The Nineteen Forty Mental Measurements Yearbook. Edited by Oscar Krisen Buros: Highland Park, New Jersey: The Mental Measurements Yearbook, 1941. 674 pp.

The 1938 Yearbook, edited by Dr. Buros, was reviewed in this QUARTERLY by this reviewer.1 At that time the essential orientation of the reviewer was towards a psychology that had meaning and usefulness in a normal world, a world without the cataclysmic aspects of total war. Consequently the use of tests was minimized and their limited predictive value emphasized. In total war with its 'overnight' need to mobilize millions of service men and industrial workers, this testing tool suddenly acquires tremendous magnitude. The individual personality, with its subtle and yet most dynamic meaning, must of necessity be sidetracked in a mobilization of the masses.

It was this same need in the World War of 1917 that called forth the resources of the psychologist, and the Army Alpha test was born. After the war, testing acquired an impetus and the psychologist seeking a more direct relationship to human behavior, because of his previous absorption with the sterility of the 'memory drum laboratory' technique, now felt he had the answer. So everything was tested with the almost daily introduction of more and more tests. We suffered from an overdose of tests but fortunately, with