Mother and ChildSo You're Going to Have a Baby. by Helen Washburn; Healthy Babies Are Happy Babies. AHandbook for Modern Mothers. by Josephine Hemenway Kenyon; Maternity Handbook. byThe Maternity Center Association; Modern Motherhood. by Claude Edwin Heaton; Your NewBaby. How to Prepare for It and Care for It. by Linda McClure Woods; Let's Talk about YourBaby. by H. Kent Tenney,; Will It Be a Boy? by Fridtjof Okland; Mental Deficienc ...Review by: Ernest R. GrovesSocial Forces, Vol. 14, No. 4 (May, 1936), pp. 616-617Published by: Oxford University PressStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2571133 .

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6i6 SOCIAL FORCES

this same thing was true of the other agencies in the field and if so, what made for this rather striking increase in effi- ciency per dollar expended.

A third point is a natural corollary of these two. The standards set by the appraisal form are admittedly high. They bulwark the case for additional expenditure and over a long run period of time no one would deny the usefulness of that procedure. In any given year, how- ever, or in any short run period, a city council or a community chest is apt to have available for its health appropria- tion a fairly well fixed sum of money. A survey based on the appraisal forms can show very clearly where additional ex-

penditures are desirable but only by im- plication does it show how to get the maximum community efficiency out of the money actually in hand.

None of these things vitiate either the unique contribution which the appraisal form has made to the development of public health or the excellence of this particular survey. They-merely suggest the importance of clearly defining the type of problem to be attacked in a given local situation before deciding that the ex- clusive use of this particular survey pattern is best adapted to its practical solution.

BRADLEY BUELL.

Community Chests & Councils, Inc.

MOTHER AND CHILD

ERNEST R. GROVES

University of North Carolina

So YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE A BABY. By Helen Wash- burn. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Com- pany, I933. I95 PP-

HLALTHY BABIES ARE HAPPY BABIES. A Handbook for Modern Mothers. By Josephine Hemenway Kenyon. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, I934. 32I PP.

MATERNITY HANDBOOK. By The Maternity Center Association, New York City. New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, I932.. I78 pp.

MODERN MOTHERHOOD. By Claude Edwin Heaton. New York: Farrar & Rhinehart, Inc., I935. 27I

pp. $1.oo. YOUR NEw BABY. How to Prepare for It and Care

for It. By Linda McClure Woods. New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, I935. 2.47 PP. $1.oo.

LET'S TALK ABOUT YOUR BABY. By H. Kent Tenney, Jr. Madison, Wisconsin: Kilgore Printing Com- pany, I934. io6 pp. $i.5o.

WILL IT BE A BoY? By Fridtjof Okland. New York: The Century Company, I932.. ii6 pp. $1.5O.

MENTAL DEFICIENCY DUE TO BIRTH INJURIES. By Edgar A. Doll, Winthrop M. Phelps, and Ruth Taylor Melcher. New York: The Macmillan Company, I932.. 2.89 pp.

FETAL, NEWBORN, AND MATERNAL MORBIDITY AND

MORTALITY. By Committee on Prenatal and

Maternal Care, The White House Conference on Child Health and Protection. New York and London: D. Appleton-Century Company, Inc.,

I933. 486 pp- $3.00. THE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL GROWTH OF PREMA-

TURELY BORN CHILDREN. By Julius H. Hess,

George J. Mohr, and Phyllis F. Bartelme. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, I934.

499 PP. $5.00.

Motherhood is one of the human ex- periences toward which the sociologist cannot become indifferent. Pregnancy and childbirth, in addition to a phys- iological and racial significance, have aspects distinctly sociological. About them gathers social pressure such as Dr. Hollingworth has so well interpreted. (Social Devices for Impelling Women to Bear and Rear Children," American Journal of Sociology, Vol. XXII, No. i, July, i9i6, pp. i9-i9. Also, the childbirth trends at any given time have profound, intricate, and far-reaching social conse- quences. Therefore, these books discuss-

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LIBRARY AND WORKSHOP 6I7

ing some phase of motherhood have value not only for students of the family inter- ested in population but also for those concerned with problems of social psy- chology and social evolution.

Washburn's book has a peculiar pur- pose. It is written for those women who who are hesitating at the gate and who, before entering into parenthood, wish to count its cost to themselves personally and to know how to protect from its hazards. For the woman who insists upon coming to motherhood with deliberation, and the number of such women is increasing, this book will prove useful.

Healthy Babies are Happy Babies, Ma- ternity Handbook, Modern Motherhood, and Your New Baby are all written to help women understand and handle, so far as the responsibilities belong to them, the problems of pregnancy, childbirth, and the care of the infant. Necessarily they cover similar ground,' but the first is dis- tinguished by a clear-cut, time classifica- tion, chapter by chapter, which carries the baby from conception to the end of three years. For example, we have "The Baby at Birth," "The Baby at Two Weeks of Age," and "The Baby from Two to Three Weeks," thus making it easy for the mother to realize the changing situation until the end of early infancy has arrived.

Dr. Tenney's book is also different in that it is presented in the form of friendly chats about matters of physical care that mothers often misunderstand.

Okland's book will disappoint those who attempt to find from it some means of deciding the sex of their desired child. It is merely a popular presentation of the effort that is being made, chiefly through investigations in the realm of animals, to discover whether means can be found for the control of sex.

Although Mental Deficiency Due to Birth In]uries is written for the physician and for

those concerned with the various forms of idiocy resulting from brain injuries in childbirth, the book is of value to stu- dents of the family, especially those who through their teaching emphasize mar- riage.

Fetal, Newborn, and Maternal Morbidity and Mortality is a compilation of material brought together by the Committee on Prenatal and Maternal Care for President Hoover's White House Conference on Child Health and Protection. It covers a wider field than the former book and is even more needed in the library of the student of marriage.

The Physical and Mental Growth of Pre- maturely Born Children is distinctly a med- ical book, highly technical in form. It is an authoritative source of information regarding problems that are sure to arise in class discussions in marriage courses, and its findings will interest and impress both men and women students, since both seek knowledge concerning the cause, the proper treatment, and the survival chances of the prematurely born child.

OUR GOVERNME3NT TODAY. By Finla Goff Crawford. New York: Henry Holt and Company, I935.

354 PP.

Those who applaud the trend away from the study of mere governmental structure and legalistic definition of spheres of gov- ernmental activity should welcome Pro- fessor Crawford's book. Two-thirds of the volume are devoted to analysis of what the federal, state, and local govern- ments are doing in the fields of banking, transportation, public utilities, industry, agriculture, social security, relief, and education. Although the institutional analysis is applied to the Presidency, Congress, the Supreme Court, elections, and the party system, the merit of the book lies in its functional analysis of government, and its skilful avoidance of

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