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Program, Special Libraries Association, Annual Meeting, 1916 Columbia Hotel, Asbury Park, N. J,

Wed~iesdny,diinr 2s. Clnss~ficat~onsystems: Leader, Miss 11anan R. Glenn, Librarian, Amencan Bankers' 0:30 a, m. Assoc~ation,Sew Pork C~ty. Opening address by the President, Andrew Special librasy publicity: Leader, Brainard Linn Uostwick, Mulnc~~~alReference Li- Dyel*. Public~tgUanager, Sational Calvbon brary, S1 Law nldg. Co . , 0. Soul-ces ol information for business men, D. Co-opcsat~onin Bibl~ographicalTI-orli, H. EI. C. Bnell, Railway Educational 13ureau, B AIeycr, L~braryof Congress. Omaha, Neb. P~tblicollicials and the spccial library, Dr. C. C. Ti'illiamson, 3Iunicipal Refareme Li- brarim, New Yorlc Publ~cL1hrar.v The public affall s illforination servlce ; its Standal*dlzation by a library unit system, past, present and future, John A. Lapp, G. TIT5'. Lee, Librarian, Stone & Webster Bureau of Legislative Inflo~mat~on,In- Corp., , Mass. d~anapolis,Ind. The editorial ofice: a new field for libra- Co-operation between specla1 libraries and rians, Jliss Renee 13. Stern, Mother's Nag- the engineerinq profession, Kcniieth G. azlne, Elgin, 111. TVallreis, Technology Librarian, New Ha- ven Public L~brary. Report on national center for ~nunicipalIn- formation, Clintou Rogers Woodruff, Sec- The special lihrary and the student of busi- I-eta~y,National JIunici~alLeaguc. ness, Ralph L. Power, Librarian, College of Business ddmlnistration, Boston Uni- versity. The municipal ref~rencelibrary as a public Roun it 'l'nhle L'onfeiwice% Plans have been utility, Frederick Rex, JIuniclpal Befer- made for round tahle confel'enccs as fol- ence Librarian, , Ill. lows : The work of the Dctroit Edison Comyany's Treatment of pamphlets Leader., MISS library, Miss JIaud A. Carabin, Llbrar~an, Elizabeth V. Dobblus, Librarian, Alilorlcan Detroit Edmon Co., Detroit, IIich. Telephone and Telegra~hCo., New Yorlr City. Special hhrary emlrlopes: Leader, D. N. Regular busmess sesbion, ~ncludirlgreports Handy, Lihrarian, Insurance Library Asso- of con~m~ttceson clippmgs, membership clation of Boston. and techn~cal~ndesing. SPECIAL LIBRARIES

Libraries In Business Houses Tile substance of an address by Mr. Frank from our I~usiness,then we have to lry to Chitllalll, a Director of the Firm of AICSSrS. devclol, 2 rjcw-point which wlll help us to Selfrldge &: ~o,Ltd (Londo~l),at a ~01111 attam that object. Wc realize that. before llleetlng of the L~hraryAssocialion and L1- one can gct vciy ~nuchpleasure fro111 one's I)rary ,\sslstantsl ~ssoc~at~on,held 011 Otto- u~)rIrone must have a thorough lrnowledge bey 13tll, 1!)1,5 ; reprlntcd from The Library of the work in hand. Fro~ninterest comes -Assistant, h'ovemt)er, 1915: a desire for lrnowlerlge, and with knowledge a greater degree of intelligence and pleas- Ever slncc mankind has becn able to ex- urc from the work in mhich we are en- picss llis thoughts in wr~ling,whether on gaged. cl:ly tablcts, 1)archment or leather, he has It seems to mc that rcadcrs as a whole gathc-led 111s w~l~ngstogethcr lnto what we may roughly be dividcd into thrce classes. inay call lib~~ar~es.This was plobably done (1) Those whn 1,ead with some gract~cal for Inany ~casons. The grocesb oC the gro- ohject in view; (2) those who read merely duction of boolcs or manuscrl~tswas neces- for pleasule-as a pastme; and (3) those sarily slaw. Today a man may bc a mritcr who read for the mtellectual delight oi and never l~utpen to paper, but in those reading Certainly business Inen cannot far off days one needed not only to thinlc out claiin to belong to elther of the two latter the matter which one wished to express 111 classes-I thinlc they rightly belong to ~vr~ling,but llad to do that writing oneself. the fi~'sl. By reading for practical pur- In short, one had to be a craftsman as well poses I do not mean that it becomes ncces- as a wlter. The scarcity of books and the saly and is any part of the reader's intcn- difficulty of thew production made it desir- t~onmerely to lead those things which will able that they should be hroughl together, bring hi111 11ecuniary gain-that would he in order that thelr contents mght he more lndeecl a debaslng end to have 111 vlem. In read~lyaccessil~le to those who werc intcr- husiness our great am and object is to ested. eliminate wasted effort, and we must apply ~t is jateresting to note that the flyst li- th~spslnciplc to our reading. For reasons brary of wh~chwe haw any record at all, which I will explain presently it would be some 4,000 years before Christ, mas also a largely wasted cK'ort to spend much of our p~bl~clibrary. On one of the tablets, now scanty lelsure time in readmg works of a preserved in thc Brit~shAIuseuin, is part technical natnre. The lrnowledge which we of the bequest of the Kmg, wh~chsays that as merchants wish to acquire is thc lrnowl- th~slibrary shall be for the use of 111s sub- edge of the merchandise which we disln- jects for all time. Early libraries, too, bute, and when I tell you that there IS \yere in a sense technical lihraries, wherein hardly a spot of the cilivized, or, indeed, were reco~dedthe slow and laborious meth- uncirilized, world that does not contributc ods by which the ancicnts lea~~nedtheir first ~0lll~thiligto the contents of this building, rudiments of sclencc. The writers thcn be- you will realize how wide our range of pos- longed to one class, they were entirely of sib~htiesbecornes. From thc furs of the the priesthood, they kept the archives of the Arctic to the splces of the Indies; from the Government and recorded scientific discov- cornfields of Canada to the pastures of New eries These discoveries and inventions Zenlnnd, one must have some knowledge- mere largely and necessarily of a purely and inore than a passing Itnowledge-of the practical cha~wter,and it is 1n the practical goods with which they sugply us. But, ob- sense that I want to consider libraries for viously, me cannot have a comglete techni- a few nmutes tonight. cal lrnowledge of the various processes of We business men envy you ladies and the manufacture of the many thousands of gentlemen your more leisured life and the articles which we sell, and we do not try opportunit~es it aifords for intellectual vcry hard to acquire this technical lcnowl- pleasures, garticnlarly when those intel- edge. We are more concerned-indeed, al- lectual luxuries become part, as they do, of most solely concerned-wlth a complete and your daily duties. But as business men, we thorough knowledge of the finished article. have little tinle for the Indulgence of read- It may seem to you that it is impossible to ing for purely intellectual pleasure. I do have a working knowledge of the flnlshed not wish to convey for one moment an im- alticle wthout lrnowing wlth some degree ~)ressionthat intellectual pleasures are shut of thoroughness the various manufacturing Ollt hnl the llves of business men and processes that are necessary to its produc- Women, hut Only that they must find a dif- tion. Let me show you how impossible it ferent eXPreSSion, and the pleasure that is would be to hope to become really expert denied US to which I have just referred 1s in the commonest things that we hnndle. found in Our business itself-in our dally Let us take, for example, a piece of scarlet '~ork. Busmess today, taken seriously, flannel. If we are to know everything that Im3m.s a ver). Strenuous I~fe,and if we are must he known about this flannel before it going to get what we should rightly expect can be produced we could not compress that SPECIAL LIRRAR.IES. 99

