In all Sweden there are only two _higher schools for girls_ under state control. These are the Royal Higher Normal School for Women (_Kungl. högre lärarinneseminarium_), in Stockholm, and the model school associated with it. One of the halls in the school building used by the two in common is fitted up as a gymnasium, and except in the lowest classes at the model school a half-hour of gymnastic instruction is given daily throughout the entire course of study at both institutions. In the case of _private schools_, the great majority of which are for girls only, or admit boys to none but the lowest classes, there is no law prescribing the amount of physical training to be given, and the practice varies accordingly. Thus in 1899 there were 46 such schools, with a total of 5157 pupils, and out of this number 2909, in 33 schools, were reported as receiving instructions in gymnastics. The oldest institution of them all, with 240 pupils, has (1900) nothing but a small room some 40 by 25 feet and 9 feet high, supplied with a Swedish horizontal bar, six climbing ropes, three long benches with balance beams on the under side, a vaulting box, jump stands, and a rubber ball. Most of the lower classes exercise here for half an hour every other day, and the higher ones twice a week, under a special teacher. Another school for girls provides for nearly the same number of pupils a room 60 by 20 feet and of good height, situated on the ground floor, and for its size as well equipped with apparatus as any of the _allmänna läroverk_. Its gymnastic instruction is in the hands of Major Silow, of the Central Institute, assisted by students in the course for women at that school. His capacity as an organizer and his rare talent as a teacher render the quality of work done by these girls quite as good as the best to be seen in the boys’ schools of the city. BIBLIOGRAPHY. Dr. F. A. Schmidt of Bonn and Captain C. J. J. Lefebure of Brussels, who visited Stockholm in 1899, have recorded their observations and impressions in the following: Dr. Schmidt—“Die Gymnastik an den schwedischen Volksschulen nebst einem Anhang: Die Militärischen Übungen an den höheren Schulen in Stockholm.” Berlin, R. Gaertner, 1900 (Reprinted from the _Monatsschrift für das Turnwesen_ for 1900). Second edition 1909. Third edition, revised and enlarged, under the title “Die schwedische Schulgymnastik,” in 1912 (Berlin, Weidmannsche Buchhandlung). Captain Lefebure—“L’Éducation Physique en Suède.” Brussels, H. Lamertin; Paris, A. Maloine, 1903. Second edition 1908 (Paris, Felix Alcan).