roundings, never makes any effort to move about or to associate with others; never answers questions addressed to him; at times laughs to himself; at other times becomes very irritable. Cries out and tears his clothing and attacks those near him; at times refuses nourishment; very neglectful of his personal appearance. Has been orderly, quiet and wellbehaved during the past week."

There are persons, both sane and insane, who find stimulus and pleasure in active exercise rather than in sedentary occupation, and this truth has an interesting demonstration in a group of insane women at Dunning who meet afternoons in the amusement hall and dance and march and play games. Here are brought together from 100 to 150 women from various wards, no working patients, but all more or less demented, some epileptic, some violent. The head nurse in charge was a student of the school in the summer of 1909. When visited recently by a member of the school faculty, she was surrounded by a group of bright, strong, merry young attendants, who entered into all the exercises with an air of unfeigned pleasure, and led the patients and mingled with them in a most skillful way. The head nurse said in explanation: "It does not look like much perhaps to see these 100 women in a grand march, but it means a lot of work just to get them all to go in step. They came together from different wards and were strangers to each other, and just getting acquainted and at ease with each other and learning the simplest movements took a long time. I cannot see that they have "improved" much, but they are happier, and what is life for to any of us anyway? I do not allow any attendants to come over here who do not like to come. You cannot get anything done here or in the ward unless the attendant is in sympathy. One of the attendants present is a cheerful, vigorous woman, who has a long ward filled with violent, chronic, young women. A year ago all her time had to be spent in getting the routine work done and stopping the fights. Now there is not a ward that turns out more work. It does a great amount of mending for the men's wards."

One could not ask for a better case of re-educative occupation. The sympathetic approval of the superintendent and the physician in charge of the patients made the result possible; but it was secured by use of the special training given in the summer course. The attendant from the same institution, who also took the course, has proved of increased value, and her salary was raised $10.00 a month in consequence.

The officers of the School of Civics fully recognize the limitations of the teaching which can be given in the brief summer course now given, and they recognize also its relative place in the great public concern of caring for the mentally unfit.

On the other hand, it was only because of the encouragement of some of the most distinguished superintendents in the country that the course was offered, and it is on account of their approval and cooperation that it is continued.

Then follows a description of the course of instruction:

The occupations consist of two equally important parts, (a) handicraft, and (b) various forms of exercise and play. The course is offered (a) to actual attendants in institutions for the insane and feeble-minded, (b) to those desiring training for such positions, and (c) to trained nurses who are superintendents or head nurses in public institutions for the insane or who desire such positions.

Handicraft.—(1) Practical lessons will be given five mornings of each week in various forms of handicraft under the personal direction of Mr. Edward F. Worst, who has had charge of this work since the beginning. Mr. Worst has given much time and attention to the adaptation of the various occupations taught to practical use on institution wards. Lessons cover a wide range, including: Paper and cardboard construction; modeling in Plastina clay; lessons in color; braiding; knotting in twine; raffia and tilo; work in crashes; weaving mats, baskets; advanced weaving, warping, threading, etc.

Book-binding: Guest books, telephone, art, recipe and note books, clipping cases, portfolios, blotting pads.

Metal: Copper lamp shades, brass candle shades, shaping of metal bowls, simple silver jewelry making.

Leather: Tooling and making of card cases, coin cases, chatelaine bags, corners for blotting pads, mats.

Exercises and Games.-The physical exercises and games will be under the general charge of Mr. E. B. DeGroot of the South Park Commission and of Mrs. Robert L. Parsons, principal of the Chicago School of Physical Education and Expression. Mrs. Parsons taught in the School last summer and has during the winter given special attention to arranging a practical course for attendants, as the following outline shows:

(1) Gymnasium and Indoor Games.-This course will consist of floor work in free hand exercises, the use of the usual apparatus of the gymnasium or field houses and participation in indoor gymnastic games. Four days per week.

(2) Outdoor Games and Dancing.—In this course students will be taught the games of the playground, the national dances and their characteristics; some æsthetic dancing; some social dancing and rhythmic gymnastics. Four days per week.

(3) Lectures on Physical Training and Play.-The results which may be obtained for the inmates of public institutions will be thoroughly discussed and a year program in exercises and games will be made out. Four days per week, two weeks (8).

(4) Lectures on the Physiology of Exercise.-These lectures will discuss the effect of exercise and the nervous system. Four days per week, two weeks (8).