linomledge into a dozen lifetimes, to say a heavy technical book for the purpose of norhing of one. A cbom1)lete Irnowledge ~tudsinzmailulacturing details. Jve do not would bcgin with the farmer 111 Iar-off dm- esl~ect it, and hence, we (10 not provide Iral~awho grows the wool. IIc 1~111have vc14y a1111)ly for a hig l~brargof boolis on to dctcrmine what liind of wool he shall these suh~ects. Our interests, as I have grow; he has to decide whcther it will pay said, We mainly ccutcred In the finished 1i1m best to grow his sheep L'or the cw- artlcle, and ~t 1s liel-e that sc expect our cass, or to grow them foi- tlie wool ; he must salcs~eople to be proficient-we cspect wc~gh the chances 111 time of diwughl of thein to lirlo\\- the va13ious character~st~cs Iiilling off his shecg, and so at least gett~ng of tllc goods they sell and the best purgose :,omething, against the cl~anccsol Irecping foi whirh cacll is suited. They must Itnow them and possibly being ~wine~lby a p1o- these things more than superficially. TVc lunged drought. Arter thc sheep 1s clil)l~etl li110\%' quite ~~11,for ~nstance, that ~t IS im- and Lhe wool is baled, it is sent lo tho possible lor patent leather to be manufac- hrolter, and the hrolm* decides u-hether it tu1m1 that will not crack, and it is part of shall be offered for local auction or whether our scrv~ccto tell the custonler that Irre- it shall be sent to the great wool market of spectlve of pricc there is no patcnt leather . He decides how it shall hc offered, In thc world ivh~rh1s not llable to cracli whether ~t is going to pay the farmer bet- \vhen the boot gets mto use, Agam, thew is ter to sell 01. to hold, and this 1s a large and no such thing in the WOI-Idas an absolutely Impol.tant industry In itbelC After ihc 1~~001\ralcr[)roof garment. It 1s entirely a gues- 1s sold it goes to thc coin he^^, who cleans, t~onor degree This and sim~lar~nlorma- scours and co~nhsit in read~nessTor the tion 1s filed In our various c1el)artments for spinner. This is a t~*ad~in itself, and the recercnce by the st:~ff. We call this infor- most ~wgorlant part of the processes oC mation "Selling po~nts,"and ~t 1s the means manulacture. Then the wool 1s sent to of valuahle education to our staff, and of the spinner who spins it into yarns 111 assistance to our customers. Illforlnation readmess for the weaver. The splnner has such as this is not found ~n text boolcs-if it to dccide thc liinrl of yarn that is likely to were we would gladly supply them to our be ~nost ~~emunerativeto IIII~,hc has to stall As a matte^^ ol fact, it cannot bc ~IIOW what the ~orld'sdeui~antls for yarns prepared in any permanent lorm, because ale at the time, he has to know all about the concl~t~onsgoverning merchantlising are the strcngth of yaims, and a clozen and ~:onstantlychangirig, and it is to meet thcse one othe~terhniralities in conncclion \nth changing conditions, to keep us quickly in- the spinning business.. The spinner sells hls formed, that onr great trade papers have ym'ns to the weaver The weaver maltes been cstablished, and it is here that we iheiii into evcry var~etyof woollcn fabric, loolc for the most useful rcsults from what from the fine caslnuerc to heavy blanket may he called ottr trade llbrary. We sub- cloth. A Itnowledge of the weaving of pat- scribe POI' no less than S6 coples of trade terns and designs, how the loom 15 set papera, coveihg and dealing with 34 tradcs. up, etc., 1s work involving pears of study. Our osperlence is, I flnd, similar to that It 1s a self-contained and Iiighly rechnlcal of tlie other great houscs where the staff busincss After the weaver has finished livcs out. In places where the staff lives the cloth it is sen1 to tho clgcr, and we arc 117, house lihi'aries are pi-ovided, usually of realizing aL this moment as we have never good standard fiction, and some technical realized before, what an extremely difficult worlts. The foriner are frecly used, hut and highly technical business dyeing is. there is llttle demand for literature of a Since this unhappy ww w~ChGermany there lieavier kind. In America a more am- has been a shol tage of dyes, which mc, with various products solcl. Tho Amer~canstores all our effort and all our knowledge have larger and contain a good collection of been unable to make good. Finally, we get worlts dealing wth the manufacture of the tlie finished article, and it is herc that our vallous products sold. Thc Anie~~canstores real interest in the article beglns. are proud of their house librar~es,but, without heing unlzmd. I think it is a lwide You will see from the hurried sketch of possession rather than of usefulness. -4s that I haw given yc~u of the mnnufactur- Ieud~nglibraries they are little used, but ing processes of merely one article, 1101~ the boolcs are freely used in connection with impossible it would be fo~us Lo hope to the educational spstetus that are opel'ative learn or to galn incrc than a superficial ~n the great stores. In Wananialcer's, Phil- IinomlecIge of the varjing processes of man- adelph~a,for instance, whose school is llOW nfacture. We have a smaIl reference Ii- a bl-anch of the American GniversltJ' of 111.ary. in which hool~sdealmg wth these Trade and 4ppl1ed Coimnerce, tl~csetext tcchn~cal processes a'e kept, but wc find books are used by the teachers to illustrate that they are very 11ftIe used indccd, and the various points in connection with the I an1 rcally not surgri;ecI that they are not merchandise that is sold. They are of very used more. When one remembers the con- great value in th~srespect, and I thlnlc 111 ditions under x71i~chne work it is almost th~sdirection lies the futu?e of technical too much to erpcct tl-at aflei many hours libralyes jn b~isiness houses, both in this of streniious wnrlc onc is going to take up country and in hmerlca. 100 SPECIAL LIBRARIES

