The author is visiting Professor in English at Smith College; Eliot of course needs no introduction. The author finds a kinship between poetic symbols and Jung's archetypes. However, she does not belabor this point and presents a volume of excellent literary criticism and interpretation. Naturally, any criticism can touch only a fragment of poetic creation. Eliot himself, on the one hand sees endless possibilities of knowledge through psychology, but on the other hand seems to link it as “an indispensable handmaid to theology.” This is a 1932 excerpt of his and it is not entirely fair to judge him too abruptly; perhaps he does not have the ‘good enough for me’ (reviewer's quotes) attitude. The author links Eliot to his times, to all times and to man. This is probabiy as Eliot would have it. To those who like to probe into the whys and wherefores of poetic creation and Eliot's in particular, the volume should be interesting. Eliot's poetry requires no commentary from this reviewer. [A. N. F.]