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Taking the subject of his earlier book, "The Ten Years' War," Mr. Riis has completely rewritten it and added practically a third more new material, bringing the whole up to date. The "War" was with the Slum, hence the new title. "It is not enough to say of Mr. Riis and his works that he is one man among a thousand. He is unique. He does his work of benevolence and reform under conditions that would harden the hearts of many men and certainly excite disgust; but he comes out of the grime and dust with some cheery note or some heroic incident, some story of self-sacrifice among the poor, or some thought which ennobles the struggle."--_New York Mail._ _Profusely illustrated with reproductions from photographs by the author and original drawings by Thomas Fogarty. Cloth, gilt top, $2.00 net; postage extra_ CHILDREN OF THE TENEMENTS "Deeply human, sympathetic stories of the youngsters of all nationalities who crowd the parks, the newsboys' homes, and swarm in the big tenements of the East Side of New York." "Mr. Riis is a man who does not theorize, but who knows. His book is full of pathetic pictures, painful in their truth but beautiful in their meaning. No one who is interested in sociology can afford to miss what he has to say."--_Current Literature._ Cloth, illustrated, $1.50 net; postage extra IS THERE A SANTA CLAUS? "A classic of childhood, one of Jacob Riis's most charming and attractive books for boys and girls, one that will always live as a popular gift-book." _Cloth, 75 cents net; postage extra_ With Poor Immigrants to America BY STEPHEN GRAHAM _Decorated cover, 8vo, illustrated, $2.00 net; postage extra_ "We collected on the quay at Liverpool--English, Russians, Jews, Germans, Swedes, Finns, all staring at one another curiously and trying to understand languages we had never heard before. Three hundred yards out in the harbor stood the red funneled Cunarder which was to bear us to America." These words describe the beginning of the colorful travels of which Mr. Graham writes in this book. Mr. Graham has the spirit of the real adventurer. He prefers people to Pullmans, steerage passage to first cabin. In his mingling with the poorer classes he comes in contact intimately with a life which most writers know only by hearsay, and interesting bits of this life and that which is picturesque and romantic and unlooked for he transcribes to paper with a freshness and vividness that
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