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The first volume of this series of Yearbooks gave promise of the initiation of a very valuable publication. The latest volumes now under review continue to indicate an interesting and useful effort on the part of the distinguished editor and his publisher. However, certain trends are made very evident in these later volumes to which this reviewer, for one, must take serious exception It has not apparently been noted by other reviewers. If one recognizes the high price of medical books in general, and of psychiatric and psychoanalytic publications in particular, one can only view with a bit of resentment and disgust the unfair practice of the publisher of these volumes in devoting valuable space to the reprinting of chapters, papers and essays which have only very recently appeared in book form under the imprint or under the copyright of the publishers of these volumes.
After having gone to the expense of buying such books, the reader is doubly annoyed to find the same material reprinted in the Yearbooks. He has been forced to pay twice for the same material and to duplicate it on his shelves. Let us be specific. In the Yearbook for 1946, we find 87 pages out of 278 or nearly one-third has been duplicated. A chapter from H. Deutsch's “Psychology of Women” is reprinted although her book has only recently appeared and is available to all who have not already acquired it. Two chapters from Flugel's “Man, Morals and Society” are also reprinted in this volume, as is a long essay on David Eder by Edward Glover which appeared recently in an English book.