This article is written merely to start a discussion with regard to the possible combination of Montessori and Froebelian materials and methods as suggested by Dr. Holmes in his introduction to Dr. Montessori's book. No definite conclusions can be reached yet, for several reasons: (i) Mme. Montessori herself feels that her system is not thoroughly worked out; (2) there are few schools even among those called by her name which have accepted the most fundamental principle of the Dottoressa's teaching, the right of the child to liberty; (3) it takes the sifting of time and the judgment of many minds to discover the truly permanent in any system. It is not necessary to describe in detail the Montessori materials. Those interested in the new method have read either Dr. Montessori's book or the articles which give accurate descriptions and which have appeared in various magazines. They fall naturally into three groups as indicated by Dr. Holmes: those for sense training, physical training, and social training. The sense materials are such as the frames for buttoning or hooking, and the insets, plane and solid; the materials for physical training are such as the stairway, swing, rope ladder; the social materials are those used in the home activities such as preparing and serving food, cleaning, and dressing. We can easily believe that Froebel would be in hearty sympathy with the physical and social training as advocated by Mme. Montessori, but where in her system the physical education would merely make provision for the exercise of the muscles and through these influence the human side of the child, Froebel would see a more direct spiritual effect in the experience itself. Froebel would hold that the child feels an exhilaration in the act of swinging such as Stevenson has expressed in