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This work is refreshing and stimulating, and should be read by all who are interested in the psychology of intelligence. The main theme, which is clearly stated throughout, is a plea for 'appraisal' of intelligence, in contrast to 'measurement' or 'subjective judgement'. Dr. Heim criticizes the tendency in many testers to supplant older methods of investigation rather than develop them, and rejects the presupposition that there is some one attribute 'intelligence' which is capable of strictly quantitative measurement. Factor analysis is considered to be sterile when treated as an end in itself, and suggestions are offered for research along non-factorist lines. She asserts that a test may become too 'pure' and too 'reliable' to be any longer a valuable instrument. Proposals are made for a new approach to the appraisal of intelligence, based on the indivisibility of the subject's cognitive and orectic processes—a compromise between the formal intelligence test and the comparatively unstructured projective test of personality. However, one feels that the elucidation of the unconscious dynamics of intelligent activity by a psycho-analytic approach would enrich this type of work, which goes so far to perfect the assessment of intelligence for practical purposes.