The hints given in these few pages seem utterly inadequate, and to include only such matters as must occur to all. They have been set down here as some reply to the frequent question “How can children’s meetings be made successful?” There is but one more word to be said. Grown-up people are so greatly distracted by the cares and occupations of their daily life that it needs special preparation before they can understand little children. To anyone who wishes to influence their simple yet imaginative minds the task is almost hopeless unless he will try to fulfil that most difficult command and himself “become as a little child.” Appendix It is of considerable interest, and may be in some cases of practical value to those interested in the well-being of children to notice in order some of the principal Acts of Parliament which have been passed during the last twenty-five years on behalf of children:— 1883. 46 & 47 Vic., c. 53. Employment of Children in Factories and Workshops. 1885. 48 & 49 Vic., c. 69. Criminal Law Amendment Act, relating to criminal assaults on children and to the finding of children in disorderly houses. 1887. 50 & 51 Vic., c. 58. Employment in Coal Mines. 1889. 52 & 53 Vic., c. 44. The Prevention of Cruelty to Children Act. This was the first of the three Acts, the others being passed in 1894 and 1904 respectively. Sometimes called “The Children’s Charter.” It is very wide in application, making it an offence to assault, illtreat, neglect, abandon, or expose a child under sixteen years of age in a manner likely to cause such child unnecessary suffering or injury to its health. 1891. 54 & 55 Vic., c. 3. The Custody of Children Act, dealing with the power of the Court to decline to issue a writ for the production of a child to an unfit parent, and with the power of the Court to order repayment of costs of bringing up a child. 1891. 54 & 55 Vic., c. 75 & 76. Further enactments concerning employment in Factories and Workshops. 1892. 55 & 56 Vic., c. 4. Betting Act, whereby it became a misdemeanour for anyone for the purpose of earning commission to send circulars, etc., to invite an infant to make any bet or wager. 1893. 56 & 57 Vic., c. 48. Reformatory Schools Act, giving power to a Court to remand a youthful offender to a prison or to any other place, which has in practice always been assumed to be a workhouse. 1894. 57 & 58 Vic., c. 33. Industrial Schools Act. Education. 1897. 60 & 61 Vic., c. 57. Infant Life Protection Act, concerning persons receiving infants for hire for the purpose of maintenance. An Act for the abolition of illicit baby-farming. 1899. 62 & 63 Vic., c. 37. Poor Law Act, concerning the control of guardians over orphans and children of persons unfit to have control of them.