the dangers of venereal disease are delivered to students about to leave the gymnasium for the university; and the working men’s clubs have instituted regular courses of lectures on the same subjects delivered by physicians.  In France many distinguished men, both inside and outside the medical profession, are working for the cause of the instruction of the young in sexual hygiene, though they have to contend against a more obstinate degree of prejudice and prudery on the part of the middle class than is to be found in the Germanic lands.  The Commission Extraparlementaire du Regime des Moeurs, with the conjunction of Augagneur, Alfred Fournier, Yves Guyot, Gide, and other distinguished professors, teachers, etc., has lately pronounced in favor of the official establishment of instruction in sexual hygiene, to be given in the highest classes at the lycees, or in the earliest class at higher educational colleges; such instruction, it is argued, would not only furnish needed enlightenment, but also educate the sense of moral responsibility.  There is in France, also, an active and distinguished though unofficial Societe Francaise de Prophylaxie Sanitaire et Morale, which delivers public lectures on sexual hygiene.  Fournier, Pinard, Burlureaux and other eminent physicians have written pamphlets on this subject for popular distribution (see, e.g., Le Progres Medical of September, 1907).  In England and the United States very little has yet been done in this direction, but in the United States, at all events, opinion in favor of action is rapidly growing (see, e.g., W.A.  Funk, “The Venereal Peril,” Medical Record, April 13, 1907).  The American Society of Sanitary and Moral Prophylaxis (based on the parent society founded in Paris in 1900 by Fournier) was established in New York in 1905.  There are similar societies in Chicago and Philadelphia.  The main object is to study venereal diseases and to work toward their social control.  Doctors, laymen, and women are members.  Lectures and short talks are now given under the auspices of these societies to small groups of young women in social settlements, and in other ways, with encouraging success; it is found to be an excellent method of reaching the young women of the working classes.  Both men and women physicians take part in the lectures (Clement Cleveland, Presidential Address on “Prophylaxis of Venereal Diseases,” Transactions American Gynecological Society, Philadelphia, vol. xxxii, 1907).

An important auxiliary method of carrying out the task of sexual hygiene, and at the same time of spreading useful enlightenment, is furnished by the method of giving to every syphilitic patient in clinics where such cases are treated a card of instruction for his guidance in hygienic matters, together with a warning of the risks of marriage within four or five years after infection, and in no case without medical advice.  Such printed instruction,