Duty & Discipline

Appendix

EXPRESSIONS OF OPINION
BY
EMINENT MEN AND WOMEN

"Of all broken reeds Sentimentality is the most broken reed on which righteousness can lean." —Ex-President Roosevelt, in the Guildhall, London, May 21, 1910.

The Appendix holds comments from nearly 200 eminent people, and these comments may be found listed by auther's surname. In the case of Bishops, the names are often not given, so they are listed by the name of their See.

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The Late Very Rev. Hermann Adler, D.D., Ph.D., LL.D.,
Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the British Empire.

Sir Clifford Allbutt, K.C.B„ M.A„ M.D., F.R.S., etc„ etc.,
Regius Professor of Physic, Cambridge University.

His Grace the Archbishop of Armagh.

The Right Hon. the Lord Ashbourne, P.C., LL.D.,
ex-Lord Chancellor of Ireland.

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Lieut.-General Sir R. S. S. Baden-Powell,
C.B., K.C.V.O., F.R.G.S.

The Right Hon. Arthur James Balfour, P.C., F.R.S.,
late Prime Minister.

The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells, D.D.

Admiral the Lord Charles Beresford, G.C.V.0„ G.C.B.,

The Right Hon. Sir Robert Bond, P.C., K.C.M.G.,
Premier of Newfoundland.

General Booth, LL.D.

Mrs. Bramwell Booth.

The Right Hon. Louis Botha, P.C., LL.D.,
Premier of United South Africa.

Captain Sir J. W. Nott Bower,
Commissioner of Police of the City of London.

The Right Hon. the Earl. Brassey, G.C.B., D.C.L., LL.D., etc., etc.,
late Governor of Victoria, Australia.

The Right Rev. Charles Brent, D.D.,
American Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church
in the Philippine Islands.

The Rev. David Brook, M.A., D.C.L.,
Ex-President of the National Free Church Council.

The Rev. Charles Brown,
President of the National Free Church Council.

Sir William Bull, M.P.

The Right Hon. John Burns, MP.,
President of the Local Government Board.

Thomas Buzzard, Esq., M.D., F.R.C.P.,
Consulting Physician
to the National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic.

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His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury.
"I am grateful to you for sending me the series of leaflets entitled ' Duty and Discipline.' I have read most of them, and am struck with the vigour, the wisdom, the interest, and the common sense which mark the publications. I hope the leaflets will have a wide circulation, and fulfil the purpose for which they are designed."

The Rev. Prebendary Carlile, Founder and Honorary
Chief Secretary of the Church Army.
"Prebendary Carlile will certainly be glad to contribute a leaflet to the ' Duty and Discipline' series. He entirely agrees in thinking that the want of discipline in early life is one of the most fruitful causes of the moral and physical distress of the times."

The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Carpentaria, D.D.
(Australia).
" I am in absolute accord with the ' Duty and Discipline ' pamphlets. You will see what I feel by pages 5 to 9 of the enclosed booklet."

The Right Rev. W. Boyd Carpenter, D.D., late Bishop of Ripon; Canon of Westminster.
" Yes, by all means add my name."

His Grace the Most Rev. William M. Carter, D.D.,
Archbishop of Cape Town.
- I have to thank you for your kind letter and for the ' Essays on Duty and Discipline' which you have been good enough to send me.
" The Essays are on subjects which cannot but make for much good, and I hope that they have been and are being widely read. Everything that helps to promote and maintain the purity of family life, and the upbringing of children to give of their best in the service of God and man, is to be most heartily welcomed."

The Right Hon. Austen Chamberlain, P.C., M.P., late
Chancellor of the Exchequer.
" The subject matter of your ' Duty and Discipline ' series appears to me most important ; your aims are excellent, and the papers them¬selves full of interest."

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The Rev. A. St. John Chambre, D.D.. of Lowell,
Massachusetts, United States.
"I fully and unreservedly approve of and commend the purpose in view of the leaflets entitled ' Duty and Discipline.' I shall be glad to see them take an ' International ' form ; for the conditions calling for them in England obtain in great strength in this country."

The Rev, Hugh B. Chapman (Royal Chapel of the Savoy).
"Just a line to thank you for the excellent packet of pamphlets and to say how entirely I agree. I should like to get them spread broadcast about the country, and if in any way you can use me, or this Chapel, towards the furtherance of the ideal which you represent, it is entirely at your disposal,"

The Right Hon. Lord Justice Cherry, P.C., LL.D., K.C., High Court of Appeal in Ireland.
" The series of leaflets on the training and discipline of children, which you kindly sent me, will, I am sure, when circulated, do much good. The passing of the Children's Act by Parliament in 1908 has awakened the conscience of the nation as to its duty towards the younger members of the community in a remarkable way, and the importance of impressing upon parents their respon-sibility in the bringing up of their children cannot be exaggerated. The family,' as it has been well said, ' is the germ-cell of the nation,' and unless we have a healthy and well-regulated family life we cannot hope, no matter how much we may multiply institu¬tions ' for the training of the young, to continue to be a vigorous and progressive people."

The Dowager Countess of Chichester (Central President of Mothers' Union).
"I must apologise for not having answered your letter and acknow¬ledged the leaflets you sent me sooner, but I have been very busy with the Central Council, Conference, etc., of the Mothers' Union.
" I need hardly say that I am in full sympathy with your object, and constantly recommend your leaflets and distribute them."

The Right Hon. Winston Churchill, P.C., M.P., First Lord of the Admiralty.
"I have read the papers you have been good enough to send me, and with much interest. The lack of any effective educational and disciplinary control over boys from the time they leave the schools till they become workmen is one of the most serious features of the present situation. But I should not wish my opinion on this matter to be used upon my authority as an argument in favour of conscription."

Mrs. Chaloner Chute, President of the Central Council of the Girls' Friendly Society.
"I think the publications in the Duty and Discipline' series are excellent, and heartily wish them a large circulation."

The Right Rev, the Lord Bishop of Clifton (R.C.),
" I beg to thank you for the copy of Duty and Discipline ' papers which you have sent me for perusal. I need hardly say that with nearly all that I have read in them I am quite in agreement. What I miss in them is that little attempt seems to have been made to trace to its causes the sad deterioration in the national character which nearly every writer complains of."

The Hon. G. R. Coldwell, K.C., Minister of Education for the Province of Manitoba, Canada.
" I am directed by the Honourable the Minister of Education to say that he is entirely in sympathy with the purposes of the ' Duty and Discipline ' series, and that he approves thereof."

Miss Collin, Hon. Sec. to the Church Army League
of Friends of the Poor.
" The Friends of the Poor feel very strongly that much of the present unemployment is due to the lack of home discipline in early life. It is difficult to persuade parents to have their children trained to skilled work if it entails their absence from home or any financial sacrifice."

The Rev. W. E. Compton, late Head Master of Dover College.
"I am not less impressed than others by the lack of parental discipline which is now so conspicuous. It seems as if parents leave it all to the school to train their children in obedience, in morals, and in religion.
" As regards the poor, we seem to pauperise them in regard to their parental responsibilities as much as in any other way. We are leading them to think they need only bring the children into the world and the State must ' do the rest.' "

H. S. Cooke, Esq., M.A. Oxon., Master of Method in
Education, University College, Reading.
" Thank you for your book of Essays on Duty and Discipline. I earnestly hope that they may be widely read by all classes of people. There are to-day few worse signs of national weakening than the growing and pernicious impression in home and school that children should never be thwarted, their impulses allowed free play, and the value of perseverance as a necessary virtue need not be insisted upon.

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Such is, indeed, little real preparation for life and livelihood where self-abnegation, self-control, and mastery have to form essential fibres in the character of the individual. I wish success to your movement."

Lady Coote, Diocesan President of the Mothers' Union for Ireland.
"I have the greatest pleasure in giving you my name to add to the list of sympathisers and supporters—for I do admire this valuable movement. I think these leaflets form an excellent series."

The Hon. J. Mildred Creed, Member of the Legislative Council of New South Wales, Australia.
" I thank you for the book Essays on Duty and Discipline' in relation to the training of children. I have long felt strongly on this subject, as of the highest national importance and the basis of public well-being.
"I am of the opinion that the neglect to exercise parental control in New South Wales—as is also the case elsewhere—has an important influence on the birth-rate of the State. The conduct of children under sixteen years of age—as is obvious to every observant person —in the streets, in public resorts, on steamers, in trams, and other public vehicles, is such as to render the prospect of a family repugnant to thoughtful men and women. They realise that, even if they themselves do not omit to carry out their duty as parents when the children are in their homes, they cannot avoid their intimate association in the schools and playgrounds with others whose guardians entirely neglect their parental duties, and that therefore their efforts to bring up their offspring properly will oftentimes be defeated.
" Enquiry will show that a considerable proportion of the ill-behaved boys and girls are pupils of the schools under the Department of Public Instruction, and that the control of these children, even if fittingly exercised during the hours of instruction, entirely ceases on their leaving the precincts of the schools. When remonstrated with on their misconduct by a bystander, they are almost invariably insolent, as no physical coercion can be exercised by such a person, however gross the occasion, except at the risk of police-court pro¬ceedings initiated by a foolish parent on the probably untruthful statement of the child. Few men care to -run the risk of such annoyance ; therefore disorder and misconduct continue entirely unchecked.
"Frequently offences which should be dealt with in the Police and at the Children's Courts are committed with impunity. The children consequently acquire the idea that there is nothing but their own will and desires to rule them, so that in after-life they become lawless and not infrequently criminal as a result of the absence of proper restraint in early life. I have before suggested in public utterances that this might in a large measure be remedied were a law passed by which, when youthful offenders are arraigned, the adjudicating magistrate, having evidence that the offence was due to neglect of parental control,

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might direct the parent or guardian to show cause why he should not be punished as well as the child, as being directly responsible for the misconduct upon which a conviction has occurred.
" Part of the duty of Truant Officers of the Department of Public Instruction might well be, not only to see that all children attended a fitting school, but in addition to insure their good behaviour in the parks, streets, and public vehicles, and not permit them to run riot, often committing grave offence, without, as at present, any serious attempt being made to check them. It is neither possible nor would it be politic that this duty should be performed by the police, but it might well be made a portion of the educational system of the State."

The Right Hon. the Earl of Cromer, P.C., G.C.B., O.M., K.C.S.I.
"My time is so much occupied, that I fear I cannot write at any length on the very important and interesting question to which you have drawn my attention, But I wish to express my very entire sympathy with the objects which you and your coadjutors have in view.
" I trust you will not think it foreign to the subject if I add that, although we naturally have to occupy ourselves mainly with the moral training and discipline of the children of this country, the subject is very far from being British, in the strictly insular sense of the term. It is of a more far-reaching character. The greatest of all Eastern problems is to discover some means by which Western civilisation and education can be introduced into countries such as India and Egypt, without undermining the moral basis on which the whole fabric of society rests. For obvious reasons, the difficulties of finding any solution to this problem—if, indeed, it can be solved at all-are enormous ; but there is one thing we can do, and aught to do, and that is to spare no efforts in order to strengthen the moral fibre of our own children, some of whom will be destined in the future to exercise, both by precept and example, an abiding influence on the characters of those large Eastern communities whose interests are, to a greater or less extent, committed to our care, and whose institutions and habits of thought are now in a state of flux and transition, which renders them highly impressionable and receptive."

