Childhood's Fears—Psycho-Analysis and the Inferiority-Fear Complex: By G. F. Morton, M.A., B.Sc., Headmaster of the Boys' Modern School, Leeds. With a Foreword by the Rt. Rev. The Lord Bishop of Knaresborough and a Preface by W. H. Maxwell Telling, M.D., B.S. (Lond.), F.R.C.P., Professor of Therapeutics in the University of Leeds. (Duckworth, London, 1925. Pp. 284. Price 7 s. 6 d.)

The connoisseur in such matters is by now in a position to make a considerable collection of books purporting to be on the subject of psychoanalysis whose salient characteristic may be described in one word—muddle-headedness. In such a collection the present volume will rank as a choice specimen. From almost every page glaring instances of error and ignorance, or of misleading half-truths that are still more tiresome, could be culled, but we have neither the space nor the inclination to track these down seriatim and must confine ourselves to commenting on a few examples.

Two of these will suffice to indicate the state of the author's knowledge of psycho-analysis. 'With him (i.e. Freud) shame, disgust, bashfulness, etc., are merely sublimations of infantile sexuality' (p. 149). The author has evidently not grasped such an elementary point as the difference between a sublimation and a reaction-formation, so naturally does not realize that the former is derived from sexuality and the latter not. This is in accord with his firm belief that according to Freudians everything emanates from sexuality, a belief which will be commented on below. The