The Idiot: His Place in Creation and his Claims on Society. By Sir Frederic Bateman, M.D., LL.D. Second Edition. London: Jarrold and Sons. 1897. Post octavo, pp. 123.

The arguments contained in this essay formed the nucleus of an address delivered at a public meeting in Norwich in support of the Eastern Counties Asylum for Idiots. " In the few remarks that I shall make, I hope to show you that the study of idiocy is fraught with interest, not only to the man of science and the philanthropist, but to the political economist, the statesman, and the theologian." The groundwork of the book may be inferred from the foregoing quotation. The author commences with a definition of idiocy, followed by a short historical epitome of the development of the scientific views