The Institutional Care of the Insane in the United States and Canada * By Various Writers. Edited by Henry M. Hurd, M.D., LL.D. Illustrated. 4 vols. Demy 8vo. The Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore, M.D. 1916.

THE INSTITUTIONAL CARE OF THE INSANE IN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA.* This monumental work is, in the main, the product of the veteran Dr. Hurd, Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry in the Johns Hopkins University, and formerly Medical Superintendent of the Pontiac State Hospital, who is well known on this side of the Atlantic as the most distinguished of American alienists. Dr. Hurd has retired from active practice, but his abundant energy would not suffer him