Direct Labor Versus Contract System In Municipal Work---ABibliography Compiled by Harry A. Rider Library of Reseerch in Government, Western Reserve Un~versity

Adnnls, A. D. and C P Pr~chard.Labor and Con~rnunicat~onto the mayor and city ~ol~t~cs;AIassacllnsetls electr~citywol-lcs. counc~lrelating to the efficiency of day Schedule 2. National civic federation. labor in the cmploy of the clty, p. 267-275. 3Iunic1pal and private operation of public Commu~~icaL~onto the mayor and city util~tlcs,pt. 2, v. 1, I). 946-984. conncil relating to collusion between b~d- Aliroli, 01110. Prcss Direct labor will aid ders for iron and sleel work, iron boilers, city In 111sll tvorli, July 20, 1913 biidgcs, and buildings. 1). 281-293. Advocates clll'cct labor provision for Cominun~cationto the mayor and city proposed city chartcr council lclating to the sale of the stone An~ericnnreview of reviews. Contract sss- crushmg plants of thc city ot Boston, p. tcin in munlcil)al public worlrs, Nag, 1504, 313-313. v. 29, p. 615-6113. Communicat~onto thc mayor and clty Condensed account of J, hI. I-Iead's Mu- counc~lrelating to certain contract meth- nicipal conslruction versus the contract ods, p. 453-483. syslem, In Arena. V. 2, Reports and conmunications, 1909. P~~blic and the direct neth hod. Con~munlcationto the mayor and city Fel)., 1!112. v. 45. g. 235-236. council relat~ngto the test run of the Condensed account of Chittenden's Pub- Chestnut hill stonc crusher, p. 3-6. lic escculfon of public worlr, In Forum. Conlnlunication to the mayor and city 2i~~~~nlsdlnevican acade~ny. Direct employ- council relating to tlic nlunicipal pri~~ting ment of labor bv inimici~mlits.- - July.-. 1899. plant, p. 7-17. v. 14, 1). 1#~-14i Communication to the mayor and city Street cleaunlg by direct labor in Xash- council relating to thc history of the city ~ngton,D. C. \'atcr~\~i~Iisand the nianageinent of the nnlier, Newton D. [Statement regarding the water departmcnt, 1). 26-52. use of] Direct labor. Cleveland, Clty Coinmumcat~on to the mayor and city council. Proceedings, 1913, p. 1-c -2-a. council relating to the sanitary depart- Advocates usc of diivcct labor upon pub- ment, acconipanled by thc report of Mr. lic work. Henry Goodnough; the collection and dis- posal of waste and refuse in the city of Raxtcr, S. Public morlc directly performed. Boston, 1). 125-159. Anierican revicw of reviews, Aim., 1897, v. Dissenting report of John F. Kennedy lS, p. 435-437. from the report of the majority oC tile Describes co-operative conlract system Boston finance comnilsslon to the [Mass- in and bonus system in achusetts] general court, p. 278-284. United Statcs government navy yards. V. 3, Reports of Metcalf & Eddy, con- Mentions experiment of Boston in ~tsmu- sulting civil engineers, upon the water nicipal printing plant. department, the sewer division of. . the--- Ilenrd, C. A. Anlerican clty government st'eet departmcnt, and n~iscellaneousmat- New Yorlc: Cei~tury,1912. ters, 1909. Direct employment of city labor, p. 120- Pt. 1. Investigation of Boston water de- + "" 1x8. partment. Illnir, IT7. P. Superv~sionof municipal work. Ch. 5, Efficiency of the day labor force American society of municipal improve- of the water department as affected by n~ents Proceedings. l7th, 1910, p. 153-159. ages and tcrms of service of employees, The spoils system as ilic parent of mu- 11. 69-80. nicipal inefhciency in inspection of con- Ch. 6, Efficiency of the day labor force tract work. -cost of holidays and sick leave, p. 81-84. Bo\ton. Fiaancc comm~ssion. [Reports.] Ch, i, Efficiency of the day labor force 1909-1914. -cost of hydrant maintenance in winter, 0. 85-88. V 1, Appointments,. organization- and communications, 1909. - Ch. t). Efficiency of the day labor force Report lo the mayor and city council on -cost of laying rnbin pipes, p. 115-1213. certain contract methods, p. 83-106. Ch 10, The efficency of the day labor Conz~nunicationto thc mayor and city force-comparison of cost of laying pipe council relating to the stone crushing in Boston with cos-s in neighboring cities, 1)11siness carried on hp thc street depart- P. 127-131. 111, rll, p 216-220 Ch. 11, Methods ~f making ordinary ex- SPECIAL LIBRARIES 101

;anslons to waterworks In other cit~es,p. Ch. 51, Summa~~iz~ngthe results of the 122-136. investigations of the Boston sewer divl- Ch. 12, Comparat~ve organization of sion. forces and labor costs of maintenance of I't 3, JIiscellaneous lnvest~gatlon and certa~n works operated by thc Boston reports. waterworlrs In 1887, and by the Netro- Ch. 52, A comparison bctween wages politan waterworks in 1898, p. 137-146. pald for labor by the c~tyof Boston and Ch. 13, Contract worli done in the Bos- by other citles and private parties, p. ton water dcpartnlent in the fiscal years 1083-1088. 1!JOG and 1907, 11 1.17-21lJ C11. 54, Number of men employed in the paving divislon of the street depart- *.. Ch. 14, Serv~cepipe connections, p. 211- Zl'i.- ment, p. 1097-1'105. Ch. 15, Loss resulting Prom oyerat~ons Ch 57, Conmcnts upon suggestions or of the water department, p. 918-222. the real cstate exchange and auctlon Ch. 16, Contents of the annual reports boa~d~>elahve to thc construction of new of the Boston water department, p, 223- streets and provisions oC funds therefor, 22G. p. 1049-1203. Ch. 17, Further conlnlents upon thc an- Ch. 58, Report upon boundary wall be- nual reports of the Boston water de- ing consl~wtedat Deer Island, g 1203- partment, p. 227-29. 1208. Ch, 18, Suaaestmns for the annual rc- V. 4, Rcport of Salnuel TVhmcry, con- port of the yoston water department, p. sultlng c1v11 engineer-, upon the street de- 230-232. gnrtment, 1909. Ch. 22, Sunnnasmng thc results of In- Ch. 1, The clty stone-crushing plants vcstigations or the Boston watel' depart- and the cost of crushing stone, 11. i-84. ment, p. 293-316. Ch 2. Street and road construction and Pt. 2, Investigation of the sewer divi- repair In Coston, p 85-146. slon of the Boston street department. Ch. 3, Recording and accountmg for Ch. 28, Efficiency of the day labor i'orcc sugglics and labor in the paving dwis~on, of the sewer clivls~onas affected by age p. 147-172. ol employees, g. 415-431. Ch. 4, A suggested reorgan~zatlon of Ch. 20, Emclency of the day labor force the paving divi~ionof the street degart- of the srwer division as indicated by the ment, p 173-191. work of the b15clc masons, p. 432-440. Ch. 7, Street clean~ngand the work of Ch. 30, Eiflc~encyof the clay labor force the street cleaning and satering depart- of the sewer div~sionas aAected by win- ment, p. 265-325. ter work, p. 441-443. V. 5, Appointmcnts organizat~on, and Ch. 31, Rcntnl of machinery upon day co~n~nunications,1910. label. ~vorli,1). 