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Maiming and torture, 491.

Maine, Penal and Reformatory System, 145.
Influence of the Maine Law, 145.
Malta, Prisons and Lock-ups, 288.

Mark-System for Progressive Classification, 33, 310.
Apphed at Elmira, 97.

Marin, Henry, Duty of Society to Children, 475.
Maryland, Prisons and Reformatories, 211.

Preventive Institutions and Agencies, 212.
Massachusetts, Penal and Reformatory System, 133.
Boston Prison Discipline Society, 1524, 19.
State-Prison at Charlestown, Concord, 91.
State Workhouse at Bridgewater, 134

State Primary School for Abandoned Children, 135.
Women's Prison at Sherburne, 134.
Reform School for Boys, 135.
Industrial School for Girls, 135.

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Farm Schools, and other Preventive Institutions,
Truant Schools, Visiting Agency, Orphan Asy-
Jums, 136.

Materialism a Cause of Crime, 434-

Maximum and Minimum Sentences, 630.
Mazas Prison, Paris, Cellular, 346.

Meat in Prison Diet, 120.

Medical Service of Prisons, Superintendent, 242.
Mercer, A., Adult Reformatory for Women, 250.
Mettray and DeMetz, 82, 341.

Based on certain Principles, 342.
Mexico, Prison System, 533-

Michigan, Penal and Reformatory Work, 161.
Prisons, Houses of Correction, Jails, 161.
Reform School, 162.

Public School, and Home for Waifs, 162.
Visiting Agencies for Young Delinquents, 163.
Middletown, Girls' Industrial School, 139, 610.
Military Discipline, 376, 636.

Military Prisons, 344, 398

Mill, John Stuart, cited, 241.

Minimization of Crime, 605.

Minnesota, Prison System, 177.

Minority, Division into three Periods, 470.

Minors exposed to Temptation, 64.

Large Proportion of Criminal Population, 471, 626.

Special Prison and Treatment, 626.

Mississippi, Prison System, 196.

Missouri, Prisons and Reformatories, 201.

Mittermaier, 405.

Moabit Prison, near Berlin, 414.

Molesworth, Sir W., Transportation, 30

Monitor, substitute for House-father, 401.

Employed by Maconochie and Montesinos, 637.
Montesinos, Reformatory Work in Spain, 30, 637.
Montesquieu, Spirit of Laws, 9.

Moral Amelioration of great Criminals, 652.
Moral Anomalies in Crime, 644.

Moral Biography, Classification by, 360.

Moral Forces versus Physical, 51, 99, 172, 237, 017.
Moral Instruction and Agencies, 336, 356.

Moral Sense or Conscience, 645.

Morey, Motive on Labor Contractors, 111, 194, 199.
Morocco, Prisons, 578.

Mortality, 326.

Moscow, Prison System of Sollohub, 33.

Moses, Ordinances respecting Children, 68.

Motives in a good Life, 96, 155, 621.

Mottoes on Walls of Prisons, 402.

Mouat, Intermediate Imprisonment, 326.

Muilen, W. J., Philadelphia Prison Society, 122,

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Naval Prisons, 344.

Nebraska, Prisons, 182.

Neglected Children, Asylums, 130, 132, 427.
German System, by Dr. Holls, 688.
Netherlands Mettray, 84, 400.

Netherlands, Reforms by Maria Theresa, 10.
Nevis, Prison, 279.

New Brunswick, Prisons and Jails, 253.
New Caledonia, Penal Colony, 344.
New England States, Prisons, 133-
Newfoundland, Prisons, 251.
Newgate Prison, Connecticut, 32.
Newgate Prison, London, 6, 20.

New Hampshire, Penal and Reformatory System, 142.
Orphans' Home on the Webster Homestead, 142.
New Jersey, Prison and Reformatory System, 154.
Trial of Cellular System, 25.

Family System of Reformatories, 156.

