Although not dealing with psychoanalysis specifically, nor dealing with the formulations of this science, especially as to Ego organization and maturation, this serious and able book is here mentioned.

Dr. Ryan has made a wide flung investigation of present day educational enterprises as evidenced through newer movements throughout the United States in the schools and clinics. He finds definite indications that “mental hygiene principles have definitely taken hold, and in work with younger children generally there is an encouraging trend towards conditions and practises that make for mental good health”.

Here is to be found a sound constructive and valuable assay of what is happening in this field, so intimately bound up with psychoanalytic concepts, even if but little emphasis is to be found as to special activities in this field.