Nervous Children

Nervous Children. By Beverly R. Tucker, M.D. Boston: Richard G. Badger, 1916. Pp. 147. Dr. Tucker writes as a neurologist, but not for neurologists. What strikes most forcibly a student of psychology is his apparent failure to grasp the psychological problems of nervous and mentally deficient children, and his lack of any reference to the large and growing psychological literature on their training. His book has no bibliography, not even an index of names. Freud and Cornell he quotes, but he says nothing about Dr. Barr's work on "Mental Defectives," and Dr. Goddard he cites only to misspell his name in connection with a very inadequate reference to the Binet-Simon tests. No other tests are mentioned