Character and Personality, 1, No. 2, contains an article on an ‘Unemployed Village’ by Paul Lazars-feld. It is a summary of an investigation into the psychological aspects of unemployment carried out in Austria. The village selected was one of 1,500 inhabitants who were originally employed by a large textile factory which had been closed down for three years. The investigators took particular care in collecting their material, and proceeded by establishing personal contact through the organisation of sewing, gymnastic and ambulance classes. In addition, there were reports and observations of communal officials, co-operative shops and police denunciations. The conclusion they formed was, that concurrent with the extraordinarily low economic standard of the population, there had been a narrowing of psychological wants which had enabled the greater proportion of the people to carry on in a state of resignation. This was characterised by a general state of apathy which covered even politics' once their chief interest. No one concerned himself with the news of the day, or troubled to debate at meetings. The books borrowed from the library decreased by fifty per cent. Time had ceased to have significance or economic value. In Austria, unemployment benefit decreases according to duration of unemployment. This is of interest in connexion with the classification of people into three classes: Unbroken, Resigned, Broken, which ranking corresponded to the average monthly income of the group. The health of the children graded in three classes was also found to correlate with the percentage still at work in the family from which they came. These facts of immense sociological as well as psychological importance deserve wide publicity.