44-1-462. Cont~xctmcthods, p. 122-127. Ch. 32, Relative cost of day labor work V. 6, Regc~rts and connnunications, in the sower divislon in 1907 and 1908, Iml... p. 453-477. Com~nunicationto the nlayor and city Ch. 33, Sewer conlracts let hs7 the CI~Y council III ~*rlationto the increase 111 re- of Rnston during 1905, 1906, -and 1907, cent years in the city's pay roll and thc D. 478-694. decrease In efficiency of the day labor. Ch 3-1, Day labor vcrsns contract sewer force, p. 32-45. const~tiction, wlth coml~arative cost of V. 7, Reports and con~mun~cations.1912. builrl~ngsewers by day labor and by con- Communication to tlic c~tycouncil in tract 111 various Xew cihes, p. ~~elat~onto the pension act for labom's In 6!)5-7G6. the employ of the city or Boston, 11. 2%- Ch. 36, Thc probable cost of certam "9. scwer work pending in 1006 if done by 5'. 8. Re~0rtsand commun~cat~ons,1913. conlmct instead of by sewer d~v~s~on Coinmunication to the mayor 111 rcla- g. 71%-7GS labor, as p~oposed, tion to payments for overtime, 11. 391-198. Ch. 39, Sewel* cleanlag, p. 835-846, V. 9, Reports and con~mnnlcations,1914. Ch. 40, Supplenx11ta1.y report on sewel. Operatlon of tlic charter amendtncnts cleaning, p 847-861. --Award of contracts, p. 20-21. Ch. 11, Probablc annual loss to the ctty In the years 1906 and 1907, result~ngfro111 Co~n~iirulicationto the governor In rela- the existing ~ncthodof doing ~orliin the tion to the t~m~sfe~to thc employ of the Boston sewel- division, p. 852-856. city of lamplighlcrs fo~~merlyemployed Ch. 42, Contcnts of the annual reports of by lmvate contractors, p. 45-46. the Boston street degartmcnt, p. 857-561. Cornn~unlcation to the senate m ~da- Ch. 43, Further comnlents upon the an- tion to thc transfer to tlic employ of the ni~alreports of the Coston street c1epa1-t- c~tyof Iampligl~tcrs Po~~mcrlyernyloycd ment, p. 862-864. by private contractors, p. -17-l!). Ch. 44. Snggestions for the annual re- Communication to the mayor and city po1.t OC the sewer department, p. 865-874. council in elation to the contract for C11 50, Sewer legislat~on,p 062-1057 city refuse disposal, g. 213-220 SPECIAL LIBRARIES

V 10, Rcl~orrs and co~n~nun~cations, Section 131. Class~Rcdscrv~cc includes 191;. ordinnry unslr~lled1al)or. Co~nnlunicationto the goveruos 111 rela- Section 167. Perm~tsthe usc oC direct tiou to vacations for c~tylaborers, p. labo:. on l)ul)l~cwol'lts. 28-29. ~ltycouncil. Rcsolut~on[calling for To the lcgislativc connn~ttee on legal rcpo~~~from d~reclorof public servlcc as affa~rsIn relation to spccifications for to estln~atcsfor tbc const~wction of the contracts for gubl~cworks, 1). 30-31. naterwo1.1ts tunnel by contractors and by Comn~nnicst~onto the house of repre- dilnect labor.] F~leno. 27856. Proceed- sentatlves in relat~onto the transfer to ings, 1913, y. 13-b. the c~tygay roll of persons engaged in -- Resolui~on [cnl!ing for report hght~ngthe gas lamgs in the streets of the from director of public scrvice as to proj- city, p. 45-47. ects undertaken by d~rccllabor smcc Jan- C:ommunication to the city counc~lin uary 1, 1912.1 Filc no. 28733. Proceed- relat~onto a pending contract for hght~ng ~ngs,1913, g. 1GG-1)-c. thc streets of the city by gas, g. G3-S2. --Ord~nancc to submil. to the IirooLs, H. C. Bibl~ograghicalmdex. 1Iunlc- electors of the city oC Cleveland: an 1pa1 Affairs, Junc, 1901. amendment lo section 131 of Ihc cllarlcl' of Day Iabor vcrsus contract system, the city 01 Cleveland so as to rcmovc ordi- 2:160, 561; 3:379, 559, 772; 4:246, 428; nary unhli~llcdlaborers from tllc class fi2d 5: 603, 6:495, 870. civ~l set'vice. Ordinance no. 33,140-A, Biblio~~.al)hsof municinal aroblems passed , 1014, over mayor's veto; and r~ty

Schedule 2. Xational civic federation, Mu- lhyes, T. G. Contract system in municipal nicipal and private operation of public govel nnlent. League of American munici- ut~lities,pt. 2, v. 2, g. 550-667. galitles. Proceedings, Gth, 1902, g. 28-32. See also under J. R. Commons. -3Iunicipal contract system, Munici- -Labor and politics; Gas, electric pal journal, Sept., 1802, v. 13, p. 106. supply, and tminways. Schedule 2. Na- Descr~bes the Baltnnore system of tional civ~c federation. 3lunicipal and awarding contracts. private operation of gublic utilities, pt. 2, Hend. J. at XuniciDal construction versus v. 2, 1). 1-112. the. contlnact system. Arena, Apr., 1904, Labor and politics; United States V. 31, p. 337-352. gas works. Schc~lulc 2. National clvic Approves the practice of the city's buy- federation. J[unic~paland private opem- ing nlatenals and hlring labor directly. tion of public nt~lities,pt. 2, V. 1, p. 490- Riues, Albcrt J. [Lettcr to the Cleveland 536. charter cornmission relative to nlunicipal Labor and politics; United States construction work by direct labor.] water, gas, and electricity worlis. An- Cleveland. 1st Charter commiss~on,Doc- swers to questions in Schedule 2. Na- uments, 1913, p. 75-80. (Tygcwitten.) tional civic federat~on. Municipal and Hoolic+, G. E. Cleaning streets by cont~act private operation of public utilities, pt. 2, -a hidc light from Chicago. American re- Y. 1, P. 885-908. view of reviews, Apr., 1897, v. 15, p. 437- Crnne, C. A. Relation of contractors to pub- 441. lic officials. American city, Mar., 1913, Colnparison of contract system of street V. 8, p. 290-292. clcanlng In Chicago with dircct lab01 in Dann, R. H. Taking municipal contracts out New Yorlr and Toronto. of politics. Conference on good city gov- Hoplcins, TV. R. Strcet railway problem in crnment, 1909, 1). 179-95. Cleveland, American econonlic associa- Polltics or expert service? Review of tion. Economic studies, Dec., 1896, v. 1, Boston financc coniinission report, with 110s. 5-6. suggestions for improvement. City labor cost excessive; "fedcral n I, L 3Iunicipal ownership. New plan" coinpelling cities to contract all Yorlr: E P. Dutton, 1907. worlr. costing more than $250, p. 341-313. Ownership not the maln question, p. 1-8. James, E. J. Elements of a model charter The casc for direct employment, 1). 91- for American clties. Conference on good 103. city government. Proceedings, 1894, P. "The words inunic~palownership do not 154-173. suggest the real points at issue. When Apgointment of city laborers, p. 170-171. should labor be directly employed by mu- Jnlnes, 1-1. G. Applied c~tygovernment; nicipal~ties?is thc vital quest~on." prlnciplcs and pract~cc of city charter- malting. New York: Harper $ bros., 1914. Eddy, 1-1. P. Relativc cfliciency of the day Iabor and contract syslcln of doing munic- Employment of unsliilled labor, p. 71. ipal work. Journal of Assoc~ateclengineer- AIodel charter: Art. 5, Administrative lng societies, Jan., 1810, v. 44, p. 24-69. urovislons, Section 5, Unslcilled labor, P- Eco~~o~iiicsof d~rectenlployment. Fabian 76. tract no. 84. The li'ablan soc~ety,3, Clem- .JLLI)~I.