This account of the foundation of Mettray, with its annual reports, forms a series of annual pamphlets from 1839, and yet continued. They include full and interesting accounts of the progress of Mettray, with anecdotes, documents, &c., and various engravings. Among others, is the head of Vicomte Bretigneres de Courteilles, one of the original founders of Mettray, now deceased.

ANNALES DE LA CHARITE. Revue mensuelle destinee a la discussion des questions et a l'examen des institutions qui interessent les pauvres. Journal de la societe d'economie charitable. . . . Paris. A. Le Clere et Ce. (Annals of Charity. A monthly review for the discussion and examination of questions and institutions relative to the poor. Journal of the Economical Charitable Society. Paris: A. Le Clere & Co.) 80., pp. about 800 a year.

This monthly now forms thirteen handsome volumes, from 1845 to 1857 inclusive; and contains a large mass of information relative to the ancient and modern history, and present condition and progress, of institutions of all classes, intended for the succor and reform of the poor and unfortunate; including not only reformatories proper, but hospitals, charity schools, benevolent societies, &c.

THE IRISH QUARTERLY REVIEW. Dublin: W. B. Kelly. London: Simpkins, Marshall & Co. Price 2s. 6d. per number.

Appended to each number of this ably conducted Quarterly from June, (No. XIV.) 1854, there is a "Quarterly Record of the Progress of Reformatory Schools and Prison Discipline"-averaging at least 100 closely printed pages, and containing reports of Institutions, accounts of public meetings in reference to Juvenile Crime and its prevention and reformation, and the ablest papers which have appeared from the British press on the subject. The series constitutes a Documentary History of the Reformatory Movement in Great Britain since 1854. In them will be found a particular account of the Mettray Institution, and of the movements of M. Demetz.

THE PHILANTHROPIST and Prison and Reformatory Gazette; London: Published at the Book Society, 19 Paternoster Row. 5s. per annum.

This Monthly Journal is a valuable Record of Social Amelioration and of Charitable Institutions in Great Britain. It is now the organ of the National Reformatory and Refuge Union, of which the Earl of Shaftesbury is President. The number for February, 1857, contains the "Prize Essays on the Practical Management of Reformatories and Refuges, with respect to Food, Labor and Rest."

REPORT FROM SELECT COMMITTEE [OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS,] on criminal and destitute juveniles; together with the proceedings of the committee, minutes of evidence, appendix and index. . . . December, 1852. Fol., pp. 551. Do. June, 1853. Fol., pp. 542.

These two solid reports contain evidence, oral and documentary, furnished to the respective committees of the English House of Commons, by Rev. S. Turner, Miss Carpenter and other leading philanthropists, relating to all questions of theory and practice in juvenile misery and crime, and their prevention and reform; a great mine of authoritative materials, from which have been gathered the substance of numerous publications upon the subjects discussed. Among the documents in the appendixes to these reports are, extracts from many reports on prisons, &c., of chaplains and inspectors; narratives of individual juvenile offenders; rules and regulations of Parkhurst and other institutions; Recorder Hill's charges to the Birmingham grand jury; Mr. Fletcher's paper on the Continental Farm-School system; Rev. S. Turner's report on the organization of Mettray; report of the French National Assembly's committee on juvenile offenders; many documents relating to Philadelphia House of Refuge, &c.

FIRST CONFERENCE on Reformatory Schools at Birmingham. 1851.
SECOND CONFERENCE, do., 1853.

The proceedings of the First Conference at Birmingham, were of unusual interest, and had a powerful influence in stimulating the action of Parliament and the efforts of benevolent individuals in different sections of England. The most valuable statistics and suggestions contained in the Report and the Proceedings, will be found in "Barnard's Papers on Reformatory Education and Institutions.” FIRST PROVINCIal Meeting of the National Reformatory UNION, held at Bristol in August, 1856. London. Cash. 172 pages.

This pamphlet includes a very valuable "Inaugural Address," by Lord Stanley, and Papers on "the Reformatory Institutions in and near Bristol," and on the Relations of the Reformatory Schools to the State, and the management of Female Reformatories by Mary Carpenter; on Inefficiency of simply Penal Legislation, by Lord Brougham; on "Punishments in Reformatory Schools," by E. B. Wheatley; a "Visit to Mettray," by Frederick Hill; "the Industrial Schools of Scotland, and the working of Dunlop's Act," by Alfred Hill; "on the Connection of Juvenile Crime and the Drinking Habits of Society," by B. Crossman; on" Ship Reforma tory and the Liverpool Akbar Hulk Reformatory;" on Providing for the Inmates of Reformatories on their discharge," by Rev. Sydney Turner, and " on Previous Imprisonment for Children sentenced to Reformatories," by Sir Stafford Northcote, SOCIAL EVILS; their Causes and their Cure. By Alexander Thomson, Esq., of Banchory. London: James Nisbet & Co. 1852. 160., pp. 176.

