The subject of this study is Thérèse Martin, a French girl who was canonized last year. She entered a Carmelite convent at the early age of fifteen and a half, and died when she was twenty-seven and a half. She wrote her autobiography a year or so before her death, at the request of an elder sister, who was prioress of the convent where she was a nun.

When she was two to three years of age she had a phantasy of flying to God in her mother's arms, where she felt God would be unable to do anything to her. The study gives many of the forms through which this phantasy passed during the course of her life, and shows how her vocation,