The Emotions, Morality and the Brain: By C. v. Monakow, of Zurich. Authorized translation by Gertrude Barnes, A.B., A.M., and Smith Ely Jelliffe, M.D., Ph.D. (Nervous and Mental Disease Publishing Company, Washington and New York, 1925. Pp. 95. Price $2.)

If we were required to select those three groups of the community who find the greatest difficulty in understanding and accepting the principles of psycho-analysis, there would be considerable unanimity in naming the neurologists, the physiologists and those who have passed the sixth decade; but here we have a neurological physiologist, whose reputation was world-wide as such thirty years ago, writing 'Our knowledge of the so-called emotionally toned complex, of their "repression" (Freud) into the unconscious, and of their discharge, we owe above all to the works of the so-called psycho-analysts (Breuer and Freud, Bleuler, Jung, Adler and others). Through innumerable observations I have been able to confirm the correctness of many of the clinical facts taken as a basis for the explanations of these authors', and more on the same lines.

But the aim of the book is to correlate the psychological study of the emotions with the biological and physiological, the disquisition being based on the well-known work of Pavloff, Kalisher, Cannon, Crile and others.

v. Monakow preserves a balanced opinion respecting the rôles played by the psyche, the central nervous system (especially the cortex), the sympathetic and autonomic nervous systems and the endocrines.

The translators' preface consists of an amply justified apology for a very involved style necessitating 'a special intense intellectual effort on the part of the reader to hold the ideas in apposition', but apparently unavoidable in making a literal translation from the German text into English.