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from 5.30 to 6.30 p.m. The Nottingham course, consisting of two lectures a day, from September 16 to 20 inclusive, takes place at the University College. The Swansea course is on the five successive Saturday mornings from October 5 onwards. Further particulars may be obtained from the Secretary, Miss Halford, at 4, Tavistock Square, W.C.1.

The London Academy of Music is holding a holiday course for teachers at 22, Princes Street, Cavendish Square, W., from Tuesday, September 17, to Saturday, September 21, inclusive. The course will include: Lectures and discussions on Rhythmic Method Principles and their practical application to piano and other work; Ear-training; Harmony; Practical Class Teaching; Voice Production, and Sight Singing on Rhythmic Method Lines. The fee is £5 5s., but two or more students coming from the same school or town will be charged at a reduced rate.

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The Babies of the Empire Society, the headquarters of which are at 29 and 31, Trebovir Road, Earl's Court, S. W., offering to provide during the coming winter free courses of training to twenty fully qualified general hospital nurses and maternity nurses. Application should be made to Dr. Truby King at the above address.

The sixth course of lectures on “Public Health Problems under War and AfterWar Conditions," given under the auspices of the Royal Institute of Public Health, will commence in October. Particulars may be obtained on application to the Secretary, R.I.P.H., 37, Russell Square, W.C.1.

The Council of the National Health Society have arranged for courses of training for health visitors, infant welfare workers, &c., to commence in September. Course I covers: (a) Chemistry and Physics in relation to Food, Water, Soil and Air; (b) Statistical Methods; (c) Municipal Hygiene; (d) Hygiene; (d) Sanitary Law; (e) Building Construction and Reading of Plans. Course II covers : (a) Chemistry and Physics in relation to Food, Water, Soil, Air and Ventilation; (b) Statistical Methods; (c) Municipal Hygiene; (d) Elementary Anatomy and Physiology; (e) Infant Hygiene and Child Welfare; (f) Infectious Diseases; (g) Tuberculosis and its Prevention; (h)

Sociology. In addition, special lectures will be given, and visits made to places of public health interest. Each student will be required to take practical training in the care of infants and children, unless she already holds the C.M.B. For further particulars application should be made to the Secretary, National Health Society, 53, Berners Street, London, W. 1.

The Royal Sanitary Institute commences its autumn courses of lectures and demonstrations at 90, Buckingham Palace Road, S. W.1, as follows: For Sanitary Officers, Monday, September 16; for Women Health Visitors, Wednesday, September 18; for Child Welfare Workers, Monday, September 23. ther particulars may be obtained from the Secretary of the R.S.I.

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At the Battersea Polytechnic the following courses of lectures are likely to be of service to those training for child welfare work and social service: (1) Day courses of training for Child and Infant Welfare Workers, Health Visitors and Sanitary Inspectors, commencing Tuesday, September 24; fee £14. (2) Evening courses of training for Health Visitors and Sanitary Inspectors, commencing Monday, September 30; fee £2. (3) Special courses of thirty-three lectures and classes on Maternity, Infant and Child Care, commencing Thursday, October 3, 9.30 to 10.30 a.m.; fee, £1 5s. for the course, or 10s. per term (three terms). (4) Short course of ten lectures on the Care of the Infant and Young Child, commencing Monday, September 30, 5.30 to 6.30 p.m.; fee 5s. (5) Special course of lectures for Factory Welfare Workers on the Hygiene of the Factory and the Health of the Factory Worker. (Length of course, day, time and fee to be arranged.) (6) Course of ten classes in First Aid, commencing Monday, September 30, 3 to 5 p.m.; fee 6s. 6d. (7) Course of ten lectures suitable for Social Workers, on "Local Government," commencing Monday, September 30, 2 to 3 p.m.; fee 5s. (8) Day and evening classes will be held in Personal, Domestic and Municipal Hygiene and Sanitation. (9) Day and evening classes (lectures and practical) will be held in Physiology. Further particulars may be obtained on application to the Secretary, Battersea Polytechnic, S.W.11.

GREAT THOUGHTS ON CHILD LIFE AND

CHILD WELFARE.

Under this heading are gathered quotations from the works of those who have formed ideals or dealt with actualities relating to child life and child welfare. It is hoped that many of our readers will assist in the compilation of this page by sending any helpful thoughts which they may have found of service in their own experience or discovered in the course of their general reading.

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"O'er wayward childhood wouldst thou hold

firm rule,

And sun thee in the light of happy faces; Love, Hope and Patience, these must be thy

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And in thine own heart let them first keep school.'' S. T. COLERIDGE.

"I wish sincerely, for it would have saved me much trouble, there had been some one to put me in a good heart about life when I was younger; to tell me how dangers are most portentous on a distant sight; and how the good in a man's spirit will not suffer itself to be overlaid, and rarely or never deserts him in the hour of need."

R. L. STEVENSON.

"Sleep on, sleep on! Oh! Manhood's dreams Are all of earthly pain or pleasure,

Of Glory's toils, Ambition's schemes,
Of cherish'd love, or hoarded treasure:
But to the couch where Childhood lies
A more delicious trance is given,
Lit up by rays from seraph eyes,

And glimpses of remember'd Heaven !"
WINTHROP MACWORTH PRAED.

"A deeper appreciation of the worth of individuality will lead the teacher to foster it indirectly by influencing the tone of the school and working against the powerful tendency of the crowd-mind to suppress all divergence from the common pattern of ideas and sentiments. His success here, as elsewhere, will depend largely on his being himself an embodiment of the attitude which he seeks to develop in others. The more he impresses his boys as being himself a person of distinguished intelligence and character, and the more he shows himself to be consistently a respecter of individuality in others, the more likely is he to be able to develop in the collective mind of his little community, not only a toleration, but a warm appreciation of all indications of worthy individuality in its members, including the expression of independent views and preferences.'

JAMES SULLY.

INDEX.

This Index to be used in conjunction with the Table of Contents.

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