New York City, Reformatory Work, 80, 125.
Child-Saving Work, 127.

Female Guardian Society, 127.

New York, State System of Prisons, 149.
Reformatory and Preventive, 125, 154-
Inspection, State Officers, 100.

Unofficial but Authorized, 241.

System with Discharged Prisoners, 122.
State Industrial Reformatory, 97, 152.
News-Boys' Lodging-Houses in New York, 128.
New South Wales, Prison System, 301.
Newspapers admitted, 439.

New Zealand, Prison System, 294.
Nomenclature, 148, 329, 405.

Norfolk Island, Maconochie's Work, 631.

Normal School for Prison Officers, 62, 66, 669.
Preventive Institutions, 342, 691.
Prison Teachers, 401.

North Carolina, Prisons, 201.

Labor System, 202.

Norway, Prison System, 513.

Classes, Administration, Treatmeut, 514.
Nova Scotia, Prisons, 253.

Numbers, Sympathy of, 105.

Should not exceed individual attention, 38, 64.

Nya-Varfort, Model Juvenile Prison, 502.

OBERLIN, Pastor, Infant Schools, 339.

Obermaier, Prison Reform at Munich, 32, 422.
Occupations in Prison, 235, 419, 608.
Officers, 62, 93, 354, 624, 669.

Gradation in Rank and Responsibility, 51.

Qualities of Character, 62, 430, 616.

Qualifications, 110, 285, 414, 502, 624.

Training, 55, 65, 246, 342, 624, 669.

Trial, 426, 503, 675.

Appointment, 100, 150, 160, 421, 426.
Tenure, 110, 150, 428.
Salaries, 51, 62, 94, 669.
Pensions, 419.

Examples of Good, 29, 104, 145, 207, 515.
Oglethorpe, Gen., Reforms in 1728, 3.
Ohio, Penal and Reformatory System, 164.
Prisons, Houses of Correction, Jails, 164.
Juvenile Refuge-home for Girls, 165.
State Reform Farm, 166, 697.

Asylums, County, Industrial Schools. 167.
Ontario Province, Prison System, 250.

Industrial Prison for Women, 250.

Oral Methods and Conversations with Adults, 505.

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PAIN and Suffering as motives to be good, 635.
Parable of the Good Shepherd in prison treatment,
Pardons, Executive, 119, 379, 459, 542.
Conditional, 119, 458.

Parental Duty and Neglect, 224, 679.
Hebrew Book of the Law, 67.

Responsibility for Expense of Minors, 224.

Paris, Prison System, 345.

Parkhurst Juvenile Prison, 78, 79.
Parkington, Sir J.. Lord Hampton, 56.

Participation of Earnings by Prisoners, 123, 510.
Salutary Influence, 124.

Patronage Societies, 41, 338, 675, 687.

For Females Discharged, 338, 351.
State Aid, 678.

Paul, Sir George O., Reform in 1790, 15.

Pauper Children, Scotch system of placing, 225.
Peculium, 333, 450, 653.

Peel, Sir Robert, 18.

Penalties, Assimilation versus Classification, 665.
Penitentiary, original meaning, 191.
Penitentiary Question, 39, 661.

Penitentiary Journal, Copenhagen, 499.
Penitentiary Reform, 23, 61, 158, 159.

Penal Codes and Prison Practice, 35, 60, 365.
Penal Colonies, French, 344.

Penal Labor, 106, 286, 337.

Pennsylvania, Penal and Reformatory System, 157.
System of Individual Treatment, 25, 90.
Western Penitentiary, 26.

Pensions for Prison Officers, 419.
Pentonville Prison, 28.

Persia, Prisons, 582.

Persuaders and Organized Persuasion, 50, 638.

Personal Influence of Prison Teacher, 506.

Peru, Prison System, 560.

Perversity in Criminal Courses, 39, 652.

Pestalozzi, Henry, Child-saving Work, 690.

