The psychoanalytic reader's attention may be called to the appearance of this work. Figures of speech like those here documented represent in language the same sorts of symbolisms as the psychoanalyst is accustomed to find in the manifestations of the unconscious. Conceivably, a collection like this might furnish clues to interpreting the latter. And it has long seemed to the reviewer that it would be easier to assimilate the psychoanalytic concept of symbolism if one were introduced to it via the figures of speech, which are accepted symbolisms established by just as recondite mechanisms of association as are ascribed to the “dream-work.” A pump here represents immobility; a tire-explosion a kiss; a bath-tub a Ford automobile. It is not the farthest of cries from these to the patient who symbolized a castration fancy towards his father in a diurnal breakfast of sausages and waffles.