planati on of the extensive nature of environment sheds welcome onlight onment on the subject. Contrary to popular opinion, environmental influences actually begin at the time of conception or earlier rather than at the time of birth. Dr. Montagu's convincing reasoning shows why the debate is purposeless in the first place since the process of development of an organism is the result of interacti on between the environment and the genes and not the action of either factor separately.

Leslie Stanton

THE STONEWALL; AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY Mary Casal. 1930

Eyncourt Press, Chicago, Ill.

Apparently this is an undoctored life history of a Lesbian. Mary Casal wrote her life story in a casual, conversational and entirely frank manner. Since Miss Casal was born in 1864 and was at the time of writing 65 years old, the COFO plote detail of her love affair is most amazing.

Miss Casal was born on a farm in New England and apparently was part of the class described as upper middle. Her parents were an odd mixture; her mother a descendent of the very pure Puritans, her father a descondent of a distinguished English family of artists and musicians.

She was the youngest of nine children and her childhood friends were all male. She was raped by a nei ghbor at an early age and soon after suffered her first "crush" on another girl. By the time she had completed her college oducation she had had three or four of these little "crushes" and one of them had apparently been physically satisfactory. In her effort to make her autobiography utterly untraceablo, Miss Casal has obscured the sequence of her life to such an extent that dates are impossible to find in relation to her big love affair. However, somewhere in her middle 30s she met and fell in love with a girl two years younger. The affair was entirely complete and very happy for both women for approximately 15 years.

During the se happy years the women discovered many others

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