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Dr. Salomon, whom many Americans have met during her visits to this country in the past several years, presents in this book her findings based on an international survey of schools of social work and institutions giving courses in that subject. Her work was made possible by the Russell Sage Foundation and contains data up to the first quarter of 1936. The book was printed in Germany.
If readers expect from the title any considerable discussion of the content of social work courses they will be quite disappointed. What Dr. Salomon has done, and done with painstaking thoroughness, is to present us with a compilation from school reports and catalogues of the courses offered by each, giving at the same time a descriptive background of the nations in which the schools operate. She has briefly commented upon the social and economic structure, the trends of family and group life, attitudes of government toward social problems, so that the reader may evaluate for himself the training offered in relation to the needs of the countries. The author states that 'she has endeavored to abstain from valuation or criticism' but the impossibility of this endeavor is evident.
The sections dealing with Great Britain, France, Germany, Belgium and the United States are more richly filled with interesting material than the others due, of course, to the fact that the author had spent more time in personal visits to these countries.
The book will have a limited usefulness and perhaps be of most interest to members of administrative staffs of schools of social work for comparisons with what is being done elsewhere.