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inordinately high; marriages of the female 

 take place at pitifully young ages. The 

 results are deplorable and to be remedied 

 by (i) tn e abolition of child marriage, 

 (V) the teaching and practice of birth 

 control, (3) the discouragement of 

 dysgenic marriages, and (4) the advocacy 

 of eugenics. The author finds approval 

 for his recommendations in modern social 

 philosophy as well as ancient Indian 

 writings. As a scientific document, the 

 book is, of course, not important. 



PSYCHOLOGY AND BEHAVIOR 



BRAIN AND MIND or The Nervous System 

 of Man. 



By R.J. A. Berry. The Macmillan Co. 



$8.00 6 x 9 J; xii + 608 New York 



A noted neuropathologist called to 

 testify at the trial of an alleged murderer 

 was given the brain of the deceased. 

 "Doctor," said the attorney, "what was 

 the victim thinking of when he died?" 

 As regards the psychologic interpretation 

 of neurologic structure, the lawyer was 

 only somewhat more sanguine than the 

 author of this book. Throughout are 

 expressed such sentiments as the follow- 

 ing: 



From the neuronic standpoint all human indi- 

 viduals may be divided into three great groups. The 

 cerebral aments who swell the ranks of our prisons, 

 gaols, reformatories, and asylums, though it must not 

 be supposed that all such inmates are aments. Normal 

 neuronic individuals who constitute the vast majority, 

 and the multi-ncuronic geniuses with more than their 

 fair share of neurons. 



There can be no question that when the importance 

 of referring all nervous and clinical phenomena to the 

 neuronic arc is more generally recognized, there will 

 be a corresponding improvement in therapy. 



In spite of reiterated denials of the 

 writer, it seems generally understood and 

 accepted by medical men that behavior 



has a necessary basis in nervous structure. 

 This would appear to be ample justifica- 

 tion for advancing the study of neuro- 

 anatomy, without calling in heroic and 

 quite unfounded claims for it as a solvent 

 of psychological problems. The shoe is 

 really on the other foot; most medical men 

 fail to deal adequately with behavior 

 problems, because of their attempt to 

 understand them completely in terms of 

 neurology. There is need in the medical 

 curriculum for the study of behavior qua 

 behavior. 



Depleted of the interspersed propa- 

 ganda, the book is a fair neuroanatomical 

 text, conventional in the main as regards 

 individual topics, but somewhat novel in 

 matters of arrangement, and containing a 

 short, inadequate section on the nervous 

 system in health and disease. 



THE MATRIX OF THE MIND. 

 By Frederic Wood Jones and Stanley D. 

 Porteus. University of Hawaii 



$4.00 6x9; viii -f- 457 Honolulu 



The authors hold that the mind really 

 has a brain, and the brain a mind, and 

 propose to make a study which will blend 

 both. The reunion is effected by the 

 pronouncement that there is an external 

 nervous system consisting of sensory skin 

 and sense organs, and an internal nervous 

 system consisting of brain and spinal cord. 

 The latter are simply cells of the skin of 

 the back, which, residing in a quiet region 

 during embryological development, and 

 not otherwise occupied, were tucked into 

 the depths of our body. It is quite 

 evident therefore that our central nervous 

 system is made up of buried skin and our 

 skin of unburied nervous system. And 

 what follows more logically than that 

 there is an adjustment between external 

 behavior and nervous structure? The 



