ACKNOWLEDGMENT

Cordial recognition is tendered to the editors of The Outlook for their courtesy in permitting the use of certain portions of this book which have already appeared in that journal.

CONTENTS

[I.]By Way of Introduction [9]
[II.]The Beginning of the Trail[16]
[III.]The Fellowship of the Steerage[30]
[IV.]Land, Ho![48]
[V.]At the Gateway[64]
[VI.]“The Man at the Gate”[78]
[VII.]The German in America[94]
[VIII.]The Scandinavian Immigrant[112]
[IX.]The Jew in His Old World Home[126]
[X.]The New Exodus[143]
[XI.]In the Ghettos of New York[154]
[XII.]The Slavs at Home[179]
[XIII.]The Slavic Invasion[198]
[XIV.]Drifting with the “Hunkies”[213]
[XV.]The Bohemian Immigrant[225]
[XVI.]Little Hungary[238]
[XVII.]The Italian at Home[252]
[XVIII.]The Italian in America[262]
[XIX.]Where Greek Meets Greek[282]
[XX.]The New American and the New Problem[292]
[XXI.]The New American and Old Problems[309]
[XXII.]Religion and Politics[321]
[XXIII.]Birds of Passage[334]
[XXIV.]In the Second Cabin[347]
[XXV.]Au Revoir[359]
[Appendix][365]
[Index][371]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Facing page
At the Gate[Title]
As Seen by My Lady of the First Cabin[10]
The Beginning of the Trail[26]
Will They Let Me In?[50]
The Sheep and the Goats[66]
Back To the Fatherland[92]
Farewell to Home and Friends[114]
Israelites Indeed[140]
The Ghetto of the New World[156]
From the Black Mountain[180]
Without the Pale[208]
Ho for the Prairie![246]
The Boss[270]
In an Evening School, New York[294]
A Slav of the Balkans[302]
On the Day of Atonement[330]

ON THE TRAIL OF
THE IMMIGRANT