ABSTRACT
A comparison of the average number of books read shows that at every age in both types of school the girls read more than the boys. One head mistress stated that many mothers in her area disapproved of their girls reading at home, looking upon it as a waste of time which should be given to household duties. One or two fairly well-marked sex differences emerge. The most striking differences are that the girls give much less of their time to adventure stories, considerably less to detective stories, a great deal more to stories of home life, to love stories, and to school stories. In Girls' Secondary Schools the amount of attention given to school stories progressively declines as the girls get older. The Senior School girls have not at the end of their school lives outgrown their interest in school stories. The girls, like the boys, show a fairly constant, though moderate, interest in historical stories.
