This paper deals much more with the organic factor in the subnormal and psychoneurotic child than with the mental. The author's approach is largely somatic and although he is aware of another aspect he mentions it only in general terms. Does he know of psycho-analysis and not mention it for fear of the 'Medes and Persians' in the American Medical Association, or has Dr. Lurie still to read the literature that would give him clearer insight into the minds of his little patients?