Minimal Brain Dysfunction in Children, by Paul H. Wender, M.D. New York: Wiley-Interscience, A Division of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1971, 242 pp., $10.50

Every medical student, physician, and scientist should read the story of the Emperor's new clothes and identify with the child who, unimpressed by the weight of authoritative opinion, cried "But the Emperor has no clothes." Leon Eisenberg is a children's psychiatrist whom I respect enormously. But although I am glad to have read this book, I can't accept his unqualified recommendation of it. Not all the blame lies with the author, for the publisher's assessors have not done their job.