So many of our readers subscribe to the British Medical Journal and the Lancet that we do not as a rule epitomise original articles which appear in these publications, unless they are of outstanding importance or there is some other special reason for so doing. The same attitude is adopted, but to a less extent, as regards other English medical journals, most of which are easily obtained. Economy, always a necessity, is especially important at present. There are some subjects, however, including contemporaneous movements of moment affecting the psychiatrical world, it is important that members of the Association should be kept well informed of, hence the “Epitome” and many of the items published in “Notes and News.”