Preface: As this pamphlet is published now in India, I should perhaps preface it with a few words of explanation. It was written many years ago, and much of what it contains, especially in its earlier pages, refers to conditions then prevailing in the great English boarding-schools. Many of them have not changed much even now, but a more rational spirit preponderates and the old abuses are no longer found.

In India conditions are in many ways different; but child nature is after all much the same the wold over, and the need of infinite patience and sympathetic understanding exists everywhere. Uncomprehending tyranny and cruel severity are not confined to Europe, and they may take many forms. Clearly all that is written here as to the influence of pure and loving thought and the avoidance of evil applies to all lands alike; and that is the lesson which I chiefly wish to emphasize

C.W.L.