Miss Bassett in her book, “Mental Hygiene in the Community,” disclaims any attempt to add to the content of mental hygiene. She has, however, defined the concept and has widened and deepened its applicability to include fields of community interest, other than psychiatric institutions and child guidance clinics.

For the parent, the teacher, the member of a school board, the educator, there are comprehensive chapters, suggestive and explicit, showing the relationship of mental hygiene to parental education, to the preschool child, to education and teacher training. Careful attention has also been given to a consideration of the curricula of other professional schools, training students who will spend their lives ultimately as physicians, as lawyers, as clergy, and who, for the most part, will reach their professional majority without benefit of that discipline or initiation into the art of