The title of this book indicates the special interest that held Dr. Merell Middlemore in the years immediately prior to her untimely death. No one has made a study of the relationship of a mother to her new-born infant that can be compared in its intimacy and accuracy with the work described in this book, work which was intended by the author as a foundation for a larger survey to be carried out by herself. Those of us who were her friends are sharply, almost too sharply, reminded of her by reading her book, which is in many ways characteristic of herself. Dr. Middlemore having died, the heavy task of organizing, or sponsoring, the continuation of her work is left to us.

There is much more in the book than can be crowded into the space now available for a review. It