Pestalozzi Asylums, 441.

Petersen, R., Christiania Penitentiary, 515.

Philadelphia, Prison Work, 22, 25, 157.

Society to Ameliorate Miseries 1776, 19, 121.
House of Refuge, 80.

Cellular System, 25. 29, 158.

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Abandoned in Pittsburgh Western Penitentiary,

Physical Force versus Moral, 99.

Pistole, a Privileged Class, 353.

Pittsburgh Western Penitentiary, Trial of Systems,
Plato, Ideal Prison System, 4.

Plays in Child-saving Institution, 699.

Plutarch, Ancient Prisons, 4.

Poland, Prisons and Reformatories, 470.

Child-saving Institution, 470, 475.
Model Organization, 471, 472.

Police, co-operation with voluntary efforts, 65, 246,
International Action, 684.

Politics, in Prison Administration, 109, 605, 620.
Modes of Avoidance, 150, 606, 610.

Pope Clement XI., Prison Reformer, 7, 659.

Portugal Penal System, 476.

Short-comings and Abuses, 477-479-
Powell, Birmingham Asylum, 78.
Powers, Gershom, 109.

Premiums and Prizes for Good Conduct, 395, 435.
Prevention, 213, 225, 607.

Preventive Institutions, 144, 212, 343, 607, 682.
Governmental, Voluntary, Combined, 607.
Action of Stockholm Congress, 63.

American Children's Aid Societies, 127, 130.
Belgium and Holland, 363, 400.

French System, 341, 343-

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German Systems of Family Institutions, 688, 693,
Great Britain, vast System and Results, 223, 608.
Poland, early and recent Establishments, 470, 474
Scandinavian States, 498, 512, 524.

Italy, 484.

Prison-bird, Odium of Imprisonment, 19.
Private Charity in Reformatory Work, 678, 689.
Initiative and Management, 610.
Aided and Inspected by State, 610.
Privileges of Prisoners, 496, 638, 671.
Correspondence with Friends, 638.
Monitors and Assistants, 637.
More Generous Diet, 62.

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Out of Prison Work, and less Restraint, 452.
Participation in Earnings, 34, 555.

Shortening of Sentence, 417.

Transferrence to less coercive Prison, 418.
Probationary Discharge, 494.

Probationary Stage of Confinement, 458.

Proclivity to Crime, Educational Restraint, 644.
Progressive Classification, 289, 460, 486.

Results, 490, 495, 550.

Providence, R. I., Prevention and Reform, 137.
Protection of Society, 54, 144, 613.

Protestant Brotherhoods for Christian Work, 415.
Provisional Liberation, 300, 317.
Prussia, Prison System, 411.

Psychological or Soul Faculties, 648.
Psychology of the Criminal, 642.

Moral Anomalies, Feebleness or Absence, 645-
Publication of Official Reports, 45.

Public Opinion, Institutional, 35, 105, 244, 361.
Punishment, in Prison, end of, 38, 54, 613, 620.
Dark Cell, Bread and Water, 362.
Penal or Hard Labor, 106.

Corporal Punishment, the Lash, 99-
Reprimand, 417.

Deprivation of Privileges, 417, 671.
Treadmill, 417..

Irons, Stocks, Branding, 22.
Bastinado, 376, 583.

Torture, 22.

QUEENSLAND, Prisons, 311.

RADIATING Blocks of Cells, 415.
Ragged School Union, 225.
Rauhe Haus, near Hamburg, 693.

General Principles and Results, 693.
Pensionate or Boarding Pupils, 698.
Brothers for Prison Work, 419.

Results in Germany, 700.

Raumer, Charles von, Destitute Children, 692.
Read and Write, ability to, 158.

Reading Prison, 1844, 29.

Reading-room, Prison, 99.

Recidivists, Relapses, 337, 484, 520, 687.

