"'A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil' was written, not from the point of view of the expert, but because of my own need for a counter-knowledge to a bewildering mass of information which came to me through the Juvenile Protective Association of Chicago. The reports which its twenty field officers daily brought to its main office adjoining Hull-House became to me a revelation of the dangers incident to city conditions and of the allurements which are designedly placed around many young girls in order to draw them into an evil life."
"Miss Addams's volume is painful reading, but we heartily wish that it might be read and pondered by every man and woman who to-day, in smug complacency, treat with indifference and contempt the great struggle for social purity."—The Nation.
"As an educational weapon, incalculably valuable. A torch with which every thinking citizen should be armed for a crusade against the dark-covered evil at which it is aimed."—The Continent.
The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets
12mo, cloth, $1.25 net; by mail, $1.35
A protest against the practice of every large city of turning over to commercialism practically all the provisions for public recreation, leaving it possible for private greed to starve or demoralize the nature of youth.
"Few persons in this country are better qualified to speak with authority on any subject connected with the betterment of the poor than is Jane Addams."—New York Herald.
"The book should be in the hands of every preacher and laborer for humanity. I wish that parents might make it a text-book."—Rev. Madison C. Peter in The New Orleans Daily News.