(5) Methods of Teaching with Practical Application.-The best methods of directing classes or individuals in gymnastics or games will be explained and students will be given the opportunity of conducting classes under the

supervision of helpful critic teachers. Special attention will be given to work with small groups of patients on the wards. Four days a week, two weeks (8).

(6) One afternoon per week visits for inspection and observation of methods and conditions will be made to the different playgrounds and public institutions. These visits will be under the personal direction of some member of the staff of lecturers. Friday afternoons.

A lecture course is specially arranged for the attendants on the general subject of the Educational Value of Occupation-both Work and Play. These lectures will be given twice a week at 9 a. m. Among the lecturers for the coming season will be Dr. William Healy, Prof. Graham Taylor, Mrs. Charles Henrotin, Dr. Addison Bybee, Dr. Clara Dunn and Miss Julia C. Lathrop.

Students will be free to attend the course of lectures conducted by Prof. Graham Taylor. They will also be welcome to participate in the visits to institutions in Chicago and vicinity.

The fee for each student is $15.00, of which $10.00 is for instruction and $5.00 for material.

For women students who desire to avail themselves of the arrangement for room and board at the Eleanor Club, special rates have been obtained at from $3.50 to $4.50 per week, depending upon the number of persons in a room. Those desiring to take advantage of this offer should write to Secretary of the School of Civics, No. 439, 158 Adams Street. All others who intend to register should report as soon as practicable if any assistance is desired in finding boarding places.

Correspondence and applications for registration should be addressed to the Secretary of the School of Civics and Philanthropy, Suite 439, 158 Adams Street, Chicago, Ill.

THE JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY.-The first number of this new monthly is a well-printed pamphlet of 60 pages: containing an editorial announcement, three original papers, four communications and discussions, seven abstracts and reviews, and a few notes and acknowledgments of publications received. The original papers are by Edward L. Thorndike on The Contribution of Psychology to Education, by W. H. Winch on Some Measurements of Mental Fatigue in Adolescent Pupils in Evening Schools, and by Carl E. Seashore on The Class Experiment.

The managing editor is J. Carleton Bell, of the Brooklyn Training School for Teachers, who may be addressed at 1032 Sterling Place, Brooklyn, N. Y. If the standard which has been set by this first number be maintained there is no doubt of the publication having a successful career.

AMERICAN MEDICO-PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION.-The sixtysixth annual meeting of the American Medico-Psychological Association will be held in Washington, D. C., at the New Willard, May 3-6, 1910.

The preliminary program which has been issued gives promise of an interesting meeting. As the session this year is held in conjunction with the special societies forming the Congress of American Physician and Surgeons, members of the Association will have the additional advantage of participating in the general sessions of the Congress at which some of the papers and discussions will be of special interest.

ERRATUM. In the JOURNAL for January, 1910, page 407, line 21, the word "distant" should read "intimate."

Obituary.

DR. WALTER ROBARTS GILLETTE.

Dr. Walter Robarts Gillette, a member of the consulting board of physicians of the Manhattan State Hospital, died on November 7, 1908, in his sixty-ninth year.

Dr. Gillette was born on January 16, 1840, at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was graduated from Colgate University in 1861, from which he received the degrees of A. B. and A. M. He studied medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City, where he was graduated in 1863.

He was a member of the New York Academy of Medicine, of the Medical Society of the City of New York, of the American Medico-Psychological Association since 1899; was acting assistant surgeon during the Civil War, and for 13 years following surgeon to the New York Post Office; at one time he was attending physician, and later consulting physician, to Bellevue and St. Francis Hospitals, and for 30 years an official of the Mutual Life Insurance Company, 12 years of which time he was vice-president.

Early in the seventies Dr. Gillette became connected with the New York City Asylum for the Insane as consultant, being a life-long friend of the late Dr. A. E. Macdonald; his sound knowledge and widespread experience were gladly availed of. Although a busy man of affairs, he never hesitated to sacrifice self to respond quickly to the call of the hospital.

When the New York City Asylum for the Insane became the Manhattan State Hospital in 1896, he was chosen one of the board of consulting physicians and surgeons, to which his varied experience made a valuable addition, and continued his interest unabated in the welfare of the institution and the patients up to a recent period. His clinical knowledge and humane feelings eminently fitted him for the position of counsellor and consultant to this great hospital.

Personally, he was a delightful man, and was esteemed and beloved by all for his sterling worth and kind disposition, and the