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BOOK DEPARTMENT

CONDUCTED BY FRANK D. WATSON

Notes, pp. 233-247.

REVIEWS

ADDAMS-The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets

(p. 247)

....

BATY-International Law (p. 248)

.J. P. Lichtenberger
.C. L. Jones

BUTLER Women and the Trades, Pittsburgh, 1907-08 (p. 249) G. D. Hartley
DEALEY-Sociology (p. 249)

.R. E. Chaddock

EASTMAN-The Law of Taxation in Pennsylvania, (2 vols.)

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ENOCK-Merico (p. 251)...

FAGAN-Labor and the Railroads (p. 251)...

HAMMACHER-Das philosophisch-ökonomische System des

Marxismus (p. 252) ..

LAUGHLIN Latter-Day Problems (p. 253)

.C. L. Seiler

.L. S. Rowe
.E. R. Johnson

.C. E. Stangeland
.J. P. Lichtenberger

LIEFMANN-Beteiligungs- und Finanzierungsgesellschaften
(p. 254)

Low-The American People (p. 254)..

MURPHY-The Basis of Ascendency (p. 255).

PLEHN-Introduction to Public Finance (p. 256)

POWELL The Essentials of Self-Government (p. 257)...

M. O. Lorenz
.C. L. Jones

.C. Kelsey
.V. Rosewater
...C. L. Jones

SCHÖNHEYDER-Kapitalen som faktor i menneskets virksomhed

(p. 258)

...C. E. Stangeland

STEINER-The Immigrant Tide, Its Ebb and Flow (p. 258)......C. Kelsey
SUMNER-Equal Suffrage (p. 259)

.....

THOMAS-Source Book for Social Origins (p. 260).
THOMPSON-The Rise and Decline of the Wheat Growing

in Wisconsin (p. 261)

WASHINGTON-The Story of the Negro, (2 vols.) (p. 262)
WILSON-Division and Reunion, 1829-1909 (p. 263)...

LIST OF CONTINENTAL AGENTS

N. M. S. Nearing
..C. Kelsey
Industry

FRANCE: L. Larose, Rue Soufflot 22, Paris.

.G. G. Huebner
..C. Kelsey
.H. V. Ames

GERMANY: Mayer & Müller, 2 Prinz Louis Ferdinandstrasse, Berlin, N. W.
ITALY: Direcione del Giornale degli Economisti, via Monte Savello,
Palazzo Orsini, Rome.

SPAIN: Libreria Nacional y Extranjera de E. Dossat, antes, E. Capdeville,
9 Plaza de Santa Ana, Madrid.

Copyright, 1910, by the American Academy of Political and Social Science.
All rights reserved.

THE PARKS AND RECREATION FACILITIES IN THE

UNITED STATES

BY JOHN NOLEN,

Landscape Architect, Cambridge, Mass.

Herbert Spencer, in an address in New York City, said, “Exclusive devotion to work has the result that amusements cease to please; and when recreation becomes imperative life becomes dreary from lack of its sole interest,-the interest in business. Life is not for learning, nor is life for working, but learning and working are for life. In brief, I may say that we have had somewhat too much of the gospel of work. It is time to preach the gospel of relaxation." Something like this is the observation of nearly every thoughtful visitor to the United States. No characteristics of the American people are more striking than the habit of excessive work, "a whole lifetime of horrid industry," as Bagehot says, and our ignorance of the place of recreation and relaxation in a long, well-ordered and efficient life.

It may seem to readers of this number of THE ANNALS that we have made in recent years, and are now making, great progress in our public provision for recreation. We are, and yet, compared with the countries of Europe, the United States is still far behind both in the facilities that it possesses and in the way in which it utilizes them. It may be questioned whether the present increase of facilities for recreation greatly exceeds the increase in demand. Especially is this true with regard to children. The restoration of their rights to play is proceeding, but proceeding too slowly. It needs to be more widely recognized that play as a form of recreation is indispensable. There is still too much anxiety, too much greed.

We need more plain pleasures, for recreation rightly used is a resource for the common purposes of daily life that is entitled to rank with education, with art, with friendship. It is one of the means ordained for the promotion of health and cheerfulness and morality. As one of our modern philosophers has said, "Vice must be fought by welfare, not by restraint; and society is not safe until to-day's pleasures are stronger than its temptations," adding with

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