These changes, and even greater ones, will be strongly manifest in the prison of the future, for the day will yet dawn when bastilles will be no more in demand among the sons of men. PASS A LAW! Are your neighbors very bad? Pass a Law! Do they smoke? Do they chew? Are they always bothering you? Don’t they do as you would do? Pass a Law! Are your wages awful low? Pass a Law! Are your prices much too high? Do the wife and babies cry ’Cause the turkeys all roost high? Pass a Law! When M. D. finds new diseases, Pass a Law! Got the mumps or enfermisis? Measles, croup or “expertesis?” Lest we all fly to pieces Pass a Law! Are the lights a-burning red? Pass a Law! Paint ’em green, or paint ’em white! Close up all them places tight! My! Our town is such a sight! Pass a Law! No matter what the trouble, Pass a Law! Goodness sakes! But ain’t it awful? My what are we going to do? Almost anything ain’t lawful, And the judges human, too! Pass a Law! _W. L. Wells._ (From The Index, Wash. State Ref.) BOOK REVIEWS. BY PHILIP KLEIN Assistant Secretary Prison Association of New York. _The Walled City._--Edward Huntington Williams, M. D., New York, 1913, Frank & Wagnalls Company. Pp. 263. Price $1.00. The general public looks upon a convict with a certain amount of fear. The word criminal is awe-inspiring. But the idea of the insane criminal is more than that; it is replete with the vague terror of the weird and unknown. People have in recent years come to consider the criminal with a little better understanding; but the “insane criminal” has retained its full quota of terror. Perhaps there was good reason for that. The older ways of handling both the insane and the criminal were very well calculated to bring forth the worst there was in them. But no one could probably read the “Walled City,” without experiencing a complete change of attitude towards the inmates of institutions for the criminal insane. They are primarily men, these unfortunates with hopes and plans, with differences in personality, education, tastes, relations, in all things that make for the differences among man and man in the normal outside life. And yet, there is a “kink” in every man; an innocent kink generally, yet a “kink” to be reckoned with. It makes things interesting, yet delicate and difficult to handle. “Every man in his kink” we might paraphrase Ben Jonson.