Three of these six lectures cover the fields of Tuberculosis, Vitamins, and Nutrition by J. A. Miller, N. Jolliffe, and A. J. Carlson respectively. Psychiatrists will be interested mainly in the remaining three. T. R. Putnam's lecture is on “The Brain and the Mind.” It is rather tightly written and gives the history of the mind-body concept. It is well done but there is a too ready and smug tendency to dismiss the old beliefs and ancients. This is definitely fin de (19th) sièle. A “stout heart” and “lots of guts” may be an “obvious relic of ancient times,” but old relics come to life, to wit, the middle ages. Nature does not put all her human eggs in the brain basket. Here is a neat twig against which the reviewer would toss a caveat emptor—“Without laying ourselves open to any charge of subjectivity or mysticism, we can scarcely avoid ascribing a supra-individual purpose to the self-sacrifice of the individual for the