This little pamphlet embodies the results of a survey of 24,000 school children. Especial regard was given to the so-called exceptional child, who has always been a problem in public school systems. When he is superior in his attainments, he has managed to adjust himself even though his potentialities have not been fully developed, but when he is inferior, he has too often dropped out of school altogether at an early age and later on in life formed one of the army of psychopaths, criminals, hoboes, and other anti-social types. Dr. Gesell has made a number of excellent suggestions, many of which are naturally purely local in their application. He proposes a State law which, whatever its possible flaws, is an intelligent and praise-worthy effort to establish a broad, constructive legislative policy for that neglected group, the feebleminded.

Lind