(1) Testing Children's Development from Birth to School Age (2) A Study of Imagination in Early Childhood and its Function in Mental Development (3)Play in Childhood

Abstract

THE past seventy years has seen intensive study of the child from both physical and mental aspects, in health, abnormality and disease, and these years have witnessed not only the . development of a national system of education but also a gradual tabulation of groups of children with an educational object in view, but largely on medical lines. In the Mental Deficiency Act, 1927, there is also defined the case of ‘moral defective’. Social adaptability is the basal criterion of mental efficiency, and for certification as morally defective a child must be mentally defective. A morally defective child, if he exists, is very rare, and usually best classed as feebleminded; but there are many children with a-social or anti-social tendencies who are not mentally defective. There are also many children who exhibit or suffer from a wide variety of ‘nervous' symptoms, and, particularly since the War, the ‘nervous child’ has been a theme of interest and study for pedagogues, paediatrists and psychologists.

(1) Testing Children's Development from Birth to School Age

By Prof. Charlotte Buehler Prof. Hildegard Hetzer. Translated from the first German edition by Prof. Henry Beaumont. Pp. 191 + 16 plates. (London: George Allen and Unwin, Ltd., 1935.) 12s. 6d. net.

(2) A Study of Imagination in Early Childhood and its Function in Mental Development

By Dr. Ruth Griffiths. Pp. xiv + 367. (London: Kegan Paul and Co., Ltd., 1935.) 12s. 6d. net.

(3)Play in Childhood

By Margaret Lowenfeld. Pp. 345. (London: Victor Gollancz, Ltd., 1935.) 8s. 6d. net.