The State and Its Children. By Gertrude M. Tuckwell. (Methuen.)
—Miss Tuckwell begins her preface thus :—" Among the social questions with which the nation has to deal, there is none, it seems to me, so important as the question of the children." It is on this question, therefore, that she supplies an abundance of information and suggestion. "Reformatories and Industrial Schools," "Truant and Industrial Schools," "Boarding Out," "Canal and Van Children" (a class for which there is much still to be done, State action being as yet lamentably ineffective), "Circus and Theatre Children," "The Work of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children" (to which Miss Tuckwell pays a well-deserved tribute of appreciation), are among the subjects discussed. In the series of "Social Questions of To-day," there is hardly a more useful volume than this.
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