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authors. "Secondary addiction," involving as it does physiological tolerance and physical dependence, may develop in any type of habitual drinker. This is a subject which one may expect will be dealt with more fully in the subsequent volumes. In Chapter II, "Alcoholic Mental Disorders," many good clinical observations are summarized, but few conclusions can be drawn from such data, especially on the subject of delirium tremens. Here the literature is so vague and conflicting that one must hesitate in accepting the authors' conclusions, even as a tentative working hypothesis. Part II is excellently presented and fortunately the data available are of a high order of scientific merit, enabling the authors to draw some very cogent conclusions. The chapter on vitamin deficiencies in chronic alcoholism is probably the most satisfying in the book. The statistical treatment of the role of alcohol in cirrhosis of the liver is also very illuminating. This work meets a great need and, together with the forthcoming volumes, should ibe welcomed by all who are concerned with the prdblem of alcoholism. -A. WIKLER.