One Hundred Years of American Psychiatry: Published for the American Psychiatric Association. New York: Columbia University Press, 1944. General Editor, J. K. Hall; Associate Editor, Gregory Zilboorg; Assistant Editor, Henry Alden Bunker. With members of the American Psychiatric Association and of the American Association of the History of Medicine. 694 pp.

Remembering the usual Ozymandian centennial volumes of learned societies, one will be agreeably surprised by the present beautifully

got up and brilliantly edited, scholarly, and for these days exceedingly modestly priced book. To name the contributors and the subjects treated will suggest the breadth of scholarship comprised. These are:

Gregory Zilboorg: Presenting this Volume

J. K. Hall: Introduction

Richard H. Shryock: The Beginnings—From Colonial Days to the Foundation of the American Psychiatric Association

Henry E. Sigerist: Psychiatry in Europe at the Middle of the Nineteenth Century

Winfred Overholser: The Founding and the Founders of the Association

Samuel W. Hamilton: The History of American Mental Hospitals

John C. Whitehorn: A Century of Psychiatric Research in America

Henry Alden Bunker: American Psychiatric Literature during the Past One Hundred Years