SOURCE: A review of Twenty Years at Hull-House, in Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 26, 1911, pp. 317-19.

In the following review of Twenty Years at Hull-House, Hall concentrates on the role models who instilled in Addams a spirit of selflessness.

[Twenty Years at Hull-House] is invaluable as a human document. It is a beautiful memorial to a father and a wonderful revelation of a life given to a great purpose. In its style it is transparent and simple, but it is filled with subtle suggestion. It is not a book that should be lightly skimmed. Throughout there is a constant searching for the fuller meaning of human life; and underneath all the tentative inquiry and sometimes apparent groping there is a strong faith and a definite and clear conviction that have given unity to the whole life so vividly described.

The first chapter shows us an almost super-sensitive child, brought...