Commander Crutchley, R.N., Secretary of the Navy League.
"I think it would be rather difficult to over-estimate the value of the work that has been so splendidly initiated. It is no small undertaking to bring subjects such as are dealt with in the 'Duty and Discipline' series before the men, women, and children of this country. One of the hopeful signs of the present time is the interest taken by the young people, let us say, in the Baden-Powell Scout movement, and also in Lieutenant Barrett's Naval Brigade boys. It would almost seem that the rising generation is beginning to recognise for itself that the future of the Empire will rest in its hands. The work you are now doing must necessarily help the movement materially, and I may say, on behalf of my committee, we wish you every success in your patriotic endeavour."

The Right Hon. the Earl Curzon, P.C., G.C.S.I.
" Your series of leaflets strikes me, if I may say so, as very admirable. I think we want a great measure of self-discipline in an age the prevailing characteristic of which every one of us will admit in its relation to ourselves to be the pursuit of material comfort and the shirking of inconvenient obligations."

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The Countess of Denbigh, Member of the English Committee of the International Home Education Congress.
" I was much interested in the leaflets you sent. They have the same aim as my article, which put in a pithy form before a large number of readers these simple but little known ideas."

The Right Hon. the Lord De Villiers, P.C., K.C.M.G., Chief Justice of the Union of South Africa.
" After all the kind words of sympathy and encouragement which so many eminent men and women have written to you there is very little left for me to say. I am in entire agreement with the whole tenor of the essays on Duty and Discipline, and feel sure that their wide circulation in South Africa will greatly help to promote the discipline and sense of duty of our children."

Alexander Devine, Esq., M.A., Head Master of Clayesmore School.
" I have read with the greatest interest your pamphlets on ' Duty and Discipline.' . . . Your series of papers sound a warning note that should reach every family in the land, and a call to all true lovers of their country to brace themselves up to meet the dangers of self-indulgence, slackness and lack of discipline that, unregarded, will as surely bring about our downfall as that of other nations of the world, but that, regarded, will enable us to hold our own bravely and nobly in the sight of God and of other countries,"

His Grace the Duke of Devonshire, P.C.
"I return the form for the Duty and Discipline Movement, which I have filled up.
" I am very reluctant to undertake more work than I can help, as my time is already so very fully engaged, but if in a small way I can help I shall be glad to do what I can."
Mrs. Hugh Dixson, President of the Women's Branch of the Empire League in Australia; Vice-President of the National Council of Women in New South Wales, etc„ etc,
"I can only say that as a whole the papers are excellent. I only hope that they may influence the thought of the parents and teachers in our land. One cannot but feel that the pendulum has swung too

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far, and that if discipline were hard on the children in the past, the want of it and of filial duty is very lamentable in the present day.
" I can speak from some experience as the mother of nine, that the insistence of respect and prompt obedience in the home only adds to the love and respect our children give us now they are grown up and independent of us.
" The Good Woman ' of the Proverbs, I am quite sure, ruled hev children as well as the rest of her household, and they rose up and called her blessed.'
" I wish your work all success."

Lady Dockrell, Ex-Chairman of Urban District Council, Blackrock, Co. Dublin.
" The ' Duty and Discipline ' series aims at producing a race of men and women worthy of our highest national traditions."

The Most Rev. Dr. Donnelly, Assistant Bishop of Dublin, Bishop of Canea.
"I have just found time to read through a few of the essays, and confess myself struck with the unity of thought and purpose which pervades them. There is no doubt there is need of the work, as family discipline has been too dangerously relaxed, and it will require strenuous efforts to re-establish it."

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, D.L., LL.D., Novelist, Historian, etc.
"I think the ' Duty and Discipline' series is just what we want as a nation, and that you have done splendid public service in bringing these little books on the market. We do incline to be soft, morally and physically—but I try to think that the old fires burn underneath."

The late Rev. Canon Duckworth, D.D., C. V.0.
" I have read with great interest the leaflets. . . . My own observations—and I have seen during the last fifty years a good deal of the family and school life of all classes—fully accord with the views put forth in them, and I have long been convinced that the increasing lack of discipline is making havoc of our national character, and is one of the most serious dangers of our times."

Sir Dyce Duckworth, M.D., LL.D., Consulting Physician St. Bartholomew's Hospital; Senior Physician Seamen's Hospital, Greenwich.
"I am greatly pleased with the leaflets in the ' Duty and Dis¬cipline' series. Such teaching and advice are sadly needed in these days of flabbiness, pleasure seeking, ease loving, and mawkish senti¬mentalism. Apparently, the days for Solomon's rod and adequate

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punishment for offences have not passed by. We have an =whipped generation around us, and a sad spectacle it is. Universal service is the great remedy to meet the evils that have come with it—the one thing to enforce discipline, obedience, self-respect, and patriotic responsibility—and the sooner it comes the better. The loafing, idle¬ness, gambling, irreverence, and religious indifference of this twentieth century are clearly leading to the rapid decay in morals of masses of our countrymen, and it is well that some wise men and women are at last aroused to recognise this fact. Our modern Navy and Army are the finest schools for character that we now possess, but we must no longer have any easy-going shirkers."

The Dowager Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava.
"I think the ' Duty and Discipline ' pamphlets are excellent, and that they do a very useful and necessary work in bringing before parents of all classes their responsibility with regard to the training of their children in habits of discipline, and with a strong sense of duty."

The Countess of Dundonald.
"I have great pleasure in allowing my name to be placed on the list which you have kindly sent me. I am interested in education, as, until recent legislation placed the elementary schools under the control of the County Councils, I entirely managed and supported these, comprising nearly t,000 children, in our parishes."

The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Dunedin.
" I deferred writing until I had an opportunity of looking into the ' Essays on Duty and Discipline' for myself, and am now able to say that I think it is just what is needed at the present time, and I hope it will get into a large circulation. The sentiments as to true Christian manliness are what I have tried to set forth in many sermons, but the misfortune is that the self-indulgent parents and indulged children are just the ones who are least likely to be present in church.
" No greater mistake is ever made than for parents to imagine that they will gain the love and respect of their children by letting those children always have their own way, and a sad experience proves the truth of this when it becomes too late to correct the error."

Leonard Dunning, Esq., Chief Constable of Liverpool.
" For some years past I have tried to direct attention to the decay of parental control which is responsible for the growing criminality among the rising generation. That decay is merely one symptom of the general tendency to shirk responsibility and to throw private duties upon the State.
" I have urged, as stated in the Courier, the necessity for parents waking up to their responsibilities, and speaking to men's P.S.A.'s I have quoted His Majesty's words which you print among your forewords.
" The decay of parental control is eating away the foundations of

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the home ; the State and private enterprise are trying to repair the damage, but until the individual, in the person of the parent, realises that by his supineness he is bringing his home about his ears, the decay will work faster than the remedy.
" Crime is increasing fast and one of the most prolific reasons is the absence of discipline and a sense of duty in the young, for which parents alone are to blame."

The Right Rev. the Lord' Bishop of Durham, D.D. " I cordially welcome the series as well-timed and well written."

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Professor H, E, Egerton, Beit Professor of Colonial History, Oxford.
" There can be no question with regard to the magnitude of the danger against which the ' Duty and Discipline ' series is directed ; and the papers published in the series appear admirably adapted to help in a movement upon the success of which must largely depend the future of Great Britain, both as a country and as the centre of an Empire."

The Countess of Eglinton and Winton, Member of Council of Mothers' Union.
" You may certainly add my name to your list of those who approve of the ' Duty and Discipline leaflets."

The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Ely, D.D.
"I thank you sincerely for sending me the leaflets of the ' Duty and Discipline ' series. It appears to me an admirable series, dealing strongly and effectively with matters of the greatest importance. I will gladly, as I have opportunity, make it known."

The Viscount Esher, G.C.B., G.C.V.O., D.L., Permanent Member of Committee of Imperial Defence, etc., etc.
" I thank you for so kindly sending the Duty and Discipline leaflets, which are admirable. The underlying principle, that every Briton, however humble, is performing a service to the State in putting his very best efforts into the work which happens to be part of his daily life, is one of which we cannot hear too much."

The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Exeter, M.D.
" You are certainly at liberty to include my name among those who approve of the pamphlets, and I will endeavour to make them known. The matter is of very great importance. We believe we have in the Mothers' Union a very widespread and growing agency for diffusing healthy principles bearing on the training of character in young children."

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The Rev. A. M. Fairbairn, D.D., Emeritus Principal of Mansfield College, Oxford.
"I have read the papers sent of the ' Duty and Discipline ' series, and I have to say that I agree in their contention, namely, that there is need for a strict discipline in the training of children. I do not feel that I can serve any good purpose by contributing to the series, even in spite of the fact that I agree with what you have called ' their one contention or fundamental principle.' I have great pleasure in allowing the use of my name. If it has any use in the world, it cannot possibly be better employed."

Mrs. Henry Fawcett, LL.D.
"I am sorry that my time is too fully occupied to enable me to add another leaflet to the excellent selection. I highly approve of their general tone, and feel that one of the most neglected parts of education, especially the education of boys, is self-restraint and self-control."

Mrs. E, M. Field, Author of "The Child and his Book"; Member of the Mothers' Union Council, Diocese of London.
" The series seems to me a splendid effort to use the power of the Press in the service of God and man. The ' tract ' has long been an unjustly discredited weapon for good, yet we daily see its efficacy in pushing patent medicines and yet more dangerous nostrums. I hope the manifold appeal of these leaflets will be far reaching. Vox audita ftrit, litera scripta manet."

Dr. F. W; Foerster, Special Lecturer on Ethics, Education, etc., at the University of Zurich; Author of " jugend¬lehre," " Schule and Charakter," etc.
" Thank you very much for the excellent leaflets. I heartily agree with the whole tone of your appeal to parents, and I appreciate especially the clearness and definiteness of the goal of all education which shines through the practical counsels of the leaflets. That is most important in our time, when there are so many vague and foggy ideas about character and personality. It will be a pleasure and an honour to me to have my name put on the list of sympathisers."

The Rev. P. T. Forsyth, M.A., D.D., Principal of Hackney College (Divinity School of the University of London).
"I am heart and soul with your programme. I am often speaking on those lines, and asking people who believe in the equality of Father and Son to take its morality to heart and teach their theology as a moral principle. It is the principle that subordination is not inferiority, and that obedience is in the essence of a divine life and the source of its freedom—to say nothing of our social cohesion and safety."

