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Zeitschrift für Psychoanalytische Pädagogik. Editors, Dr. Heinrich Meng and Prof. Dr. Ernst Schneider in Riga.

This excellent little journal has just made its appearance from Stuttgart. It will be published upon the 15th of each month, and will contain among its original works accounts of Child Analysis; papers upon education in the light of psychoanalysis, in the home, school, state institutions, hospitals and welfare centers; also articles upon how psychoanalysis may offer assistance to the scientific foundation of education, child psychology, characterology, psychopathology, educational method, choice of career, group and crowd psychology, as well as information concerning the progress of psychoanalysis for educationists.

Part I, October, contains articles upon the following subjects: 1. The Value of Psychoanalysis for Education, Prof. Ernest Schneider. 2. The Child's Conscience, Hans Zulliger, Ittigen, Berne. 3. Dream of a Six-Year-Old Girl, Dr. Nunberg, Vienna. 4. The Problem of Delinquency, August Aichhorn, Vienna. 5. Therapeutic Child Analysis, Dr. Harnik, Berlin.

Part II, November, contains articles upon the following topics: 1. Is Lack of Musical Talent Necessary? Heinrich Jacoby, Berlin. 2. The Instinctual Nature of the Child, Dr. Fritz Wittels, Vienna. 3. The Dream-Life, Dr. Rh. Liertz, Homburg. 4. Spite Neurosis of a Fifteen-Year-Old Girl, Albert Fürrer, Zürich.

Each number will cost one mark, approximately one shilling. Quarterly, 2 m. 50. Postage quarterly, 30 pf. All subscriptions, MSS. and inquiries to Dr. Med. Heinrich Meng, Stuttgart, Sonnenbergstrasse 6 D.

Mary Chadwick.

The Child Study Society, London.  Journal of Proceedings, Vol.  VI, 1926. Price 2/—. P.  72.

The Child Study Society has done splendid pioneer work in the past, but now shows a tendency to sit around the fire and recount tales of dering-do and noble exploits of long ago rather than identify itself with contemporary research and new aspects of child investigation.

No new note is struck in any