24 JANUARY 1914, Page 23

A Guide to the Mental Deficiency Act, 1913. By John

Wormald and Samuel Wormald. (P. S. King and Son. 5s. net.)-- The Law Relating to the Mentally Defective. By Herbert Davey. (Stevens and Sons. Ss. 6d.)—Two useful vottunes on the new Act. The first is more in the nature of a general treatise by two gentlemen who have already had con- siderable experience in connexion with special schools and Care Committees for the mentally defective. The second explains the Act section by section, and contains in an appendix the other statutes with which the new measure comes into contact.