brother and a man living in another State, with whom he was on
quite intimate terms. In one of these letters various flying
trips to Chicago for the purpose of meeting the lad, who, by the
way, was only 17 years of age, were alluded to. It transpired
also, as evidenced by the letters, that on several occasions the
young lad had been taken on trips in Pullman cars by his friend,
who was a prominent railroad official. The character of the
correspondence was such as the average healthy man would address
to a woman with whom he was enamored. It seemed that the author
of the correspondence had applied to his boy affinity the name
Cinderella, and the protestations of passionate affection that
were made toward Cinderella certainly would have satisfied the
most exacting woman. The young lad subsequently made a confession
to me, and I put myself in correspondence with his male friend,
with the result that he called upon me and I obtained a full
history of the case. The method of indulgence in this case was
the usual one of oral masturbation, in which the lad was the
passive party. I was unable to obtain any definite data regarding
the family history of the elder individual in this case, but
understand that there was a taint of insanity in his family. He
himself was a robust, fine-looking man, above middle age, who was
well educated and very intelligent, as he necessarily must have
been, because of the prominent position he held with an important
railway company. I will state, as a matter of interest, that the
lad in this case, who is now 23 years of age, has recently
consulted me for _impotentia coeundi_, manifesting a frigidity
for women, and, from the young man's statements, I am convinced
that he is well on the road to confirmed sexual perversion.

An interesting point in this connection is that the young man's
sister, the actress already alluded to, has recently had an
attack of acute mania.

I have had other unpublished cases that might be of interest, but
these two are somewhat classical, and typify to a greater or less
degree the majority of other cases. I will, however, mention one
other case, occurring in a woman.

CASE III.--A married woman 40 years of age. Has been deserted by
her husband because of her perverted sexuality. Neurotic history
on both sides of the