No. I. "On the Psychological Voca-
Statistics of Insanity. By Sir Alexander Morrison, M.D.
Upon the Morbid Desire to Kill
We have received from Dr. Davey an elaborate reply to Dr. Hitchman's letter.
We very much regret that want of space compels us to postpone its publication until
our next number.
We beg to acknowledge with thanks the receipt of a set of the "American Journal
of Insanity." The Reports, &c., referred to in the letter accompanying the parcel,
will be forwarded to the writer by an early steamer.
No. 3 of the "American Psychological Journal" has reached us.
have not arrived.
We have had to refuse, owing to some gross defect in the postal arrangements
between the two countries, two parcels of American reports within the last month, in
consequence of the enormous postage demanded. For one parcel, although marked
'paid," containing, apparently, three or four reports or pamphlets, the charge for
postage was 12s. 6d.! We mention this circumstance, in case our American friends
should consider us remiss in not noticing or acknowledging the receipt of these
favours. We would suggest, until better arrangements are made at the Post Office,
that all parcels of books, &c., should be forwarded to the Editor, under the care of
Messrs. Rich, Tavistock-street, Covent-garden, or through the publishing house of
Balliere, Broad-way, New York.
Several valuable communications and reviews of works are unavoidably postponed
until our next number.
We had marked several valuable articles in the "American Journal of Insanity,"
and the "Annales Médico-Psychologiques," for reprint. They will appear either in
the next or in the succeeding number of this Journal.
We have received Dr. H. Damerou's excellent work entitled, "Sofeloge eine
Wahnsinns-studie," Halle, 1853; which, with Dr. J. Parigot's able "Tableau
Analytique des Maladies Mentales," will be reviewed in the April number of this
Journal. Dr. Parigot's work did not come to hand until the present number was
nearly printed.