"Deeply human, sympathetic stories of the youngsters of all nationalities
who crowd the parks, the newsboys' homes, and swarm in the big tenements
of the East Side of New York."
"Mr. Riis is a man who does not theorize, but who knows. His book is full
of pathetic pictures, painful in their truth but beautiful in their
meaning. No one who is interested in sociology can afford to miss what he
has to say."--_Current Literature._