Longitudinal Studies of Child Personality: Abstracts with Index. By Alan A. Stone, M.D. and Gloria Cochrane Onqué, M.D. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1959. 314 pp.

As part of the research project directed by Ernst Kris and Milton J. E. Senn at Yale University Child Study Center, two then undergraduate medical students made a survey of the literature on longitudinal

studies of personality development and behavior. Doctors Stone and Onqué first reviewed articles appearing in the Journal of Genetic Psychology, the American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, Child Development, Child Development Monographs, Genetic Psychology Monographs, Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, and Enfance. Next, they reviewed all relevant articles described in Psychological Abstracts and Child Development Abstracts. Theirs was a prodigious labor. All in all, they reviewed almost one thousand books and articles of which nearly three hundred are abstracted in this book. The abstracts are arranged alphabetically by author and include setting, subjects, time span, methods of observation and testings, findings, and, in many instances, author's interpretations. Most are brief but some abstracts are relatively detailed. The period covered is from about 1925 to 1955. The index combines subject and author.

This is a comprehensive bibliographic review of this particular field of work and will be of considerable value as a reference for all those engaged in studies of personality development.