This work, written by a theologian, appears to have been stimulated by the wish to adapt to the purposes of Christian teaching the data investigated by Frazer in his Folk-Lore in the Old Testament. It is, in short, a very

enlightened example of the Higher Criticism of which more was heard in the last century than has been in this. The author attempts to correlate the folk-lore beliefs that pervade the Old Testament, and also survive in the New, with the extensive anthropological data gathered from other races than the Jews. This necessarily does away with the old isolation of Hebrew religious writings as revelations that had no connection with the rest of mankind, and indeed the author stigmatises the view of the Bible as a verbally inspired narrative as naive and infantile. Modern psychology is not taken into consideration in the book, and the word 'phallic' is mentioned only once, to be immediately discounted. Nevertheless the book is a valuable and learned study full of material that can profitably be used by the psychologist.