- REVIEWS AND CRITICISM.
Author: Binet, Alfred, and Simon, Th. Authorized translation with preface and an
appendix, by Clara Harrison Town, Ph.D., Director of the Department of Clinical Psychology, Lincoln State School and Colony, Lincoln, 111. 2d ed. Lincoln, 111., 1913. Agents, Chicago Medical Book Co., Chicago, 111. Pp. 82 + 15.
Dr Town's authorized translation of the Binet scale was made from an article in the Bulletin de la Societe libre pour I'Etude psycJiologique de VEnfant, April, 1911, which is, as the translator remarks, "a brief but complete statement of the Binet-Simon method of examining the intelligence and determining the mental level of children. . . . It is in fact a convenient manual for those who wish to use the method."
The first form of the scale was published in 1905 in L'Annee Psychologique. In 1908 appeared the first revision of the scale, the form which is most generally in use in America. Between 1908 and 1911 the scale was thoroughly tested by its originators, as well as by many other experimenters, and the revision of 1911 was the result.
Dr Town has added to the value of her faithful translation by constructing an appendix in which she has arranged the tests in age and diagnostic groups for convenience in conducting examinations. The first edition of this manual was quickly exhausted. The second is more attractive in appearance, with better paper and wider margins, and shows the effects of careful revision as to details of typography.