We welcome this new Quarterly, which is published under the sponsorship of the Committee on Problems of Neurotic Behaviour of the National Research Council, Washington. It is devoted to the interesting and important borderland between the mental and somatic aspect of disease, with the inter-action of these aspects on each other.

The first number begins with a broad review by Alexander on the Psychological Aspects of Medicine. It contains a number of other papers, among which may be singled out two valuable studies on hypothalamic functioning; the second one of these, by W. R. Ingram, is documented to the extent of 399 bibliographical references. Three studies on Essential Hypertension, by Alexander, Leon Saul and Edward Weiss respectively, also deserve special mention.