The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets

ence not only in observing but in combating and ameliorating the ghastly horrors of our city slums, is unequalled. Miss Addams is an optimist in the sanest sense of the word, and she is a philosopher in the most human sense of that term. Her first chapter is an interesting analysis of the motive powers of the young in their relation to the present complicated industrial and social conditions of the poor in our large cities. As she says, "One generation after another has depended upon its young to equip it with gaiety and enthusiasm, to persuade it that living is a pleasure, until