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Professor Woodworth, who may well be called the Dean of American experimental psychologists, celebrated his seventieth birthday in 1939. This book, which reprints twenty-five of his papers, was edited by his colleagues to celebrate the occasion. Woodworth's professional life has been long and active (the appended bibliography contains around two hundred items with entries for nearly every year since 1897); his psychological interests have been catholic (the individual papers come from the fields of systematic, abnormal, differential, experimental and educational psychology), and his methodological bias has been eclectic. (He writes in his Autobiography, 'My bogey men were those who assumed to prescribe in advance what sort of results a psychologist must find'.) Thus his greatest services to American psychology have been as an integrator and interpreter of the whole field rather than as an individual discoverer. He realizes this himself when he writes in his autobiographical sketch, 'I have done comparatively little investigation on my own account. Probably my bent is more toward weighing evidence and "seeing straight" than toward active enterprise. I should have liked to be a discoverer, so that anyone asking, "What did Woodworth do?" would be promptly answered, "Why, he was the man who found out" this or that! It is likely that many other psychologists have the same feeling of disillusionment.'