The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 42, July 1938 - April, 1939 Page: 431
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Book Notes and Acknowledgments
way of life. About ninety per cent of the book is concerned with
history, economics, political science, education, and social and
public welfare, rather than with sociology. If the book had been
entitled "Urban Problems," it would have been a more appro-
priate designation in view of the subject matter contained there-
in; certainly it is misnamed as it stands. The sociologist will
search in vain for anything more than the most cursory treat-
ment, when attention of any sort is given, to such things as the
ecological and social processes, forms, patterns, and personal effects
of city growth and the development of urbanism. He will find,
however, data on all sorts of minutiae of existence in the big cities
ranging all the way from garden suburbs to blighted areas, the
feeding of school children to odors and effluvia, open forums to the
kindergarten, and planned recreation to the honky-tonk.
W. E. GETTYS.
The University of Texas.
The QUARTERLY has received a copy of the 1938 List of Doctoral
Dissertations in History Now in Progress at American Universities
from The Division of Historical Research of the Carnegie Insti-
tution of Washington. Miss Margaret Willgoose Harrison is the
editor of this list. There were 1039 dissertations in progress in
1938 at fifty-two universities and colleges. The titles of the
dissertations are arranged in topical order, while the index of the
candidates appears in alphabetical order.
R. L. B.
The New Deal in Action, 1933-1938, by A. M. Schlesinger (Mac-
millan, 1939, $.60) contains sixty-nine pages and was "planned
in first instance as a supplement" to the author's Political and
Social Growth of the United States, 1852-1933 (Macmillan, 1933).
It discusses the nature of the New Deal, the various relief, recovery,
and reform measures, the battle over the Supreme Court, the
recession, and foreign relations under President Roosevelt, together
with a few other topics. The book is useful in survey courses and
for collateral reading.
R. L. B.431
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