Reconvictions and Cumulative Sentences, 116, 261,

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Reform the end in Farm School. 341, 366.
Registers of Criminals, and Photography, 633.
Rehabilitation, 24, 49, 287.

Reinthaler, C., the Martinstift at Erfurt, 690.

Relapse of Reformed, 136, 137, 229, 415, 603, 665, 685.
How to combat, 685.

Religion in Reformatory Work, 55, 100, 622, 653, 698.
Convictions respected, 64, 451, 603.

Religious Instruction, 100, 170, 699.
Belgium, 356.

England, 221.

France, 336.

Germany, 690, 699.

Ireland, 234, 239.

Scotland, 229.

United States, 99, 141.

Religious Men in Prison Administration, 415.
Repeated Commitments, 52, 397, 687.
Rescue Institutions, 498, 512.

Resistance of the Prisoner to Discipline, 663.
Resident Chaplain, 101.

Responsibility of Children for their Acts, 682.
Retribution, in Discipline, 49.
Reuss, Prison System, 443.
Rewards, System, 49, 336, 360.

Rhode Island, Penal and Preventive Institutes, 136.
Trial and Abandonment of Cellular System, 26.
State-Farm Prison School at Cranston, 137.
Prisoners' Aid Friends Society, Nursery, &c., 138.
Right and Wrong, Knowledge of, 679.
How far Intuition, 679.

When sufficient, 689.
Rijsselt, Netherland Mettray, 400.
Rome, Ancient, 4: Modern, 490.

Royal Commission on Convict Prisons, 1978, 240.
Rush, Benjamin, Criminals can be reformed, 154.
Russia, Penal and Reformatory System, 472.
Banishment to Siberia, 462, 466

Rutland, Vt., House of Correction, 148.
Ruysselede Farm-school, 364.

SAFE-KEEPING, Accused and Witnesses, 38, 115.
Salaries of Officers, 94.

Sallust, Prisoners of Rome, 5.

Sampson at work in Prison, 54, 120.

Sandwich Islands, 569.

Sanitary Conditions, 54, 120, 240.

Santa Lucia Prison, 271.

Saving and Protection, 67, 131.

Savings-banks in Children's Aid Society, 127.
Savoy, Despine's Work, 32.

Saxony, Prison System, 424.

Scandinavian Countries, xvi., 491-524.

Denmark, 491; Sweden, 499; Norway, 513.
Labor System different in each, 522.
Scarbet, Count F., Neglected Children, 1837, 470.
Schools versus Prisons, 224, 487.

Schools and education in relation to Crime, 224, 482.
Day or Evening, in Prison, 98, 179, 355, 423.
School-mistress for Women, 507, 482.
School-masters, Resident, 409, 506.
Model Methods in Sweden, 505.

Science-study of Crime, Despine, 649-660.
Science-treatment of Criminality, 641, 650.
In harmony with Moral, 655.

Scourging, 99.

Scotland, Transitional Condition, 228.

Prisons, Perth, Paisley, Ayr, 228, 25r.

County Jails, Chaplains, Schools, Libraries, 229.
Longer Sentences, 230.

Aid on leaving by instalments, 230,

Payments proportionate to Behavior, 230.
Child-saving, Insane Prisoners, 232.

Seaside Summer Excursions, 129.

Seiss, M., Prison teacher and correspondent, 519.
Self-help, 50, 55, 145, 236.

Self-interest, 49, 237, 618, 645.

Self-respect, 50, 245, 618.

Sentences, long or short, 109, 119, 261, 619.
Maximum fixed by States, 619.

Minimum until Reformation, 627.

Discretion of Court, 119, 353.

Determined by Administrators, 114, 620.
Subject to Executive Clemency, 119.

Examples, France, 332.

Practically determined by prisoner's reformation,

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Separate Cells at all times, 91, 114, 346, 352.
Sequestration an element in punishment, 651.
Seward, W. H., 23.

Sewerage and Sewer-gas, 421.

