PUBLIC HEALTH AND SANITATION.

Abel, MARY HINMAN. Practical Sanitary and Economic Cooking adapted to persons of moderate and small means. Rochester, N. Y.. Essay Dept. Am. Public Health Assoc., 1890. 182 p. D. cl. 40 c. ; pap. 35 c. EnglishGerman text, cl. 60 c.; pap. 55 c.

Buck, ALBERT H., M.D., ed. Treatise on Hygiene and Public Health. N. Y., W. Wood & Co., 1890. 2 v. 792, 657 p. O. $10.

Dr. J: S. Billings and other eminent physicians are contributors. V. 1 contains in part : Individual Hygiene, Habitations. V. 2, Occupations, Public Health. The best American work of its kind.

Gerhard, W: PAUL. Guide to Sanitary House Inspection. N. Y., J: Wiley & Sons, 1885. 145 p. S. $1.

Hints and helps regarding the choice of a healthful home in city or country, by an eminent sanitary engineer.

Plunkett, Mrs. H. M. Women, Plumbers, and Doctors. N. Y., Appleton, 1885. 248 p. D. $1.25.

Waring, G: E., Jr. Sanitary Drainage of Houses and Towns. Bost., Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1881. 365 p. D. $2.

Battershall, J. P. Food Adulteration and Its Detection. Lond. and N. Y., Spon, 1887. 4+328 p. O. $3.50.

Contains a bibliographical appendix.

Bernays, ALBERT J. Food. Lond., Soc. for Prom. Christian Knowledge. N. Y., E. & J. B. Young & Co., 1890. 123 p. S. 40 c.

Chaumont, F. S. B. FRANCOIS de. The Habitation in Relation to Health. Lond., Soc. for Prom. Christian Knowledge; N. Y., E. & J. B. Young & Co., 1890. 120 p. S. 40 c.

Hartley, W. NOEL. Water, Air, and Disinfectants. Lond., Soc. for Prom. Christian Knowledge; N. Y., E. & J. B. Young & Co., 1890.

S. 40 c.

Jenkin, FLEEMING. Healthy Houses. N. Y., Harper, 1877.

pap. 25 c.

120 p.

122 p. S.

Adapted to American conditions by G: E. Waring, Jr. Parkes, E: A., M.D. Manual of Practical Hygiene. N. Y., W. Wood & Co., 1884. 2 v. in I. 368. 556 p. O. $5.

Ed. by F. S. B. F. de Chaumont. From last Lond. ed., with an appendix giving the American practice in matters relating to hygiene, by F. N. Owen.

Parkes, E. A., M.D. Personal Care of Health. Lond., Soc. for Prom. Christian Knowledge; N. Y., E. & J. B. Young & Co., 1890. 120 p. S. 40 c. Richardson, B: W., M.D. Health and Occupation. Lond., Soc. for Prom. Christian Knowledge: N. Y., E. & J. B. Young & Co., 1890. S. 40 c.

120 P.

Richardson, B: W., M.D. Household Health. Lond., Soc. for Prom. Christian Knowledge ; N. Y., E. & J. B. Young & Co., 1886. 192 p. S. 45 c. Richardson, B: W., M.D. Hygeia, a City of Health. Lond. and N. Y., Macmillan, 1876. 47 p. D. pap: 25

Teale, T. PRIDGIN. Dangers to Health, Pictorial Guide to Domestic Sanitary Defects. N. Y., Appleton, 1885. 172 p. O. $3.

Questions of sanitation are covered to a considerable extent in the Investigation by a Select Committee Ho. Rep., relative to the causes of the general depression in labor and business (A. S. Hewitt, Chairman. [45th Cong., 3d Sess. Ho. misc. doc., no. 29. [Washington, Gov. Pr. Office, 1879 675 p. O.] Also, in Report of Senate Com. upon relations between Capital and Labor, and testimony taken before com. (H. W. Blair, Chairman). [Washington, Gov. Pr. Office, 1885. 4 V. 1196+1412+729+857 p. O. V. 5 not yet published (Jan., 1891).]

