Tennan, Lewis M. Psychological Factors in Marital Happiness. Assisted by P. Buttenwieser, L. W. Ferguson, W. B. Johnson, and D. P. Wilson. [New York and London:  McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc. $4.50.]

We have read this work with much interest both as to the information it contains and for its method of presentation. It is a welcome variant from the horde of slap-dash superficial treatises dealing ostensibly with the problems of marital happiness.

It analyzes actual situations rather than offering short movie glimpses of anomalies. Several hundred families have been investigated, 2,484 individuals, 1,333 married and 109 divorced couples. These are studied along three lines of variables. Psychometric techniques have been utilized to study personality, background factors and specific sexual adjustments.

In spite of the general fact that marital compatibility is rather an omnibus word—almost on the blab-blab border—the authors have realized the complexity of the situations involved and given them careful attention. The attempt to express the events in quantitative form is a valiant one.

We would prefer to give an extensive review of the work. To give it due justice however would demand many, many pages. These are not available, hence only the reviewer's general conclusion that this is a worth-while book.