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.