Many of the States of the Union have Boards of Health. The Reports of the Boards of Massachusetts, Michigan, and New Jersey are especially valuable. Much important information concerning the sanitary condition of tenements and workshops is given in the Reports of the Bureaus of Statistics of Labor, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Connecticut, and New York.

The American Public Health Assoc. issues annual reports. These and other important publications are to be had from the Secretary, Dr. I. A. Watson, Concord, N. H. For 25 cents he forwards four important pamphlets: Healthy Homes and Foods for the Working Classes; Sanitary Needs and Necessities of School Life; Disinfection and Individual Prophylaxis against Infectious Diseases; Preventable Causes of Disease, Injury and Death in American manufactories and workshops, and best means of avoidance.

Water Supply of Cities. C: F. Wingate. North American Review, April, 1883. DWELLINGS.

WORKINGMEN'S

White, ALFRED T. Improved Dwellings for the Laboring Classes. N. Y., Putnam, 1879. 45 p. O. 25 c.

Suggestions for their building on strictly commercial principles.

Galton, Douglas. The Construction of Healthy Dwellings, Houses, Hospitals, Barracks, Asylums, etc. Lond. and N. Y., Macmillan, 1884. $2.75. Hill, OCTAVIA. Homes of the London Poor. N. Y., State Charities Aid Assoc., 1875. 78 p. O. 25 c.

Report, First, of Royal Commission for Inquiring into the Housing of the Working Classes. [England and Wales.] Lond., Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1885.

Solly, Rev. H: Rehousing of the Industrial Classes; or, Village Communities vs. Town Rookeries. Lond., Swan Sonnenschein, 1889. S. pap. 6d. For works treating Building Associations see Coöperation [Capital and Labor.]

The American Economic Assoc., Baltimore, offers prizes of $300 and $200 for essays to be received by Nov. 15th, 1891, on the "Housing of the Poor in American Cities." The Assoc. will probably publish the prize essays.

The Report of the Tenement-House Building Co., New York, of which Prof. E. R. A. Seligman, Columbia College, is Secretary, will be published early in 1891. It will show the application of insurance to rent, and other interesting phases of the Company's work.

The Riverside Buildings of the Improved Dwellings Co., of Brooklyn, are described in an illustrated pamphlet, published 1890, gratis, by Alfred T. White, 130 Water St., New York.

Workingmen's Homes. R: R. Bowker. Harper's Magazine, April, 1884.

CRIME AND PRISONS.

Dugdale, R: L. The Jukes: a study in crime, pauperism, and heredit v 4th ed., with introd. by W: M. F. Round. N. Y., Putnam, 1888. 121 p. D. $1. Falkner, ROLAND P. Prison Statistics of the United States for 1888. Phila., Univ. of Pa. series, 1889. 34 p. D. pap. 25 c.

A social study of the personal characteristics of prisoners.

Green, SANFORD M.

Phila., Lippincott, 1889.

Crime: its nature, causes, treatment, and prevention. 346 p. O. $2.

Round, W. M. F. Our Criminals and Christianity. N. Y. and Lond., Funk & Wagnalls, 1888. 16 p. O. pap. 15 c.

Smith, EUGEne. Prison Science with special reference to recent New York legislation. Economic tract, no. 30. N. .Y., Society for Political Education, 1890. 24 p. D. pap. 10 c.

Wines, E. C., D.D. State of Prisons and Child-Saving Institutions. Cambridge, Mass., J. Wilson & Son, 1880. 23+719 p. O. $5.

An almost exhaustive history of prisons and child-saving institutions throughout the civilized world, based on facts carefully gathered during 18 years' close study and observation. Appendix submits a plan for giving breadth, stability, and permanence to the work of preventing and repressing crime.

Wright, CARROLL D. Hand Labor in Prisons. Boston, Wright & Potter Co., 1887.

