The author of this small volume offers a comprehensive survey. We note that childhood schizophrenia is an extremely rare illness and that children do not show the clinical types of the adult, and are grouped differently: e.g. an 'acute' type, characterized by sudden, acute onset, with remissions and exacerbations, and a 'chronic' type, with a slow, insidious onset and development. The book has the virtue of covering the literature, and the defect of unimaginative, text-book sifting of the material. The author is attentive to psycho-biology and developmental psychology, and makes a polite bow to psycho-analysis. Of the interplay of family relationships in his patients, of their personality strivings, of the impact of their illness on the structure of their personalities, of their world-picture, of their very existence as human beings—of all this, which is the fascination of schizophrenia, the author has exactly nothing to say.