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This book was collected and edited by R. Kühner and H. J. Reiber under the title 'Reviews instead of Flowers'; however, it could equally have been 'Flowers instead of Reviews', since it is a choice of flowers of the first class. It is a volume in homage to Helmut Kindler, the former editor of the Ullstein Publishing House, for his 60th anniversary.
In fact, it is a cross between a certainly serious catalogue and an anthology, consisting of scientific reviews and/or critical excerpts from scientific books.
It is incontestably far better than many similar books, inasmuch as it is not only 'ideologically' fair and unbiased, but is also thorough and encyclopaedic, yet managing at the same time to cull short and concise (mainly 1–2 pp.) quotations from anthologies. The vast and impressive volume consists of 443 pages and offers sections of anthologies of 'proscribed and consequently incinerated' books, belles-lettres, collections and selections, literary letters, biographies, linguistics, present and past history of civilization [Politik und Zeitgeschehen, Kulturgeschichte], etc., and, of course, 'Sachliteratur' [scientific literature].
The chief editor of the Publishing House, Herr Kindler, and his associates stand for humanism and peace and are against racial hatred. Their foremost skill consists in their ability to find the most interesting quotations or excerpts. One can read this catalogue almost like a collection of short stories. It is more an encyclopaedic cornucopia, evolving with every page one turns into wider and wider circles. It gets richer and richer in melody and harmony.
Nevertheless, the psychoanalyst who would perhaps not forgo the political sciences altogether, even enjoy them, would prefer the biological, zoological and anthropological contributions more; but above all, he will sadly miss a larger section devoted to psychoanalysis in this volume. Only a small portion (21 pp. out of the whole 443 pp.) is devoted to psychology as a whole. Psycho