Sex, in crime and exposure, 24, 94, 694.
Prison, 63, 64.
Treatment, 63.
Asylums, 143, 693.

Short Sentences, 252, 518.
Silence and Solitude, 8, 673.

First Stage of Penal Treatment, 614.
Siam, Jail and Punishments, 581.
Siberia, Banishment to, 462, 467.
Size of Prison, 93, 102, 106, 116.
Sisters of Charity, 237, 331, 540, 549.
Slaves, Imprisonment, 504.

Sleep, 511.

Snedaker. Kentucky Penitentiary, 199.

Social condition of inmates of R formatories, 687,

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Socialistic Movement, 441.

Social Nature, 104, 106, 159, 361, 614, 652.
Societies for Prison Reform, 18, 23.
England, 17, 19.

France, 36.
Holland, 398.

Spain, 382.

Switzerland, 43.

United States, 23.

Society and Crime, 53, 72, 82, 615, 686.
Socrates, Prison Life, 3.

Soldiers' Orphans, Asylums and Homes, 142.

Solitary Confinement, 64, 104, 243.

Not suitable to Criminals of moral infirmity, 652.

Solitude and Silence, 26, 674.

Sollohub, Count, Reforms at Moscow, 33, 46, 361.

South American States, Prison Systems, 547.

South Australia, Prisons, 304.

South Carolina, Prisons and Jails, 196.

Southern States, 188-213.

Lease System of Labor, 197, 200.

Neglect of Schools and Educa ion, 192.

Spain, Penal System, 365, 383.

Wretch d Condition, 365-379.
Mcntesinos' Labors, 31. 375.

State Aid to Discharged Prisoners, 192, 433.
State Central Authority, 606.

State (in United States) Penal Institutions, 133.
Prisons and Administration, 120, 606.
Reformatories, 126.

Workhouses, 114.

Asylums and Farms for Neglected Children, 127.
Station Houses, 92.

Statistics of Prisons. 56, 62, 90. 126, 133. 633, 667.
St. Augustine, St. Basil, St. Chrysostom, 70.

St. Helena, Prison, 288.

St. Hubert Juvenile Prison. 363.

St. Kevin, Reformatory in Ireland, 239.

St. Kits Prison, 279.

St. Lazare Prison, for Women, 348.

St. Michael, Juvenile Prison at Rome. 7.

St. Paul's doctrine of the Conscience seared, 658.
St. Vincent Prison, 265.

Stevens, Inspector-general of Prisons, 42, 360.
Stockholm, International Congress, 1878, 57.

Stocks, Irons, Pillory, Torture, 3, 22,

Straits Settlement, Prisons, 297.

Studzieniec, Farm-School after Mettray, 474.
Suffering or Pain, Memory of, 685.

Sunday, 101, 137, 179.

Sunday Occupation, 101, 451, 700.
Bible Class, 101.

Moral Lectures, 137, 656.
Preaching or Mass, 420, 428.
Visits from Friends, 451.
Volunteer Workers, 420.

Sunday School, 101, 137, 179.

Superintendent, State, 100, 606.

Institutions, 371, 507, 606.

Supervision, too minute, 639.

Support, Earnings of Prisoners, 416, 425, 433.
Appropriation by State, 416.

Prisoners direct payment, 416, 442.

Suringar, W. H., Netherlands, Mettray, 84, 398, 968.
Sweden, Penal System, 341, 499, 501.

Royal Administrator, 499.

Selection and Training of Prison Officers, 503.
Instruction, Teachers and Methods, 504, 505.
Switzerland, Progress in Prison Work, 526.
Sympathy and Encouragement, 122, 562, 608, 695.
Systems and Modifications, 92.

Auburn, or Congregate, 215, 217.
Crofton, or Irish, 32.

Maconochie, 32.

Pennsylvania, 26, 42, 63.

Absence of any and all, 114.
Ideal System, 605.

