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This is a very good book largely from the historical point of view. It undertakes to state the various theories of the unconscious that have been held from time to time, beginning with the Greeks, running through the German school, with Leibniz, Kant, Schopenhauer, Herbart, and Hartmann, discusses Myers' theory of the subliminal self, the French school of Pierre Janet with its American derivations, Boris Sidis and Morton Prince, and coming up to the psychoanalysts, with a somewhat critical conclusion. The perspective gained by such a review is useful and instructive, although probably a good many psychoanalysts would not be altogether pleased with some of the qualifications and reservations which the author makes with reference to the psychoanalytic viewpoint, but it nevertheless is very appreciative of the work of this school. There is a rather extensive statement of Rivers' views, perhaps somewhat more extensive than a great many would think warranted. The final chapter, which is critical, rather falls down apparently because the writer has an academic viewpoint rather than one of personal and extensive contact with actual patients and their concrete problems. A real criticism of the psychoanalytic viewpoint seems almost of necessity to demand this. The author, it might be mentioned in passing, speaks of Sidis and Rivers as if they were living and also elevates Coue to an altitude much above his deserts by referring to his work and his followers as the New Nancy