orites of kings may seem blunt, and likewise "bitchy wife." The entry_on Jesus Christ will infuriate some. The anti-Freudian view ("Freudian jargon and claptrap") will alienate some.

A unique and important list at the end breaks down the men as to occupation. Of course, far ahead is the masculine field of "Politico-military" leaders. This points up the shocking prejudice and distortion of most heterosexuals, and especially the heterosexual press of today, in playing up effeminancy with homosexuality. Let an actor, writer, musician, or diplomat get "caught" or known about, and the press caricature and snicker about effeminacy. But when they have irrefutable proof on the much more numerous great military leaders, such as General Macdonald, they simply refuse to print a word. Then they claim we are "claiming great men!" Which, but of course, is exactly what they will say of this book.

Mr. Garde's inclusions have some surprises probably for everyone (Wild Bill Hickok!). There are also some surprising omissions. The most surprising to me, considering his importance, is the great founder of modern Turkey, Kermal Ataturk. Others are SaintSaens, Wagner, Griffes, Satie, Gershwin, that great naturalist, John Muir, the first U. S. novelist of importance, Charles Brocken Brown, and that phenomenon of sports history, Tilden. But these are quibblings. Mr. Garde has given us a brilliant and invaluable work.

A. E. S.

DER HOMOSEXUELLE NACHSTE (THE HOMOSEXUAL FELLOW-MAN) A Symposium, edited and published by Furche, Hamburg, Germany, 1963.

From Der Homosexuelle Nachste, published as number 31 in Furche's "Stundenbuecher" pocket book series the reader is invited to discover a new understanding for the old prob-

lem of homosexuality. The other books in the numbered series are devoted to equally difficult matters, such as philosophy, mystery, religion, etc.

The symposium in the present case is (reportedly) made up of wellknown authorities representing the German churches, legal and medical professions, and universities, and while the many authorities have plenty to say on the subject, very little, if any, of it turns out to be new. The total result is a rather friendly, sympathetic treatment of homosexuality, aimed more at keeping everything pleasant and in good taste than in enlightening.

The trouble is, of course, that the book was not designed for a critical, homosexual readership. Publisher Furche undoubtedly threw the subject in to beef up his series, which to judge by the present example, is of interest only to the very naive. R. Stuart

EROS DENIED-SEX IN WESTERN SOCIETY by Wayland Young, Grove Press, New York, 1964, 415 pp., $7.50.

As should be obvious to everyone who has ever tried to understand either his own attitudes toward sex or those of the society around him, Western Nations, and especially the Anglo-Saxon ones, have long been locked in a conflict between man's ruthlessly compelling instinct for selfperpetuation, his personal enjoyment of pleasure and his longing for happiness on the one hand and a condemnation of the body and urge to suppress the sexual instinct on the other. In Eros Denied Mr. Young investigates the reasons for this senseless conflict and finds them intertwined with the earliest beginnings of Christian doctrine. Having established their origin, Mr. Young then traces the manifestations of this suppression of the erotic instinct as we find them. in history, literature, art, language,

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