TALLACK, Howard Association, 243.
Tasmania, Penal System, 312.

Tauffer, Emile, Progressive System, 455.

Tenderness and Justice Combined, 618.

Tenure of Office, 150, 248.

Bearing on the Labor Question, 110.

Tennessee, Prison System, 207.

Lease System of Labor, 208.

Term of Sentence, Average, 119.

Shortened by good behavior, 38, 97.

Classified for Punishment and Reformation, 614.

Test or trial of reformatory work, 615.
Texas, Prisons, 189.

Theft, 44-

American Criminals, 112.

Thiers, M., Infant Schools, 340.

Thompson, Prison Cruelties, 1730, 8.

Ticket-of-leave Men, 300, 317.

Tobacco in Prison, 270, 423, 511

Tocqueville, Alexander De, 109, 111, 115.
Tofte-gift, Farm School, 534.
Torture, 3.

Chinese Criminal Treatment, 592.
Trade-depression and Disturbance, 113.
Trade-instruction for Children, 608.

Trades, followed by Criminals, 107, 419, 452, 652.
Acquisition of, in Prison, 33, 107, 159, 286, 357.
Training of Prison Officers, 342, 355, 691.
Reformatory Officers, 503.

Preventive Work, 415, 691.

Tramps, 115.

Streets free in School Hours, 131.
Valencia Prison, Montesinos' Reform, 30.
Vancouver Island, Prison, 254.

Vander Recke, Count, Dusselthal Reformatory, 691.
Vaux, R., Individual Treatment System, 158, 159.
Ventilation and other Sanitary Conditions, 54, 120.
Victoria, Irish Prison System, 307.

Vilain, Viscount, Ghent Prison, 11.
Virgin Island Prison, 279.

Virginia, Prison System, 203.

Visiting Agency for Juveniles, 135, 163.

Visitors, authorized, but unofficial, 241.
Official, 242, 359, 497.

Friendly and Family, 54, 536, 638.
Medical Officers, 242.

Associations, 19.

Voluntary Associated Preventive Work, 609, 610.
Volunteer Prison Workers, 24, 54, 108.

City Lock-ups and Station-houses, 118.
Excluded, 425.

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Volter, Ludovicus, Child-saving Institutions, 692,
Von Raumer, Charles, Child-saving School, 692.

WAKEFIELD, Refuge for Discharged Prisoners, 227.
Wardens, 183, 284.

Supreme as to Discipline and Contractors, 628.
Examples of Success, 145, 172, 207, 290, 515.
Warwickshire Asylum for Juvenile Offenders, 78.
Washburn, Gov., Abrogating Death-penalty, 176.
Waukesha Industrial School, 175.

Wayland, Francis, Prison-reform Institute, 705.
Werner, Gustavus, Child-saver, 692.

Wesleys and the Godly Club, Prison Work, 9.
West Australia, Prisons, 311.

Westborough, State Reform School, 126.

West Virginia, Penal Institutions, 164.

Webster, Daniel, and the Old Home, 142, 144.
Wethersfield, State-prison, 138.

Whately, R., Primary Object of Punishment, 29.
Indeterminate Sentences, 619.

Whipping, 24, 99, 289.

Wichern, J. W., Child-saving Work, 55, 341, 688.

Wilkinson, Maryland, State-prison, 211.

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Will of Prisoner and his Reformer Coincident, 50,

Examples of highest Success, 518.

Windsor, Vt.. State-prison, 147.

Wines, E. C., State of Prisons, Preface, Death, iii.
Crime, its Causes and Cure, 641.
International Prison Congress, 46.

Ideal System of Crime-prevention, 605.
Prison-reform Institute, 703.

Wisconsin Prisons, Reformatories, Asylums, 173.

