Backward Children

Dr. Holmes' contribution to the series edited by Professor O'Shea is "an inductive study of backward children. It presents in a series of concrete illustrations," says Dr. Holmes, "studies of cases to exemplify the principles and methods underlying the diagnosis, treatment and training of backward children." His aim has been to describe the cases "simply, non-technically, and humanly." His success was to be foreseen by his friends who know of his rich experience in Y. M. C. A. and college work, and in the Psychological Clinic at the University of Pennsylvania, as well as by the multitude of readers of his earlier volumes. Truly he has the gift for making his books, "as popular in vein as possible without offending scientific principles or sacrificing scientific exactness in essentials."