Book Reviews

This little pamphlet is intended to be used as a guide for mothers of mentally defective children. The people whom Dr Thomson has had in mind in writing this little book are those on whose shoulders the task of educating defective children during the period of infancy and early childhood falls?the mothers. Too often, not from lack of goodwill or want of patience, but from lack of instruction and help, the mother of a backward infant allows precious years to slip by without systematically aiding the slowly developing intelligence of her baby, and the result is that when the defect is too obvious for further neglect, the work of the teacher is