~OII,12. hlaking of modern London; progress and react~on, 21 yeax of the ent 11111, Strand. London. 11'. C., England. Ell~inccl'l~l~recol-d. Increas~ng the em- London county co~uncil. HOIIIXof labor, p 99. ciency of a municipal pul~lic worlrs Contracts, p. 100, 303-104. organization; a system whereby the bu- Direct employment of lahor, p 101-103. reau of sewers of Manhattan borough, New York, has been able to clean twice Jfagna Charta of labor, p. 105-107. as many catch-basins with half as many ,Joli~~son,J. A. Contract system for street 6.1, p. ~mpi~oveinents.League of American inu- men as formerly. Dec. 9, 1911, v. 675. nicinalities Proceedmgs, 4th, 1900. A unit cost systcm arid its efficiency. Journnl of gas lighting. View of the direct, Fent.ltersto~ic, [J. F] Application ot en- emnlovmcnt- ~" -~~ of labor in n~unicipalit~es. gineering pl'act~ce and pr~nciples for .\lay 28, 1901, v. 77, p. 1436. controlling municipal activities, as illus- JEellor, Fnlnces. Out of work; a study of trated by the worlr of the street cleanmg emalovment. New Yorlr, G. P. Yutnam's bureau, Borough of Richmond, New Porlr. sons, im. Engineering and contraciing, Oct. 30, 1912, Appcndlx 4, One nlun~cipalplnn-emer- V. 33, p 485-487. gency measures suggested to the city Unit cost data necessary for profitable council of Clcveland, p. 530-533. municipal worlr LO~OII. Question of direct labor in Shore- Guyot, Y. Where and why public ownership ditch, [England]. Oct. 21, 1897, v. 6, p. 846. has failed. New Porlr: LIacmillan, 1914. JrnltMe, 31. R. h~unicipalfunctions Munic- Inefficiency findings of Benjamin F. ipaI Affairs, Dec., 1898, v. 2. Welton's mvest~gation into efRcrency of Day labor versus coqtrnct system-de- New Yorlr City's municipal labor, p 320- scribing d~rect labor employment in 324. American and English c~ties,p. 707-709. 104 SPECIAL LIBRARIES

Martin, J. W. Direct employment of labor Real cstatc record and guide. IIuniclpalitles versus the contract system; the works as employers of labor. Nov. 5, 1892, p. 570. departnlcnt of thc London county council. Snow, 17. I1 Comparison of day labor and llunmpal Aftairs, Sept., 1898, v. 2, 1). 382- coutwct syhtem on municipal works. 304. Aimrican fcderationist, Aug., 1899, v. 6, p. Describes the London exgeriment in the 12 I; Sellt, 1899, Y. 6, 1). 155. "3Iagna Charta of labor" (as called by Steuart, E. Rates of wages paid undes pub- Joll~l 13urns) with eqerience ol other lic and private contract. United States, Engl~sllcities with direct labor employ- 1)epartmcnt of labor, Bulletin, Nov., 1896, nlcnt. g. 721-753. JlcI,nnghli~~,A. C. and A. R. Hart. ed. Cyclo- Gives stat~sticsof four leading cit~es: pedia of American government. 3 v. Xew Baltimo~cBoston, Ncw Pork, Philadel- Torli, 1914. phia-showing that highest ratcs of wages \Yl~~nery,Samuel. Contract system of and shortest worlcdays exist under dlrect public worlts, v. 1, 1). 459-461; v. 3, p. 115. employment of labor hy the municipality Jlassncll~~setts.Labor bulletin. Contracts Snllivun, I. A Organized labor's relation to w~thworkingmen upon public works. no. ~nunic~palaffa~rs. League of A~nerican 10, dpr., 1899, 1). 56. munic~pahties. Proceedings, 6th, 1902, p. -- Pay of city laborers. Jan., ~rn-i- . - - 77~, . . 18!J7, 110. 1, 1-4 Snlli~arl,J. W. Labor report. National CIVIC - Wages and hours oP labor on federation 1Iunicipal and pr~vateopera- public worlis. June, 1905, no. 35, 80-86. tion of public utilities, pt. 1, v. 1, p. 60-87. -- Wages under contracts for Sec also under J. R. Colamons. pul~llcwork. Oct., 1897, no. 4, 1). 1 Jlnnlcipal and private ogeratlon oi Nattl~ens, Pi. Municipal charters. Cam- pubhc utilities; relative to the labor re- bridge; Haward university press, 1914. port of the Nat~onalCIVIC federation, Com- Adinin~strative provisions - contract miss~onon public ownc~~shlpand ope1.a- work versus city day labor, 1). 72-73 tion. Kcw Yorlc: 123 Bible house. 1908. Ctia1'1e1-draft, art. 8, scction 2, 1). 137. Regalding dispute between J. W. Sulh- JInliicipsl nKairs. Direct employincnt of la- van and J. R. Commons, the two labor in- bor versus the contract systeln. June, vest igntors. 1897, v. 1, I), 374-377. Relative to the labor report, p. 3-59. Rcview of articles by Stewart, Com- Ln1)or report, 11. 60-87. mons, Baxtcr, and I-Ioolter. Labor and golit~cs,by J. R. Commons, flInr1icilud journal. (London.) Labor and B. 68-111 municipalities. Agr. 7, 1899, v. 8, 11. 439. Analys~sof Investigator Commons, La- i\Iun~c~palwork at Lambeth. May 25, bor and politics, p. 112-124. 1900, v. 9, p. 397 Conclusion, g. 125-128. nhlro, W. B. Government of American Sllllivnl1, J. W. and J R Cnmmons. Labor c~ties. New York: i\larmillnn, 1909. and politics; Un~ted States electricity Ch. 11, Municipal officials and em- works. Schedulc 2. National civic federa- ployees, g. 265-293; esg. Inferior quality tion hTunicipal and pr~vateoperat~on of of municipal labor, p. 270-271, >tunicipal public utilities, pt. 2, v. 1, p 749-755 versus private labor efficiency, p. 272-273. Labor and politics; United States Prlnclgles and methods of ~nunici- walerwoer-lts. Schedule 2. National civic pal administration. New York: 3Iacmil- federation. 1Iunicipal and prlvale opera- lan, 1916. tion of pubhc utilities, pt. 2, v. 1, p. 136- Methods of street construction, p. 95-101. 158. Sntiolial civic federation blunicipal and ~rlvateoperat~oil of public utilities. 2v.: Tnp~)er,J. E. Piece-work system applied v. 1 pt. 1, v. 2 pt. 1 and 2. New Yorlr, 1907. to clty forces, hIunicipa1 engineering, See arlicles by J. R. Commons and J. Aug., 1913, V. 45, 1). 115-118. Rr. Sullivan, both individually and jointly. How Pomeroy, Washington, installed its Kern time. Direct. ernunicipal employment. sewclsage system by direct labor. Jan., 1898, v. 2, p. 64. Unit~ilStates. Industr~alcommission. Final New Tarlc, N. Y. De~art~nentof street report. 1902, v. 19. cleaning. Pr~oblems of snow reernoval. Labor on public worlcs-Direct labor in hIunicipa1 affairs, June, 1898. supplement. the United States navy yards, p. 941-947. Coniparlson or direct labor and contract IYnring, E. Street-cleaning and the disposal systems, p. 205-237. of a city's wastes; methods and results Perry, G. R. Contract system. League of and the effect upon public health, public American munic~palities. Proceedings, morals, and n~unlcipalprosperity. 3d, 1890, g 112-114. Contract work, p. 1, 83, 93-94, 100, 166, Is it hetter for a city to do its worli 171, 174. by contract or day's worlc? City govern- Ch. 3. Political control, p. 12-18. ment, SePt., 1899, v. 7, 1). 56-57. Also, Pub- Ch. 4, Reorganizat~on of the force, p. lic improvements, Oct. 1, 1899, v. 1, p. 279. 19-36. Advocates direct c~tylabor employnlent Employment of labor, p. 198-204. as again: t the contract system. Cost of the work, p. 208-210. SPECIAL LIERARIES

