One Hundred Years of American Psychiatry, A Special Review [1945]

In those halcyon post-war days when even librarians shall have succumbed to the pressure of streamlined living and replaced the complex Dewey "classification" with a simple chronological classification, the library browser's attention will be drawn immediately to this robust Adonis of a volume standing out so prominently among the war-starved runts of 1944· He will be impressed with its structure: the half-rag specially water-marked paper, the wide margins, the attractive type, the gravure illustrations (of persons and institutions important in the history of psychiatry), the specially designed emblem and the generally outstanding printing job .I His surmise that the responsiblity for the production of the volume must have been a true bibliophile's will gain considerable support from such items as the account of the pains taken to unearth the signature of Dr. Samuel White, one of the original thirteen founders.