Baker, T. B. L. War with Crime. Lond. and N. Y., Longmans, 1890. 300 p. O. $4.

Reprinted papers on crime, prison discipline, etc., ed. by H. Philips and E. Verney. Du Cane, Sir EDMUND F. The Punishment and Prevention of Crime. English Citizen series. Lond. and N. Y., Macmillan, 1885. 235 p. D. $1.

Ellis, HAVELOCK. The Criminal. Contemporary science series, no. I. N. Y., Scribner & W., 1890. 8+337 p. D. $1.

A review of results thus far reached by students of criminal anthropology in Italy, France, Germany, England, and the United States, with criticism.

Hoyle, W. Crime in England and Wales in the 19th Century. An historical and critical retrospect. Lond., E. Wilson, 1876. 2s. 6d.

Morrison, W. D. Crime and the Prison System. Lond., Swan Sonnenschein, 1890. 8°, 2s. 6d.

Pike, LUKE OWEN. History of Crime in England. Illustrating the changes in the laws in the progress of civilization. 2 v. Lond., Smith, Elder & Co., 1873-1876. 8°, 36s.

Rylands, L. G. Crime, its Causes and Remedy. Lond., 1889. 264 p. Directs attention to the necessity for a more vigorous treatment of juvenile delinquents through industrial and reformatory schools.

Tallack, W. Penological and Preventive Principles. Lond., Howard Assoc., 1889. 414 p. D.

Embodies the result of long experience.

Wilson, ANDREW. Science and Crime, and other essays. N. Y., Humboldt Pub. Co., 1887. 45 p. O. pap. 15 c.

Aschrott, P. F.

Strafensystem und Gefängnisswesen in England.

Berlin, S. Guttentag, 1887. 311 p. D. 7 50 marks.

An admirable account of English penology.

Falkner, ROLAND P. Die Arbeit in den Gefängnissen. Jena, G. Fisher, 1888. 89 p. D. 2 marks, 40 pf.

Discusses the question of convict labor with an extensive use of American facts, in comparison with those of European countries.

Holtzendorff, Baron J. W. F. v., and Jagemann, EUG. v. Handbuch des Gefängnisswesens, in Einzelbeiträgen von A. Bar und andere. Hamburg, 1888. 2 v. O.

Lombroso, CESARE. L'Uomo Delinquente. Torino, 1889. 2 v. O.

Much the most important work on the criminal. Havelock Ellis says that it over-estimates atavism, and presses too strongly the epileptic affinities of crime.

The National Prison Association's reports, containing much information on penology, may be had from the Secretary of the N. Y. Prison Association, W. M. F. Round, 135 E. 15th St., New York. The latest report, for 1889, is $1.25.

The Summary, the best prison newspaper, is published weekly at the State Reformatory, Elmira, N. Y.

The Convict Lease System, by G: W Cable, in an essay in "The Silent South," [see The Negro.]

Prison Ethics is one of the " Essays, Moral, Political, and Esthetic," of Herbert Spencer. N. Y., Appleton.

THE LIQUOR QUESTION.

Cyclopedia of Temperance and Prohibition. N. Y., Funk & Wagnalls, 1891. 750 p. D. $3.50.

An exhaustive work from the Prohibition standpoint, though written with the aim of making an authoritative rather than a partisan presentation. Abounds in statistical tables giving facts abroad and at home. Several important articles are contributed by specialists. Among subjects treated are Bible Wines, Compensation, Constitutional Prohibition, Cost of Drink Traffic, High License, Local Option, and Prohibition, general principles.

Fernald, JAMES C. Economics of Prohibition. N. Y., Funk & Wagnalls, 1890. 10+515 p. O. $1.50.

Presents statistics regarding the cost of the liquor habit.

Finch, J: B. The People versus the Liquor Traffic. N. Y., National Temperance Soc., 1888. 259 p. D. cl. 50 c.; pap. 30 c.

Speeches by the leading Prohibition orator of his day.