his dc~~artmenlto the Imt by reading all Special Libraries there was to tw rcnd on the goods 11c was PUBLISHED BY THE sell~ilg.Feo])le turned to hiin as an author- SPECIAL LIBRARIES ASSOCIATION Ity. Hc could tell them sornctlllllg Inore Monthly except July and August. than lhe lwicc Hc nladc good and did it in Editorial and Pul~licatlonOfIlce, Indiana Bu- a way that inspired him. The secret of his I eau of Legislative Information, Indlanap- olis, Ind. success was that he read matter wlilch di- Subscrii~tions.Public Library, St. Joscnh, &lo. School rcctly functioned with his joh. of Mincs nnd Mctallnrey, Umv. of Mo., Rolla. Mo. The failure of books nnd Ilbrarles to hen- Entered at tho PostofXcc at Indlanapolts, Incl.. as second-class matter. eflt large nwnbers of pcoplc 111 a bus~ness as trcated by the allic-le in this issue, 1s Subscription. ....$2.00 a year (10 numbers) l~laiillydue to the Inck of intelligent sclec- Single copies...... 26 cents tion and use. When IIOOI~S and lnatcrials President...... A. L. Bostwick supply pi.actical neccls thnr use 1s univer- Municipal Reference Library, 208 Clty Hall, St. LOUIS,MO. sal. \'ague unrelated lnatcrinl will not be Vice-President...... Elizabeth V Dobbins used. American Telephone and Telegraph CO., New Yorlc City. A coin~arisonbetmcen practical vocation- Secretary-Treasurer...... A. J. Cunningham a1 reading and thc modern evening school is Free Public Library, St. Joscph. No. In point. When the evening school tried to BOARD 13XECUTIVE give genel

ecluitsrble assessments, and a thoughtful ex- pendltule of public funds, rcdound to the promotion of inclustrlal eficiency just as the lack of these qual~tiesin city govern- lnent r~clucesthe industrial standard of a city. The gcneral supervision of the bureau mill rest with ten trustees. Thesc trustees arc the original incorporators of the organ- ization and are ~.ssponslblefor its policies and lor ~tsfinancing. In order that the bureau may be assured Chicago Elevntetl Railroad Sectlon, of the freedom from pa~tisnnpolitics, it is spe- American Electric Railway Association has cifically provided in the by-laws that "every announced the appointme~itof P. V. Lyon, trustee vho shall hold or be a candidate Secretary to the General Managci-, as LI- for public oflice, or accept any public em- biaarlan of tile Company Section --.\era May ployment shall automatically cease to be 1916. p. 116. such trustee." "No trustee shall receive, eithels directly From a si~~allbeqinning four years ago or indi~ectly,any compensation pecuniary, the \rorking lit~mrymstnlled in the offices reward or perquisite vhatsoever for any of the Kansas City Light LC Power Corn- service performed by him for this corpora- pany [or thc bencfil of employees has grown tion, while he is such trustee, or within one untll ~t now contains, in arldltion lo thc cur- year thereafter." rent issucs of thc trndc papers, 290 refer- ence and test I~oolrs,lii government ~ubli- Work in the subjects of money and bank- cations. 126 mxnufacturcrs' publ~cationsand 111~.economics and finance have recently 9'3 holm1 volumes 01 trade publications. In received a big impetus at Princeton Uni- 1915 there were 128 active users of the li- vel'slty by the addition in the last few brwy, to whom were issr~ctlfoi. outside use months of the falnous Pliny Fislc statistical .ii6 boolrs. In add!tion, the men i1rc al- librai y. This library, the gift of Pliny Fisk lowed the free we of the lib~ary at all of the class of '81, has been in tl12 process times. of collection since 1880 by the banking house of Harvey Fisk & Sons of New Yorlc city, The Detroit Bureau of Governmental Re- and is well known to all bankers. It is un- search was incorporated March 22, 1916, doubtedly the most complet~and eshaustive for the purpose of securing efficiency and library in the realm 01 finance and eco- economy in government, whether national, nomics in any American university state or mnnicipd, by all lawful means other According to statistics made public by than proinot~ngor defeating the election or President Hibben, the collection is made up appointment to public office or the employ- of more than 5,000 bound volumes, 13,000 ment of any person or persons in a public pamphlets, 39,000 stock and bond circulars, position. It is proposcd to do this by two and newspaper clippings, which form, means : mounted, over 70,000 sepa~atesheets. It is To get things clone for Detroit through sald that as a collection of corporation re- co-operation with persons who are in ofice, ports, financial pamphlets and copies of by increasing eficiency and ellrninating mortgages, it is unexcelled anywhere. There waste, and is a great number of reports of all the rail- To serve as nn independent, non-partisan roads in the country, and those of the more agency for keeping citizens informed about in~portantroads are complete. Some of the the city's business. statistics date bacli to 1828. In the collec- To accomplish these ends, it is expected tion also are copies of leases, treaties, and to expend approximately $25,000 a year for agreements of railroads, some of which am an initial period of three years, which mill extremely rare. A great part of the library be contributed by public spirited citizens in- is made up of the original manuscripts, the terested in making Detroit a better place older ones written out in longhand. in which to live and do business. This library was moved to Princeton dur- This is done because good government is ing the summer months, and Harvey Fisk, as essential to the business interests of De- brother of Pliny Fisk, personally attended tf'ojt as it is to the social well-being of its to the installation and setting up of the cal- citizens. Clean, well paved streets, adequate lection. Most of the furnishings of the sewers, a low death rate, reduced sickness, room are of the original llbrary in the offices proper disposal of rcfuse, efficient police of the bankers in New Yorli city. It is now and fire protection, centralized purchasing, placed in conlmodious c!uartcrs in the uni- standardized supplies, rea~onablesalaries, versity library building, and requires the SPECIAL LIBRARIES 107 continuous services of a special librarian voted exclusively to business and municipal and an assistant. It is thought that a great xfelwce works, situated in the central number of economists will be drawn to downtown district and easily accessible to Princeton by this valuable collection, as the all offices, stores and the City Hall. The complicated and well worked out index sys- library is in a first-floor room, facing a tem maltcs the library