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Dr. Glover's critical mind and lucid, persuasive style is once again put to good service in the cause of psycho-analytical education; here, it is the 'higher education' of the child psychiatrist. The pamphlet derives from the expansion of an article that first appeared in the Indian journal, Samiksa, and is clearly intended for the psycho-analytically-minded reader, since it breathes the confident, affirmative air that is inevitably coupled with preaching to the converted. Nevertheless, most child psychiatrists will find something of value between its covers, as the author is a 'constitutional didact' of a high order, and, in his account here of the mental apparatus and its functioning, he shows that he is still the best guide for beginners through the dark mazes of the metapsychological labyrinth. Much of the context is already familiar, but its containment within forty-two pages is a minor miracle of condensation.
Dr. Glover remains as passionate in his regard for scientific values, and is not very kind to the theorists in his field, who allow their intuitions to run away with them. In this respect he is not averse to the use of such epithets as 'pseudo-scientific' and 'psycho-biologically improbable' in describing the less earth-bound speculations of his colleagues. He has little difficulty, apparently, in steering a course between the 'absurdity' (sic) on one side of him, and the 'rigidity' (sic) on the other. As an 'independent member', he is possibly entitled to less cautious public statements on theory and therapy. His insistence that observational, and even interpretative, data should be submitted to rigorous statistical control would have been more welcome to scientific workers, had he devoted a section to a discussion of techniques for the quantification of the highly qualitative material that flows hourly from so many thousands of analytic couches. I am sure that we would all like to use these data in a manner more convincing to our exacting collea