CURRENT LITERATURE
THE children hold the promise of the future. To care for them and protect them is a sacred duty which the present generation is recognizing more definitely, perhaps than ever before. How far the several nations give definite expression to this instinct in their laws and systems of government is set forth very clearly and fully in Mr. Fuller's handbook. The countries are treated in their alphabetical order, under the heads of marriage, child welfare, education, employment and -delin- quency, and there is a capital index of subjects. Much of the detail could hardly be found elsewhere ; seldom, indeed, has Mr. Fuller to confess, as in the case of Mongolia, that no information is available. Prominence is rightly given to the Declaration of Geneva in favour of the child, adopted by the international Save the Children Fund council and endorsed by the League Assembly last year. This useful volume, in showing what has been done in various lands, will assuredly speed the good work.
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