This book is another concrete evidence of the extent to which the psychoanalytic idea is filtering through the social fabric. We hear it mentioned on the stage, we see it referred to in the short stories in the magazines, and here is a novel which incorporates it. It really looks as if the psychoanalysts were coming into their own to the extent that they are gaining steadily that recongition of their work which is its due.

The present novel is the best thing in the reviewer's opinion which