Excerpt from The Lantern, Vol. 3: September, 1917 It was in this atmosphere of pedantry peculiar to Germany, where a passion for the theatrical made banality Of sentiment seem profound, that the scholarship of a Freud was much admired. It is of Freud that I would speak, one of his books having arrested my attention, one of more than ordinary significance. This book - Freud's study of Leonardo Da Vinci - is hardly a volume for bachelors and maids; in the majority of its pages, indeed, is not a book even for Sophisticated men Of sensitive nature. TO be quite frank it is a book that plumbs the depths of nastiness. It is revolting, disgusting. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.