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The results of the methods of the Emmanuel movement for the treatment of those with nervous disorders, "neurasthenics" and "psychasthenics," are stated with full recognition of the failures of the methods. He states clearly that with such cases and with alcoholics and others the methods employed have a place only as supplementary to those now in use by the best physicians.

The movement, unlike Christian Science, breaks neither with scientific medicine nor with the church. Mr. Powell takes no case for treatment until a physician has examined the patient and re- ferred him to the clinic for this particular treatment. He permits no member of another church who has been helped in his clinic to join or even attend his church. He refuses to wreck the movement by making it a proselyting agency.

J. L. GiLLIN State University of Iowa

The Standard of Living in New York City. By Robert Coit Chapin, Ph.D., Horace White Professor of Economics and Finance, Beloit College, Wisconsin. New York: Pub- lished for the Russell Sage Foundation by the Charities Publication Committee, 1909. Pp. xv+372. $2.00.

The Standard of Living in New York City contains the results of the study of this subject by a special committee of the New York State Conference of Charities and Correction, a paper on the "Mean- ing and Value of the Standard of Living," by Mr. Frank Tucker, a preliminary report for the committee by Dr. Lee K. Frankel, a brief comparative study of the standards in nine other cities in the state of New York, special reports by Dr. Frank P. Underbill, assistant professor of physiological chemistry, Yale University, on the "Nutritive Sufficiency of the Food Purchased by the Families Studied," a "Workingman's Budget," translated from Le Play, a selected bibliography, and index. The main body of the work is by Dr. Chapin and is an elaborate statistical, diagrammatic, and textual presentation of the findings from the budgets of three hundred and eighteen families with annual incomes between six hundred and eleven hundred dollars, including occasionally, how- ever, twenty-five families whose incomes were below six hundred dollars, and forty-eight whose incomes were above eleven hundred dollars. Nearly all of the families consisted of father, mother, and