SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.
[Notice in this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent review.]
We welcome the sixth revised . and enlarged edition of Dr. Tuckey'a well-known work, Treatment by Hypnotism and Suggestion (Balliere, 21s. net). Dr. Tuckey, by forty years' hard work in his consulting-room and by his pen, has done almost more than any living man, certainly more than any living Englishman, to redeem that most useful branch of medicine, Psycho-Therapeutics, from the destructive hands of the charlatans on the one side and of the impenetrable sceptics on the other. No one could call him a crank ; no one could call him an ignoramus ; no one could regard him as cynically taking up a fashionable craze in order to make money out of it. Dr. Tuckey inherited and even enlarged all the best traditions of the British physician, and there are none better. Not at the point of the bayonet, but by gentleness in controversy and whole-hearted devotion, he persuaded the profession, we had almost said against its will, to recognize the value of Hypnotism and Suggestion. Dr, Tuckey retired several years before the War, but he has, we are glad to feel, been able to see the excellent work done during the war by the practice of Suggestion. To this new edition of his book has been added a chapter on " Treatment by Sugges- tion During the War " by Percy Allan, M.D. The space we have for dealing with new editions is necessarily strictly circumscribed, but once more we are sincerely delighted to make our salute to a book so useful by a man so worthy of respect as Dr. Tuckey. We suggest to him increased health and the power to edit a seventh edition two or three years hence.
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