Extra-illustrated volumes with tipped-in engraved portraits and autograph letters of 19th-century American political figures. Letters are cataloged individually and can be found by a search of the book's call number.
Speech delivered in the Senate condemning the Southern expansion of slavery and the force used in compelling Kansas to be a slave state. In the course of the speech, Sumner ridicules South Carolina Senator Andrew Butler.
"A brief review of its origin, development and merits and practical discussions on actual conduct of jury trials, together with a consideration of constitutional provisions and other cognate subjects of importance."--T.p.
The author examines the correlation between poverty and crime in the late 19th century and recommends resolving the problems through prevention, reformation, and extinction.
While other aids in diagnosis have been added to the caseworker's equipment, the assembling of social evidence is still an important discipline of the profession, to which this volume continues to make a significant contribution.
"This book resumes the discussion of crime, though on a different plan, at the point where my book, 'Sidelights on criminal matters' ended."--Author's preface.
This book consists of eight chapters and contains an examination of women's legal status in the areas of protective labor legislation for women and children; minimum wage laws; mothers' pensions; the property rights of married women; child ...