Gough, J: B. Temperance Lectures. N. Y., Am. Temp. Pub. House, 1879. 84 p. D. pap. 25 c.

Gustafson, Axel. The Foundation of Death: A Study of the Drink Question. N. Y., Funk & Wagnalls, 1887. 598 p. D. $1.50.

From the total abstinence standpoint. A copious bibliography, 64 p., of works in various languages bearing on the drink subject, is appended.

Iles, G: The Liquor Question in Politics.

Economic tract, no. 26.

N. Y., Soc. for Political Education, 1889. 27 p. D. pap. 15 c.

Kerr, NORMAN, M.D. Inebriety: Its Etiology, Pathology, Treatment, and Jurisprudence. Lond., H. K. Lewis, 1888. 415 p. D.

Comes to teetotal conclusions.

Lees, F. R. Text-Book of Temperance. Soc., 1886. 312 p. D. cl. $1.25; pap. 50 c.

N. Y., National Temperance

A comprehensive examination of most of the aspects of the question from a teetotal standpoint.

Oswald, FELIX L., M.D. The Poison Problem; or, The Cause and Cure of Intemperance. N. Y., Appleton, 1886. 138 p. D. cl. $1; pap. 25 c.

Pitman, ROBERT C. Alcohol and the State: A Discussion of the Problem of Laws as Applied to the Liquor Traffic. N. Y., National Temperance Soc., 1886. 411 p. D. cl. $1.50; pap. 50 c.

A standard work in advocacy of the policy of Prohibition. Author Associate Judge Superior Court of Massachusetts.

Prohibitionists' Text-Book. N. Y., National Temperance Soc., 1889. 414 p. D. cl. $1; pap. 50 c.

Wheeler, E. J. Prohibition: the Principle, the Policy, and the Party. N. Y., Funk & Wagnalls, 1889. 229 p. D. cl. 75 c.; pap. 25 c.

The best summary of the case for Prohibition. Appendix contains the U. S. Supreme Court decision in the Kansas cases (Ziebold and Hagelin, 1887); a table of "Police Statistics for 58 American Cities; "a table of "Commitments to Jail for Crime in Connecticut; "Governor (of Kansas) Martin's Letter to Associated Press, July 12, 1887, and the famous Bowman decision (1888) of the Supreme Court.

Caine, W. S., and Hoyle, W: Local Option. Imp. Parl. series, no. 4. Lond., Swan Sonnenschein, 1885. D. Is.

Richardson, B: W., M.D. Temperance Lesson-Book: A Series of Short Lessons on Alcohol and Its Action on the Body; Designed for Reading in Schools and Families. N. Y., National Temperance Soc., 1888. 220 p. D. cl. 50 c.; pap. 25 c.

Richardson, B: W., M.D. Ten Lectures on Alcohol. N. Y., National Temperance Soc., 1883. 190 p. cl. $1; pap. 50 c.

Several of Dr. Richardson's tracts are appended.

The National Temperance Society and Publication House, J: N. Stearns, Secretary, 58 Reade St., New York, issues a variety of publications in the interests of total abstinence, and publishes The National Temperance Advocate, monthly, $1 per annum, ranking next to the Voice in importance as a Prohibition periodical. It issues The National Temperance Almanac, giving latest statistics, by J. N. Stearns, pap. 10 c.

The Voice, New York, a weekly journal, $1 per annum, is the ablest and most widely circulated journal in the U. S. advocating Prohibition. Its publishers, Funk & Wagnalls, issue a variety of works having the same purpose as The Voice. Of these one of the most important is the Political Prohibitionist, published yearly, a compact digest of facts and figures for use in prohibition campaigns, 50 c.

The Church Temperance Society, Robert Graham, Secretary, 16 Fourth Avenue, New York, issues a variety of publications, in which temperance is understood to mean moderation. Especially important are "New York City and Its Masters," "Liquordom in New York City," and Chattel Mortgages and Saloon Fixtures in New York City," all by Mr. Robert Graham.