This illustrated booklet discusses the moral value of folk dancing. Part I covers folk and national dances. Part II covers the use of folk dancing in a public school system, as shown by its use by the girls’ branch of the Public Schools Athletic League of New York City.

LUTHER H. GULICK was director of the Department of Child Hygiene at the Russell Sage Foundation.

This booklet contains a list of books, reports, and magazine articles that deal with the topic of recreation. It is arranged by subject, with annotations on the more formal publications, many of which deal with other phases of recreation than the subject under which they are listed. Subjects include play and games, storytelling, folk dancing, sports, holidays, school gardens, boys’ and girls’ clubs, public parks, and walking clubs, among other topics.

This booklet includes correspondence from Margaret Woodrow Wilson, a daughter of President Woodrow Wilson and a champion of the social-center cause. She appeals to the State Federations composing the General Federation of Women’s Clubs to take up this timely and important task. The correspondence is followed by a typed list of essential provisions of an adequate social-center law.