The Young Wage-Earner
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This is a meaty book. Its 190 pages and 129 tables are crammed with facts about boys?1,349 of them. It is easy enough to collect a batch of facts from a selected set of boys, ones who are ready to talk. But it is a herculean labour to dig out specific facts from all the boys of a particular group who will linclude the tongue tied, the lazy, the shy, the facetious, the forgetful and the plain nit-wit. This, however, is just what the authors of "The Young Wage Earner" have succeeded in doing: and it as well to emphasise the fact in view of some of the criticisms which have been levelled at the book. Another thing?they have presented their mass of facts in an admirably straight-forward manner. They open with a few pages about the purpose of their study and the methods they used. Then they proceed to a long summary, very clearly put, of their findings. And after that the reader can make his own way,
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