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Title: Children of the Tenements

Author: Jacob A. Riis

Illustrator: C. M. Relyea

Release Date: May 23, 2007 [EBook #21583]

Language: English

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CHILDREN OF THE TENEMENTS

BY

JACOB A. RIIS

_Author of_ "_The Making of an American_,"
"_The Battle with the Slum_,"
"_How the Other Half Lives_," _etc._

_WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY C. M. RELYEA
AND OTHERS_

New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., LTD.
1903

_All rights reserved_

Copyright, 1897, 1898,
By THE CENTURY CO.

Copyright, 1903,
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.

Set up, electrotyped, and published October, 1903.

Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing & Co.--Berwick & Smith Co.
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.

PREFACE

I have been asked a great many times in the last dozen years if I
would not write an "East-side novel," and I have sometimes had much
difficulty in convincing the publishers that I meant it when I said I
would not. Ye