_Finds Canadian Prisons Better Than Ours._—Considerable newspaper prominence has been given to a report on Canadian prisons made recently by the Rev. Dr. John Handley, who was commissioned by the Governor of New Jersey to visit Canada and examine her prisons. The Tribune of Providence, R. I., concludes from this report that Canadian prisons are “somewhat in advance of ours in some respects.” The Tribune thus discusses Dr. Handley’s report: “The Canadian idea is that reformatory should be a large custodial school rather than a penal institution; that it should be removed as far as possible from the thought of felony and the disgrace that attaches to any young man or boy who has violated the law and thus become subject to a reformatory sentence. And in accordance with that idea each Canadian prison has a large farm attached, to which prisoners are sent to work. From the federal prison at Toronto, for example, at least half the prisoners are put to work on a farm where there are no surrounding walls, no regiment of guards and no rigid surveillance, and yet from which in two years only five prisoners attempted to escape. “Dr. Handley has returned to New Jersey strongly in favor of this farm idea as an aid in reformatory work. It is not, however, an altogether new idea in the States. In several of our penitentiaries men are allowed to work out of doors even a long distance away, under only a light guard, and very few have attempted to escape. The State homes, too, ordinarily have no high walls around them, and the inmates are allowed many liberties. “How far farm regulations could be applied to offenders who have been sentenced to state prison is another question, and one not easy to answer. The experiment seems to work well in Canada, however; and if farms could be utilized for the benefit of the prisoners there would not be the objection made by organized labor to most other forms of prison employment, since there is always a market for farm products and nothing that could thus be raised would affect farm wages or the prices of staple products. Moreover, much of the farm yields would go toward the maintenance of the prisoners.” * * * * * _A Bibliography For The Student._—A helpful tool for the student of criminology and allied subjects has just been furnished in the form of a “bibliography on crime, its causes and prevention, criminals, punishment and reformative methods, with special reference to children,” The pamphlet is the work of Mr. Paul A. Wiebe, of Meriden, Conn., and comprises a bibliography of books, senate documents, magazine articles, circulars, addresses and the publications of various organizations, together with a brief list of German publications. The collection is not so exhaustive as to be confusing. * * * * *