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The Development of Intelligence In Children by Alfred Binet and Th. Simon, translated by Elizabeth S. Kite; and The Intelligence of the Feeble-Minded by Alfred Binet and Th. Simon, translated by Elizabeth S. Kite. One can not speak too favorably of the translation of these two volumes. They contain practically all that Binet ever wrote regarding his scale for measuring intelligence. Not only that but they also contain enough of basal and corroborative discussion to show his broad concept of the problem with which he dealt. One can only regret that the translations have had to wait until so many are sufficiently familiar with test methods to feel that they need not read these, the fundamental and initial discussions of intelligence testing. The translation is sincere and faithful. The personality of the group editing the books has everywhere been suppressed in favor of an unbiased reproduction. A comparison with the originals indicates that one loses practically none of the thought or spirit in the translation. The charm of the style found in the original could
scarcely be reproduced in another language. In all the translation consists of eight separate articles. The first article is actually a justification of the Binet-Simon tests.
This new method of diagnosis is described in the second paper. The third paper shows how standardization of the tests was accomplished. The fourth paper is the most extensive in its discussion of the tests. It presents the year plan of grading tests and formed the basis of the early American standardizations. In the fifth paper we have Binet's last word on the subject. The first paper in the second book deals with the intelligence of the feeble-minded. The seventh paper deals with the language of the defective. In a field where so little of permanent value has been written this is of exceptional interest. Binet's discussion of the absence of fluent speech in the lower imbecile type is intensely fascinating as well as sane. In the eighth and last paper translated, the authors compare feeblemindedness or amentia with dementia. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)