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This book is a record of some 9, 000 bibliographical references to sexual ideas, rites and customs, with special reference to those of savage races. It is therefore bound to be of great value to the ethnologist and sexuologist.
One can feel nothing but gratitude to an author who has expended so much labour in the service of other workers. But it is also pertinent to point out the difficulties that beset the scholar's path. If for instance we confine ourselves, as is appropriate in this JOURNAL, to the psychoanalytical aspects of the bibliography, we note the following facts. Listed under the name of 'Psychoanalysis' we find references to fourteen names. The first of them, A. Brett, refers to a paper on Greek coins published by the American Numismatic Society. Some of the other writers, e.g. Wells and Wohlgemuth, have only the most remote association with psychoanalysis. One of them, Money, presumably refers not to the R. C. Money of the text, but to R. H. Money-Kyrle, who is incorrectly listed in the index as R. E. Money-Kyrle. Among the striking omissions in the list are the names of Abraham, Ferenczi, Freud! and Rank, a fact on which it is superfluous to comment.