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This book is an account of the psychological tests formulated by the authors for use in the Army and which proved very efficacious in assisting the line officers in classifying their men for different varieties of service and in picking out those who showed special qualifications for promotion. The tests must be considered as essentially and predominantly practical in character and however a reading of them might impress one as to their fundamental lack of appreciation of certain of the personality traits which are of prime importance in character make-up, still it must be appreciated that they constitute a set of measures which when applied to large numbers of persons undoubtedly function on the whole in the direction of increased efficiency, although undoubtedly in individual cases they may have failed. The book presents the matter admirably and in detail, both as to the nature and the meaning of the several tests and their methods of application. It is an exceedingly interesting volume, indicating as it does the advanced stage to which the whole subject of mental testing has been developed.
White.