Outlines of Psychiatry: By William Alanson White. (Nervous and Mental Disease Publishing Co., New York, Fourteenth Edition, 1935. Pp. 494. Price $4.00.)

The manner in which this book has evolved into its final form and the success which it has achieved throw a light not only on the character and development of its author but in an equal degree on the evolution of psychiatry in America. The first edition of Outlines of Psychiatry appeared in 1907 and every second year since then there has been a demand for a new edition, so that the edition of 1935 is the fourteenth. The beginning of this development belonged to a period when White had as yet scarcely made the acquaintance of psycho-analysis and had not advanced beyond the standpoint of Kræpelin. The second edition shewed him entering on a new path; in particular, at that period he was occupied with the concept of the 'complex'. As time went on, causal psychology became increasingly prominent. The 1935 edition of the work is the last to be produced by the author: White died on March 7, 1937. Like its predecessors, this edition is intended for students and its systematic structure follows the lines laid down by Kræpelin. The book is not an attempt at a psycho-analytical psychiatry, but it contains a synopsis of all the contributions made by psycho-analysis to the fundamental problems of psychiatry. White treats