Written at the request, in the first instance, of the American Association of Medical Superintendents of Hospitals for the Insane, the Address of Dr. Curwen has been considerably enlarged by interesting biographies of the physicians who founded the Association. These notices, of which we shall give a brief abstract, are accompanied by well executed likenesses. Altogether the book is one of much interest, more especially doubtless to American alienists, but also to those in our own country, with whom the majority of the names referred to are familiar, and are held in just esteem. These names are Drs. Samuel B. Woodward, Samuel White, Isaac Ray, Luther V. Bell, Charles H. Stedman, John S. Butler, Amariah Brigham, Pliny Earle, Thomas S. Kirkbride, William M. Awl, Francis T. Stribling, John M. Galt, Nehemiah Cutler. Of these two survive, Dr. Butler and Dr. Earle, both of them having now retired from asylum service, but retaining a lively interest in the work to which they have devoted their lives, and upon which they have left their mark.

In the last September number of the “Archives de Neurologie,” M. Jules Voisin, of the Hôpital Bicêtre, has published an interesting account of “A case of hysteria major in a man with Double Personality.” The patient had before that attracted some notice in France for the same symptoms, and M. Camuset (of the Bonneval Asylum) has published a description of his very unusual state in 1880 and 1881 (Annales Médico-Psych., 1882, p. 75). Some important additions to our knowledge have been made by MM. Bourru and Burot (of Rochefort), of which the chief have been published in the “Revue Philosophique,” Oct., 1885, and “Arch, de Neurol.” Nov., 1885, and we may expect to see more in the “Annales Médico-Psychologiques.” They have very kindly allowed us to use some recent observations which they have privately sent us, and it has seemed a good opportunity for a brief retrospect of the whole case.