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This is a superlatively good book. It has only one fault: its title, which gives no idea of the wealth of riches the book contains. Indeed the author uses the word 'superstition' throughout in an over-popularly broad sense as covering all the irrationality of man instead of in its folkloristic sense of one variety of magico-phobic activity.
After making this formal protest one has nothing but praise for the book, which belongs to the select class indispensable to every serious psycho-analyst's library. Readers of the JOURNAL should read the book itself, for no review could dispense with that pleasurable duty. Actually its very richness defies reviewing; it would require an inordinate space merely to indicate the extraordinary amount of ground Mr. Money-Kyrle has covered in it. There is no other work on the relation of psycho-analysis to anthropology and mythology to compare with it for clearness, neatness of presentation, wealth of allusion, conciseness and fertility.
Mr. Money-Kyrle's originality is displayed both in the freshness with which he co-ordinates his material and in a number of new ideas. Thus, to mention a few only, we note the suggestions that to control the environment