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The aim of this book is stated to be an impartial presentation of the work of eight psycho-pathologists: Mesmer, Janet, Morton Prince, Freud, Adler, Jung, Kretschmer, and Pavlov. In it the author has to a very large extent succeeded. His book is interestingly written and his attitude is one of aimable respect towards all the workers in question. The chief defect of the book is that it is too popular; it is a bright presentation rather than a closely reasoned scientific account. The description of the free association method is specially meagre. The book could also have done with an index.
A number of comments may be added on relatively unimportant points. Professor Bleuler's name is consistently endowed with a diæresis to which it lays no claim. The author makes merry in a monotonous fashion over fancied resemblances between Mesmer and Freud. Both were students in Vienna! (Perhaps both had dark eyes.) (Mesmer) 'rapidly became the centre of attention in Vienna. Somewhat in the same way as about twenty-three years ago society ladies became interested in psycho-analysis and went about talking of their complexes, so the Viennese ladies wore "magnetized clothes" and ate their soup from "magnetized soup plates".' We have several times come across vague illusions to