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The Rev. J. Monro Gibson, M.A., D.D., Ex-President of the National Free Church Council.
"These Essays on Duty and Discipline' seem to me needful and timely. I have read them with great interest. Though I do not agree with all the positions taken, I cordially approve of the general aim and object of the whole, and believe that the volume is likely to do a very great deal of good."
The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Glasgow and
Galloway, D.D.
"I only wish I could write a leaflet for you, but I am simply overwhelmed with work and dare not undertake anything more at present.
" If you think it would be of any use, I shall be honoured by having my name included in the list contained in your preface."
The Rev. Dr. Gow, Litt.D., Head Master of Westminster
School.
" I most heartily approve of the movement in favour of a stricter discipline in the home-life of our nation. The leaflets of the ' Duty and Discipline' series seem to me to be full of admirable good sense, and to deserve the widest circulation. Many excellent motives have combined to produce a gentler treatment of children than was customary in a former age, but a wise training of the young is more and more required as the national wealth increases and the responsibilities of Empire grow more onerous and complex. There are nowadays more temptations on the one hand and more duties on the other, and laxity of character has become doubly serious."
The Rev. Cecil Grant, M.A. Oxon., Head Master of St. George's School, Harpenden.
"I heartily welcome your series, believing in discipline with all my soul.
" I do not believe that the ideal standard of discipline has ever yet been reached in a school. For true discipline is, of course, not simply repression, but the effort of keeping children up to the mark. This entails a very heavy strain upon those in authority ; but no form of self-sacrifice in the teacher is so richly repaid as by the child's gain in happiness and efficiency. God grant to us, the head masters and head mistresses of England, more strength, courage and perseverance in this matter, and God grant also that the wide circulation of the ' Duty and Discipline' series may do much to awaken parents to the urgent necessity for more discipline in the home ! Parents and teachers, working together, can conquer without difficulty. But if either fail, the other must fight at desperate odds."

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Miss Alice Gregory, Hon. Sec. of Home for Mothers and Babies, Woolwich.
"I think your pamphlets excellent, and very much what are needed at the present time, when the tendency is undoubtedly to become too soft."

Field-Marshal the Lord Grenfell, P.C, G.C.B., G.C.M.G.
" I have read the leaflets with great interest. There is a general feeling that in civil life—as regards the rising generation—we are retrogressing ; in all branches of military life, on the contrary, we are progressing.
" After fifty years in the army I can safely say that at no period that I can remember have the young officers and men been so sober, so respectable, and so efficient. Crime has largely decreased, temper¬ance has as largely increased. In one battalion in my late command in Ireland, 200 men were total abstainers. I ascribe this happy result to discipline, tempered by the kindness and interest taken by officers in their men, assisted by a wise system of devolution and decentralisa¬tion, and an excellent education, moral and physical, inducing the high conception of loyalty and duty which prevails. Could not the same methods be applied to the civil population with the same result ? "

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ir William Hall-Jones, K.C.M.G.
" I am very pleased to accept the kind invitation to place my name on the list of those signifying their approval of the ' Duty and Disci¬pline ' series.
" The children of the world's greatest Empire should be trained in duty and discipline, and we are not worthy of our heritage if we neglect that which is an essential of the welfare of the realm. The leaflets seem to me an admirable way of carrying out an admirable idea."
The Right Hon. the Earl of Halsbury, P.C., F.R.S., etc., etc., late Lord Chancellor.
" I am much struck with the ' Duty and Discipline' leaflets, and think them admirably fitted for the purpose for which they were designed."

His Grace the Most Rev, Charles Hamilton, D.D.,
Archbishop of Ottawa.
" Duty and Discipline are sorely needed in our Canadian homes, and we cannot afford to forgo your excellent and brief statements enforcing both.
" I shall be pleased to have my name enrolled among those who favour and will support duty and discipline."

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The Right Hon. the Lord George Hamilton, P.C., G.C.S.I.
" I must apologise for not having before answered your letter, but I have been very busy, and I also wanted to look through the leaflets you sent me. I am in thorough accord with them. We are retrogressing, and the main causes of our retrogression are moral. We are breeding an increasingly undisciplined and selfish race ; and the frivolities of life are dominating the serious and working side of life. Amusement and extravagance and the worship of mammon are paramount. I deplore it, and, so far as I can, I am trying to help in establishing a better state of things."

The Very Rev. Martyn Hart, D.D., Dean of Denver, Colorado, U.S.A.
" America is by far the most murderous country in the world. The conditions of life here are most conducive to the unrestrained¬ness of the passions, and, as the passions are not trained when the nature is pliable, is it any wonder that they often burst all bounds and do deeds of violence? The proverbial uncertainties of justice encourage the unkempt moral nature to venture upon transgression. In the three years of the Boer war, as Bishop Greer lately stated, there were killed by murder in America 10 ,000 more people than the whole of the British loss, i.e. 22,000. ft is shown that one death in every 112 in the United States is a murder. There were in this city of Denver last year (1909) 23 murders ; about as many as were registered in London. Denver has a population of 200,000, and London between 5,000,000 and 6,000,000. There were here 77 suicides, and these numbers are, of course, minimum, for there were no doubt many sudden deaths, which were not under the surveillance of the coroner.
One death in every 65 in the United States is either a murder or a suicide. Crime is steadily increasing from one for every 3,000 of the population fifty years ago, to one for every 300. To-day there is one criminal in actual durance for every 250 of the population of Colorado. This condition of declining morality must continue till children are taught to be moral in the home and in the school.
" But moral lawlessness is no less baneful to the community than criminal lawlessness, and divorce is a gauge of moral lawlessness. In 19o4 there were 61,000 divorces in America as against 177 granted in England and 19 in Canada ! In Denver last year (1909) there was one divorce for every four marriages ; and in one day this month of July, 1910, the Court granted 13 divorces when 11 marriage licences were issued the same day.
" In regard to juvenile crime, there were in 1899, in Chicago, 17,300 prisoners under sixteen. In a generation of Denver boys, 2,000 had been in gaol—one in every five. Judge Lindsey lof the Juvenile Court, Denver) stated that from his two years' investigation he should estimate that at least 50 per cent. of the Denver boys were dishonest,

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" In the face of this alarming condition of the morality of the nation, it must be confessed that the public education is a failure. It fails to do that very thing for which education is undertaken : it fails to train our youth to the yoke of discipline and obedience; it fails to create in them a principle of energy which enables then, to resist temptation ; it fails to induce them of their own will to accept the law of labour and duty.
" Of course, it is patent to everybody that the first stimulant to any movement of reform is information as to its necessity ; and in this country, where the education is entirely secular, as a rule, crime has steadily and consistently increased, and it will necessarily do so until children are supplied with some incentive to keep them moral."

Sir E. R. Henry, G.C.V.O., Chief Commissioner
of Police of the Metropolis.
"Generally, I am in sympathy with the views expressed by the contributors to the ' Duty and Discipline' series.
"Admittedly the absence of discipline in early life prejudices many of the rising generation. But how, having regard to the circumstances of so many of the poor, can discipline be enforced in their homes ? The experience of the police is that the children, compelled by their circumstances to make the streets their playground, are liable to deteriorate both morally and physically. If during their play hours they could be brought under good influences, incalculable benefit might result.
" The suggestion I venture to push forward is that schoolhouses and playgrounds be more utilised after school hours as places to which children could be attracted, and their amusements organised and regulated by voluntary workers, on the lines of Mrs. Humphry Ward's Vacation Schools."
The Rev. Silvester Horne, M.A., M.P.
"I am glad to be able to say that Mr. Horne is willing that his name should be included amongst those who have expressed approval of your work in the preface to the ' Duty and Discipline' series."
Miss Hunter, Head Mistress of the Girls' High School, Montreal; Member of the Protestant Committee of the Council of Public Instruction for the Province of Quebec.
" I should be very glad to have you use my name in connection with the ' Duty and Discipline' series of leaflets, for I believe that such a wise endeavour in the right direction, carried on as you are evidently doing it, cannot fail to be of great and lasting good."

Sir Percival Philip Hutchins, K.C.S.I., etc., late Member of the Council of India.
"I have read several of the Duty and Discipline' leaflets, and entirely approve of their general spirit, with which I am in hearty sympathy. I take your aim to be that the rising generation should be educated to become good citizens of the Empire, and this is exactly the aim of the League of the Empire, with which I have been closely connected for the last nine years. . . . You are, of course, welcome to make any use of this letter you like. "

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Lady Jenkyns, Editress of the Mothers' Union Journal.
" I am sorry that your latest ' Duty and Discipline ' papers came too late to be noticed in our January number. I will mention them next time, for I think they are excellent and should be widely known. If you like to add my name to your list of people who approve, pray do."

The Countess of Jersey, President of the Victoria
League.
" Many thanks for the volume of essays you have been so kind as to send me. It is indeed interesting to find therein how distin¬guished men and women, writing from diverse standpoints, unite in enforcing the great lessons which you endeavour to bring home to our people. While compulsory education confers many boons, it appears to be attended by an unforeseen danger. Some parents are apt to assume that instruction at school can act as a substitute for that home training which is the only solid basis for education in its highest sense. Surely we should all do well to lay to heart the noble words of our present king : ' The foundations of national glory are set in the homes of the people, and they will only remain unshaken while the family life of our nation is strong, simple and pure.' Wish¬ing you all success in your efforts to render that life ' strong, simple and pure.' "

The Right Hon. William Moore Johnson, P.C., late Judge of the High Court of Justice, Ireland.
" My wife and I have read with much interest the pamphlets which you kindly sent to us, and are in entire accord with their object. They are full of wise, practical counsel, and must be of great value to all concerned in the training of children.
The child is father of the man ' —on the mother's lap and at the father's knee the training of the child should from the first commence, with affection and patience, in habitual truth and obedience, self-control, and courtesy. These few (among the many) elements of Duty and Discipline will steadily develop, and will rarely be forgotten later on, even though there may be times when

the grown-up child may be led astray, or falter, or early training be obscured or blurred by the prevalent humanitarianism which denudes life of moral vigour and healthy robustness."

The Rev. Evan Jones, Ex-President of the National Free Church Council.
" The book which you so kindly sent me draws attention in a very remarkable way to a great subject of the deepest importance, especially at the present time, to the community. Whatever bless¬ing there may be for a nation in iron and blood,' certainly, as a people, I think that a little more salt ' would do no harm to us."

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Miss B. L. Kennett, Head Mistress of the Perse High School for Girls, Cambridge.
" I beg to thank you very cordially for the book of essays of the ' Duty and Discipline' series. I need hardly say that I am in entire sympathy with the efforts which are being made to bring home to the minds and consciences of all who are responsible for the training of children the need for discipline and the danger and cruelty of relaxing it. It gives me much pleasure to testify to my belief in the value of the ideals which the essays uphold."

The Lord Kinnaird, F.R.G.S.
" . . . I entirely agree that there is a growing spirit of slackness and selfishness, and an absence of the sense of duty and discipline. I wish your efforts every success."

Rudyard Kipling, Esq., LL.D.
" One has peculiar opportunities in the country, I think, for watching the effect of two generations reared without discipline, as is largely the case with the children of the lower middle class. I think the greatest privilege that remains to certain classes is that of being allowed (on payment) to have their children brought up in an atmosphere where decidedly unpleasant phenomena follow idleness and disobedience. Those children may go astray afterwards, but at least they have learned some rude connection between cause and effect ; whereas the undisciplined person is throughout life much surprised and annoyed at the consequences of his own acts, and is inclined to put them down either to a flaw in the scheme of the universe or to some conspiracy against him of his fellow-men."

