This presentation of Dr. Pailthorpe's work on delinquency and crime is more popular in appeal than her official report presented to the Medical Research Council, yet, to my mind it is the superior production. Her official work was evidently hampered by her terms of reference and on many occasions by the conditions under which research was carried out. Moreover, it was subject to official assessment before publication, a system which scientifically speaking is extremely unsatisfactory. In this book Dr. Pailthorpe is free to present her material and conclusions to her own taste. And she has definitely established herself as one of the English pioneers in psycho-analytical criminology.

Some allowances must be made for the fact that publication of her work was, through no fault of the author's, delayed for some considerable