Reviews the book, Child Guidance: Lawson G. Lowrey Memorial Volume edited by Simon H. Tulchin (1964). The book contains the work of contemporaries and coworkers of Lowrey and has important historical value. To the contemporary readers who grew up in the midst of theoretical formulations current in child psychiatry, editorial comments might be of no interest; but this book will be read by people entering the profession, and they could have benefited from a comment about each author's background, frame of reference, and historical importance. Several of the articles featured in the book contain statements and conclusions which have since lost their validity either partly or completely, but their value as historical documents of child guidance practice in the United States nevertheless remains. The book feature articles dealing with special therapeutic techniques, and short-term therapy is one of them. The book features a summary by Simon H. Tulchin of the Lawson Lowrey Memorial Meeting in 1958 and a complete bibliography of Lowrey's writing. The book deserves not only to be on the library shelf of every member of the American Orthopsychiatric Association but to be opened, read, and enjoyed. The reviewer would like to emphasize that it deserves not only to be on the library shelf of every member of the American Orthopsychiatric Association but to be opened, read, and enjoyed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved)