This volume might better be styled a description of nervous and mental diseases than a study of them. Even as a descriptive monograph it falls far below any standard that could satisfy a discriminating and well trained psychiatrist. It is indeed hard to see what need such a volume can fill unless it is to give a negligent medical student an opportunity to fill his crop with a heterogeneous mass of symptoms characteristic of various psychopathological categories just prior to taking his third year examinations.

The division of material is in itself peculiar. The first part of the book is devoted to fixed ideas and reactions, the next two to the psychoneuroses, the fourth to Traumatic Hysteria, the fifth to Clinical Types of Inhibition (corresponding to the old concept of