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Having successfully published Freud's Collected Papers, the International Psycho-Analytical Library has added to its laurels by making Ferenczi's contributions to the theory and technique of psycho-analysis available to the English-speaking public. It is no exaggeration to say that this event has been awaited with an eagerness bordering on impatience. The first volume of Ferenczi's contributions, translated and edited by Dr. Jones in 1916, has always been a standard book of psycho-analytical reference, but it merely whetted an appetite for Ferenczi's work which has been ill satisfied by occasional translations of his papers appearing in the JOURNAL. Here at last we have ample material on which to browse at leisure.
It may be said at once that the quality of Ferenczi's work in no way falls short of the most exacting expectations. For many years now his name has been a byword for clinical sagacity, imaginative insight and hardiness of speculation, and there is scarcely a contribution in the present volume but proves that these remarkable qualities remain unimpaired. The