The plan of this volume demands a few words of explanation.It was originally intended to be a collection of readingsillustrating the varied phases of women’s work in municipalities,but an examination of the available literaturefailed to reveal succinct, up-to-date summaries of the severalimportant branches of that work. It was therefore necessaryto search the records of hundreds of organizations andsocieties in order to obtain a just view of the extent andcharacter of the labors of women for civic improvement ofall kinds. Accordingly the volume as finally drafted combinesboth readings and original surveys.

The method followed has been dominated by a fourfoldpurpose: (1) to give something like an adequate notion ofthe extent and variety of women’s interests and activities incities and towns without attempting a statistical summary orevaluation; (2) to indicate, in their own words, the spirit inwhich women have approached some of their most importantproblems; (3) to show to women already at work and thosejust becoming interested in civic matters, the interrelationof each particular effort with larger social problems; and(4) to reflect the general tendencies of modern social workas they appear under the guidance of men and women alike.

The task has been difficult owing to the immense amountof material which months of research accumulated and thelimitations of space which made necessary the compressionof important narrative and descriptive accounts within anarrow compass. This difficulty has been further increasedby the desire to escape the danger of overemphasizing women’sactivities in great cities and of omitting the no lessviimportant and significant work of women in smaller towns.Even at the risk of distorting the perspective by givingmuch space to minor cities and to local club activities,it has seemed worth while to make the book truly representativeof American urban life as a whole. All citydwellers do not live in New York, Chicago and Philadelphia.

Limited as are the purposes of the book and serious as itsshortcomings may be, it certainly contains the material andsuggestions which warrant a new interpretation of that age-wornslogan, “Cherchez la femme<

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