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We do not often have the opportunity of welcoming a psycho-analytical book written and published in India. It is true that only a few of the papers in it are strictly psycho-analytic studies, but the psycho-analytic point of view is evident in all of them. The book consists of twenty-one reprinted papers, five on Psycho-Analysis, twelve on Mental Hygiene, two on the relation of Psychology to Medicine, one on Sexual Hygiene and one on Neuro-Syphilis.
The first five papers are on the following subjects: (1) Some Modern Conceptions of Hysteria; (2) The Anal-erotic Factor in the Religion, Philosophy and Character of Hindus; (3) A Short Study of the Life and Character of Mohammed; (4) The 'Colour Question' from a Psycho-analytic Standpoint; (5) Hindu-Muslim Unity.
Colonel Berkeley-Hill's vivid style lends interest to all the subjects he treats of, and what he has to say is constantly thought-provoking. His contributions to the difficult problem of Religion and Childhood are specially helpful. Many of the papers deal with racial and 'Colour' problems, as one might expect from an author who has done so much to lead Europeans and Asiatics to a better understanding of one another.