Books: Great Observer

THE BASIC WRITINGS OF SIGMUND FREUD—Edited by Dr. A. A. Brill—Modem Library ($1.25).

Among scientists the theories of Sigmund Freud are still disputed, most vigorously by former. Freudians. But modern novelists have followed him like children after the Pied Piper. His influence has been the greatest single factor in determining the course of modern fiction, and future literary historians may well refer to Joyce and Mann as great Freudians in the way that Thackeray and George Eliot are now called great Victorians. Freud has exercised a greater literary influence than any other living...