2 JANUARY 1915, Page 31

Students of social reforms affecting the rising generation will find

much to interest them in two American books just published by Messrs. Macmillan and Co. The excellent work of the Juvenile Protective Association, organized some years ago in Chicago, is described in Safeguards for City Youth, by Louise de Koven Bowen (6s. 6(1. net). It was in Chicago that the first special Court for trying offences imputed to children WO established in 1899, and the development of this institu- tion throughout North America supplies the material of Dr. Thomas D. Eliot's short treatise on The Juvenile Court and the Community (5s. 6d.).