Thus it is immediately apparent that the editors have not relied upon the inevitable bedside tales, the set-pieces, the hackneyed Stand-bys, which fill the conventional Treasuries with the (wet familiar. They have not included everything, or nearly everything they may have hoped to reprint. The Severe birth control exer cised by publishers makes it impossible to represent every author who might be worthy of inclusion. This anthology, like every other anthology, is a compromise between the complete and perfect compendium existing in the editor's mind and the com pilation permitted by the hydra-headed Ogres who control the permissions department in all the publishing houses. But it is equally obvious that the editors, with their own zcriteria and te markable rightness of choice, enrich the reader's experience. The skillfully condensed notes, the supplementary guides, the very division of the volume into two parts-the first of which might be classified as organized love, and the second (which is devoted to the perverse and insoluble problems) to What might be called disorganized love - add to one's comprehension.

The stories contained in the book are more than stories. They are strange, sometimes secret, and.always revealing episodes Of life beneath the surface, beyond the event. In each case the editors go straight to the core; their labors consist not only In: selecting but in probing. Again and again they expose crucial Situations: the book is literally a series of contrasting climaxes.

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