intelligent readers, previously unfamiliar with the subject, the most significant elements of economic method "-for the theory of economics is regarded by these members of the Cambridge school as a method rather than a doctrine, an apparatus of the mind, a technique of thinking, which helps its possessor to draw correct conclusions." These three volumes-and especially the first two are not easy reading, the argument being closely interwoven and concentrated. Mr. Henderson deals with the agents of production on lines familiar to students of Dr. Marshall. Mr. Robertson departs from the traditional treatment of monetary problems by laying the chief stress on the creation of bank money. In spite of his delightful humour and his ingenious chapter-headings from Lewis Carroll, his book is scarcely suited to the needs of the beginner. The volume on Public Finance deals very efficiently with the subject of national and local taxation-its equity and incidence, and its effects on production and distribution-as well as with the present-day problems of public and international indebtedness. We welcome these very able, authoritative, and up-to-date contributions to the modern renaissance of economics, and shall look forward with interest to the volumes that are to follow. Poverty and its Vicious Circles. By Dr. J. B. HURRY. Second and Enlarged Edition. (15s. net. Churchill.)

It is well that stress should be laid in these days on the reciprocal causal relations between poverty and its various concomitant social evils, both natural and artificial. This readable and carefully written volume contains a descriptive study of the vicious circles thus created, together with an account of the methods adopted for breaking them, by legislation, by voluntary organizations, and by individual effort. The author is content with what many will consider a somewhat superficial treatment, for he ignores the fundamental economic problem of distribution. Nor does he concern himself, in discussing questions of governmental action, with the monetary side of the matter. It is disappointing, too, to find that he has no constructive suggestions to make-in fact, the latter part of the book is something of an anti-climax, containing little more than a summary-perhaps unduly optimistic-of what is being done to solve the problem of poverty. None the less, the book will be useful to many readers for its abundance of concrete facts and its numerous references to the works of other writers on social questions. If it is described as popular rather than scientific, the distinction must not be interpreted in a disparaging sense.

The Story of Commerce. By F. HALL and G. COLLAR.

(2s. 6d. Pitman.)

This is an interesting little book, clearly written and attractively illustrated, dealing with the history and present organization of home and foreign trade. It should prove useful in particular to middle forms in secondary schools, as giving an insight into the principles and practice of modern business. First Section of a Book entitled A Study in Industrial, Social, and Economic Problems. Addressed mainly to Capitalists and Labour Leaders. By J. BIBBY. (6d. Bibby.) Money, Credit, and Commerce. By A. MARSHALL. (IOS. net. Macmillan.)

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Whether for width of learning or for charm of style this volume of essays by the accomplished city librarian of Newcastle-uponTyne stands forth as a work of distinction. The essays are eight in number. The one entitled "A Stoic in his Garden is reprinted from The Library; those on Justus Lipsius and "The Lure of Translation" were read before the Newcastle and Durham Classical Association; those on Nature and Human Nature and Sir Thomas Browne were papers read before the Newcastle branch of the English Association; the other three, entitled respectively "In Northumbrian Sunshine," “A Gourmand's Breviary," and A Newcastle Seaman 100 Years Ago," now appear for the first time. Where all is so good, it is difficult to select for special comment. But we may own a special preference for The Lure of Translation," which should make wide appeal to teachers of languages, including the English Language. The two papers read before the English Association give fresh and original views of Wordsworth and Browne. The

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Edited by G. SAMPSON. (2s. Methuen.) It is high time that among our School Readers the literature of science should have an acknowledged place, and this volume would form a desirable introduction were the first thirty-threepages as likely to be comprehended and appreciated by pupils of middle and upper forms as the one hundred and eight which follow. In these, Faraday, Darwin, Bates, Ball, Huxley, Tyndall, are represented by extracts, complete in themselves, capable of interesting an ordinarily intelligent class. A concise account of the life and works of the author at the head of each section should prove useful.

Selected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson. (Is. 6d. net. Nelson.),
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GEOGRAPHY.

