APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY,

by Harold ErnestBurtt '11. Prentice-Hall, 1948, 821 pages.$7.35.

Almost every day some student is sure to bring to class a topical article on psychology clipped from the latest issue of one of the popularizing magazines. Such articles are usually well written, and at times authoritative, but of necessity partial and incomplete. They cannot provide what a book can—the measure of proportion, emphasis, and relevance that is obtained by balancing topic against topic in systematic exposition.

Professor Burtt's textbook addresses itself also to "the layman who is concerned with the general scope of applied psychology and possibly with a particular interest in some limited phase of it." It is recommended for style and organization. And the reader may choose, according to interest, from the following phases: psychological fundamentals; merits of astrology, spiritualism, graphology, physiognomy, memory schemes, and inspirational techniques; tests of intelligence, aptitudes, emotion, interests, attitudes, and achievement; personal efficiency and vocational guidance; general medical practice and psychotherapy; legal applications (witnesses, juries, and judges, crime detection and prevention); employment tests and industrial efficiency; fatigue, monotony, accidents, and morale; advertising; (more briefly) art and recreation, speaking and writing, public opinion, politics, religion, war, and peace.