This volume is an essay in popular psychology. In it Dr. Stein has described four fictive personalities which together make up the types of personality he has met and which he believes correspond to the people who in the Middle Ages and after were called witches.

The book is an expansion and elaboration of his earlier account in the first number of this Journal of “loathsome women” and their treatment in relation to his counter-transference; in many respects it is clearer and more concise than his technical contribution. It shows how he handles, or possibly would handle, types of patient, so that nobody can mistake what does or could happen. What he says is often remarkably clever and often amusing.

This book makes enjoyable reading and its sensational jacket and dramatic title will attract and stimulate a good many people to buy it. Others will not do so and may object to such a book being written, but it will not leave many people indifferent. That I expect was its aim, and in this it is likely to succeed.