“Deeply human, sympathetic stories of the youngsters of all nationalities who crowd the parks, the newsboys’ homes, and swarm in the big tenements of the East Side of New York.”
“Mr. Riis is a man who does not theorize, but who knows. His book is full of pathetic pictures, painful in their truth but beautiful in their meaning. No one who is interested in sociology can afford to miss what he has to say.”—Current Literature.
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IS THERE A SANTA CLAUS?
“A classic of childhood, one of Jacob Riis’s most charming and attractive books for boys and girls, one that will always live as a popular gift-book.”
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With Poor Immigrants to America
By STEPHEN GRAHAM
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“We collected on the quay at Liverpool—English, Russians, Jews, Germans, Swedes, Finns, all staring at one another curiously and trying to understand languages we had never heard before. Three hundred yards out in the harbor stood the red funneled Cunarder which was to bear us to America.” These words describe the beginning of the colorful travels of which Mr. Graham writes in this book. Mr. Graham has the spirit of the real adventurer. He prefers people to Pullmans, steerage passage to first cabin. In his mingling with the poorer classes he comes in contact intimately with a life which most writers know only by hearsay, and interesting bits of this life and that which is picturesque and romantic and unlooked for he transcribes to paper with a freshness and vividness that mark him a good mixer with men, a keen observer, and a skillful adept with the pen.