This is an exceedingly interesting contribution, in spite of its shortcomings, but largely from a point of view other than that intended by the author, in that it gives sidelights upon the reactions of those in charge of such schools to the stimulation of the pupils, and because it provides much useful evidence in what ways an institution of this kind may exercise harmful influence upon children, whose natural impulse is to 'show off'. To live constantly under the microscope of students of psychology, one batch of whom succeed another in endless repetition, obviously, from the material here before us, proves that some of the children are aware of the situation and see to it that they provide material worth recording. The students themselves seem to react to the child more than we would have expected. We read that they were all 'captivated' by her ways and conversation, but owned when she tried to boss them, 'the most