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The second volume of Bruno Klopfer's Developments in the Rorschach Technique has appeared recently. Whereas the first volume, published some years ago, dealt with the technique and theory of the Rorschach test, the second is concerned with its fields of application. The first volume is written by Bruno Klopfer and three co-workers, while in the second one sixteen authors apart from Bruno Klopfer himself participated. The dangers inherent in such a procedure are obvious, but the attempt to combine in this way the best features of a technical monograph, a manual, and a handbook has been highly successful. The best chapters in the two volumes—and there are a good many to choose from—give the impression of being written by a novarum rerum cupidus. An impressive bibliography of 115 pages has been added, impressive both in the way it has been compiled and the way it vouches by sheer numbers for the importance and stimulating influence of Hermann Rorschach's work. The chapters on technique are meant to help the practising clinical psychologist. Anyone not familiar with the problems involved and glancing through these chapters will realize the truth of the saying that it