h Girls is a graduate of Antioch, has taught for many years in
different sections of this country, and has had unusual opportunities,
for several years, of observing English methods and results.

The essays on the first four institutions, whose names they bear, come
with the official sanction of the presiding officers of those
institutions, who vouch for the correctness of the statements. Of these,
VII. is by a member of the present Senior Class of the University, who
has instituted very exact personal inquiries among the women-students.
The author of VIII. is the librarian of Mt. Holyoke Seminary. The writer
of the report from Oberlin is a graduate--a teacher of wide experience,
and has been for three or four years the Principal of the Ladies'
Department of the college. The resident physician at Vassar is too well
known as such, to need any introduction.

There are many other institutions whose statistics would be equally
valuable, such, for instance, as the Northwestern University of
Illinois, which has not only opened its doors to girl-students, but has
placed women on the Board of Trustees, and in the Faculty.

From Antioch, which we desired to have fully represented, we have been
disappointed in obtaining statistics, which may, however, hereafter be
embodied in a second edition. In place thereof, we give the brief
statement of facts found under the name of the institution, supplied by
a friend.

With reference to my own part of the volume, if the words on "Physical
Education" far outnumber those on the "Culture of the Intellect," and
the "Culture of the Will," it can only be said that the American nation
are far more liable to overlook the former than the latter two, and that
the number of pages covered is by no means to be taken as an index of
the relative importance of the divisions in themselves. Of the
imperfection of all three, no one can be more conscious than their
author. The subject is too large for any such partial treatment.

To friends, medical, clerical, and unprofessional, who have kindly
given me the benefit of their criticism on different parts of the
introductory essay, my thanks are due. Especially do I recognize my
obligation to Dr. W. Gill Wylie, of this city, whose line of study and
practice has made his criticism of great value.

I cannot refrain from adding that I am fully aware of the one-sided
nature of the training acquired in the profession of teaching.
Civilization, implying, as it