In writing this large book, Dr. Roback has undoubtedly performed a valuable service. The work is the most ambitious attempt hitherto made to give a critical review of the vast and heterogeneous literature on the subject of character, and as such it deserves a place in every psychological library. The extensive bibliography, to which frequent reference is made, is too large for inclusion in the present volume, and is published separately by the Oxford University Press under the title of A Bibliography of Personality with Special Reference to Character.

The Psychology of Character is a book that is not easy to review. The