In a tone and style that would put one in sympathy with the ire expressed by the literary master, J. W. von Goethe,r toward reviewers, Dorfman has recently given a rather subjective review ~2~ of the above monograph. It is hardly a scientific review; it is an all-out assault against one opposed to his cherished claim, for which the review is unabashed propaganda, of the divergence of transport coefficients, in a review of a subject quite removed from the main thrust of his review. Any review, being a personal opinion, cannot but be subjective to some extent, but Dorfman's review is sadly wanting balance from a more reasoned viewpoint. The principal aim of the monograph, Kinetic Theory and h'reversible Thermodynamics, was, as the title suggests, to study the kinetic theory foundations of irreversible thermodynamics for systems removed far from equilibrium. Under the general aim the mathematical structures of irreversible thermodynamics are studied from the molecular theory viewpoint for dilute classical gases, dilute quantum gases, gases with internal structures, dense monatomic and polyatomic fluids, as well as relativistic gases. These studies make it possible to erect a coherent, comprehensive, and thermodynamically consistent mathematical structure for a theory of irreversible processes in fluids which may be far removed from equilibrium. The generalized hydrodynamic equations underlying the theory of irreversible processes have been shown to be effective for rarefied gas dynamics, nonlinear transport processes, rheology of polymers, etc. Since scattering theory plays an important role in dense fluid kinetic