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Field-Marshal the Right Hon. the Viscount Kitchener of Khartum, KP., 0.M., G.C.S.L, G.C.B., G.C.M.G., etc.
"I feel sure the essays on ' Duty and Discipline' you have so kindly sent me will do much good. I am very glad to add my name as one who entirely approves of them and wishes them every success."

Miss E. E. Kyle, B.A., Home and Colonial Training College, and Teachers' Guild of Great Britain and Ireland.
"I have been much interested in the pamphlets of the ' Duty and Discipline' series, and particularly in that entitled ' Discipline and Training in the Prevention of Nervous Diseases,' as I am constantly being confronted by cases of injured nervous health due to lack of a disciplined life and excess of emotion or ambition ; and I am con¬vinced that an early training in doing the right thing at the right time, and in the enduring of a certain amount of hardness, would prevent many a woman from a nervous breakdown.
"I wish the series a wide circulation."

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The Right Hon. the Marquis of Lansdowne, P.C., K.G., G.C.S.L, G.C.I.E., G.C.M.G., etc., etc.
" I am entirely in accord with the objects of those who are interest-ing themselves in the production of the ' Duty and Discipline' series.
" Self-reliance is an admirable quality, and we cannot inculcate it too much, but it is not incompatible with good discipline and subordination to established authority. The more this is brought home to our young folk the better for them and for the State."

Sir William Hesketh Lever, Bart., of Port Sunlight.
" I am obliged for your sending me the Duty and Discipline ' series of leaflets, and am delighted with them. All my experience shows me that instruction in home life and the rearing of healthy and disciplined children supplies a much-needed want, and that there is a growing hunger on the part of parents for such guidance as your pamphlets aim to give. Their influence for good cannot be over-estimated."

The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Lichfield, D.D.
" I am much flattered by your request for a short paper con¬cerning education, and I am sure I am in sympathy with you on the subject."

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C. S. Loch, Esq., Secretary of the Charity
Organisation Society.
"I need hardly say that I entirely agree with what you say in your letter about duty and discipline."
The Right Hon. the Marquis of Londonderry, P.C., G.C. V.O.
" I have no objection to your adding my name to the list you enclose."

The Marchioness of Londonderry.
" I send you a copy of a letter which I am sending to the different branches of the Mothers' Union here with which I am connected, to show you how deeply I appreciate your book—especially the part which says : ' Britons have ruled in the past because they were a virile race, brought up to obey, to suffer hardships cheerfully, and to struggle victoriously. There exists no royal road to success in national any more than in private life. Love of hard work, thrift, self-denial, endurance, and indomitable pluck, these are some of the hall-marks of an Imperial race.' I think this is splendid."

Extract from a Letter from the Marchioness of Londonderry to the Members of the Mothers' Union at Wynyard, Seaham Harbour, New Seaham, Silksworth and Dawdon.
" I am sending to each branch a little book of essays on Duty and Discipline '—a series of papers on the training of children in relation to social and national welfare, which I hope you will all read. As you are all aware, the formation of the Mothers' Union is for the purpose of holding meetings and conferences at which to discuss and consider our great responsibility—the training of our children. Though children are now removed from their mothers' care a great deal by elementary education, yet we must remember that the influence of a mother is incomparable to any other influence, and the future of the child depends more upon the mother than on any other influence that is brought to bear on the child.
" Our President, Mrs. Sumner, has said : ' One great object of this Mothers' Union is to get parents, mothers especially, to realise that our English boys and girls should be brought up in habits of obedience, truth, purity, self-control and unselfishness, and duty to God and man ; and the result should be a glorious reformation in the character of the coming race."

Walter Frewen Lord, Esq., Historian, etc.
" As we are taught, so we think ; as we think, so we act. If the rising generation is to be worthy of the British Empire—(that ' great¬est of all secular agencies for good now existing ' )—it must be taught to despise those two false gods, Mammon and Mediocrity ; to both of which too many of the present generation render grovelling homage.

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In this righteous work it is impossible to over-estimate the influence of your ' Duty and Discipline ' series. Its lofty and courageous tone is beyond all praise."

The Right Hon. the Earl Loreburn, G.C.M.G., D.C.L., Lord Chancellor of England.
" I have read the series of Duty and Discipline' leaflets you were good enough to send me, and I entirely sympathise with their general aim. The leaflets are very good in spirit, and full of good sense and good feeling as it seems to me."
Sir Charles Prestwood Lucas, G.C.M.G„ C.B., Assistant Under-Secretary of State, Colonial Office.
" Thank you for sending me the leaflets of the ' Duty and Discipline ' series. I hope they will be distributed far and wide, as they should do untold good. I believe that the greatest safeguard for the coming time is to be found in training the young to duty and to discipline. I there¬fore gladly welcome this series."

Miss Lückes, Matron of the London Hospital.
" My sympathies are strongly with the principles so well advocated in the ' Duty and Discipline' series.
" I have no hesitation in expressing my conviction that the lack of home training which results in such undisciplined characters, is a serious hindrance to us in training nurses. In too many instances we have to deplore the marked tendency to ignore the principle of ' duty first ' if it happens to clash with the inclination of the moment. I fear this feeling exists in well-meaning young women of every social class who aspire to be nurses.
" Many of these display far less perseverance than ought to be forthcoming. They expect to succeed without taking personal trouble, and are so easily discouraged when they find that no one can become or remain a good nurse without sustained effort. This being our constantly renewed experience, we are keenly alive to the advantage of dealing with those who possess well-disciplined characters to fit them for undertaking responsible work, and we welcome every influence that can be brought to bear with the aim of creating and developing a strong sense of duty. From this point of view these leaflets appear to me admirable, and I am indebted to you for calling my attention to them. I am quite willing for my name to be added to the list of those who approve of the objects which the Duty and Discipline ' series is intended to promote, as I realise the vital importance of doing every¬thing possible to raise the standard of both."

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Mrs. Lyle, for the Rev. Samuel Lyle, D.D., Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Canada.
" Dr. Lyle was in Quebec when your letter came. As he is on his way to Halifax, I think it is better I should let you know his feeling on the matter rather than delay till his return. You kindly sent me the series some time ago. I brought the matter before our local Council of Women, and a number of copies were ordered and distributed among our women. Dr. Lyle read them carefully then, and approved most heartily of them. Indeed, the sentiments of many of the papers are the views he has held and preached for many years. In this new country this series is very much needed, even more than in Britain.
" Dr. Lyle's duties as Moderator have been very arduous—in fact, he is overwhelmed with work ; but I know that he will consider it a great honour to have his name associated with your splendid work, recognising the great need of character-building if the nation is to be a righteous one."

The Rev, and Hon. E. Lyttelton, M.A.
" I am warmly in sympathy with the general line that has been taken by the writers of the fly-leaves."
General the Right Hon. Sir Neville Gerald Lyttelton, P.C., G.C.B.
"I have been reading the leaflets sent me, hence the delay in answering your letter. I can quite endorse what they point out, the increasing softness of all classes, and the consequent failure in grit, and I shall be glad to add my name to the list of those who are in sympathy with the teaching of the leaflets."

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Sir Donald MacAlister, K.C.B., M.D., LL.D., D.C.L., etc., Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the Glasgow University.
"I have only just found time to read over again, in the light of your assurance in regard to military training, some of the leaflets on ' Duty and Discipline' which you were good enough to send me.
" Let me say that the end you have in view is one which all educators must in increasing measure keep before them. The weaken¬ing of home influence on our children is apparent, and the result is no less visible in the character of the youth who are now of school and college age. Whether the teacher can take the place of the parent in making good this defect is doubtful ; but there is no doubt that only good can come from an earnest effort such as yours to awaken in both parents and teachers a livelier sense of their responsibility."

The Right Hon. the Lord Macdonnell, P.C,
K.C. V. O, D.C.L.
"I have been very busy and wished again to look through the leaflets you sent me. Your object—to impress parents with the deep necessity of maintaining discipline and teaching the young the lessons of self-reliance, truthfulness, and obedience—must command universal approval, and I am very willing that you should enter my name on the list of those who wish you well in your undertaking."

The Very Rev. Donald Macleod, D.D., Chaplain-in-Ordinary to His late Majesty King Edward.
" Dr, Macleod begs to thank you for the specimen copies of the ' Duty and Discipline' series. He believes such teaching much needed."

The Rev. A. D. MacRae, Ph.D., Principal of Western
Canada College, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
" Your leaflets on ' Duty and Discipline' are both wise and timely."

Professor Howard Marsh, F.R.C.S., Master of Downing College, Cambridge.
"I have delayed thanking you for the three volumes of Essays till I had been able to read them quietly. They are not only most interest¬ing, but, obviously, very valuable to everyone who reads them at the present day. They not only give people something to think about, but they make them use their opportunities !
" Nothing that is published can be more thoroughly useful. I will not fail to bring them under people's notice."

Mrs. Ord Marshall, Hon. Sec. of the League of the
Empire.
" Thank you for the excellent leaflets. It is hardly possible to over-estimate the exceeding good of discipline—for through discipline comes the great gift of vision, in whose light our Empire may perhaps serve its highest purpose for mankind."

Miss Constance L. Maynard (Moral Science Tripos, Cam¬bridge, 1875), Principal of Westfield College.
"The papers of the ' Duty and Discipline' Series are excellent, and our country will regain far more than its old respect if, along with the education and altruism of the present day, we can recover some of that austerity, that pure adhesion to duty, that disregard of hardship or loneliness, that was the salient characteristic of days that are past.

" It is not my opinion that ethics can stand alone, and I think more evident and open emphasis should (in the papers) be laid on religion as the hidden root from which the noble conduct springs.
" I am now in my twenty-ninth session as a Mistress of this College, which is one of the schools of the University of London, and works for the degrees of that University—B.A. M.A., and B. Sc. From its incep¬tion in 1882, I have steadily kept before the College—both staff and students—one aim ; this may be expressed in two propositions : (1) It is neither ability nor attainment, but character, that rules the world ;
(a) That this character is impossible to be formed without true religion.
" I hope and believe that these papers on Duty and Discipline have the same marks, and therefore I wish them all success."

Mrs. L. T. Meade, Authoress. "I approve most heartily of your fine work."

The Right Hon. John Xavier Merriman, P.C., M.L.A., Ex-Premier of Cape Colony.
" I have to thank you very much for sending me the leaflets, and for letting me see the volume of Essays, which I return herewith. Those which I have read, particularly your own and Professor Paulsen's, I like very much, and agree in all you say about modern education. The only sure foundation of Empire is character. In England, however often we may have departed from them, we had lofty ideals, and it was these, and not size or wealth, that made the Com-monwealth. As Hellenism was the subtle poison that corrupted the Romans, so I fancy will ' Materialism ' and its cult remain the great enemy of the British race. The flood comes on apace, and we can only pray that it may not be in our time that the barbarian knocks at the gates. Anything that struggles against the hysterical gust of easy¬going optimism that supposes one can buy either power or happiness without self-sacrifice has my warmest sympathy."

