The Poor in great cities
Subtitle: their problems and what is being done to solve them, by Robert A. Woods, W. T. Elsing [and others] illustrated by Hugh Thomson, Otto H. Bacher [and others]
Contributors: Elsing, William Thaddeus; Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August), 1849-1914; Parsons, Willard; Wendell, Evert Jansen, 1860-1917; Tucker, William Jewett, 1839-1926; Kirkland, Joseph, 1830-1894; Besant, Walter, 1836-1901; Spearman, Edmund R.; Mario, Jessie White, 1832-1906; Craig, Oscar; Flagg, Ernest, 1857-1947
Publisher: K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.
Published: 1896
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 400
Subjects: Poor; Cities and towns
Other titles: Scribner's magazine.
Notes: Papers contributed to Scribner's magazine during the years 1891-1893.
Table of contents: title: The social awakening in London, by R.A. Woods.-Life in New York tenement-houses as seen by a city missionary, by W.T. Elsing.-The children of the poor, by J.A. Riis.-The story of the fresh-air fund, by W. Parsons.-Boys' clubs in New York, by E.J. Wendell-The work of the Andover house in Boston, by W.J. Tucker.-Among the poor of Chicago, by J. Kirkland.-A riverside parish, by Sir W. Besant.-A school for street Arabs, by E. R. Spearman.-The poor in Naples, by J.W. Mario.-Agencies for the prevention of pauperism, by O. Craig.-The New York tenement-house evil and its cure, by E.Flagg