The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-25

ton of the magnitude of those old-time
 swindlers.
 True Detective Etories' will hold the h. terest all right, particularly after the
 market" has been on that day uncertain;
 and worrying things we all must have
 heap themselves upon us.
 ''Psychotherapy." by Hugo Munsterberg, M. D., Ph. D., Lit. D., IL. D.. professor of phycholoby in Harvard university. (Moffat, Yard 6 Col
 There isn't anything wrong with the
 title to this book; as you tell the children '1t won't bite'-although one has to fol-
 low the text before him to get the spell ing on straight
 This new book deals with the relations
 Of psychology to medicine. Quite an easy answer for title as that given above isn't it2 Dr. Munsterberg wrote some time ago book called On the Witness Stand" in which he studied and dis cussed the relations of scientific psychol- ogy to crime and the law courts. We now have one, as heretofore stated, deal ing with psychology's relation to medi- cine. Other books discussing It's relations to education, to social problems, to com
 merce and industry will follow soon. In the meantime Dr. Munstering had divided his latest book (title given above to spell it correctly it is necessary to
  parts: the Psychological Basis of Psycho- l therapy, the Methods and Results of Psychotherapy and the Place of Psycho- therapy That's the last time a struggle will be made with psy--; the strain mental and physical is too great. This book Is by one of the foremost practical psychologists in the world and consistently deals with the whole subject (-) from the standpoint of modern 1 psychology for the benefit of the unscen- tlflc as well as the professional reader. The book places the whole matter of the newest and most wonderful of sci- ences plainly, clearly and effectively be- i fore an interested public. The chief aim of the book, according to Dr. Munsterberg, Is towfold: It is a negative one. I want to counteract the misunderstanding which. over1owed the
 whole field, especially by the careless
 mixing of mental and moral influence
 And positive one. I want to strength
 en the public, feeling that the time has
 come when every physician should sys-
 tematically study psychology, the normal
 in the college years and the abnormal In
 the medical school. The aim of the book
 is not to fight the Emmanuel church
 movement, or even Christian Science or any other psychotherapeutic (couldn't be
 avoided = reviewers Interpolation ten dency outside of the field of scientific
 medicine. :. Scientific medicine should take hold of psychotherapeutics (really Mr., Miss or Mrs Reader, don't you think
 the good doctor or who ever 1t is who
 made up the IS letter word, might have found a simpler one?-S. M. B.) now no one ought to overlook today The book, notwithstanding that awe inspiring title, Is easy and most interest
 ing reading. Written by Dr. Munster
 berg. the professor now of psychology at Harvard, who has been through five years of regular studies, three years in Leipzig and two years in Heidelberg,
 with an M. D. degree from the University or Hefdelberg-the reader cannot but feel
 that the good doctor knows whereof he writes so entertainly.
 ! 'The Patience of John Morland," by Mary 1 Dillon. Doubleday, Page & Co) | The author of this book wrote, as you l will recall, if you can go back that far in the list of "best sellers" "rhe Rose of Old St. Louis."
 | Marked from an "Exchange" there were | the following lines in recent news | paper
 "Sirrah gadzooks!
 | Where are those books We used to get fresh every hour? | The daily sales
 l Were forty bales | When Indiana was in flower"
 "The Patience of John Morland" is not
 an Indiana book" of the 40 bales per day variety. A It describes primarily the patience of ! John Morland. a senator from Tennessee, | during the presidency of both James
 Monroe and Andrew Jackson. The "pa- | tience'' aforesaid was that shown by | John In awaiting for kitty McCabe," | the heroine. daughter of an Irish inn keeper, willful, indiscreet but witha1 low able, to say 'Yes." Thousands, yea, ten thousands of men have shown the same "patience," but nothing doing in the novel line about them. Wherefore then this discrimination?
 Kitty McCabe Is easily recognized as
 prominent. much-talked of young lady
 of Andrew Jackson's times. Miss Dillon has simply changed her name, as well
 as that of John Morland but she doesn't
 expect any reader to have any difficulty in placing the characters alright. Miss Dillon has woven into her inter- esting book much history which is not tiresome-on the contrary; and the pie lures from hemp of Henry Clay, James Monroe. John Quincy Adams, Andrew
 Jackson, John C. Calhoun. Daniel Web
 ster, John Randolph of Roanoke, James Buchanan. then congressman from Penn sylvana; Robert E. Lee, then a young
 West Point cadet William Wirt, illus
 trious attorney general of the United
 States; Robert Y. Hayne of South Caro- lima, eloquent opponent of Webster, but the latters great admirer. and so on and so forth are all first class.
 This is better book than "The Rose of Old St. Louis," which wasn't bad
 ''The Patience of John Morland'' is well worth reading.
 Heather" By John Trevena. (Moffat,
 Yard & Co)
 Occasionally, not often, more's the pity,