Music in Institutions

Wall. Assisted by Clara Maria Liepmann. New York, Russell Sage Foundation. Price $3. In a Preface to this book by Dr. William Sandy, Director of the Bureau of Mental Health, Department of Welfare, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, we are told that it is an outcome of practical work over a period of many years done by the author as a member of the Bureau of Mental Health of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Originally the author's task was to set up a music programme for hospitals for the mentally ill. He then found that the methods worked out for this purpose could be applied equally advantageously to other types of institutions, and Dr. van de Wall's services have been made use of by a wide variety of institutions throughout his State.