To The Book Review Editor, Rural Sociology:.

The article presents the views of author on the book "The Community of the Future and the Future of the Community," by Arthur E. Morgan. According to the author, Morgan notes that much has been written about the community during the past fifty years, but as yet we have no fitting analysis which uncovers the fate of the community in our rapidly changing society. He points out the inevitability of needs for both localism and cosmopolitanism in the life of modern man. The book is exceedingly valuable as a text on the community and as a rounded interpretation of the now-developing ecology of modern industrial societies. The rearrangements of the population in the U.S. bear out this. People are moving out from the crowds as much as possible. Each new main highway to the hinterlands is quickly bracketed by small factories, and each of these has its localistic community and housing development. This new pattern of life is growing apace. Rural sociologists are constantly being called for direction and advice upon the development of the localistic community.