The Rev. F. B. Meyer, B.A., D.D., President of the National Federation of Free Churches, 1904; Hon. Secretary of the National Free Church Council, etc., etc.
" The Duty and Discipline ' leaflets are simply admirable. Their strong common sense and masculine English make them good reading. I should like to pass a law that young couples should be obliged to pass an examination in them before they could get married."

The Hon. Sir Lewis Michell, late Minister, Cape Colony ; Author of " The Life of Cecil John Rhodes."
" You were good enough to send me recently a copy of Essays on Duty and Discipline,' which I opened with the ordinary reluctance

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with which we are apt to regard an ' improving ' book. But I am bound to confess that I have found the compilation extremely interesting and even absorbing. The consensus of opinion from so many sources that we are relaxing the bonds of duty and discipline cannot be safely ignored. I fear we have forgotten many of our old and homely proverbs on the subject. In our unrestrained devo¬tion to sports and pastimes—in themselves and in moderation harm. less—we overlook the wise saying that pleasure when made a business of ceases to be pleasure.
" Liberty is a glorious gift of God, but becomes noxious if it degenerates into licence.
" Your efforts and those of your friends are, I am sure, of service to the nation as far as they read, but more than this is wanted, and for my part I believe that the Boy Scout and School Cadet movements require to be supplemented by compulsory military and other training if we are to continue to hold our own. But even these will fail us unless there is more home training, and to return to this we must practically reverse the habits of a life-time. The Church has as great a responsibility as the State to improve the present position of affairs."

The Right Hon. the Viscount Midleton, P.C., D.L,, Secretary of State for War, 1900-1903; Secretary of State for India,
19034905.
" Everyone goes forward in the work of social betterment, but there is little guidance as to turning to account the patriotism of , those whom we are trying to make good citizens.
" The facts and arguments in your series of papers ought to arouse many to the necessity of national discipline and pride of race."

Jno. B. Miles, Esq„ B.Sc, Lond„ Head Master, Mansfield
Road L,C,C. School, N.W.
" No one who has the slightest regard for the welfare of this country can feel otherwise than deeply thankful that there exists such a movement as the 'Duty and Discipline' series seeks to promote. While the question of 'Rights' looms large in the public eye, Responsibility and Duty ' are practically ignored ; so much so that children are growing up without even being aware that there are such things to be required of them.
" The home being largely responsible for this unsatisfactory con¬dition of affairs, it remains for the school to deal with the evil and rectify the omission.
" Teachers are the first to recognise and to deplore the prevailing slackness, but their hands want strengthening if they are to cope with

the matter, and this can be brought about only by educating public opinion to a more manly and healthy view.
"At present life is treated as an obstacle race in which the obstacles are carefully removed. There can be no advance, either individual or collective, without the putting forth of effort, and there is no effort where there are no difficulties."

The Rev. I. R. Miller, D,D., Editor Presbyterian Pub¬lishing House, Philadelphia, U.S.A. ; Author of numerous Religious Publications.
" I have read with intense interest the ' Essays on Duty and Discipline' which you sent to me, and approve most heartily of the purpose of this movement. There is a great need of a strong popular sentiment in the direction which is so strenuously advocated by yourself and others in the tracts.
" There is in our country as well as yours a painful lack of firmness and discipline in home training, and consequently a lack of the fine results in character which would come from such discipline."

The Right Hon. the Viscount Milner, P.C., G.C.M. G., etc.
"I am in general sympathy with the objects of the writers of the ' Duty and Discipline' series of leaflets, and shall be happy to direct attention to them. . . . In my own way I always try to bring out the moral side of Imperialism, and to emphasise the fact that national greatness rests ultimately on soundness at the core, on a high ideal of citizenship and duty, and I feel really grateful for the great work . . . in keeping these fundamental truths before our people here and overseas."

The Right Rev. the Moderator of the Church of Scotland.
" The Moderator of the Church of Scotland begs to say in reply to your letter that, though he cannot at present undertake to con¬tribute a leaflet, he has very great sympathy with the views and aims of the ' Duty and Discipline' series, and he believes that the publications are likely to have a good result and influence."

Sir John William Moore, M.D., Hon. D.Sc. Oxon.; Ex-President of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland.
" The delay in answering your letter has arisen from my desire to read some of the leaflets which accompanied that letter. It is not possible to think of a finer or more inspiring subject for a writer than that of The Training of Our Children.' And in the series on Duty and Discipline ' the several writers appear to have

grasped that fact. With a due sense of the solemnity of their task, they have written on their great theme from many different standpoints.
" I was much struck by three brief sentences in the Daily Telegraph of August 7 t, 1908, which forms the first leaflet ; ` Parents take their own course at their own risk. The training of every child is a new experiment of incalculable possibilities. No certainty of success can exist at the outset of the process, and the error of a wrong method is hardly discovered until too late for remedy.' "

Emile S. Mortimer, President of Head Teachers'
Association.
" I am already familiar with some of the admirable leaflets, and fully agree with the object in view."

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The Hon. J. L. Nanson, Minister of Education for
Western Australia.
" I have read those [the leaflets] you sent me with much interest, and cordially approve of the views expressed in them. I consider that such publications may be of great value in calling attention to the need for self-control and discipline, and arousing a greater sense of responsibility. I heartily wish the movement success."

Arthur Newsholme, Esq. , M.D., F.R.C.P., F.S.S., Medical Officer, Local Government Board; Assistant House Physician and House Surgeon of St. Thomas's Hospital.
"The object of the series is excellent. If my name is of the slightest advantage as being in accord with this object, I cannot object to its use."

The Lord Newton, D.L., J.P.
"Many thanks for sending me the pamphlets. I am afraid that I do not feel equal to writing an essay myself, but I should like to say that I entirely approve of your object and wish you every success. " There is a most convenient formula, ' Encroachment on the liberty of the subject,' which is perpetually made use of when anyone has the temerity to suggest that something unpalatable should be done, and we ought to be deeply grateful to you for your efforts to inculcate duty and discipline."

The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Northampton (R.C.).
" Many thanks for the interesting volume of ` Essays on Duty and Discipline.' I need not say that the subject commands my entire sympathy. I think I can help the cause best by a paragraph over my signature in the October number of our diocesan magazine."

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Miss H. D. Oakeley, M.A., Warden of King's College
for Women, University of London.
" I have now had time to read the little book of ' Essays on Duty and Discipline,' of which you were kind enough to send me a copy, and I shall be glad to say in your Preface that I am in entire agree¬ment with the general principles of the writers and the purpose of the series. I suppose, indeed, that almost all who reflect on the tendencies of our times must have felt apprehension on account of an apparent change in the spirit of English youth, connected with a loss of some of the qualities that have been the strength and fibre of the people, and made the spread of the Anglo-Saxon ideal to seem a part of progress. The difficulty is not to express these views, but to turn them into a force for that hardest of all reforms—a humble return to that which was good in the spirit of the past. I hope your book will contribute to the growth of this force."

Josiah Oldfield, Esq., M.A., D.C.L. Oxon.,
M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P.
" I have read with the very greatest interest the leaflets you have sent me belonging to the 'Duty and Discipline' series, and I feel that the work you are doing is of the greatest importance to the welfare of the race. In my professional work I am constantly meeting, in fact hardly a day passes without meeting-, those undisciplined men and women who have become so, and whose lives are being ruined by want of character training in earlier youth."

Sir Thomas Oliver, M.D., Hon. LL.D. Glasgow,
Hon. D.Sc. Sheffield, F.R.C.P.
" We occasionally hear the question asked, ` What to do with our boys ? " What to do with our girls' is just as important, if not more so, since upon many of them in days to come will be imposed the duties of motherhood, and to their children will be entrusted the destiny of the British Empire. Self-denial, less seeking after pleasure, and a proper appreciation of responsibility will go far to uplift the family life of this country which for the last few years has been changing for the worse. In the Duty and Discipline' series of leaflets will be found helps towards a healthier state of family life, of which, after all, the national is but an echo."

Professor Sir William Osler, Bart., M.D., LL.D., D.Sc., F.R.C.P., F.R.S., Regius Professor of Medicine, Oxford.
"I am very glad indeed to see the leaflets, with the spirit and form of which I heartily concur. I should be very glad to have my name added to the list of those who approve of the work."

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Lady Owen Mackenzie,
Member of Higher Education Sub-Committee, and Chairman of the Lace Education Committee of Bedfordshire County Council, Governor of the Harpur Trust Girls' High School and Modern School, Poor Law, Guardian, Rural District Councillor, Member of Council of
the Eugenic Society.
" I shall be very pleased to allow my name to be added to the list of those who have expressed their approval of your work. To my thinking, Duty and Discipline should form the basis of all our teaching and training, not by the forcing of hard-and-fast rules, but by the recognition of personal responsibility and the insistence of self-control."

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G. R. Parkin, Esq., LL.D., C.M.G., Director of the Rhodes Scholarships Trust.
" I need hardly say that I entirely sympathise with all efforts to cultivate Imperial thought on high lines. In the two trips I have made around the Empire, and in the years of study I have tried to give to the subject, I have felt bound to give much attention to the physical, commercial, industrial, military, naval, and other conditions which affect the position of our nation in the world. I have grown more and more of late years to attach great importance to the moral aspects of the question. I am convinced that a common moral pur¬pose among our widespread populations, and a common sense of responsibility in regard to the great tasks manifestly laid upon us as a people, will prove in the long run one of the most effective bonds of Empire, and I am quite sure that nothing can be so useful to our youth and more likely to save them from influences which threaten to weaken and undermine in them a high sense of national duty."

The late J. B. Paton, M.A., D.D., Principal Emeritus

of the Congregational Institute.
" I am very deeply interested in the 'Duty and Discipline ' series of papers which you are now printing, and which will be exceed¬ingly useful. There are two things which I would specially urge :¬That you associate with your movement some leaders of the working men and women of England. It is the great mass of our working youths who are so fearfully neglected and injured both in their home and in the workshop. They have little or no discipline. Our best working men are feeling this, and I hope you may associate them in your movement, and let some papers be written which can be widely distributed by employers amongst the youths in their employ. I hope you will also interest the teachers of England. The reading of our youth is now perhaps one of the greatest evils of our time. Some millions of journals and papers of a low—and some of them

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of a vile—type are distributed every week amongst the older children at school and those who leave school, and it is our teachers alone who can meet this evil. Do therefore associate some of the leading men of the teaching profession with you in your enterprise."
The Most Rev.J, F. Peacocke, D.D., Archbishop of Dublin.
I willingly give permission to add my name to the list of those who have written their approval of the series of papers on ' Duty and Discipline.' "

Arthur Ashley Pearson, Esq., C.M.G.
"I warmly approve of the objects of the 'Duty and Discipline ' series. There is great danger at the present time of the sense of parental responsibility becoming weakened, and there is great need for the inculcation of that higher patriotism which aims at not merely rendering a loyal and hearty service to our country and Empire, but also at doing all in our power to fit ourselves and our children so that such service may be thorough and effective."

The Right Hon. the Lord Pentland, P.C., Secretary for
Scotland.
"I write to thank you for the books which I have now read with pleasure and interest.
" With their general purpose I am in hearty sympathy. To bring home to the children, and to their parents and teachers, the priceless value of duty and discipline, is a true service to the country."