The Business Man's Geography: A Compendium of General and Post-War Conditions in Respect of Overseas Produce and Overseas Markets. By E. G. R. TAYLOR. (25S. net. Philip.) Although designed in the first place for the busy commercial man, this book will be found particularly useful to the teacher of geography as a work of reference, and to the advanced student who is taking a special course of economic geography. The various countries are dealt with in alphabetical order, and where a country is known under two names such as Mesopotamia and Irak, cross references are given in large type. The description of each country follows a fixed plan under definite headings, namely, area and population, position and general physical conditions, human and economic conditions, trade relations, and general information. Statistics taken from authoritative sources are used sparingly, but they are always up to date and trustworthy. At the beginning of the book are thirty-two coloured maps, showing political divisions and containing a large number of place-names; interspersed with the text are many sketch maps on which the various features are marked by means of conventions and symbols.

Oxford Geographical Studies.-The Andover District: An Account of Sheet 283 of the One-inch Ordnance Map (Small Sheet Series). By O. G. S. CRAWFORD. (7s. 6d. net. Clarendon Press.)

The author prepared this memoir originally as a thesis for the Diploma in Geography, and in this volume he now publishes the results of his research work. More monographs of this type are wanted, and it is to be hoped that before long other sheets of the Ordnance Map will each have its corresponding memoir. This account of the Andover sheet is divided into two main sections (a) The physical aspects of the area, special reference being given to geological structure, plateau and valley deposits, and evolution of the drainage system; (b) The economic aspects of the area, namely the growth and distribution of population, communication in ancient and modern times, and industries. Notes on prehistoric sites and discoveries, and on Anglo-Saxon Bounds which appear in the Appendix, add to the usefulness of the work. The text is well printed and effectively illustrated with photographs, diagrams and sketch maps.

The Wirral Peninsula:

The

An Outline Regional Survey. By W. HEWITT. (7s. 6d. net. The University Press of Liverpool.) This book has been prepared in connexion with the research work undertaken by the Liverpool and District Regional Survey Association, and the author has been very successful in compiling a comprehensive study of the Wirral Peninsula. Wirral forms a geographical unit being definitely marked off by natural boundaries; at the present time it is in an interesting stage of development as a residential, commercial, and industrial area. Not only are the geological and geographical features well described, but the chapters on the historical record and the local government of the district deserve special mention. Two interesting maps of the Wirral are published with the text, (1) one taken from Speed's map of Cheshire dated 1611, and (2) Greenwood's map of the County Palatine of Chester from a survey in 1818.

Ireland. Edited by G. FLETCHER. (8s. 6d. net. Cambridge University Press.)

This attractive book gives in less than 300 pages a fairly detailed account of the physical features of Ireland and of the economic and social activities of its people. Each section of the book (topography, archaeology, industries, etc.) has been written by a specialist in order to secure authoritative treatment. The Explorer" Geographies. The Americas. By J. BRUCE. (3s. Bell.)

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Orographical Regional Economic Atlas. Part VI. British Empire. Edited by T. FRANKLIN. (Is. 6d. net. Johnston.)

HISTORY.

The People of England: A Social History for Schools. I. The People in the Making. II. The People in Adventure. III. The People on its Trial. By S. LEATHES. (6s. net each. Heinemann.)

