A passage from the author's own preface expresses in concise form the purpose of this volume: 'The aim of the present book is to put before the reader a general view of the more everyday problems of the girl at home and at school', and a glance through the contents page reveals a very full and wide treatment of such problems in relation to the adolescent girl both of the past and of to-day. It is indeed a matter for some regret that Miss Chadwick has attempted to cover quite so wide a field. For most of her readers Parts II and III, entitled respectively 'Home Life', 'School Days and Later', are of more immediate and absorbing interest than Part I, entitled 'Historical', in which an attempt is made to show the adolescent girl and her development among the primitive races, in myth and fairy tale, and in the earlier historical epochs. Interesting as such an investigation undoubtedly is, one feels that it is too compressed, too rapid a survey