This book is a combination of the author's book of the same title first published in 1918 and his “Notes on Mental Disease,” first published in 1919. The first part is devoted to an introduction to the subject, symptomatology, history taking, etc., and the second part to a consideration of the various syndromes.

Dr. Barnes is a very competent, conscientious worker in this field, and the student of psychiatry can very well follow him. His system is, however, very largely the old descriptive psychiatry, although he makes a respectful bow to such modern inventions as endocrinology and psychoanalysis.