The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Peterborough, D.D.
"I shall be very glad, and so will Lady Mary, to have our names added to the list of those who want to arouse ' duty and discipline ' in our children's minds and homes, and I hope that your agency will help on the good work."

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Lady Owen Mackenzie,
Member of Higher Education Sub-Committee, and Chairman of the Lace Education Committee of Bedfordshire County Council, Governor of the Harpur Trust Girls' High School and Modern School, Poor Law Guardian, Rural District Councillor, Member of Council of
the Eugenic Society.
" I shall be very pleased to allow my name to be added to the list of those who have expressed their approval of your work. To my thinking, Duty and Discipline should form the basis of all our teaching and training, not by the forcing of hard-and-fast rules, but by the recognition of personal responsibility and the insistence of self-control."

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The late J. B. Paton, M.A., D.D., Principal Emeritus
of the Congregational Institute.
"I am very deeply interested in the 'Duty and Discipline ' series of papers which you are now printing, and which will be exceed¬ingly useful. There are two things which I would specially urge :¬That you associate with your movement some leaders of the working men and women of England. It is the great mass of our working youths who are so fearfully neglected and injured both in their home and in the workshop. They have little or no discipline. Our best working men are feeling this, and I hope you may associate them in your movement, and let some papers be written which can be widely distributed by employers amongst the youths in their employ. I hope you will also interest the teachers of England. The reading of our youth is now perhaps one of the greatest evils of our time. Some millions of journals and papers of a low—and some of them

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of a vile—type are distributed every week amongst the older children at school and those who leave school, and it is our teachers alone who can meet this evil. Do therefore associate some of the leading men of the teaching profession with you in your enterprise."

The Most Rev.J. F. Peacocke, D.D., Archbishop of Dublin.
I willingly give permission to add my name to the list of those who have written their approval of the series of papers on' Duty and Discipline.' "

Principal William Peterson, M.A„ LL.D., C.M.G.,
Principal of McGill University, Canada.
" I beg to acknowledge receipt of your kind favour of 4th May, with enclosed copies of your series of leaflets. I have now taken time to read these, and beg to express my appreciation of their contents and my sympathy with the movement which they are intended to promote. There can be no doubt whatever that the training of character should come in front of every other educational aim.
" I am very glad to accept your invitation to allow my name to be added to the list of those who have already expressed their approval of your work."

A. Chichele Plowden, Esq., Metropolitan Magistrate.
" I am in entire sympathy with the views expressed in these admirable papers.
" I think there is perceptible everywhere a decided change for the worse in those habits of obedience and discipline which we are accus¬tomed to think have played so great a part in building up the character and the achievements of our race.
"Duty is laughed at, and Discipline has become a term of con¬tempt.
" The result is seen in the apathy and indifference with which matters of Imperial interest are regarded by great masses of people who find their chief pleasure in attending cricket and football matches, less from a feeling of admiration for the skill and athleticism of those who take part in those games, than a desire to pass their time with the utmost comfort to themselves at a minimum of exertion or trouble.
" All the blame for this state of things should not rest on the shoul¬ders of the young and thoughtless, or of the full-fledged degenerates whose habits of idleness lead them so often into mischief and crime.
" Much of it is due to the sickly teaching of the sentimentalists who are for ever hampering those in authority by their ignorant criticism of judicial sentences, which in their eyes are nearly always oppressive and unjust.
" There are people who shudder if a boy is whipped or a ruffian is flogged. I hope I detest cruelty and tyranny as much as any man, but a long experience of courts of justice has satisfied me that, if the teaching of the sentimentalists prevailed, not only would a serious blow be struck at the administration of justice, but the best and last hope of curbing effectually the wilder forms of lawlessness would disappear, to the serious detriment of the community."

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Lieutenant-General Sir Herbert C. O. Ramer, K.C.B.
"Many thanks for sending me the Essays on Duty and Discipline.' I have read them with much interest. They are, I think, an admir¬able effort to bring home to our fellow-countrymen the importance of discipline and the responsibilities of citizenship.
" The Executive Committee of the Boy Scouts will, I know, be only too glad to commend the series to the readers of their Scouts' literature."

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The Right Hon. the Lord Plunket, K.C.M.G., K.C.V.O., late Governor of New Zealand.
"Your publication and distribution of the Duty and Discipline ' pamphlets is a real service to the Empire.
" Both at home and in the over-sea Dominions there is evidence that the sense of parental responsibility is weakening.

"'The necessity for obedience, for discipline, and for self-sacrifice, which can best and easiest be fixed in a child's mind at home, is too often considered to be the school teacher's business. I approve your work most heartily,"

Eric Pritchard, Esq., M.A., M.D., Assistant Physician Queen's Hospital for Children; Promoter of the Movement for Founding Infant Consultations and Schools for Mothers.
"I have followed the campaign of your ' Duty and Discipline' movement with the greatest interest, and you have all my sympathies with its aims and objects. I feel that the want of discipline is sapping the physical and moral health of the nation, and in the upper as much as in the lower ranks of society ; therefore I am prepared to take my part in such way as I can. Yes, please add my name to your supporters."

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Sir William Ramsay, K.C.B., LL.D., D.Sc., RD., F.R.S., Professor of Chemistry, University College, London.
" I am heartily in sympathy with your desire to put more
grit ' into our youth. I have read about ten of the pamphlets which you have sent me, and for which I thank you, and I have glanced through the rest. The lesson they teach is so obvious that one can only wonder that they are needed.
" I remember that Sir Lauder Brunton once said to me, ' Any man who can work half an hour longer than his fellows in the twenty-four hours will come to distinction.' This is an exaggeration, but has a certain amount of truth in it. He attributed his success to doing what he said ; and I may say that I believe it is also true in my case.
" I quite agree with you that anything which will put into our people the feeling of pleasure in duty, and the conviction that they owe service to the country in which they live and to which they owe everything, is more needed than ever. And that can only be inculcated at an early age."

The Rt. Hon. Sir George Reid, P.C., D.C.L., K.C., etc., High Commissioner for Australasia; late Prime Minister and Colonial Treasurer of New South Wales, and late Premier of Australia.
" I desire to express my very great appreciation and approval of the ' Duty and Discipline' series of leaflets. They are all most able and timely appeals, which every well-wisher of the race should

read and circulate. I have taken every chance that has occurred to me to refer to the vital importance to the Empire of the children in the cradle, and in the way they should be treated until they can help themselves."

The Lady Laura Ridding, Ex-.President of the National Union of Women Workers.
" I do most fully agree with you about the need of the teaching of more discipline and self-restraint to all people."
Field-Marshal the Earl Roberts, V.C., K.G., 0.M., etc.
"I am much obliged for the set of leaflets on the subject of ' Duty and Discipline.' They are most excellent, and their object has my complete sympathy."

Dr. James W. Robertson, C.M.G., LL.D., Principal of
Macdonald College, McGill University, Canada.
" I thank you for your kindness in remembering me with the literature you sent. I hope to turn it to good account in connection with the work with which I am identified in Canada. The leaflets are full of information and suggestions of real value to the students of Macdonald College ; and, no doubt, I shall have occasion, more than once during the session, to bring some of these papers to their attention at our assemblies."

Miss Margaret E. Robertson, Head Mistress of Christ's Hospital (Girls' School).
"I have been much struck by the good sense and good feeling of the ' Duty and Discipline' papers. I have found these of real value in stimulating thought and effort in the training of children, and I shall endeavour to make them more widely known. I am sure that they cannot fail to do good work in a direction where it is sorely needed."

The Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, D.C.L., etc., etc., Ex-President of the United States of America.
" In the first place permit me to thank you for your very kind letter. In the second place I desire to say how heartily in accord I am with what you are doing in connection with the ' Duty and Discipline ' movement."

The Right Hon. the Earl of Rosebery, P.C., KG., etc.
I entirely approve of the spirit of the leaflets. My mind has long been under the same conviction."

The Hon. R. C. Russell, B.C.L., Agent-General for
Natal; late Superintendent of Education, Natal; Chairman of the Survey Board, and Member of the Civil Service Board, Natal,
" In these days when so many false doctrines, having their origin in self-satisfaction, are in the air, I think too much cannot be done to inculcate in the rising generation ideas and ideals of self-sacrifice and patriotism. Chivalry as personified by Sir Philip Sidney at the battle of Zutphen, Patriotism as typified in Wolfe on the Heights of Abraham —these are the models our children should be taught to follow. Respect for their elders, sympathy with the sick and infirm, and, above all, kindness to dumb and helpless animals, should be preached in every school in the land. All that the little ones want is sound and firm guidance. With this assured we need have no fear that the generations to come will fail to realise and maintain the glorious Empire built up by those who went before them."

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The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of St. Albans, D.D.
" Your letter has reached me at a time of appalling pressure, and I see no prospect of abatement until Christmas. But I warmly sym¬pathise with you in what you are doing, and I will try to write a leaflet to go with your series."

The Right Rev, the Lord Bishop of Salford (R.C.).
" I have examined with great interest the remarkable collection of Essays on Duty and Discipline,' which contain so much that must heartily commend itself to all who have at heart the future well-being of our people, and I shall take an early opportunity of calling the attention of my flock to the contents of the volume, possibly in one of the Messages ' which I send to my diocesan monthly, The Catholic Federationist."

The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Salisbury.
" I am very grateful to you for sending me the leaflets. They seem to be admirably adapted to the purpose of emphasising among parents and others the serious lack of the spirit of discipline which the soft training of children is revealing. When, with a few others, years ago I had the privilege of helping to inaugurate the Church Lads' Brigade in England, it was with this end in view that we did it. Your work covers a much wider ground than that organisation can reach, and its value to the future of the Empire is incalculable."

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The Lord Sanderson, K.C.B., K.C.M.G., I.S.O., etc., late Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs ; Chairman of the Council of the Charity Organisation Society.
"I have studied with much interest the leaflets of the ' Duty and Discipline' series which you have been good enough to send me, and which seem to me admirably written for the purpose which you have in view. I need scarcely say that the cause you are advocating has my entire sympathy, and I think that I may express that sympathy not only on my own personal behalf, but on behalf also of the Charity Organisation Society, which has done me the honour of electing me to be Chairman of its Council during the current year, and which is con¬stantly inculcating the doctrine that assistance to the poor, whether from State funds or from voluntary charity, shall be so applied as to tend to improvement of character, and to encourage industry, self-respect, the ties of family, and the feeling of parental and filial obligation.
" Much of our recent legislation, introduced with the most praise¬worthy objects, has, I fear, an indirect tendency in the opposite direc¬tion, and it will require all our efforts to counteract this effect.
" Nothing is easier or more pleasant than to be eloquent in praise of the civic virtues. To practise them requires a certain amount of austerity and of steady adherence to principles, at the cost, not in¬frequently, of going contrary to sentiment and the promptings of easy philanthropy. There seems to me to be a strange inconsistency in constantly affirming that the strength and welfare of the nation depend on the cultivation of the idea of the family and on the sturdy qualities of the British race if, at the same time, we in practice encourage a dis¬position to look to the State or the Municipality for assistance in all cases of difficulty, and to make recourse to such assistance pleasant and easy, to the detriment of individual effort, self-denial, and mutual help between relatives. It is only by the promotion of a healthy public opinion that this insidious process can be checked, and I wish you all success in your crusade for the purpose."

