“A plain, unvarnished statement of the manner of life of the children of the poor, and of the results of such living on their health and their morals, and a carefully planned series of remedial suggestions.... Mr. Spargo’s book is in five sections, dealing, respectively, with the poor baby, the school child, the working child, remedies, and the transplanting to the country of tenement children. The first of these is entitled ‘The blighting of the babies,’ a study of the very little children of the poor.... Mr. Spargo’s chapter on ‘The school child’ is practically a continuation of his first chapter; it discusses the subject of starvation among the school children.... Chapter III of the book deals with ‘The working child.’ It is probably the most awful in the book.... The mill children, the glass factory boys, the mine boys, are studied.... Mr. Spargo’s remedies are many. As regards the babies, they include State or Federal supervision of infant food manufacture; meals for school children, medical inspection of schools, a minimum standard for working children established by Federal law.”—N. Y. Times.
“School teachers need this book, social workers, librarians, pastors, editors, all who want to understand the problem of poverty or education. It is not only readable, it contains illustrations and facts that are matters of record, absolutely proved.”
+ + Ann. Am. Acad. 28: 196. Jl. ’06. 720w.
“Far inferior to the ‘Long day.’” Winthrop. More Daniels.
+ – Atlan. 97: 842. Je. ’06. 270w.
“Rather painfully interesting study.”
+ Critic. 48: 480. My. ’06. 180w.
Reviewed by Charles Richmond Henderson.
+ Dial. 40: 298. My. 1, ’06. 200w.