Milner is a pupil of Melanie Klein and interprets the material presented by her little patient in the light of Mrs. Klein's theories. The 'suicide symptom' which gave the paper its title consisted in a severe disturbance of eating which became especially intense during a pregnancy of the child's mother. At certain times the child ate well in her grandmother's house, but ate nothing in her

mother's house which she usually refused to leave. The child presented obvious signs of oral (and anal) urethral sexual theories, of hostility against the mother and the baby within her, and of guilt feelings because of this hostility. These impulses are interpreted by Mrs. Milner in accordance with the theory of 'internalized bad and good objects', tendencies to destroy through poisonous urine and fæces, and corresponding attempts at restitution. The reviewer must confess that he could not always follow these interpretations, especially because they seemed to pick out certain details arbitrarily and were not given in connection with actuality and the more superficial layers.