PERIODICAL LITERATURE.

This article presents information about several research papers published in different journals, related to the field of sociology. In November 1910 issue of the "American Journal of Sociology," the commendable tendency towards inquiry into concrete civic problems noticeable in recent American research is illustrated in a study of a special housing question in Chicago-the crowding of poor families into furnished rooms. The paper is by two women students of the Chicago School of Civics and Philanthropy-S.P. Breckinridge and Edith Abbots. They describe the peculiar feature in this development of overcrowding-namely, the degradation of the commodious houses which have survived from an earlier period, houses unsuited to tenement purposes, and the ways in which they are made to serve the need, of a continually shifting population. The November issue of the journal "Eugenics Review" is entirely devoted to a discussion of the Royal Commission's Reports on the Poor Law in relation to eugenic principles and policy.