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.

This booklet reports on the results of a survey on school social centers sent to 774 school superintendents. It includes charts on cities that reported having schoolhouse social or recreation centers at which there were some paid workers and that reported schools with libraries. The booklet also discusses civic aspects of recent social-center development.

CLARENCE A. PERRY was an urban planner, sociologist, and educator.

This booklet is aimed at legislators, school workers, and others interested in public education and provides facts concerning school conditions in all the states. Topics include investment in the school building, expenditure per school-age child, the length of the school year and attendance, workers and wages, textbook legislation, medical inspection legislation, and tests of efficiency, among other topics.

This booklet discusses how social centers promote reform movements. It notes that social centers provide patriotic education of immigrants through public ceremonies held for their naturalization, civic and health education, the promotion of baby welfare, the elevation of political discussions, and the dignification of voting through the maintenance of balloting booths. The booklet concludes with a list of foundation pamphlets on the topic of the social center.

CLARENCE A. PERRY was an urban planner, sociologist, and educator.

This booklet contains a bibliography on recreation in response to requests the foundation received for up-to-date information on the best texts on the subject. It lists important and readily available books, pamphlets, reports, and articles dealing with various subtopics, including, for example: games and entertainment; athletics; swimming pools and public baths; dancing and rhythmic games; and dramatics, pageants, and festivals.

MARGUERITA P. WILLIAMS worked in the Department of Recreation at the Russell Sage Foundation.

This booklet provides a directory of social agencies that existed in the United States in 1931.

BERTHA F. HULSEMAN was the librarian at the Russell Sage Foundation.

This booklet provides a directory of social agencies that existed in the United States in 1941.

BERTHA F. HULSEMAN was the librarian at the Russell Sage Foundation.