SOURCE: A review of The Battle with the Slum, in The Nation, Vol. 76, No. 1973, April 23, 1903, pp. 338-39.

In the following essay, a reviewer for The Nation offers a critique of The Battle with the Slum.

This book [The Battle with the Slum] would have attracted more attention than it has, but for the fact that most, if not all, of it is a republication. After writing How the Other Half Lives, the author published, three years ago, A Ten Years' War, a series of papers intended to account for the progress of "the battle with the slum" since the first volume appeared. Since that time, as he hints in his preface, a good many things have happened, and he has been occupied, not only in the conflict itself, but incidentally in writing about it. In the present volume he has passed the later stages of the conflict in...