The labours of the reformers of lunatic asylums in England have been beneficially felt in the remotest countries in the world. While in France, where the humane method of treatment was initiated, and in certain other continental countries, the amelioration in the con dition of the insane has been less conspicuous than could have been desired or expected in nations which have attained a brilliant de velopment in most of the other arts of civilisation, Eussia and the Scandinavian kingdoms have exhibited an earnest desire to avail themselves of the advantages of the most enlightened treatment.