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The reviewer welcomes this little book of Dr. Devine's, not only as a sincere but as a very successful effort to present psychiatry in its recent developments. He has shown an admirable capacity for coördinating and correlating the work which has been done both in the so-called organic and the so-called functional fields, and has interwoven these two tendencies throughout his book in a fascinating way which shows a deep appreciation of the viewpoints of many workers. In these days when the literature of any scientific department is so voluminous that it is practically impossible for anyone to keep up with it unless he does nothing else, works of this character, which undertake to bring together recent advances by a species of abstract-reviews and comments are both welcome and important and their importance varies in direct proportion to the breadth of view of the person who undertakes the job, because naturally his must be the selection of what to incorporate and what to leave out. From this point of view this first attempt by Dr. Devine is most admirable and we trust will be followed by other efforts of the same character either by him in future years or by others similarly inclined.
White