A History of Medical Psychology

economy and efficiency of presentation of our nation's births and deaths. The arrangement is logical and convenient, permits easy finding and use of the tabulated facts and rates based upon them. The introductory pages are adequately explanatory and, dealiirg as they do with the two major topics of natality and mortality by place of occurrence and place of residence separately, the text is more direct and comprehensive than in some earlier volumes. The natality and mortality data for the United States tabulated by place of occurrence and by place of residence, with supplemental tables for Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands, is a priceless addition to a shelf of equally precious predecessors. These two volumes are more convenient to handle, save more lost motion and waste of eyesight than any of their predecessors, while presenting practically all the essential data other than such as may properly be classed as hand-picked and of a research nature. The supervision of Dr. Halbert L. Dunn, the Chief Statistician for Vital Statistics, is of itself a guarantee of the scholarship of the brief, succinct text and the authenticity of the tabular matter. HAVEN EMERSON