This book gives the appearance of being new, but actually it is almost identical with one of the same name which the author published in America sixteen years ago (reviewed in this JOURNAL, Vol. III, p. 232), a fact which the Publishers have omitted to mention.

In a preface Dr. Beadnell of the Admiralty warns the readers to avoid wasting their time and money on psycho-analysts and speaks feelingly of the harm they do, of 'neurotics made worse by the treatment, and of young people contaminated by the unseemly sexual suggestions of ill-balanced, fanatical followers of Freud.'

The book itself shews no knowledge of psycho-analysis, being a characteristic exploitation of the word itself. It does not actually emanate from Hollywood, but from a town in the same State. It consists essentially of exaltations and 'uplift' conveyed in particularly racy language. Such books do obvious harm in misleading neurotics about the significance of their symptoms and the opportunity of curing them.