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Authors are a sensitive lot, prey to the adjectival productions of their reviewers. Freud, as is well known, was no exception. Over the years opinions have ranged on both sides on the question of whether Freud and his ideas were appreciated in his own time. This has been especially true since the attempt of to show that opposition was less sustained than Freud imagined. Kiell retrieved 800 items in German, French, and English, and has selected for this volume 172 reviews of 39 works by Freud, including 32 reviews of The Interpretation of Dreams. Kiell tells us something about each critic and gives a summary of the review, which is then printed in full. He often includes a cogent explanation of the topic of the review, placing it within its theoretical context in psychoanalysis. In the course of reading through this book one also attains an impression of the social milieu and the state of psychology contemporaneous with each work. We are indebted to Kiell for this wonderful addition to scholarship about Freud. This collection will also delight those with a penchant for entering unknown byways as they dip into dictionaries and encyclopedias at odd moments and respond to both the familiar and the unexpected.