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Anniversary Papers of the New York School of Social Work and the Community Service Society of New York. New York: Columbia University Press, 1949. 288 pp.
THE FAMILY IN A DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY. Anniversary Papers of the Community Service Society of New York. New York: Columbia University Press, 1949. 287 pp.
These volumes are collections of papers presented at a symposium commemorating the hundredth anniversary of the Community Service Society of New York and the fiftieth anniversary of the New York School of Social Work. 'The purpose was not so much to review the past as to look ahead' (p. v, foreword), and the papers are published 'to bring to a broad public a clearer concept of the place of social welfare in tomorrow's world' (foreword). The papers present the views of their individual authors, among whom are Dr. James B. Conant, Dr. Brock Chisholm, Sir Raphael Cilebto, M. D. and Dr. Irwin Edman.
The books are delightfully free of trade jargon, and this happy absence makes them useful to the general public. They might well be on the shelves of community and civic leaders. New knowledge in the social sciences is highlighted and a fine view is given of the basic material from which social work draws its methods and techniques.