A volume of Social Science Frontiers, a series of publications reviewing new fields for social development, aimed at foundation executives, administrators of research grant programs, directors of research organizations, and others concerned with making contemporary social science more useful for the function of social reporting.

OTIS DUDLEY DUNCAN was professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin.

Address delivered in 1911, before the Principals' Association of Graded Schools.

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

A history of the organization, the scope of the foundation's library collection and its use to social workers, with suggestions for other sources of information available to social workers and researchers in New York City in 1917.

FREDERICK WARREN JENKINS was librarian at the Russell Sage Foundation.

Presented at the fifty-first congress of the American Prison Association in 1921, this report details the treatment of persons awaiting court action and misdemeanant prisoners. It argues that these prisoners are the most likely to reform because they include those who are imprisoned for the first time, and it presents a particular way of treatment towards them in the prison system.

HASTINGS H. HART was director of the Department of Child-Helping of the Russell Sage Foundation.

All the reports presented at the fifty-first Annual Congress of the American Prison Association. 

HASTINGS H. HART was president of the American Prison Association.

This paper, read before the New York State Conference of Charities and Correction in 1913, is concerned with the best way to help people with mental deficiencies and what roles they have in society. It estimates annual costs of care in the state of New York.

HASTINGS H. HART was director of the Department of Child-Helping of the Russell Sage Foundation.

A 1913 survey of the status of hospital social work, Social Work in Hospitals is born of the evident need for exchange of experience among hospitals around the country, as well as a desire for a more conscious and consistent effort to establish standards for social work in hospitals. Topics reported include the mentally unbalanced, employment for the handicapped, single mothers, organization of social workers, and the future of hospital social service.

IDA M. CANNON was head worker of the Social Service Department at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Presented at the Fifty-first congress of the American Prison Association in 1922.

J. F. WRIGHT was Executive Secretary of the Pathfinders of America, Detroit chapter.

This book defines and explains the social case history. Published in 1920 as a guide for social scientists, it argues that case history is defined by its intended purpose; namely, the immediate purpose of furthering effective treatment of individual clients, the ultimate purpose of general social betterment, or the incidental purpose of establishing the case worker herself in critical thinking.

ADA ELIOT SHEFFIELD was director of the Boston Bureau on Illegitimacy.

All the reports presented at the fifty-first Annual Congress of the American Prison Association in 1921. The subjects of the papers are wide in scope, many relating not only to the administration of prisons and the treatment of prisoners, but to probation, parole, mental health, juvenile delinquency, and other related subjects.

C. B. ADAMS was president of the American Prison Association.