ADLER, FELIX (1851-1933), American educationalist, was born at Alzey, Germany, Aug. 13, 1851. His father, a Jewish rabbi, emigrated to the United States in 1857, and the son gradu ated at Columbia college in 1870. After completing his studies at Berlin and Heidelberg, he became, in 1874, professor of Hebrew and Oriental literature at Cornell university. In 1876 he estab lished in New York city the Society for Ethical Culture, to the development and extension of which he devoted a great deal of time and energy, and before which he delivered a regular Sunday lecture. In 1902 he became professor of political and social ethics at Columbia university. He also acted as one of the editors of the International Journal of Ethics. Under his direction the Society for Ethical Culture became an important factor in educational reform in New York city, exercising through its technical training school and kindergarten (established in Jan. 1878) a wide influ ence. Dr. Adler also took a prominent part in philanthropic and social reform movements, such as the erection of model tenement houses and the abolition of child labour. He published Creed and Deed (1877), The Moral Instruction of Children (1892), Mar riage and Divorce (1905), The Religion of Duty (1905), The World Crisis and Its Meaning (1915), An Ethical Philosophy of Life (1918), and The Reconstruction of the Spiritual Ideal (Hib bert lectures at Oxford, 1923). He died April 24, 1933.