His Excellency the Marquis of San Giuliano, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs for the Kingdom of Italy; late Ambassador to the Court of St. James:
"I greatly approve of the idea which has induced you to begin this publication. Indiscipline is surely one of the greatest evils of modern society : it is continually spreading and menacing the very foundations of all European nations. . . . I shall not fail to draw the attention of our leading men in Italy to them."

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Professor Robert Saundby, M.D., LL.D., F.R.C.P.
"I have read the series of ' Duty and Discipline' leaflets you have kindly sent me with much interest and sympathy. I believe in the need for the movement, and that the cult of comfort and the neglect of duty and discipline are weakening our national character.
" I am honoured and pleased by your request to write these few lines, and gladly allow you to add my name to the list of those who support the good work you are doing."
George H. Savage, Esq., M.D., F. R. C.P., Consulting Physician, Guy's Hospital, and Examiner in Mental Physiology, University of London.
"I have the greatest sympathy with the work of the 'Duty and Discipline' series, as I so frequently see the morbid mental and moral growths due to lack of early training."

F. Claye Shaw, Esq., M.D., F.R.C.P.
" Duty is the motive power of action, and discipline is the rudder which guides. At first the young mind must be taught how to steer, after which all goes well—but the course is sure to be erratic unless the tyro has been well trained. The excess of criminality in the lower classes, as shown by the police-court returns, is the greatest testi¬mony to the need of early education in the promotion of mental stamina, and it is incumbent upon everyone to do what he can to further the growth of good principles.
"I shall do my best to encourage the culture of your aptly con¬ceived teaching. . . ."

The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Shrewsbury (RC.).
" I am in receipt of the book Essays on Duty and Discipline.' I will do what I can to forward the cause, for I feel very strongly that want of home discipline ' is at the bottom of many of the evils which afflict the country."

The Ven. W. M. Sinclair, D.D., late Archdeacon
of London.
" The gifts of discipline and orderliness are amongst the most valuable ingredients in a sound education. Perhaps in an older generation they were emphasized too strongly ; but the pendulum has long swung too far in the opposite direction of indulgence and the provision of pleasure. The old prevailing sense of duty is greatly relaxed. This series of papers is greatly needed, and most timely. I hope it may have a wide circulation."

The Hon. A. E. Solomon, Minister of Education for Tasmania.
"I wish your Duty and Discipline ' series a wide circulation, and hope that amongst teachers the leaflets may recall a phase of education which, in the recoil from older methods, is in great danger of being overlooked. To have cajoled a child into thinking that your way is really his own way is not to have taught him either duty or discipline."

Her Grace the Duchess of Somerset, President of the
Women's Branch of the Navy League.
"I am very willing to add my name to those who approve of the Duty and Discipline' series. The sad thing seems to me to be that the younger generation do not strive sufficiently to avail themselves of all means of self-improvement. May I say to them, in the words of Cicero, ' The enemy is within the gates ; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality, that we have to contend.' "

Miss Soulsby, Author of " Stray Thoughts for Girls,"
etc., etc.
"I am thoroughly in sympathy with you, and should be delighted to send something for your series, if you will accept it."

W. T. Stead, Esq., Editor of the "Review of Reviews."
"I heartily sympathise with the object which you have in view, and congratulate you on the great measure of success which has already attended your scheme."
Mrs. Flora Annie Steel, Authoress.
"I most thoroughly approve of the line taken up in the 'Duty and Discipline' series. The lack of backbone in children nowadays is quite terrible, and I attribute it entirely to the softness of their up¬bringing."

Captain Sir Pieter C. van B. Stewart-Bam, J.P., late Senior Member of the Legislative Assembly for Cape Town, in Cape Town.
"Born in South Africa of Dutch descent, an Imperialist of the school of Cecil Rhodes, I am very pleased indeed to add a few words to the very many which have already reached you on the good work you are doing in your efforts to inculcate 'Duty and Discipline' into the English lads and girls of our Empire. To my mind, there is nothing better than a good foundation in every

shape or form in this world. No building is safe unless it has a good foundation, and it applies in the same way to every other thing in this world. The foundation of manhood or womanhood is undoubtedly its childhood, and therefore it is most essential that everything should be done to lay a good foundation amongst our lads and girls. You have my heartiest wishes for the carrying out of your scheme."

Lady Stout, Wife of the Hon. Sir Robert Stout, K.C.M.G., Ex-Premier of New Zealand.
"I shall do what I can for your cause, which is one that appeals to me very strongly."

J. St, Loe Strachey, Esq., Editor of the " Spectator."
I thoroughly sympathise with your ' Duty and Discipline' series, and should like to write a leaflet on the subject if I could find time. Please, in any case, add my name to your list of approvers, and if I can manage the leaflet I will."

The Lady Edilene Strickland, wife of the Governor of
Western Australia.
" I am much interested in the series of leaflets, and its objects have my entire sympathy."

Mrs. Sumner, Foundress of the Mothers' Union.
"I will gladly let my name be added to the list of those who value this effort to raise the education of the children in the ' Duty and Discipline ' series."

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The Lady Talbot de Malahide, President of the Dublin
Branch of the Mothers' Union,
"I am much interested in the papers you send me, and will gladly allow my name to be added to the list of those approving of the objects of the ' Duty and Discipline' series."

Sir John W. Tavener, Agent-General for Victoria,
Australia.
" I thank you very much for the series of Duty and Discipline ' leaflets, which I have read with pleasure. The distribution of such literature will, I am sure, largely help in the consolidation of our great Empire."

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Mrs. Townsend, Foundress of the Girls' Friendly Society.
" I am very much interested in your ' Duty and Discipline' series They strike a much-needed keynote in these days of softness and self-indulgence, when the cry is so often, not ' what I ought,' but what I like,' and not only amongst the young, but amongst people of all ages."

The Rev. W. J. Townsend, D.D., Ex-President of
the National Free Church Council.
" The Essays treat of the most important subjects that can occupy the attention of social reformers and philanthropists. As I have read each contribution, I have been increasingly struck with the directness of the style, the full appreciation of the matters treated of, and the entire sympathy of each writer with the crying needs of the times in regard to the young. The spirit of the volume must be widely diffused if the next generation is to be composed of characters robust in morality and grounded in the teaching of the Christ."

The Rev. James Travis, Ex-President of the National
Free Church Council.
" I thank you for the book sent, and pray that you may be cheered by great success in your work."

The Most Hon. the Marchioness of Tullibardine.
"I thoroughly agree with what you say as to the necessity for better discipline both in the home and in the school. I am constantly struck by the absence of it. It is, I am sure, in very marked contrast to what one would have found fifty or sixty years ago."

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The Right Hon, Sir Joseph George Ward, Bart., P.C., K.C.M.G., Prime Minister of New Zealand.
" I have read the leaflets with much interest, and appreciate your having brought the series under my notice.
" It gives me pleasure to say that I regard them as being of high educational value in the training of the children of our Empire. They are exceedingly well written, and the movement to distribute them among the people deserves the practical sympathy and support of all those who have the welfare of the British race at heart."

General Sir Charles Warren, G.C.M.G., K.C.B., etc.
" I entirely sympathise with the aims of the ' Duty and Discipline' series, and heartily wish that it could be brought to bear with some

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effect on home life. Schools, institutes, Brigades for Boys and Girls may influence a few, but for good or evil the home influence is im¬mensely greater than any other that can be brought to bear on young people ; and until the mothers in England learn that discipline must be enforced and duty learnt in the home, we must expect to go on pro- ducing hooligans, criminals and retrogrades.
" Twenty years ago, when Commissioner of Metropolitan Police, I constantly urged that the home and civic duties were being shifted on to the shoulders of the police. At the Fishmongers' Hall (Nov. it, 1887) I said : ' I look upon our police force merely as the assistants of the public in the maintenance of law and order. Each individual man is really a constable and ought to do his duty ; but one duty after another has devolved upon the police, till at last citizens have forgotten that there are certain duties devolving upon themselves.'
" At present we are over-policed, and if the police force all over England were reduced fifty per cent., and citizens forced to do their duties as citizens, it would act like a tonic on our moral fibre, and the duties of citizenship would again come to the front."

Arnold White, Esq., Author of "English Democracy," "Problems of a Great City," etc., etc. (From " Black. and White.")
" There is no more reason why an old nation should die than a young one, unless its men are decadent, and its women shirk the duties of motherhood. The age of a nation has no actuarial relation to its expectation of life. Decay or advance depends on the cultivation or neglect of faculty."
Field-Marshal Sir George Stuart White, V.C., 0.M„
"I thank you for sending me the extra leaflets. I still like yours more than any of the others, perhaps because I think it treats of a national demoralisation that has been rapidly growing on us. The sentiment of ' not good enough' asserts itself much more than I believe it used to do, till even, as you have boldly put it, the limit of military resistance is arrived at much earlier than it used to be. I believe, however, that happy results may be looked for from the widespread and manly training that English boys are getting under so many different heads,"

Miss White, LL.D., Principal of Alexandra College,
Dublin.
" I have to thank you for so kindly sending me the essays on Discipline and Duty. I am deeply in sympathy with the spirit of the book, and I think that the principles which it includes cannot be too strongly insisted upon. I should hesitate to say that the obligations

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of duty are less regarded now than formerly, but as I feel that there is danger in that direction I regard your book as a most timely reminder and warning.
" We educationalists realise, perhaps even more fully than others, how fatally injurious is the upbringing in which a sense of duty has not been implanted, and in which discipline has not been exercised."
The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Winchester, D.D.
"I heartily concur in the general purpose and tendency of these papers. They find their inspiration in two thoughts : one, that of the urgent need of to-day for moulding with a real, though loving discipline, the growing youth of the country ; the other, that of the responsibility of England and her citizens for her own welfare and for her world¬wide opportunities. To bring these thoughts together, and to impress them upon parents and upon the young, is of great service to our national future, and I heartily wish well to those who, in these pages, are attempting this task."

Lieutenant - General Sir Francis Wingate, K.C.M.G., K.C.B., D.S.O., Sirdar Egyptian Army and Governor-General of the Soudan.
" Some time ago you asked me to give you my impressions of the 'Duty and Discipline' series.
" I am delighted that you should use my name, if you consider that the good cause would in any way be helped thereby, and I have no hesitation in expressing my cordial sympathy with those who have already written to you in regard to the series of leaflets.
" I fear that indiscipline and want of self-control are not only widespread to a dangerous extent, but are rapidly extending among all classes. I therefore most cordially welcome the series as a serious attempt to combat the evils that threaten to destroy the moral back¬bone of our race."

