AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT, one of the founders of the celebrated “Concord School of Philosophy,” was the son of a Connecticut farmer of limited means. He was born in 1799, and a part of his extensive though irregular educational training was a journey through Virginia made as a peddler. Returning to New England, he taught school in Boston, and afterwards settled at Concord to engage in the philosophical studies which did so much to make that village famous. In 1842 he visited England, bringing back with him on his return Charles Lane and H. G. Wright, with whom he founded an unsuccessful ideal community near Harvard, Massachusetts. After its failure, he delivered lectures and held “conversations” on a range of subjects “extending from divinity to cookery.” Among his published works are “Concord Days,” “Orphic Sayings,” and “Table-Talk.” The essays of “Concord Days,” if they show sometimes those intellectual peculiarities he took no pains to conceal, show also that he had thought as deeply on many things as the greatest thinkers of his day, and that his thought was often not mere literary reflection, but the compulsory conclusions of his own deep experience. He died in 1888. One of his most attractive “hobbies,” his love of children and his belief in their nearness to God, seems to be related in equal measure to the theories of Froebel and to the Scriptural suggestion that the mind of childhood must be retained or regained by all who wish to take hold on truth.