Brill

BRILL, Abraham Arden, American physi cian and writer upon psycho-analysis: b. Aus tria, 1874. He came to America while a small boy, and received the degree of Ph.B. at New York University in 1901, and that of M.D. at Columbia in 1903. He was an assistant in the clinic of psychiatry in Zurich, Switzerland, and is at the present the head of the clinic of psychiatry at Columbia University, New York. Brill is considered the leading exponent in America of Freud and Freud's theory of the interpretation of dreams. Besides being a lec turer and writer on psycho-analysis, he is also the English translator of Freud's writings. Brill has written many treatises, and his book, Its Theories and Application) (1909), is the standard American work upon the subject. He has also translated Freud's Papers on Hysteria' (1910) ; (Three Contributions to the Sexual Theory> (1910) ; of Dreams) (1913) ;

bre'ya' Anthehne, French gastronomic author and judge: b. Bellay, 1 April 1755; d. Paris, 2 Feb. 1826. He is famous for his (Paris 1825; English translation, tronomy as a Fine Art,) London and New York 1877), a work distinguished as the finest literary analysis of the art of eating and drink ing, abounding with wise comment relieved by sparkling wit and humorous anecdote. He was deputy to the States-General in 1789; judge of the Court of Cassation in 1792; mayor of Bel lay in 1793 when to escape the Revolution he fled to New York and earned a living as tutor of French and music and as member of a theatre orchestra. He returned to Paris in 1796 and until his death was a judge of the Court of Cassation. He was also a miscel laneous writer on archaeology, political and social economy. See PHYSIOLOGY OF TASTE, THE.