The Ven. A. T. Wirgman, D.D., D.C.L., Archdeacon of Port Elizabeth and Hon. Chaplain to His Majesty the King.
" I desire to express my hearty concurrence with the ' Duty and Discipline ' Movement. I have worked in South Africa for thirty-seven years, and my very occasional visits to England cause me to view matters in the Mother Country from an outside point of view. There seems to me to be a great need of your movement. The people of England are losing their sense of responsibility, in religion, in politics, and in the domain of morals. The cherished ideals of Liberty have become perverted in their minds into a degenerate and self-pleasing licence, which seems to me, as a dweller in South Africa, the

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most Conservative part of the British Empire, to be dangerously approaching the down-grade of Anarchy.
"I think that universal military service for boys, such as we are establishing in South Africa with our Cadet Movement, is necessary for the safety of the Empire and a vast gain to the lads themselves. The Scout Movement, useful as it is, needs supplementing by compulsory Cadet service, which will foster a sense of disciplined responsibility."

The Rev, Joseph Wood, D.D., M.V.O., late Head Master of Harrow.
"I most heartily sympathise with the writers of the series. A sense of duty and submission to discipline should be the first object in education. But it is only by co-operation of Home and School that this object can be attained. I hope I do not indulge in a vain hope in thinking that this series may serve to brace the energies of both homes and schools. If not—then nothing but disastrous national experience will teach us better."

Miss A. A. Woodall, M.A., Head Mistress of Milton
Mount College, Gravesend.
" I have to thank you for the copy of ' Essays on Duty and Discipline,' which I have read with interest.
" They seem to me to supply a great need of these days, when it is more than ever necessary that parents and teachers should realise that their aims are the same, and that they should uphold one another in their efforts for the ultimate good of the children.
" Parents are too often inclined to allow their children to travel alon the line of least resistance, and to resent any attempt on the part o the teacher to encourage them to ' endure hardness.' "

Mrs. Woodhouse, Head Mistress of Clapham High School.
"I cannot leave without assuring you that I fully appreciate your series on Duty and Discipline. I believe there was never greater need than at present of inculcating principles of self-discipline."

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His Grace the Archbishop of York,
" I have read the leaflets which you have been kind enough to send with entire agreement as to the danger which they seek to avert and the object which they have in view. I take every opportunity I can of insisting on the fundamental conceptions of duty and discipline in the training of the young."

The Hon. Henry Esson Young, B.A., M.D., LL.D., etc., Minister of Education, British Columbia, Canada.
I am in entire sympathy with the aims and objects of the ' Duty and Discipline' series, and would be much pleased to have my name added to the next list."

Sir Francis Younghusband, K. C.I.E., LL.D., B Sc
"I do most cordially agree with you that more discipline and a more rigid sense of duty are required to keep the nation taut and com¬pact and united, so that we may all work effectually together for this national end. With many thanks for sending me the interesting and valuable pamphlets, to which I would have gladly contributed if I were not engaged on a book which takes up all my spare time."

Sir James Henry Yoxall, M.P., General Secretary National Union of Teachers.
I thank you for sending me the books on ' Duty and Discipline, and for asking my opinion of them. I find them to contain much admirable teaching and many valuable suggestions, which, surely, all friends of Education and national progress can approve; though, on points of detail—and even perhaps of principle—there are inevitable differences of view."

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Propaganda Paper No. 8.
Duty and Discipline Movement
117, VICTORIA STREET, LONDON, S.W.

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS.
(Issued February, 1915.)

The publications of the Movement can be ordered from any book¬sellers, or obtained from the following addresses :-
ENGLAND.—THE SECRETARY, 117, Victoria Street, London, S.W. ;
SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, HAMILTON & KENT, Paternoster Row, E.C. ;
JOHN HEYWOOD, LTD., 121, Deansgate, Manchester.
SCOTLAND.—MESSRS. ROBERT GRANT & SON, 107, Princes Street, Edinburgh.
IRELAND.—MESSRS. HODGES & FIGGIS, Grafton Street, Dublin ; and
THE EDUCATIONAL DEPOSITORY, Kildare Place, Dublin.

AUSTRALIA.—MESSRS. CASSELL & CO., 376, Little Collins Street, Melbourne.
BURMA.—THE AMERICAN BAPTIST MISSION PRESS, Rangoon.
CANADA.—MESSRS. CASSELL & CO., 55, Bay Street, Toronto.
CEYLON.—MESSRS. H. W. CAVE & CO., Colombo.
EGYPT.—MESSRS. DAVIES, BRYAN & Co., Alexandria.
INDIA.—MESSRS. HIGGINBOTHAM & CO., Mount Road, Madras ; and South Parade, Bangalore ;
MESSRS. THACKER, SPINK & CO., Calcutta.
SOUTH AFRICA.—MESSRS. JUTA & CO., Cape Town.

List of Propaganda Papers.
I. Annual Report and Balance Sheet.
2. Some Books and a Movement.
3. What is the Movement?
4. Reasons why you should support the Movement
5. Suggestions for Workers.
6. Membership forms.
7. Circular re Speakers.
8. List and prices of publications of the Movement.
These papers can be had gratis on application to the office.

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Prices.

The following are the forms in which the Essays are published :-
VOLUMES.—Four Volumes, each containing 10 Essays and Preface
(i.e., Nos. I to 10, II to 20, 21 to 30, 31 to 40),
1s. or 30 cents per volume net.
VOLUMES.—In cloth, containing 40 Essays and Preface, 3s. or 1 dollar per volume net.
ANARCHY OR ORDER.—In cloth, Is.
WAR BOOKLET—" All Can Help."—Paper cover, 6d.
RECORD OF PROFICIENCY.—Paper cover, 2d.

LEAFLETS.—In coloured paper covers,
ld. each, 10d. per dozen., 6s. per 100 ; or 2 for 5 cents, 25 cents per doz., 1½ dollars per 100

Postage extra in all cases.

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List of the Patriot Series.
No. I.—Experience Teaches. By A. MAYNARD.
No. 2.—The Decay of Authority. By HAROLD 0 WEN.
No. 3.—A Voice of Warning. By MEYRICK BOOTH, B.Sc., Ph.D.
No. 4.—The Training of Delicate Children. By M. C.
No. 5.—Home Control. By the RIGHT HON. THE. EARL OF MEATH, P.C., K.P.
No. 6.—Thomas Andrews—Shipbuilder. By ARNOLD WHITE.
No. 7.—The Greatness of Discipline. By CANON RAWN SLEY.
No. 8.—L'Autorite Paternelle. By the RIGHT REV. THE BISHOP OF VALLEYFIELD (Canada).
No. 9.—The Duties of Parenthood. By MRS. BRAMWELL BOOTH.
No. 10.—Concerning the Home. By the RIGHT REV. C. H. BRENT, Bishop of the Philippine Islands.
No. 11.—True Love is Strong. By REV. F. B. MEYER.
No. 12.—Anarchy. By HELEN HESTER COLVILLE.
No. 13.—The Right of the Child. By THE HIGH MISTRESS OF ST. PAUL'S GIRLS' SCHOOL.
No. 14.—Preparation for Meeting the Dangers of Life. By the HON.MRS. FRANKLIN.

Prices.
ld. each, 10d. per doz., 6s. per too. Postage Extra.

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List of the Fly Sheets.
No. I.—An Appeal to Mothers. By HIS GRACE THE ARCHBISHOP OF YORK.
No. z.—Extract from Cicero's " Commonwealth."
No. 3.—The Curse of Sentimentality. By RAYMOND BLATH WAYT.
No. 4.—Duty and Discipline. By ADMIRAL PENROSE FITZGERALD.
No. 5.--The Touchstone of a Nation. By HIS GRACE THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY.
No. 6.—Extract from " A Housemaster's Letters."
No. 7.—How to Deal with Obstinate Children. By the REV. G. W. HART, C. R.
No. 8.—Parental Neglect OF Indifference. By RICHARD CHRISTOPHER, M.A., President of the South African Teachers' Association.
No. 9.—The Practical Value of Obedience. By His HONOUR JUDGE RENTOUL.
No. 10.—The Theory and Practice of Punishment. By RAYMOND BLATH WAYT.
No. 11.—The Pert Small Girl. Reprinted from the Daily Mail. No. 12.—Week=ending. By DESMOND COKE.
No. I3.—Australia. Poem, reprinted from Sydney Morning Herald.
No. 14.—Disinherited.—The Cry of the Spoilt Children. Poem. By MAY DONEY , author of " Songs of the Real."
No. 15.—That Rebel My Daughter. Reprinted from the Daily Mail.

Prices.
3 for Id., 4d. per doz., 25. per 100. Postage Extra.
Printed by Cassell & Co., Ltd., London.

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Duty and Discipline Movement.

MEMBERSHIP QUALIFICATIONS.

Extract from the Constitution :

MEMBERSHIP.
(1) All persons who sign the form of adherence to the objects and rules of the Movement, and are donors to its funds of not less than £10 10s. Od., shall be eligible for Life Membership thereof, and for election to the Central Council.
(2) All persons who sign the form of adherence to the objects of the Movement, and contribute not less than five shillings annually to its funds, shall be Members thereof, and eligible for election to the Central Council.
(3) All persons who sign the form of adherence to the objects of the Movement, and contribute less than five shillings annually to its funds, shall be Associates, and eligible to attend and vote at the Annual Meetings.
(4) All persons who sign the form of adherence to the objects of the Movement, without contributing to the funds, shall be enrolled as Adherents, but shall possess no voting power.
Cheques may be sent to the Hon. Treasurer at 117 Victoria Street, London, S.W., drawn in favour of the "Duty and Discipline Movement Fund," and crossed "Messrs. Coutts & Co.," or may be sent direct to Messrs. Coutts & Co., 440 Strand, W.C., drawn to the credit of the above Fund. Bankers' Orders can be obtained upon application to the Office.

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Duty and Discipline Movement

Membership Form.

(This paper, when signed, to be sent to the Secretary, 117 Victoria Street, London, S.W .)

I approve of the objects and rules* of this Movement. I Will endeavour to spread a knowledge of them ; and to advocate its principles ; and I Will undertake to become :-
(a) A Life Member of the Movement.
(b) A Member "
(c) An Associate 99
(d) An Adherent "

For qualifications of Membership, see opposite page. Kindly strike out the three qualifications not required.
Name (Mrs., Miss, Esq., etc.)

Address

Date

This Movement Was brought to my notice by

"THE OBJECTS AND RULES OF THE MOVEMENT ARE :—
(1) To combat softness, slackness, indifference and indiscipline, and to stimulate discipline and a sense of duty and alertness throughout the national life, especially during the formative period of home and school training.
(2) To give reasonable support to all legitimate authority.

RULE (I) The Duty and Discipline Movement shall deal with principles only—not with methods.
Definition of Rule I passed at the Annual Meeting held on June 19th. 1914. and confirmed at the Second General Meeting. held on July 17th. 1914 :—
" The Duty and Discipline Movement, as stated in Rule 1, deals with principles and not with methods ; but the Rule is not intended to preclude the Society, or its Members, from discussing disciplinary problems, or from giving support to any legal method or methods which may conduce towards the maintenance of the principles advocated by the Movement,
The Duty and Discipline Movement recognises, therefore, that practical effect can only be given to principles through methods • and supports all legal methods which conduce towards discipline, without expressing preference for any particular method or methods."

RULE (2) No resolution dealing with methods shall be submitted to any meeting in connection with the Movement.
[P.T.O.]