easily accessible to prolninent street and has adopted business all. It has already proved its value to the hours-8:30 a. rn. to G:30 p. nl, many students in the economic and financial "The material on hand includes city di- departments of the univers~ty,and is in rectories, trade directories, financia] and daily reference use by many professors and nlunicipal journals, atlases, maps, charters, graduate students. The development of the ordinances and general works on business collection will not be stoppcd by its removal science, accounting systems, etc." to Princeton, and it is expected that it mill soon be one of the most serviceable libraries The H. W. Wilson Company, which man- of its kind in the country. ages Public Affairs Information Service for the Co-opcrating Institutions which control In Special Bulletin No. 76 of the New it, has issued a little folder explaining what York Department of Labor, issued under the Service is, what it does, what it pub- the direction of the Industrial Comimssion, lishes, special features and what it costs. entitled "Europenn Regulations for P1.e- The partial list of co-operators which is vention of Occupational Diseases," the regu- given is evidence itself of the value of the lations of various forcign countries nrc re- Service. Two of the best features of the produced, on metal poisonings, dust, gases, whole plan are the scheme by which the vapors and fumes, ineffective materials, and weekly bulletin is checked as an order list miscellaneous. and returned to the Service where arrange- ments are made to have desired publications Information on Mothe~s' pensions is sent to those checking them, and the ar- brought up-to-date in the latest publication rangement by which copies of typewritten on the subject, "Mothers' Pension Legisla- data may be purchased from the Service at tion in New York and Other States," com- low cost. piled by W. E. Hannan, Legislative Refer- Members of the National Association of ence Librarian of the New York State Li- Stationers and 1\Ianufacturers will be in- brary and issued as Legislative Bulletin 41, terested in the following outline of the work May 1, 1916. The forms proposcd by the of the Information Bureau supplied by W. New York State Board of Charities and D. Pittman, the secretary of the National those used in the city and county of San Catalogue Co~nmissionand manager of the Francisco, are included. Information Bureau. An interesting account of the new Minnc- "This bureau has now been in actual op- apolis Business and Municipal Branch Li- eration a little over two months, during brary apl~earedin the Members' Bulletin of which time we have received within a few tho Civic and Comnlerc~alAs- copies ol five hundred catalogues, all of sociation, February, 1916. which have been filed for future reference "Modeled after the very successful Busi- and for indexing and cross indexing. This ness Public Library in Newark, N. J., the work, of course, is progressing slowly, as Minneapolis library has improved upon the therc is much work on each catalogue, and Newark establishment with the addition of indeed, we have encountered some difficul- its Municipal department. ties, as the same goods are listed in the It is the hope of this association that catalogues of several houses, and we have every business and professional man and had difficulty in getting those sending in every office holder in the city will inspect catalogues, to inform us what goods they the new library and learn how useful it do NOT manufacture, but simply JOB. may become to him. AIready it is equipped Rather strange that some of our friends, to supply information and suggestions re- sending in ca;talogues, insist that they are garding practically every subject of busi- Iheadquarters for certain goods that we ness and municipal affairs. The present sup- know they do not manufacture nor import. ply of material is somewhat limited, but it "Eventually, we ought to have more is the intention of Miss Gratia Countryman, than two thousand catalogues on file, and City Librarian, and Miss Mary Dietrichson, we are going to try to gct them before in charge of the new branch, that additions the next convention. We are especially will be made as the demand warrants. It, anxious to get cataIogues from the manu- therefore, behooves every business man to facturers that are not well known, or whose get into immediate touch with the library, goods arc not well known generally; be- 30 that if it lacks what he happens to de- cause many of our inquiries will be about sire it will have an opportunity to supply it. such goods or manufacturers. How can "In the opening of the new library this we reach these obscure manufacturers? association rejoices in the fulfillment of a are nolv getting out a bulletin on desire announced three years ago that the inks and adhesives; and along with this already exceptional public library system of bulletin, will be a special notice to Our the city be enlzrged to include a branch de- manufacturing members, asking them to SPECIAL LIBRARIES

prepare and send to us, by the 21st of ....Ohio Institute for Public Efficiency Februal y, a list of all goods discontinued, Eal~imore ...... and also a list of all new goods now be- Bul-eau of State and Municipal 12esearch Ing manufactured but not in their cata- Oaliland (Cal.) ...... logues. We are nlaking it plain that we ....~~~..Tax -- Association of Alameda County do not mean new prices, as \ye mould have ...... to publish a bulletin the size of the Daily ...... Califoinia State Tas Association Record to cover such ground. We are go- \i7hite Plains (N. Y.) ...... ing to try to let our members have this in- ... Westchester .. County Research Bureau formation by March 1. On March 1 we St. J ojeph (Mo.) ...... may also print a list of all from whom me Civic Commissioner of the Commerce Club have then received catalogues, recluesting Wilmington (Uel.) ...... the membei~sto look it over, and write to ...... General--- Service Eoard of Delaware us, giving us the names of others from Nev:wk (N. J.) ...... whom we ought to get catalogues, and in . .Public Welfare Committee of Co. this way we ought to gzt a 'line' on a Madison ( Wis.) ...... large number of obscure manufactL~rers,or ...... Efficiency Bureau manufacturers whose names are not before Hoboken (N. J.) ...... I...... us for solicitation. Robert L. Stevens Fund for Municipal "The importance of the work grows on Research us, as we get further into it, ancl if Tve Detroit. .Bureau of Governmental Research have the means to prosecute it, rnc can be The Oh10 ~nstitute-lo;. ~&iicEfficiency, of very great benefit to the trade In many an independent, non-political organization, ways; and, furthermore, as our records in- undertakes