Broken Homes attempts to analyze the causal factors that lead husbands and fathers to desert their families. It asks why men desert their wives and children and what steps can be taken for both preventative and corrective treatment. Published in 1919, this book is a careful examination of relationships and the motives behind marriage, detailing the history of desertion laws and providing additional strategies for social workers in assisting deserted families.

JOANNA C. COLCORD was superintendent of the Charity Organization Society of the City of New York.

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.

This paper, reprinted from the Eleventh Annual Report of the City Superintendent of Schools, New York City, 1909, by the Department of Child Hygiene of the Russell Sage Foundation, attempted to examine any possible relations between physical disability and school progress in children.

LEONARD P. AYRES was director of the Division of Education at the Russell Sage Foundation.

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 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.

Published in 1924, this book is a compiled reading list of reference works that relate to publicity methods in social work. Most do not directly reference social work publicity, but are useful in promoting in the social, religious, or educational fields in one way or another.

EVART G. ROUTZAHN was associate director of the Department of Surveys and Exhibits at the Russell Sage Foundation.

MARY SWAIN ROUTZAHN was director of the Department of Social Work Interpretation at the Russell Sage Foundation.

This study of the Newark Almshouse and the Department of the Overseer was made in 1919 for the Newark Board of City Commissioners by the Department of Surveys and Exhibits at the Russell Sage Foundation. It provides recommendations for the alieving of family welfare in the city, going over the scope of work for the department and the almshouse and what reforms could be done.

FRANCIS H. McLEAN was field secretary of the Charity Organization Department of the Russell Sage Foundation.

The Health Show Comes to Town is a report of a public health education campaign led by Dr. W.W. Peter in U.S. cities.

EVART G. ROUTZAHN was associate 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