A book that is unique in its kind and should prove of great interest both to the anthropologist and the psycho-analyst. The author started with the study of cases of schizophrenia in the Queenstown Mental Hospital and then proceeded to an anthropological study of the Tembu tribe. In both capacities, as anthropologist and as psychiatrist, he gives us first-rate stuff. If we add that he uses psycho-analysis to explain his data abundantly and always correctly there is hardly anything left to desire. As far as I am aware, the author is not a trained psycho-analyst, and his book would be still more valuable if it contained analysed dream material. But it is not fair to ask for more when we receive so much. The book is full of valuable information on the sexual life of the Tembu. The custom of metsha reminds me somewhat of what I know about courtship practices