POVERTY 



AN ATTEMPT TO DEFINE IT AND TO ES- 

 TIMATE ITS EXTENT IN THIS COUNTRY 



By ROBERT HUKTER 



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" Despite the abundance of sociological literature in this field, 

 really good books dealing with poverty are conspicuously rare. 

 To this exceptional class belongs, however, a volume on 

 ' Poverty,' by Mr. Robert Hunter, formerly head of the New 

 York University Settlement. . . ; Mr. Hunter's bqok is at once 

 sympathetic and scientific. He brought to this task a store of 

 practical experience in settlement and relief work gathered in 

 many parts of the country. His analysis of the problem is 

 marked by keen insight and sound judgment. There is no 

 sentimental foolishness, no hysterical extravagance in this book ; 

 nor, on the other hand, is it the smug treatise of a cold-blooded 

 statistician. It is the work of a man who has observed the 

 evils of poverty at first hand, who feels strongly the injustice of 

 what he has seen, and yet who thinks straight — a man with a 

 heart and a brain. . . . Whether we agree or disagree with the 

 particular measures of prevention proposed by Mr. Hunter, one 

 can hardly dispute, on general principles, the correctness of his 

 diagnosis and the wisdom of his advice." 



— The Social Settler in The Boston Transcript. 



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