By DR. F. W. FOERSTER. Frederick A. Stokes Co. 225 pp. Price $1.35: by
mail of THE SURVEY $1.44.
This is a translation of a work entitled _Sexualethik und
Sexualpadagogik_ by Dr. F. W. Foerster of Zürich, Switzerland. The
translator supplies a brief statement of Foerster’s personal development
and his final adoption of a positive ethical and religious philosophy
akin to the new idealism of Prof. Rudolph Eucken. The book devotes
considerable space to the theories of Ellen Key, Freud and Forel. On its
positive side it advocates undeviating adherence to the traditional
point of view in matters of sex and marriage. A somewhat pedantic touch
results from the translator’s use of “ethic” in preference to the more
familiar “ethics” as an equivalent for the German _Ethik_.