The application of psychoanalytic psychology to the interrelationship between the life experiences of writers and artists and their productions is always entertaining to those acquainted with clinical manifestations of neurotic conflict. It is not so certain how convincing such interpretations appear to readers unfamiliar with psychoanalytic thinking. At all events Dr. Halliday's study of crotchety Thomas Carlyle, whose bodily and mental disturbances continued from childhood to old age, is one of the most successful of these pathographical studies.

The author has chosen as his subject one who was exquisitely sensitive to the conflicting forces to which he was exposed, and whose extraordinary memory and descriptive ability enabled him to record them vividly and incisively. This material is found in Carlyle's journals and notebooks and in his self-revelatory fantasy, Sartor Resartus, which Dr. Halliday regards as an attempt by Carlyle to solve his problem of male inadequacy. The superiority of this study is not due to the wealth of the autobiographical observations