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At the end of this book, a splendid example of scholarly writing, my prime feeling was one of regret. Regret that it was deemed necessary, either by Dr. Glover or Cyril Connolly, that such an attempt to refute Jung be written. It is this reviewer's opinion (and this has been borne out by the history of the psychoanalytic movement) that if a body of thought is sound it will eventually triumph, despite various setbacks it may have along its way. So I feel that the effort expended by Dr. Glover in his careful study and analysis of the Jungian creed is a great waste.
Were the book merely a disputatious treatment of the Freud-Jung controversy it could be lightly dismissed. It contains, however, one of the clearest and most concise expositions of freudian theory this reviewer has ever found. For this reason the title is misleading, the more so since in this country, at least, the followers of Jung are so few that no either-or need be considered. One fails to see, too, how anyone capable of logical thought could accept the astounding inconsistencies that Jung has succeeded in having accepted by