a big work when it announces as crease, and our information is all indexed its object "lo make Ohio a leader in con- and classified, we can then answer, easily structive social work ancl civic progrcss, by and quickly, all inquiries, and can issue fre- making all public clepartments and institu- quent bulletins coverlng a wide range of tions as nearly as possible 100 per cent subjects." efficient." All manufaclu~w-s should haw their -. catalogues on file with Mr. Pittman's In- An Ag~iculturc?.lIndex is the latest publi- formation Eureau, which is the official bu- cation to appeal. from the H. W. Wilson reau of thc National Association. Company. The first number was issued ... .. in March and will be succeeded by four The title of the List of Comme~~ialPear- other numbers during the year, each cumu- Bcoks and Si~mlnrPublications from the Li- lating all previous items and the last issue bra~:; of Congress which appeared 111 the bound for permanent reference. This Index Ma$ Issue of Speclal Libraries should have will provide a ready refcrence guide, on thc included the statement that this list 1s sup- subject-heading plan, to the leading scien- 1)lementary to a similar one which appeared tific ancl technical journals dealing with the 111 Special Libraries of December, 1914. -- -- art and practice of agriculture, horticultnrc, The folder announcing the establishment forestry, and the allied subjects of en- of the Detroit Bureau of Governmental Re- tomology, botany, bncteriology, includhg search lists the citizen agencies for promot- fruit culture, gardening, birds, I~ees,clairy- ing and keeping good government to be ing and stock breeding; the bast known found in this country at the present time. popular farm journals ; bulletins of the state The list follows: and federal departments giving the latest Washington, 13. 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'I'lle Tsxntion of 1,and Tnlnes, by Louis F. and the principles of its eficient administra- Post. l3ol)bs-3Ccrrill, In(linn~polis,1015. tion, should be a part of all highr educa- Price, $1.00 net. tion. The lectures included in this book are Bobbs-Merrill have published in an at- intended to cover these points for those who, tractive volume the fifth ancl new edition of without studying law as a profession, wish Louis F. Post's boolc on the single tax. The to attain such a familiarity with the law author has changed the name of his book as will make for intelligent citizenship. from "The Single Tax" to "The Taxation of In the lectures on Nature and the Punc- Land Values" because of a tendency to con- tions of Law, Law and Justice, and Funda- fuse the term "single tax" with other sug- mental Conceptions, Ule render will find an gested tax levies and tax reforms. interesting discussion, historical and eluci- The four maxims of the Single tax creed dating, of much that is familiar, but only in are elaborated upon and the arguments sup- a dim ancl confused way, to the average porting them are carefully and clearly set person. The lecture on Procedure, takes forth. Many charts accompany the text. up the complicated machinery of legal pro- The different kinds or degrees of land cedure. value tasation are defined and explained by The power of the people as a whole as Mr. Post, thc General Property Tax, thc expressed in State and in the Federal Con- Rcal Estate Tax, the Single Tax. stilutions, and as carried out by the Mr. Post has divided his book into four judiciary, to control the acts of the govcrn- parts which deal, respectively, with Tax- meat in power, is the subject of the chapter ation Methods, Land Value Taxation as a on Constitutional Limitations. The chapter Tax Reform, Land Value Taxation as an on Eench and Bar deals specificially with Industrial Reform, and Answers to Typical the law as a, profession and that on Law Questions. The author has also added an Reform meets popular criticisms, pnrticu- appendix of explanatory and illustrative larly on the points of the law's delay and notes which are of decided intcrest as well the evils of modern legislation. as of value in an instructive sense. The book is published in thc series of

A discussion of the theories, a principles Columbia University Lectures. E, C. and facts advanced by Mr. Post In his book need not be undcrtakcn hcre. The single bd~twtures111 'I'l~rift, 118 .h11111 S~C(:SCliich- tax as a logical remedy for existing economic nrdron. 1~111s-Lrill,I~~dirnifll~olis, ills has long been given serious attention by 1916. Price, $12.5 net. all thinking men. In her booli, "Adventures In Thrift," Snffice it to say, then, that "The Taxation Anna Steese Richardson has very cleverly of Land Values," by Louis I?. Post, Assistant and very intcrestingl~ woven Ihc luring Secretary of Labor, easily and deservedly thread of romance around the prosiac, belongs in the front rank of books dealing though none the less important, econoinic with the interesting and vital subject of the problem of providing food for thc family. single tas. In reality the boolc is one long lecture on homc economics, but so slrillfully has the Law rind Its ,iilii~irilstr~ltio~i,kg 'Imrlnn P. author carried tho "heart interest" along Stone, Columbin 'LTniversity Press, 1915. that the reader is loathe to put the book Price $1.50. aside even though the practical aim of the A book about law, but not for lawyers, book is all the time realized to be paramount. is what Harlan F. Stone, Dean of Columbia It is a distinct service Anna Steese Richard- University School of Law has written in son has performed in giving to men, as well "Law and Its Administration." It is a book as women, the sound, worth-while lesson in for the laymen of this country who are, he getting one's money's worth. believes, too often ?vithout any systematic The chapters of the boolc appeared o~ip or comprehensive knowledge of the nature inally in the Woman's Home Comparnon, of law and its origin." All citizens are sub- and such a startling "hit" did they make ject to law and therefore it is the duty of that a heavy demand for them immediately each man to know something of what laws arose which has been met by the publishing exist, why they exist, how they should be of the serial chapters in book form. administered and to understand what is "Chasing the penny to its lair-is the house- frequently misunderstood, the ideals which wife's favorite indoor sport" IS, according the leaders place before the legal profession. to "Mrs. Larry," a 13. C, of I,. proverb. The study of law, the author claims, at least How "Mrs. Larry" succeeded makes inter- of the fundamental conceptions of the nature esting reading from which no doubt every of law, a brief history of its development, housewife can profit. M. H.