within the limits here found does not show itself to a great extent. As they come before you, one after the other, perhaps the only surprise is that they are so much alike. We have seen in the five Binet tests, that in general the age norm held. If in some cases those who failed were of the age set for passing, in other cases those who succeeded were younger than the passing age. Of sixty-one individual successes, twelve were under the age set for the test. Of seventy-two individual failures, only twenty-five were of the age where according to the Binet Standard they should have passed.

The seven or eight Germans, the four or five Hebrews, the three or four Poles, appear in uncertain proportions both in successes and in failures.

In the last five tests of the series, we have no data for actual comparison; but the cross comparison from race to race stands as in the Binet tests. The cases, of course, are very few and they may not be in any way representative, yet even if the suggested possibility of little discoverable racial difference here, is but faint, it may not be any the less real, and the results showing what these children have actually done may perhaps suggest lines of approach to further study of the smallest immigrant child.

RESULTS OF TESTS OF OLDER CHILDREN

Discrimination of color, form and size. No test already in use combined color, form and size, as a non-language test. The test here described and already mentioned was devised for that purpose.

Out of pasteboard covered with paper of the purest obtainable red, green, blue, yellow-four colors-the following forms were made in three sizes-square, circle, diamond, triangle, octagon. The squares were in diameter, one inch, one inch and a half, and two inches. The sizes of the other forms followed these general dimensions. These sixty pieces were arranged in a "fixed" order, definitely planned to mix well, colors and forms and sizes. On the back of each piece was a number.

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For the experimenter's use, duplicates of ten of these pieces were made:

In each of these ten "samples," a pin was put to serve as a handle, so that the fingers of the experimenter would hide none of the figure itself.

The child to be tested stood with the sixty pieces spread out in front of him in their stated order, six rows, with ten pieces in each row. As the experimenter held in front of him a sample (always presented in fixed order also, from one to ten), the child picked up from the sixty the corresponding piece as to color, as to size, as to form, held its back, on which was the number, toward the experimenter, who entered the number on the record, and had the next sample held up in readiness while the child was replacing his piece. The stop watch was started with the holding up of the first sample, and stopped when the child had given his last decision, though the time element in the test was of but incidental interest.

To explain in the beginning what was to be done, the experimenter held up a sample (no. 7), and pointed from it to the group of sixty pieces. Almost without exception the children understood quickly, for at the first choice, if correct, the sample was put on the one selected, and color, exact agreement of shape, exact agreement of size, were pointed out. Then "Sample 8" was shown in the same way, and this time after the first recognition (or correction) performance had been gone through, the number on the back was pointed out, and the experimenter made the motions of entering this number on the record sheet. If further practice was needed, samples 9 and 10 were used.

When the experiment was once started, it went like clock work.