a homosexual marriage that envisaged fidelity).

From the combination of the letters and the myriad footnotes, there comes forth a fascinating picture of the artistic world of Wilde's time, especially theatrically and literarily. But most powerful of all is the Greeklike personal tragedy of a man, from the summit of success, the deterioration, to the horrifying death-bed scene, and the main characters around the tragedy: Constance, the bewildered wife, the two devoted friends, Robbie Ross and and More Avery, the gilded lily, Lord Alfred Douglas, and his hated father, the Marquis of Queensberry, who is the heterosexual villain in the story, hovering over it all like a cackling evil male witch.

Even at $15.00 this work is a bargain, but, fortunately, any library will have it.

A. E. Smith

DIE SEXUALINSTINKTE DES MENSCHEN, eine naturwissenschaftliche Anthropologie der Sexualitat.

(THE SEXUAL INSTINCTS OF HUMANS, a scientific anthropology of sexuality) by Willhart S. Schlegel, M. D., Rutten & Loening Verlag, An der Alster 22, Hamburg 1, 1962, 256 pages, $4.20 or DM 16.80.

This second book in German by Dr. Schlegel seems to have received some notice on the Continent, and in Germany particularly. A French edition is in preparation and will be published by Editions Paillot, Paris. An English edition is under consideration by the publishers but no decision has been made at last word.

Dr. Schlegel's previous book, Körper und Seele, was published in 1957, and this book is a sequel to it. (Reviewer's note—the note the title translates literally as: Body and Soul. However, the words "soul" and "psyche" are

used interchangeably by Germanlanguage writers, including Freud.) The main point of Dr. Schlegel's contentions is that human sexuality is determined by instinct, for the most part, and it would therefore be pointless to think of human psychology and physiology as being separate unrelated worldshe would rather have us deal with the subject as being an anthropological one. He does not, however, think along the lines of Margaret Mead he would give social environment much less play, and give to heredity (via instinct) a much larger role in human sexual behavior.

He agrees with the findings of the twin studies of the American F. J. Kallmann, and others, in that homosexuality tends to be an inherited thing rather than an acquired one. He has a great respect for and quotes liberally from the Kinsey studies and he uses the Kinsey statistics as a check or verification of his own work.

However, Dr. Schlegel tends more to follow the trail blazed by Dr. (Ph. D.) E. Kretchmer, the father or founder of the "constitutional" sciences or studies. There is no wellestablished English word that directly translates "constitutional" science. This school tries to find a direct physical or genetic link to human behavior.

Here we come to an important distinction. The Kinsey studies make a broad and comprehensive statistical measure of human sexual behavior, as it actually exists, without involving any science other than statistics or probability, without making much of an effort to apply the findings to other fields. Studies like those of Kallmann attempt to prove that genetics and behavior do have a correlation, by setting up conditions that would rule out any but genetic considerations, but without attempting to explain the actual physical factors