The Child: His Nature and His Needs. Prepared under the editorial supervision of M. V. O'shea, Professor of Education,  The University of Wisconsin. A Contribution of the Children's Foundation.

A volume of 500 pages, made up of contributions from sixteen prominent authorities who have had long experience in dealing with the problems of pedagogics, is indeed a treasure to all who are engaged in child welfare work. The book is divided into three parts. The first is taken up with the present-day knowledge of child nature, the need for bridging the gap between our knowledge of child nature and the training of children, the child's instincts and impulses, the active nature of children, their intellectual and moral nature, and their need of expression. The paper by Dearborn is especially interesting for his account of the tenta-tives to devise intelligence tests and of their various stages of development. He notes that the study of the more strictly intellectual development of children must be supplemented by, and interpreted in, terms of knowledge in regard to the emotional and volitional life of the individual. Those who in experience with the pathological aspects of mental life have been convinced of the dependence of intellectual defect on emotional factors in a very large proportion of cases welcome every recognition of the importance of these factors as inseparable concomitants of intelligence tests and mark with interest recent endeavors to include their measurement in intelligence tests; for example, Erich Stern, regretting that in these tests we see only the reactive side of intelligence, the results of which depend very much on the faculty of the individual to express himself, would like to estimate the behavior of individuals in actual