A Neurological Study of Newborn Infants, by David J. Beintema with a preface by Heinz F. R. Prechtl (Clinics in Developmental Medicine No. 28). London: Spastics International Medical Publications in Association with William Heinemann Medical Books Ltd, 1968. 178 pp., $4.80

There are two main ways in which this 178 page volume (appendixes and references included) should prove valuable. The first is in answer to questions one and two posed by the author in the introduction: "What is the developmental course of neurological signs during the neonatal period, and how consistent are single neurological signs in individual babies from day to day?" For anyone who wants to know how the Mono response, the rooting reflex, the crossed extensor reflex, and at least 28 other neonatal responses vary through the first 9 days of life, this carefully done study is an essential reference.