The Child Savers

by Anthony M. Platt. University of Chicago, $8.50. Mr. Platt has assembled the facts for a history of the founding of the juvenile court system and of social work with delinquent youth, but has swamped his perfectly good material in pedantry. Everything repeated four times. He also has a hang-up concerning middle-class female do-gooders, but fails to make much of it because, at the period he is considering, nobody else was doing anything.