By March, librarians in Concord, Massachusetts deemed it “trash” and “suitable only for the slums.” It was the first time the book was banned in the United States, but it certainly wouldn ...

THE general pattern of the development of slums is almost always the same. They begin with the overcrowding of existing buildings and the addition of tenants built by conscienceless speculators to ...

To be honest, I was never a sophomore at the University of Wisconsin, which is also the probable reason why I haven’t lived in the “sophomore slums.” (That’s how logic works, right?) You might be ...

It is also very irreverent. . . . The whole book is of a class that is more profitable for the slums than it is for respectable people. -St. Louis Globe-Democrat, March 17, 1885 The Brooklyn ...