A Political History of the State of New York Volume III Part 71

American Public Problems

EDITED BY

RALPH CURTIS RINGWALT

IMMIGRATION: And Its Effects Upon the United States

By PRESCOTT F. HALL, A.B., LL.B., Secretary of the Immigration Restriction League. 393 pp. $1.50 net. By mail, $1.65.

"Should prove interesting to everyone. Very readable, forceful and convincing. Mr. Hall considers every possible phase of this great question and does it in a masterly way that shows not only that he thoroughly understands it, but that he is deeply interested in it and has studied everything bearing upon it."--_Boston Transcript._

"A readable work containing a vast amount of valuable information.

Especially to be commended is the discussion of the racial effects. As a trustworthy general guide it should prove a G.o.dsend."--_N.Y. Evening Post._

"Earnest and unprejudiced.... Cannot fail to be of great a.s.sistance in clarifying and setting on a solid foundation the ideas of people who are now becoming convinced that the problems of immigration in the nation and the munic.i.p.ality will soon reach a more acute stage than ever before."--_Philadelphia Press._

"An auspicious omen of the worth of Messrs. Henry Holt and Company's recently announced series on American Public Problems.... Mr. Hall has been in close touch with the immigration movement and he writes with a grasp and a fullness of information which must commend his work to every reader.... A handbook ... to which one may turn conveniently for information for which he would otherwise be obliged to search through many a dusty doc.u.ment."--_The World To-day._

THE ELECTION OF SENATORS

By Professor GEORGE H. HAYNES, Author of "Representation in State Legislatures." 300 pp. $1.50 net. By mail $1.65.

Shows the historical reasons for the present method, and its effect on the senate and senators, and on state and local government, with a detailed review of the arguments for and against direct election.

"A timely book.... Prof. Haynes is qualified for a historical and a.n.a.lytical treatise on the subject of the Senate."--_N.Y. Evening Sun._

"Well worth reading, and unique because it is devoted wholly to the election of senators and to the deliberations of the Senate."--_Boston Transcript._

"Able and dispa.s.sionate, and ought to be widely read."--_New York Commercial._

"Of considerable popular as well as historical interest."--_Dial._

Henry Holt and Company 29 WEST 23D STREET NEW YORK

TWO BOOKS ON VITAL QUESTIONS FOR THOUGHTFUL AMERICANS

THE NEGRO AND THE NATION

By GEORGE S. MERRIAM

Probably the first complete history of the negro in his relation to our politics, _2d printing_ 436 pp. $1.75 net. By mail $1.92.

The Rev. EDWARD EVERETT HALE in "Lend a Hand": "Sensible people who wish to know, who wish to form good sound opinions, and especially those who wish to take their honest part in the great duties of the hour, will read the book, will study it, and will find nothing else better worth reading and study."

"Admirable, exactly the sort of book needed.... Enlightened and persuasive discussion of the negro problem in its present phases and aspects. Not a dry history. Human, dramatic, interesting, absorbing, there is philosophy of national and political life back of it--a philosophy which not only furnished interpretation of past events, but offers guidance for the future.... Impartial and informing.... There is much that tempts quotation.... Mr. Merriam has given us an excellent, high-minded, illuminating book on the problem of the American negro."--_Chicago Record-Herald._

"A deeply interesting story.... An exceedingly readable volume, especially valuable in its a.n.a.lyses of conditions, causes, situations and results; and against his main conclusions no sane person can contend."--_Boston Transcript._

STUDIES IN AMERICAN TRADE-UNIONISM

J.H. HOLLANDER and G.E. BARNETT (Editors)

Twelve papers by graduate students and officers of Johns Hopkins University, the results of original investigations of representative Trade Unions. There are also chapters on Employers' a.s.sociations, the Knights of Labor, and the American Federation of Labor. (380 pp., 8vo, $2.75 net. By mail, $2.98.)

"A study of trade-unions in the concrete. Impartial and thorough ...

expertly written."--_New York Times Review._

"Though confined to particular features of particular trade unions, the data dealt with are comprehensive and typical; so that the result is a substantial contribution to our knowledge of trade-union structure and functions.... Excellent studies."--_New York Evening Post._

"It is doubtful if anything approaching it in breadth and coordination has yet found its way into print.... A very useful book."--_San Francisco Chronicle._

Henry Holt and Company 34 W. 33D STREET (V, '06) NEW YORK

AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY

OUR PHILIPPINE PROBLEM

By Prof. HENRY PARKER WILLIS

A study of American Colonial Policy. 12mo, $1.50 net (By mail, $1.64)

A book of vital interest, based on personal investigation in the Philippines by a former editorial writer of the _New York Evening Post_, who was also Was.h.i.+ngton correspondent of the _New York Journal of Commerce_ and _Springfield Republican_, and is now a professor in Was.h.i.+ngton and Lee University.

"Anyone desiring to inform himself fully as to the history, politics, public questions, in short, everything dealing with the subject of American control of the Philippines from the day Dewey entered Manila harbor to the present, will find Mr. Willis's work a most important book.... He writes of the Filipinos as he found them, and with the knack of the true investigator, has avoided falling in with the political views of any party or faction. More valuable still is his exposition of the Philippine question in its bearings on American life and politics. A most exhaustive, careful, honest and unbiased review of every phase of the question."--_The Was.h.i.+ngton Post._

"A keen, exhaustive and merciless criticism of the whole Philippine experiment.... His unsparing a.n.a.lysis of all the departments of Philippine government must (however) command respect as able, honest and sincere ... no other book contains more solid truth, or a greater section of the truth."--_Springfield Republican._

AMERICA, ASIA AND THE PACIFIC

By WOLF VON SCHIERBRAND

_Author of "Germany of To-day"_