The Psychology of the Poet Shelley. By Edward Carpenter and George Barnefield New York:  Dutton & Co.

Carpenter in the past few years has contributed probably more toward shattering lay prejudices in regard to bisexual afflictions than any other man. In addition he has at least partially worked out the psychology of genius. This book, written in collaboration with Barnefield, constitutes another such contribution; and it cannot but be regarded as a valuable one to the more popular type of literary psychology. It is written so simply and with such lucidity that it can be grasped by anyone who is at all familiar with the life and works of Shelley. It is to be regretted, however, that the authors failed to reinforce their explanations with references to the more outstanding psychopathological studies of Shelley, namely, those of Albert Mordell and Dr. T. V. Moore. Carpenter, for example, enumerates Shelley's bisexual traits but fails to adequately analyze the mechanisms involved. This Dr. Moore did very capably in his Psychological Review Monograph and he cites very convincing excerpts by way of illustrating that Shelley had of necessity, and very early, transferred his paternal affection from his unsympathetic and overbearing father to his teacher, Dr. Lind, with whom tolerance and freedom were bywords. On the other hand, the authors of this book expose in a very plausible fashion the true nature of Shelley's interest in women where Dr. Moore was tacit. They allude to instance after instance in his poetic productions in which he idealizes the masculine type of woman. Similarly, Dr. Moore also seems to believe that the poet really idolized women. Barnefield shows beyond a doubt that what Shelley was really groping for in his fancy, as in the Witch of Atlas, was an hermaphroditic being, as close an approximation to a man as one could venture to depict at that time and escape the hoosegow. Shelley's latent homosexual attitude toward Hogg was also established by many citations from the poet's personal correspondence. This incidentally had not been properly elucidated befo