This is a discursive but extremely interesting book on a variety of topics. There are chapters on the Psychology of St. Paul, Child Welfare in the Old Testament, the Sex Psychology of Women, and a series on the Father—as God, as King, as Judge and as Schoolmaster. The book is lively and well informed and thoroughly repays reading. So far as we can judge, the underlying theme running through it seems to the be harm done

by 'sex repressions', or more strictly 'thwarting of sexuality', and the danger this offers to the continuance of civilization. Dr. Brend is perturbed at the political and national consequences of the falling birth rate, which he ascribes in large part to sexual repression.