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In the publishers' announcement of these monumental volumes we read that 'Fundamentally, the aim of the work is to write a detailed history of mental healing, to enrich that history with the wealth of Janet's own clinical experience, to draw inferences as to the most successful methods now available, and to forecast the possibilities of future progress'. It may be said at once that the work fairly fulfils these expectations so far as French clinical psychology is concerned. A quarter of a century ago, when French psychology was in the van of progress, this would have been a more valuable achievement than it is to-day when so many other countries have long outdistanced France in fertility of ideas and discoveries. In the most inadequate account of the work done in these other countries Janet fails lamentably in his presentation, so that the work was well out of date before it was written. This criticism, however, is weakened by the following consideration: the greater part of the work consists of lectures delivered more than twenty years ago, the printing of which was delayed by the war and other factors; the only modern part of it is a slightly modified reprint of the author's famous address on psycho-analysis delivered before the International Congress of Medicine in 1913. Janet is certainly in no hurry with his historical perspective, and we rub our eyes when we read, for instance, that 'the treatment of nervous disorders by rest has come very much to the front during recent decades, due especially to the teaching of Weir Mitchell' (p. 13). In another recent work Janet announced that the practice of psycho-analysis had extended from Austria to Switzerland; here he tells us that the psycho-analytic doctrines 'developed first in Austria and subsequently in the United States' (p. 14). Presently the news will