There are seven _higher schools_ for boys at Stockholm. At two of these the gymnasium is a separate building of brick, located at one side of a gravelled yard at least an acre and a half in extent. Each cost about $17,000 and consists of a lofty main hall, eighty by forty or forty-five feet, with a wing containing dressing-rooms, the teacher’s office, and a few shower baths. At a third school the gymnasium occupies a spacious two-story wing which projects from the rear of the main building; in two other cases a hall in the main building is fitted up for gymnastics, and pupils in the remaining two schools go for their exercises to the halls of the Central Institute. The following list of apparatus noticed in the gymnasium of the Realläroverk (a non-classical higher school for boys) is fairly representative: Sixty sections of stallbars, seven Swedish horizontal bars, two vertical Swedish ladders and two horizontal ones, eight rope ladders, twenty-four climbing ropes and eight poles, two double inclined ropes, a few sections of stallbars continued to the ceiling as ladders, storming boards and short benches for use with stallbars, bar saddles, two Swedish horses, two vaulting boxes, two bucks, jump stands with cord and pins, some thin mats about four feet by three, and a number of cheap fencing foils. The horizontal bars are arranged to drop beneath the floor. The inclined ropes are attached to the ceiling at either end, and to a hook beneath the floor, when in use, by means of a tackle block at the center. Near the ends they are crossed by vertical ropes, used by the pupils in reaching or leaving the inclined ropes. All of these ropes can be hoisted out of the way readily, and a small trap door conceals the hook. [Illustration: FIG. 43.—Rear View of a Higher School for Boys (_Norra Latinläroverket_) in Stockholm. (The gymnasium occupies the lower half of the projection in the foreground).]