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work was on reformatory schools ; her second was on 

 "Juvenile Delinquents;" another one, published in 

 1864, was entitled "Our Convicts." This work was 

 highly valued by people who understood the subject, 

 and it was " honoured " to use Miss Carpenter's own 

 words in being placed by the Pope on the Index 

 Expurgatorius, which is a list of books not allowed to 

 be read by Roman Catholics until certain passages 

 have been taken out. 



Yet it must not be supposed that in trying to 

 supply the needs of the children this wonderful 

 woman entirely forgot the parents. Her book on 

 " Our Convicts " was really an attempt to apply to 

 grown-up criminals the treatment which she had 

 found answered so well for children. She was par- 

 ticularly concerned for female convicts, and did all 

 that in her lay by establishing refuges, and in other 

 ways, to bring about the regeneration of the misguided 

 and neglected. 



It will be remembered that when in early life 

 Mary Carpenter had made the resolve that she would 

 give her life to the work of aiding the miserable and 

 destitute, that she had been much under the influence 

 of two good men one, Dr. Tuckerman, of America, 

 the other, Rammohun Roy, of India. Dr. Tucker- 

 man had made her feel how much neglected and 

 destitute children needed assistance ; Rammohun 

 Roy had spoken of the hardships endured by women 

 of his country. To the work pointed out by Dr. 



