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of the British Association at Liverpool, showing that in certain

schools children were being given a list of offences and told to arrange them in what each individual child took to be the order of wickedness. These offences included such things as scalding a cat, flirting with a stranger and com- mitting suicide. The object is to assist educational authorities to understand the individuality of the child mind. But, granted that the object is a good one, is it not a dangerous experiment to encourage the thoughts of a child to dwell on suggestions of cruelty and of evil which many an innocent child has never dreamed of? The young mind is easily influenced by suggestion—either to what is evil or to "things just and pure, lovely and of good report."—I am, Sir, &c.,