This book adds little to the knowledge of hypnotism. The author cites the views of Charcot, Bernheim and other old masters, but has neglected recent literature, notably the last few issues of the British Journal of Medical Psychology with its records of valuable experiments on the psychodynamics of hypnotism.

As a research worker, the author is anxious to 'help transform the art of suggestion into a science, and to provide a scientific foundation for the study of hypnotism'. To do so he apparently thinks it necessary to attack psycho-analysis and confuses the mechanism of hypnotism with that of