This little volume contains a clear exposition of the principles on which the Aberdeen Reformatory Movement was conducted, and the details of the successful management of the Industrial Feeding Schools.

THE PHILOSOPHY OF RAGGED SCHOOLS. London: William Pickering. 1851. 160., pp. 128.

MELIORA: or Essays on the present state and prospects of Society. Edited by Viscount Ingestre. 2 vols. London: J. W. Parker.

These volumes embrace forty contributions by the active promoters of preventive and reformatory institutions and agencies in England-such as Model Lodging Houses; Public Baths; Ragged Schools; Adult Education; Popular Amusements, &c.

JUVENILE DELINQUENTS, their condition and treatment. By Mary Carpenter. London: W. & F. G. Cash. 1653. 120,, pp. 388.

REFORMATORY SCHOOLS, for the children of the perishing and dangerous classes, and for juvenile offenders. By Mary Carpenter. London: C. Gilpin. 1851. 120., pp. 353.

These two volumes contain a calm, comprehensive and practical discussion and presentation of the history, principles and details of Reformatory Education and Institutions.

TWO PRIZE ESSAYS on Juvenile Delinquency.

By Micaiah Hill, Esq. and

C. Cornwallis. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1858. 120., pp. 481. JUVENILE DEPRAVITY, £100 Prize Essay. By Rev. Henry Worsley. London: Charles Gilpin. 1849. 120., pp. 275.

CRIME IN ENGLAND, its relation, character, and extent, as developed from 1801 to 1848. By Thomas Plint. London: Charles Gilpin. 1851. 120., pp. 187. CHARGES TO THE Grand Jury of the Borough of Birmingham. By M. D. Hill, Recorder. 1857.

PUNISHMENT AND PREVENTION. By A. Thomson, of Banchory. 1857.

CRIME. By Frederick Hill. Murray. 1853.

VISIT TO METTRAY. By T. Paynter and Rev. S. Turner. 1845.

THE FARM SCHOOT SYSTEM OF THE CONTINENT. By Joseph Fletcher. REFORMATORY SCHOOLS IN FRANCE AND ENGLAND. By P. J. Murray. 1854. VISIT TO CONtinental RefoRMATORIES. By R. Hall. 1855.

REPORT ON SCHOOLS IN WORKHOUSES AND PRISONS, in Ireland, 1853. By J. W. Kavanagh.

PAPERS, PAMPHLETS, AND SPEECHES on Reformatories and Juvenile Crime. Edited by J. Symons, 1855.

CRIME AND CRIMINAL OFFENDERS. By S. Richardson. Jarold.

PRISON DISCIPLINE. By John Field.

CRIMINAL LEGISLATION. By George Combe.

A PLEA FOR RAGGED SCHOOLS; First, Second, and Supplementary. By Rev Thomas Guthrie. Edinburgh.

RAGGED SCHOOLS; their Rise, Progress and Results. By John Macgregor. S. Lowe & Son.

A PRIZE ESSAY ON RAGGED SCHOOLS and similar Institutions. By G. I. Hall. 255 pages. 1855.

THE ROOKERIES OF LONDON, Past, Present and Future. By Thomas Beames. Bosworth. 1850.

PUBLIC BATHS AND WASH-HOUSES. Rivington. 1850.

A PLEA FOR INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS and Improved Dwellings for the Poor, as the best means for decreasing Juvenile Crime. London: Masters. 149 pages. SCHOOL ECONOMY: or, Mental and Industrial Training. By Jellinger Simons J. W. Parker. 188 pages.

[Most of the above, with other valuable documents, will be found entire in the Record of the Irish Quarterly Review, and in the pages of the Philanthropist, and the substance of many of them is included in "Barnard's Papers on Preventive and Reformator y Institutions and Agencies." F. C. Brownell: Hartford. 1857.]

INDEX to Papers on Preventive, Correctional and Reformatory Institutions and Agencies.
By HENRY BARNARD, LL. D. Hartford: F. C. BROWNELL. 360 pages.