The editors, contributors and editorial board are carrying on a tradition in these volumes which contain original papers in various areas of child development. Each paper shows remarkable creativeness and excellence of writing. The monograph consists of clinical and theoretical appraisals of three areas: problem of infantile neurosis, normal and pathological development, and technique.

The problem of infantile neurosis is discussed in a symposium which was presented in New York at the Freud Memorial Lecture by Anna Freud. There was unanimity in feeling that the infantile neurosis represents the inner structure of infantile development which may occur with or without symptoms, but which forms the nucleus for a later neurosis. Dr. Greenacre introduced the concept of two prevailing rhythms, one being soothing and