Despite its compactness, this monograph presents an abundance of clinical and psychological studies of voice and speech. The author believes that the dynamics of speech are chiefly psychological. His observations relate, therefore, almost entirely to psychic phenomena including character traits, affects, and clinical syndromes. This book should have direct and absorbing interest for the psychoanalyst and psychiatrist.

'Voice' is used broadly to mean the form of speech as it sounds to the listener, rather than strictly as phonation. This term Dr. Moses believes more useful for the study of form than the more comprehensive and ambiguous term 'speech'. Most of the clinical cases described might be termed disorders of the voice, for they involve such disturbances in phonation itself as hoarseness, aphonia,