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This type of book is, in the reviewer's experience, rather exceptional in these days. It treats the subject, as it were, in tabular form, with headings, sub-headings, numbered and lettered paragraphs, all arranged in order, and therefore convenient for reference, and chopped up into neat sentences, which make the whole subject seem much simpler than it really is, and probably from that point of view has certain advantages for teachers and students if it is understood that the whole subject is not quite so simple as its arrangement indicates. There is a somewhat inadequate glossary and also a somewhat inadequate index, although the arrangement of the book makes the index less than ordinarily necessary. There are tables of differential diagnosis which are helpful, and the book is preceded by an introduction which deals in general with classification, etiology and symptomatology. In some instances there is a short historical introduction to the subject-matter of the chapter. The reviewer notes the absence of any consideration of the situational or prison psychoses, unless they are included under some other head. The chapter on Certification refers naturally to English customs, as does the chapter on Classification, for the most part, refer to English practices.
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