into gradual ascendance; and while psychiatrists would probably be the last to assert that their science is as yet brought to perfection, they are doubtless assured that they are on the right road toward a broader understanding and control of the problems of individual and social behavior.

Both THE MIND OF THE MURDERER and THE CRIMINAL MIND clearly and amply illustrate the changing trends of thought in this field and would be a valuable addition to the library of any student of this subject.

R.H.C.

THE ROOTS OF CRIME by Edward Glover, M.D., LL.D., Imago Publishing Co., Ltd. London, 1960, 422 pp.

Heavily Freudian in flavor, and somewhat too technical for ready popular understanding, this book is nevertheless remarkable for its gentle, impersonal and scholarly outlook on the serious personal and social problems of criminal behavior.

Although consisting of eight major chapters, the substance of the author's psychological views is contained in three, entitled "Diagnosis and Treatment of Pathological Delinquency," "The Criminal Psychopath," and "Sexual Disorders and Offenses." Other chapters deal with historical, clinical and legal matters, including concepts of criminal responsibility.

It is remarkable, and perhaps even significant, that the longest and most detailed chapter in the book is that on "Sexual Disorders and Offenses." This reviewer gains the distinct impression that the author feels somewhat apologetic over the fact that, in a book on crime, this subject must be included at all. He is certainly in complete agreement with the Wolfenden recommendations, and considers that basic sexual preferences, per se,

one

are not a proper subject for legal

concern.

In the 33 pages devoted to male homosexuality, there is a notable lack of that insistence on the pathological approach, and of that condescension (faintly tinged with pity) which is invariably found among American writers on the subject. In this respect, the book reflects with exceptional clarity the Freudian attitude. Dr. Glover speaks eloquently of the homosexual component in all individuals as being chiefly responsible for many constructive social elements in modern civilization and as the source of "at least as many if not more creative and social processes (as of) destructive and anti-social manifestations." As to "treatment" of male homosexuality, he concludes: p. 243, "It is indeed more than likely that the answer to this problem, if it be a problem, is in the development of greater tolerance amongst the sections of the community which at present tend to make a scapegoat of homosexuality. In this sense the treatment of homosexuality as whole should be directed as much at the 'diseased' prejudices of society as at the 'diseased' propensities of the individual homosexual."

R.H.C.

ONE welcomes for possible publication manuscripts which deal in a positive, non-apologetic, mature manner with the interests and problems of the male and female homosexual in society. Length: 2500 words or less. Payment in subscriptions.

ONE Magazine, 232 S. Hill St.

Los Angeles 12, Calif.