Immigrant Gifts to American Life, published in 1932, describes the purpose and content of the Buffalo Exhibition and other similar expositions. The Buffalo Exhibition was a public show of the arts and skills foreigners have brought and contributed to in the United States, under the direction of Allen H. Eaton, author of this book and at that time field secretary of the American Federation of Arts. They utilized a common interest in the aesthetic values men live by to promote a better understanding of social and civic values.

ALLEN H. EATON, Department of Surveys and Exhibits, Russell Sage Foundation

Two Worlds of Childhood is a cross-cultural study of child rearing and education in the U.S. and the Soviet Union, published in 1970. Bronfenbrenner conducted research in the Soviet Union to study child rearing in the family and collective settings.

URIE BRONFENBRENNER was professor of Psychology and of Child Development and Family Studies at Cornell University, and one of the founders of the Head Start Program.

This book, published in 1955, is a successor to Joanna C. Colcord's Your Community: Its Provision for Health, Education, Safety, and Welfare, published by the Russell Sage Foundation in 1939. It is designed as a broadly conceived working manual of community study aimed at not just social workers, like its predecessor, but a more varied group of citizens. It details procedures for conducting the survey, both in its organizational and methodological aspects.

ROLAND L. WARREN was professor of sociology at Alfred University.

Published in 1920, this paper attempts to explain why school officials and voluntary organizations were not pulling together to expand the school's use as a social center—uncertainty as to the people's will. It proposes that asking the community to decide what uses a social center should have will help in the creating of such an agency.

CLARENCE ARTHUR PERRY, Department of Child Hygiene, Russell Sage Foundation

A chapter of The Modern High School, published by Charles Scribner's Sons, this paper analyzes the expanding role of high schools as education centers, particularly as growing social centers for the community around them. It details how a school principal can adapt to this growing role and define the public education of the community.

CLARENCE ARTHUR PERRY, Department of Child Hygiene, Russell Sage Foundation

A paper delivered at the National Conference of Charities and Correction, in 1914.

CLARENCE ARTHUR PERRY, Department of Child Hygiene, Russell Sage Foundation

This pamphlet is a 1931 reprint of the introduction to A Bibliography of Social Surveys, serving as a presentation of the survey movement at the time. It includes a short historical retrospect, an attempt at a definition of the survey and its purpose, and a brief analysis of trends in surveys since 1907, the year in which the Pittsburgh Survey was begun.

SHELBY M. HARRISON was director of the Department of Surveys and Exhibits at the Russell Sage Foundation.

This review is a collection of informal notes on the Chicago Food Show, reprinted from the American Food Journal, Vol. XIII, No. 2, February 1918.

MARY SWAIN ROUTZAHN, Department of Surveys and Exhibits, Russell Sage Foundation

In 1910, the Charity Organization Department of the Russell Sage Foundation addressed a circular letter to all charity organization societies in the United States, asking them to give particular attention to their methods of treating widows with children and to offer criticism of a first draft of a survey intended to help these societies make their treatment more effective and thorough. The survey was then filled out by twenty of the societies for every widow with children still under their care at the time. This book presents and examines the results.

MARY E. RICHMOND was director of the Charity Organization Department at the Russell Sage Foundation.

FRED S. HALL was associate director of the Charity Organization Department at the Russell Sage Foundation.

A volume of a series of Russell Sage studies on the occupations of women in New York in the early 1900s.  Working Girls in Evening Schools is a report on the statistics of women attending night classes.

MARY VAN KLEECK was secretary of the Committee on Women's Work at the Russell Sage Foundation.