A standard textbook on city government in the United States. By the same author, a companion volume, _The Government of European Cities_. (VI, 7; IV, 3.) Odum, Howard W. _Community and Government: A Manual of Discussion and Study of the Newer Ideals of Citizenship_ (Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 1921). Steffens, Lincoln. _The Shame of the Cities_ (New York, 1907). An exposure of corruption in city governments. (VII, 5.) Toulmin, Harry A. _The City Manager: A New Profession_ (New York, 1915). (IX, 1.) Weber, G. A. _Organized Efforts for the Improvement of Methods of Administration in the United States_ (New York and London, 1919). Weyl, Walter E. “The Brand of the City,” _Harper’s_, CXXX (April, 1915), 769–75. Wilcox, Delos F. _Great Cities in America: Their Problems and Their Government_ (New York, 1910). (IV, 3; VI; VII, 1, 5.) Zueblin, Charles. _A Decade of Civic Development_ (Chicago, 1905). A discussion of the state of American city civilization at the beginning of the twentieth century. (V, 4, 5; VI; VII, 1; VIII, 1.) 8. The complexity, specialization, and dependence of the city are seen clearly in the methods by which the city gets its food supply and other vital necessities for the existence of the population. The food trains, milk trains, cattle trains, the miles of refrigerator cars and coal cars that daily enter the large city, the warehouses and the stores, the countless delivery wagons that line the streets—all these are evidence of what a tremendously complex and efficient organization has grown up to meet the urgent wants, the desires for subsistence and for luxury of our millions of city-dwellers. Here too we sometimes see examples of what anxiety and what calamity might result from the slightest interruption or dislocation in the methods of supplying the city with these varied specialties. The department store and the chain store are characteristic city institutions, corresponding to the grouping of the city population. Colze, Leo. _Berliner Warenhäuser_, Vol. XLVII in “Grossstadt Dokumente” (Berlin, 1905). Berlin stores. (III, 4; IV, 1; V, 1; IX, 1.) Loeb, Moritz. _Berliner Konfektionen_, Vol. XV in “Grossstadt Dokumente” (Berlin, 1905). Ready-made clothing establishments. (V, 1, 4; IX, 1.) Parker, Horatio Newton. _City Milk Supply_ (New York, 1917). (IV, 1.) Shideler, E. H. “The Business Center as an Institution,” _Jour. Appl. Sociol._, IX (March, April, 1925), 269–75. An outline of the local trade center in the urban community and its significance in city life. (IV, 1; V, 1, 2, 3; VII, 1, 2.)