The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud: Translated from the German under the General Editorship of James Strachey, in collaboration with Anna Freud, assisted by Alix Strachey and Alan Tyson.

Vol. X (1909). Two Case Histories ('Little Hans' and the 'Rat Man').

Vol. XIII (1913–1914). Totem and Taboo and Other Works.

Vol. XVIII (1920–1922). Beyond the Pleasure Principle, Group Psychology, and Other Works.

(London: Hogarth Press, 1955. Pp. vi + 342; xv + 264; vi + 295. £36 the set of 24 vols.; sold only in sets.)

James Strachey and his fellow-workers are greatly to be congratulated on the publication of three more volumes of the Standard Edition of Freud's works. All the special features of this edition which provide a wealth of information relevant to the texts are present in these volumes, e.g., the Editor's Notes, annotations and cross-references, Bibliography and Author Index, and General Index.

Whatever the headaches caused to librarians by the irregular numerical order of their appearance, the sequence of volumes to date appears to have some solid advantages for candidates in training and other new readers. One could hardly do better than begin with the 'corner stone of psycho-analysis', The Interpretation of Dreams (Vols. IV and V) and follow this with A Case of Hysteria and the Three Essays on Sexuality (VII). To read then the two crucial case-histories of 'Little Hans' and the 'Rat Man' (X) and the equally crucial developments in theory in Totem and Taboo (XIII) and Beyond the Pleasure Principle and Group Psychology (XVIII) is to provide oneself with a very sound foundation for the study of the remainder of Freud's earlier and all his later work.

Vol. X (1909), Two Case Histories ('Little Hans' and the 'Rat Man') contains an item of particular interest, namely a translation by Alix and James Strachey of Freud's original, hitherto unpublished, record of the first four months of his treatment of the 'Rat Man', presumably the 'notes' referred to by Freud in the text (n. 159). As James Strachey says, 'The record is remarkable in that it provides the only picture we have of the kind of raw material on which the whole of Freud's work rested and of th