=Infection and Immunity.= By GEORGE M. STERNBERG, Surgeon-General, U.S.A. The Mental Functions of the Brain An Investigation into their Localisation and their Manifestation in Health and Disease. By BERNARD HOLLANDER, M.D. (Freiburg i.B.), M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (London.) Illustrated with the clinical records of eight hundred cases of localised brain derangements and with several plates. 8º. (By mail, $3.75.) Net, $3.50. “A book which should be read by every Surgeon and Physician in America.”—_Boston Times._ “This is a work of more than ordinary importance. The author’s researches and results oblige him not only to combat popular opinions, but to criticise rather sharply some high medical authorities. The brain is, indeed, the organ of the mind, but the various functions of the mind have their separate centres of activity in the brain. In the localisation of these centres good progress has been made and is still to be made. The great pioneer in this line of discovery was Dr. Franz Joseph Gall, a century ago. His results were long discredited but are here presented for the first time as largely confirmed by other lines of research. The phenomena of various kinds of mania are exhibited by Dr. Hollander in their connection with local brain-lesions, and special memories for words, numbers, music, etc., are traced to their local centres in the brain. These and cognate discussions lead on to a strenuous rehabilitation of phrenology, long discredited through quackery, and, as Dr. Hollander contends, through medical philistinism. The ability with which Dr. Hollander pleads the case is commensurate with his courage in stemming the current of adverse prejudice. While this work is of special interest to professional men, as lawyers and physicians, it is valuable to all who are interested in the phenomena of mind and the problems of education.”—_Outlook._ G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS NEW YORK LONDON ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES 1. Silently corrected typographical errors and variations in spelling. 2. Archaic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings retained as printed. 3. Enclosed italics font in _underscores_. End of Project Gutenberg's The Basis of Social Relations, by Daniel G. Brinton