This attractive book will certainly interest all medical men and psychoanalysts. Its frontispiece, a cartoon of Charcot by his famous student, Brissaud, shows the master in a revealing pose. In galoshes, very high silk hat, from under which protrudes long, unruly hair, and long formal coat, partly hidden by the inevitable accoutrement of a French chief of any medical service, the surgical apron, he stands examining intently a brain held in both hands. An appreciative and affectionate portrayal, it foreshadows the tone of the book.

The first part of the book is subtitled Charcot's Life. Giving not only the essential facts and dates, through an account of his home life, his family and friends, and his disciples (for that is the proper