administration Service, 261 Broadway, New York.)

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Annual Report, Committee of Fourteen, New York City (1926). This is the 1926 report of the committee organized in 1905 to secure the suppression of the disorderly resorts known as "Raines Law hotels," and the work of which was later extended to cover commercialized vice in general, throughout New York City. The current report is a 54-page booklet relating to the year's activities of the Committee and the status of the problem. (Apply to the Committee, 105 West 40th St., New York.)

The Schools of Tomorrow.-A 14-page pamphlet comprising an address by John J. Tigert, United States Commission of Education, before the National Education Association at Philadelphia, July, 1926. 5 cents. (Apply to Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C.)

Report to New York State Crime Commission.-Two pamphlets addressed to Senator Caleb H. Baumes, Chairman of the New York State Crime Commission. one (43 pp.) being by the Sub-Commission on Police, giving the results of the investigation into municipal police administration, with recommendations. The latter are given elsewhere in the current issue of THE AMER ICAN CITY. The other (30 pp.) is by the Sub-Commission on Adjustment of Sentences, and contains findings and recommendations relating to probation. (Apply to Herbert L. Smith, Secretary, State Crime Commission, Senate Chamber, Albany, N. Y.)

Municipal and Public Golf Courses in the United States. A 24-page pamphlet issued by the Public Links Section, United States Golf Association. 201 golf courses in 149 cities are listed as coming under the classification of public." Statistical information as to separate courses is included. The list is not claimed to be complete. (Apply to the Association, 110 E. 42nd St., New York.)

Combating the Inroads of the White Plague.-The March and April number of City Health, of the Detroit Department of Health, takes up the activities of the tuberculosis division of the Department of Health, the tuberculosis infirmary, and related subjects, covering 24 pp. (Apply to the Department, 1300 Beaubien St.,

Detroit, Mich.)

Regional Planning.-A new periodical, issued by the Committee on Regional Planning of New York and its Environs. It is edited by Leslie S. Baker, Staff Secretary, and briefly presents news regarding regional planning, with special reference to the New York Plan. (Apply to Mr. Baker, 130 E. 22d St., New York.)

The Bacteriolytic Tank System in South Australia.A 60-page booklet by Dr. W. Ramsay Smith, Permanent Head of the Department of Health of South Australia. It is the seventh edition, the earliest having appeared twenty years ago as a three-page print. It is based upon experiences for a quarter-century, with over 11,000 installations now in operation. Illustrated. (Apply to the author, Adelaide, South Australia.)

Boy-Built Houses.-A 36-page booklet describing a school project method of training boys for house building. It includes a study of 106 houses built by schoolboys, chiefly five- and six-room houses, with a few even larger. 10 cents. (Apply to Better Homes in America, 1653 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D. C.)

Travelers' Aid Manual.-The history, purpose, and service of travelers' aid, and the organization and other features of the National Association of Travelers' Aid Societies are told in this 40-page pamphlet, which is the first section of the complete Manual. (Apply to the Association, 25 West 43rd Street, New York.)

Reports Received

CONCORD, N. H.-Annual Report, Board of Water Commissioners, 1926.

MONTCLAIR, N. J.-Annual Report, Department of Health, 1926.

MONTREAL, QUE.-Annual Reports of the City Treasurer and of the Comptroller and Auditor, 1926.

NEW CASTLE, PA.-Annual Report of Departments, 1926. PRINCETON, N. J.-Annual Report of Auditor, to April 30, 1927.