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Popular psychological literature, particularly popular psychoanalytic literature, continues to be run off the press uninterruptedly. On the whole, the tendency of such literature is good, and it is particularly gratifying to notice too that on the whole its quality is improving. This little book testifies to the improvement of quality. It is by no means an ordinary popular work setting forth the principles of psychoanalysis. It is an admirable book in which an immense amout of good, substantial psychology is condensed in very simple, readable statements. The author has evidently had in mind his audience and has never talked over their head. He is apparently endeavoring to reach the teachers and to give them an idea of the problems they have to meet with in dealing with their young pupils. The reviewer does not know of a single popular work on psychoanalysis where so much material is offered so well in such a small space. The two chapters on the emotional development of the boy and the girl are particularly to be commended, as they point out specifically the differences in the nature of the problems that the boy and the girl have to meet in the course of their development. The publishers tell us that the book has been recommended by the National Council of America and the British Social Hygiene Board. It is easily understandable why the book has received such favorable recommendations. It deserves them.
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