Haring, Douglas G. (Compiler). Personal Character and Cultural Milieu—A Collection of Readings. Revised ed. [Syracuse:  Syracuse University Press, 1949. Pp.  670. $5.00.]

The purpose and nature of the contents of this volume are given in the compiler's preface, “Faced with the postwar academic emergency of overcrowded universities and sagging library facilities, this compilation is one anthropologist's answer to the problem of readings for his students. Its contents have been limited strictly to anthropological contributions to the relatively young field of culturally fostered patterns of personal character. The interest of various professional colleagues encouraged the compiler to orient the project to their needs as well as his own.” The volume is divided into two parts, Some Spects of the Anthropological Approach to Personal Character, and Personal Character and Cultural Milieu. There are 38 items in all by 23 different authors, all fairly well known in the field of anthropology. The reviewer started by choosing favorites such as Haring on Cultural Behavior, Belo on The Balinese Temper, and Benedict on Anthropology and the Abnormal, but soon found that all of the readings were of such high caliber as to make any such selection impossible. The volume should be extremely useful to students and all those wishing to gain a very readable and interesting survey of modern anthropology and milieu study. [A. N. F.]