Mr. Prescott is a professor of literature at Cornell University, and he writes primarily for the general reader, confining himself in the main to the broadest applications of analytical psychology to the interpretation and criticism of the poetic mind. He is, however, unusually well qualified for such a task, by comprehensive study, by range and flexibility of thought, and by an accurate grasp of the chief principles at issue, and he has produced what is by far the best book of its kind yet published in America or Great Britain. It is pleasing to note in particular the precise use of terms and the orderly progress of argument, qualities which have sometimes been very conspicuously absent in earlier undertakings of similar intention. The work is also a rich storehouse of illustrative material well justifying the author's hope that it may be useful to psychologists as well as to others, on the principle that 'if the student of literature lacks the much needed psychological training, the psychologist on the other hand might lack the wide reading in literature which must supply a large part of the evidence'.