State Board of Charities, Women Members, 173.
Death-penalty abolished, more Convictions, 176.
Industrial School for Girls and Boys, 175.
Orphan Asylums, Denominational, 175.
Wistar, Richard, and Philadelphia Society, 121.
Women, as Criminals in Proportion to Men, 102, 416.
Treatment in Special Prisons. 137, 630, 378.
Superintendents of Female Convicts, 135, 237.
Examples of Heroic Devotion, 135, 143.

Child-saving Work, 55.

Members of Prison Boards, 133, 155.

Participators in International Congresses, 54-

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Special Prison at Sherborn, Mass., 134.

Trajeuski, Teacher of Polish Model Reformatory,
Transportation-penalty, 30, 344, 666.

Abrogation, 30.

Used as a Reward, 470, 471.

Transferrence from one Prison to another, 485, 628.
Treadmill, Cubitt, 21, 321.

Unknown in American Prisons, 106.

Trial, Delay of, 479.

Separation from Convicts, 92.

Trinidad Prisons, 262.

Truants and Truant Schools, 135, 156.

Turkey, Prisons and Lock-ups, 385-391.
Letter of Minister at Washington, 385.
Turks Island, Prison, 278.

VAGRANTS, male and female, in N. Y. City, 130.

Other Special Prisons, 227, 377.

Woolsey, T. D., Prison-reform Institute, 704.
Work, Steady, healthful and useful, 55, 107, 698.
Calculated to Reform, 436.

Workhouses for Vagrants, Inebriates, etc., 114.
Examples, 164.

Würtemberg Prison System, 427.

Child-saving Institutions, 692.

Wurtz, P. I., Home for Children at Neuhof, 692.

YARDS turned into Gardens. 519.
Young criminals, special treatment, 64, 350, 625.

ZELLER, C. H., at Beuggen, 690, 691.
Zuickau Penitentiary, Individual Treatment, 424.

DEPENDENT CHILDREN IN SWITZERLAND.

CARE, TRAINING AND STATISTICS.*

HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT.

INSTITUTIONS for the care of impoverished, neglected, or maltreated children, have, to a limited extent, existed for nearly two centuries in Switzerland. The institutions earliest founded for this purpose, and many of the present day, were, and are now known as Orphan Asylums, but are such only by name, as they do not restrict admission to orphanage, but are open to any child whose parents or guardians desire to enter the same for purposes of better care and discipline, and are willing to pay a nominal sum for maintenance, or gratuitously to such as are dependent, neglected and likely to become vagrants. Some of these institutions whose means are ample, resemble prosperous boarding schools more than asylums for poor and unfortunate children.

The farming out of dependent children was also much in vogue at one time among some municipalities, but its results on the whole prove so unsatisfactory, that the practice will soon cease altogether.

PESTALOZZI.-WEHRLI.-FELLENBERG. t

Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, who at Neuhof, in 1775, founded the first distinctive institution for the care, instruction, and training of the poor to habits of industry, is the man above all others who, by his ardor and personal sacrifices for the cause, practically inaugurated the present system of industrial training of dependent children. It was he who first gathered about himself ragged, neglected and maltreated children, sought out the youthful victims of the farming out system and reclaimed from almshouses and prisons their juvenile inmates, and taking them to the Home he had prepared at Neuhof, there trained them by example and the force of his profound love, to become useful members of society. His ideas found favor with the eminent philanthropist and scholar, Emanuel Fellenberg, who in 1810 founded at "Hofwyl," what he was pleased to simply call "a school for the poor." John Jacob Wehrli, the most ardent, practical, and successful of Pestalozzi's followers, then but twenty years of age, was placed in charge of this institution, and to his devotion and life-long labor, his unselfishness and careful study of human nature, are greatly due the beneficent results which have By Hon. John Hitz, Consul General of Switzerland at Washington. For full account of Pestalozzi, Fellenberg and other Swiss educators see Barnard's Pestalozzi and Pestalozzianism-the same in Swiss Schools and Pedagogy, Edition of

1880.

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