The contents of this brochure constituted a paper read last year before the British Psychological Society. It is concerned much more with art than with psycho-analysis and the author's incursions into the latter field have evidently not carried him very far. He expounds, with the clear insight we should expect from such a distinguished artist and student of æsthetics, the view, that is now becoming almost orthodox in art circles, to the effect that æsthetic appreciation is highly peculiar in its nature, and must be carefully distinguished from the numerous emotional appeals made by most works of art in virtue of more or less extraneous associations. He points out, quite correctly, that psycho-analysis so far has concerned itself far more with the latter group of emotions than with the former and sympathetically asks for further investigation into the nature and meaning of what he would call pure artistic feeling. As the present reviewer intends to deal with this subject shortly, taking Mr. Fry's paper as a text, further comments on this interesting brochure may be deferred for the moment.