White

An excellent book—probably the best work on the subject that we have had in English since the translation of Morselli. It is written essentially from a socio—statistical point of view and its criticism must be from that angle. One might conceivably have a great deal of difficulty in determining the psychology of an individual after he has committed suicide, and the records are notoriously scanty, sometimes nil, in which latter case the entire psychological reconstruction must be hypothetical, but at the descriptive level and from the statistical and social angles the authoress has given us an excellent study, and the case histories that she has quoted, particularly the two extended ones, are very illuminating, poignant human documents.