"It depends on his tastes," I said. "If his subject is History he will buy history books; if his subject is behaviour, he'll buy psychology books."
"Give us an idea of your own library," said Duncan.
I sat down and wrote out a list from memory.
It ran as follows:—
BOOKS ON EDUCATION:— The Play Way, by Caldwell Cook. The Path to Freedom in the School, by Norman MacMunn. What Is and What Might Be, by Edmond Holmes. Montessori's three volumes. An Adventure in Education, by J. H. Simpson.
BOOKS ON PSYCHO-ANALYSIS AND PSYCHOLOGY:
Freud's Interpretation of Dreams, Psychopathology
of Everyday Life, Three Contributions to the Sexual Theory.
Jung's Psychology of the Unconscious, Studies
in Word Association, Analytical Psychology.
Frink's Morbid Fears and Compulsions.
Maurice Nicoll's Dream Psychology.
Morton Prince's The Unconscious.
Pfister's The Psycho-analytic Method.
Ernest Jones' Psycho-analysis.
Ferenczi's Contributions to Psycho-analysis.
Wilfred Lay's The Child's Unconscious Mind.
Moll's The Sexual Life of the Child.
Adler's The Neurotic Constitution.
Bernard Hart's The Psychology of Insanity.
CROWD PSYCHOLOGY:—
The Crowd in Peace and War, Martin Conway.
Instincts of the Herd in Peace and War, Trotter.
The Crowd, Gustave le Bon.
GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY:— Psychology and Everyday Life, Swift. Textbook of Psychology, James. The Boy and His Gang, Puffer. Mental Conflicts and Misconduct, Healy. The Individual Delinquent, Healy. Rational Sex Ethics, Robie. Social Psychology, McDougall. The Play of Man, Groos.
"That's too much for me," said Duncan. "I couldn't afford a quarter of these books. What books would you recommend if you had to choose half a dozen for a hard-up dominie?"
I thought for a little, and then I replied: "Bernard Hart's The
Psychology of Insanity, two bob; Frink's Morbid Fears and Compulsions,
a first-rate book on analysis, a guinea; The Crowd in Peace and War, by
Sir Martin Conway, eight and six; Healy's Mental Conflicts and
Misconduct, ten and six; and Wilfred Lay's The Child's Unconscious
Mind, ten and six."