Published in 1909, this report is a result of a New York State Conference of Charities and Correction–appointed study on the essentials and cost of a normal standard of living in the cities and towns of the state, followed by a detailed analysis of the compiled data of workingmen's budgets.

ROBERT COIT CHAPIN was Horace White Professor of economics and finance in Beloit College, Wisconsin.

For three months beginning August 1, 1912, Mr. Carstens was commissioned by the Russell Sage Foundation to study the actual working of public pensions to widows with children in certain western communities.

C.C. CARSTENS was secretary of the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.

The following pages are the outcome of twenty-five years of life and experience in the mountain country of the South, taken on by John C. Campbell. From his time as a teacher in a remote section of the mountains, until the time of his death, when he was Secretary of the Southern Highland Division of the Russell Sage Foundation, he was continuously engaged in the service of the Highland people.

A list of all school work under other than public auspices carried on in the Southern Highlands primarily for the Southern Highlanders. All data which were based on information secured by John C. Campbell, Secretary of the Southern Highland Division of the Russell Sage Foundation, are given for 1919 - 1920.

JOHN C. CAMPBELL was secretary, Southern Highland Division, Russell Sage Foundation.

This report, prepared by the Charity Organization Department of the Russell Sage Foundation in 1912, is an account of the methods of exchanges, charity indexes cataloguing relief and resources in an area, then in operation in the United States. It comprises of the author’s research around the oldest exchange conducted by the Boston Associated Charities, a list of the reasons behind the growth in interest around exchanges at the time, and an account of their administration and office details.

MARGARET F. BYINGTON was associate director of the Charity Organization Department of the Russell Sage Foundation.

A volume in the Pittsburgh Survey, edited by Paul Underwood Kellogg. The Pittsburgh Survey had been planned by the editors of "Charities and The Commons" before the organization of the Russell Sage Foundation. The Charities Publication Committee accepted and assumed responsibility for the project.

ELIZABETH BEARDSLEY BUTLER was secretary of the Consumers League of New Jersey.

The proceedings of the Second Annual Playground Congress of the Playground Association of America. The congress was held in New York in 1908, under the presidency of the Hon, George B. McClellan, Mayor of New York City.

ANNA L. VON DER OSTEN was officer of the Playground Association of America.

A directory of the organizations employing trained visiting nurses, with chapters on the principles, organization and methods of administration of such work.

YSSABELLA WATERS, Henry Street Nurses’ Settlement, New York City

A report on the findings of a study of the loan businesses in New York City from 1907-1908, part of a larger set of studies of fiscal agencies exploiting the necessities of the poor. The study was commissioned by the Bureau of Social Research of the New York School of Philanthropy, published by the Russell Sage Foundation.

CLARENCE W. WASSAM, Bureau of Social Research, New York School of Philanthropy

This book is a practical handbook on tenement reform in America. Written and researched by the New York City Tenement Department Commissioner, the handbook provides recommendations for improving conditions in tenement housing, as well as practices to avoid.

LAWRENCE VEILLER was secretary of the New York State Tenement House Commission, and First Deputy Tenement Commissioner of the Tenement Department of New York City.