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This is a monumental work prepared at great cost of time and labor by the authors. Not only have they covered an enormous amount of material in the sense of reports and documents, but they have personally visited in some places many times, cities and institutions in the United States and Canada where important or typical programs of child care or child experimentation are in progress. The introduction says,“There have been developed in recent years various types of standpoint, organization, and program directed toward the study and control of behavior…. In the meantime problems have arisen in these practical programs concerning mental deficiency, emotional instability, habit formation, special disability, family relationships, leisure time activities, gang life of children, etc., and the academic psychologist and sociologist have linked up their research and speculative work with these practical programs. One of the interesting results has been the development of a somewhat new approach in the form of organization, having as main objective the development of scientific technique as related directly to the practical program.” In this volume, then, the authors undertake to examine these practical programs and scientific techniques and make