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Now we have a study of marriage, not by a sociologist, not by a psychologist, not by a psychoanalyst, but by a gynecologist, who comes to the problem free from the alleged prejudices that any one of these other groups, particularly the psychoanalytic, might be charged with, and with a judicial and inquiring mind, and with earnestness and the wisdom of long experience undertakes to put together what he has learned of marriage from his contact with and knowledge of individuals. It is a fine book filled with facts of observation and with clear-cut and legitimate deductions from those facts, and it brings to the position occupied by the psychoanalyst upon these questions a fresh fund of confirmatory evidence of the importance and significance of the sex-instinct and might almost be said to be a thousand concrete evidences of Professor Freud's dictum that with a healthy sex life there can be no neurosis. To those who are interested in human beings—real human beings—not fictitious, imaginary human beings that stalk across the pages of most of our books that deal with their peculiarities, this book is a rare contribution. It tells the story of the vital concerns of human lives and their effects upon health in a simple, straight-forward manner, free from prejudice, prudery, and hypocrisy. If one perchance does not agree with the writer he at least will know that what he is disagreeing about are facts of observation and not the distortions of a twisted personality.
White.