xlvi Journal of Comparative Neurology. 



The book is strong on the practical side. The accounts of the 

 methods of sesthometry and tests of motor insufficiency are full and the 

 introduction to electro-therapeutics is apparently very complete, as is 

 the part devoted to, massage and vibratory therapeutics. Rules for 

 postmortems will prove helpful to many a busy man. Cortical locali- 

 zation and operative indices are accorded commensurate attention 

 without slighting the descriptive pathology. 



Dr. Mills quotes with apparent approval the extreme ground taken 

 by Dr. Bevan Lewis as to the role of the scavenger cells in cerebral 

 disease, where more attention should probably be given to the vascular 

 changes and the wandering cells. He also adopts the view of Retzms 

 and others that the olfactory and optic nerve endings form a class dis- 

 tinct from that including the gustatory, tactile, and auditory on the other 

 hand. There is much reason to believe that this classification is based 

 on a misconception. 



But while it would be easy to suggest other instances where there 

 is room for difference of opinion as to the details of the work, we have 

 for the book as a whole only warm praise and congratulate both the 

 author and the publisher on the results of their efforts. We shall have 

 further commentary to offer upon this important work from a different 

 point of view in a later issue of this Journal. c. L. H. 



CJiapiu's Compendium of Insanity.' 



This little book is designed to present a concise statement of the 

 clinical aspects of the various abnormal mental conditions, together 

 with plain directions as to the best methods of managing and treating 

 the insane. It is conservatively written, really too much so in some 

 places even for an elementary manual designed to introduce the medi- 

 cal student to psychiatry, as illustrated for instance, by the antiquated 

 treatment of the pathology of the so-called functional diseases. It is 

 an excellent work, however, the chief value of which will be to give 

 the lay reader who desires to inform himself upon these subjects a con- 

 cise and intelligible guide, and for this purpose the book can be cor- 

 dially recommended. c. j. h. 



Genesis and Nature of Hysteria.* 



This important work, comprising some 850 pages, is divided into 

 two parts, one of which (volume I) is a systematic presentation of the 



' A Compendium of Insanity. By John B. Chapin, M.D. Philadelphia: 

 W. B. Saunders, 1S9S. $1.25 net. 



*Gen6se et Nature de I'Hyst^rie. Dr. Paul Sollier. 2 volumes. Paris, 

 F61ix Alcan' 1897. Price 20 fr. 



