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The somewhat comprehensive and challenging title of this volume is apt to excite expectations which, in the cases of readers versed in psycho-analytic contributions to Characterology, are far from being fulfilled. Here will be found an erudite and detailed discussion of character manifestations, from the descriptive and classificatory standpoint, which is still the main preoccupation of most general psychologists. From this point of view Mr. Shand's treatise has a generally recognised importance; but its value as a current contribution to characterological research is impaired, not only by his adherence to this older point of view, but even more by his failure to take into account, or even acknowledge the existence of, those far-reaching contributions to Characterology which are perhaps the most striking results of psycho-analytic investigation.
Nowhere in these pages is the name of Freud mentioned, and this omission is rendered even more pointed by citations from psychopathologists like Kraepelin, who have made no important contributions to characterology, yet are quoted,