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The new edition of Jones' well-known Papers omits twenty papers (which we regret) and adds twelve new ones, by which the discussion of the most recent clinical as well as theoretical problems of psychoanalysis are introduced into the book. The author himself characterizes his work with the following words: The present book 'began life twenty-six years ago as a modest exposition of Professor Freud's theories, and has since become a slow moving picture of the development of psychoanalysis as seen through selected contributions made by a particular writer in this field.' This characterization of the significance of this book is absolutely valid but it is insufficient. The person of the 'particular worker' and his rôle in the development of the whole science give the book a special importance. That he has been interested in all issues and problems of psychoanalytic science, and that he has made decisive contributions to most of them, makes it possible for this book to serve as a textbook of psychoanalysis and as a guide for the study of the history of the general development of psychoanalysis.
The inexperienced reader will profit from reading the book in a manner different from the experienced analyst. The former can use it as a textbook because of the excellent assortment of its contributions. It is divided in sections of 'general papers', consisting of ten papers written during the years from 1910 to 1936, 'papers on dreams', with four contributions from the years 1909 to 1921, eleven 'clinical papers', from 1910 to 1929, and seven 'papers on child-study', from 1913 to 1935. Of particular interest are the early papers, which the book contains, replete with formulations and solutions of important problems, a fact often overlooked or forgotten by younger students of psychoanalysis.
The experienced reader is above all impressed with Jones' important rôle in psychoanalysis. The papers on symbolism, the origin and structure of the superego, on anal-erotic character