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What beautiful green fields; and such huge elm trees; and orchards; and flowers in the cottage gardens! Ay, and what crops, too: what wheat and beans, turnips and mangold. All this land is very rich and easily worked; and hereabouts is some of the best farming in England.

In Rural Economy there are Abstracts from papers of considerable value and extent on Pasturages, Chlorides applied to diseased Animals, Quality of Waste Land from the plants growing in it, Malt Duties, Beet Root Sugar, Aliment from Straw, Planting and Pruning, Indian Corn, Mangold Wurzol, &c. In Gardening are upwards of 40 similar Abstracts.

Prevention of neglect and cruelty in the homes of the children themselves is the immediate goal of all constructive effort. The education of public opinion to demand universal consideration for child life is the ultimate aim. MANGOLD: Problems of Child Welfare, pages 166-184, 271-341. CLOPPER: Child Labor in the City Street. MCKEEVER: Training the Boy, pages 203-213.

The struggle ended in the death of Mangold on the one side and of Ernst and Werner on the other, with the definite defeat and dispersal of the robber band. Thus ended an interesting episode of mediæval German history. But the valor and misfortunes of Duke Ernst did not die unsung.