Nibsy's Christmas

Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

CHAPTER I. THE PROBLEM OF THE CHILDREN, 1 CHAPTER II. THE ITALIAN SLUM CHILDREN, 10 CHAPTER III. IN THE GREAT EAST SIDE TREADMILL, 35 CHAPTER IV. TONY AND HI...

Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

Index 451 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Theodore Roosevelt _Frontispiece_ ...

Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

BY JACOB A. RIIS _Author of_ "_The Making of an American_," "_The Battle with the Slum_," "_How the Other Half Lives_," _e...

Jonathan Swift

1729 It is a melancholy object to those, who walk through this great town, or travel in the country, when they see the streets, the roads and cabbin-doors crowded with beggars of the female sex,...

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer.

Plato

Translated by Benjamin Jowett INTRODUCTION.

Ambrose Bierce

THE MILLENNIUM FULCRUM EDITION, 1988 A man stood upon a railroad bridge in northern Alabama, looking down into the swift water twenty feet below.