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While for two years holding the South End house fellowship Dr. Wolfe collected the material which he has presented here. His treatise “deals with the class of dwellings that are known in many cities as rooming-houses or furnished-room houses, and with the mercantile employees and skilled mechanics who are sheltered in these houses. Oddly enough, it appears that there has never been, heretofore, anything like an adequate investigation of lodging-house conditions in any of our great cities.” (R. of Rs.)
“Societies which aim to promote the wellbeing of young people of this class will find here materials and methods of investigation of highest value.” C. R. Henderson.
| + | Am. J. Soc. 13: 275. S. ’07. 100w. |
“The author has made an important contribution to our knowledge of home (?) life of the great class in our communities, and his volume, and its suggestions, should be carefully studied.”
| + + | Ann. Am. Acad. 29: 227. Ja. ’07. 450w. |
“The author is disappointing in not being more convincing and conclusive in some of the salient points he has raised; he has left vital issues related to the subject for others to investigate and develop.”
| + − | Ind. 63: 399. Ag. 15, ’07. 420w. |
“Taking the volume as a whole, the student of social conditions will find in it much to interest him, and he will certainly credit the author with much conscientious industry. At the same time, he will hardly avoid the conclusion that valuable time and energy have been sacrificed to microscopic detail of trivial importance and leading to nowhere in particular.” E. R. Dewsnup.