The

The first two volumes of Sir Stanley Leathes's admirable social history of England have for some years been in the hands of teachers, and have won for themselves a secure place in schools. Volume I," The People in the Making," was written just before the war of 1914: it tells the story of the English nation to the opening of the Tudor period. Volume II, The People in Adventure," was composed during the early phases of the war and published in 1916: it describes the expansion of England during the three centuries 1485-1789. Volume III, People on its Trial" is a post-war production. Sir Stanley Leathes in his Introduction explains the causes of the long delay. They are entirely adequate. The book has undoubtedly gained by the postponement. It is a fine and mature survey of the period 1789-1922. Though it is intended for children in the upper forms of schools, it will be read with interest and profit by all who need an introduction to the nineteenth century. It is written with profound knowledge, balanced judgment, keen enthusiasm, and excellent literary style. Its 471 well printed pages are a marvel of cheapness at 6s. The Colonial Policy of William III in America and the West Indies. Prince Consort Prize Essay, 1922. By G. H. GUTTRIDGE. (10s. net. Cambridge University Press.) Mr. Guttridge's prize essay opens up some interesting new ground in the history of English Colonial policy. Until 1689 the expansion of England has been in the main peaceful—an expansion by means of discovery and settlement. The revolution that placed William III upon the throne involved England in a struggle with the Bourbon powers-a struggle which, beginning in Europe, increasingly became a conflict for command of the sea, foreign commerce, and colonial possessions. Guttridge's careful study of the documents and treatises of the period throws much new light on the important transition which marked the reign of William III.

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so largely inspire and control public opinion in the world to-day." This sketch of his stormy and monstrous career gives a vivid picture of the lurid side of the Italian Renaissance. Without the aid of studies such as this it is difficult for us to realize the depths of depravity into which human nature can descend. A Class-Book of the British Commonwealth. By A. D. INNES. In three volumes. Vol. III. 1714-1922. (5s. Rivingtons.) Ancient Man in Britain. By D. A. MACKENZIE. (12s. 6d. net. Blackie.)

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JOHN BUCHAN and Sir HENRY NEWBOLT. (IS. 9d. Nelson.)
The Trend of History: Origins of Twentieth Century Problems.
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A Historical Geography of the British Dominions. Vol. V. Canada.
Part II. The History from 1763-1921. By Prof. H. E.
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MATHEMATICS.

A General Text-Book of Elementary Algebra, with Answers.
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its formation and solution, forms the main theme. Some
space is of course devoted to graphs, but only the fringe of
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sensible and practical introduction.

Principles of Geometry. By Prof. H. F. BAKER. Vol. II. Plane Geometry. Conics, Circles, Non-Euclidean Geometry. (158. net. Cambridge University Press.)

In this volume Prof. Baker carries to a further stage his masterly review of the concepts of geometry. He here deals with geometry in the plane. The first two chapters are devoted to deducing without the use of the notions of distance and congruence the fundamental properties of conic sections. The third chapter explains the application of algebraic symbolism; the fourth is a consideration of logical questions, including that of the sense of real and imaginary, while the theory of measurement of length and angle is the subject of the last. The author states that one of his main objects is to bring to light the assumptions which underlie the use of co-ordinates, and he suggests that in the case of distance, as in many other cases, we may have derived from familiarity with physical experiences a confidence which more careful scrutiny shows to be an illusion.

A Treatise on the Integral Calculus. With Applications, Examples, and Problems. By J. EDWARDS. Vol. II. (50s. net. Macmillan.)

With this second volume-equal in bulk to the first-Prof. Edwards completes his task, but he states that he has been compelled to omit much that he had hoped to include. One may regard the complete treatise as one giving an exhaustive account of the main stem and larger branches of the calculus, but only cursory descriptions of the roots and numerous ramifications. A large part of the present volume is devoted to Definite Integrals. The various methods which have been devised for their evaluation, including Contour Integration, are classified and discussed in a systematic manner, and here, as throughout the work, the numerous illustrative examples will enormously assist the progress of the student. Considerable space is given to elliptic integrals, and the chapters dealing with the elements of the Calculus of Variations, Harmonic Analysis, Mean Value and Probability will be found excellent introductions to more detailed study.

Prolegomena to Analytical Geometry In Anisotropic Euclidean Space of Three Dimensions. By Prof. E. H. NEVILLE. (30s. net. Cambridge University Press.)

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MISCELLANEOUS.

The Problem of Population. By H. Cox. (бs. net. Cape.) There are two very good reasons for noticing this book in an educational journal. First every social question is also an educational question, if we conceive of education, as we are more and more coming to do, as a lifelong process. Secondly, many of the facts here set forth are such as stare some teachers in the face every day, e.g., the fact of the multiplication of the unfit. Mr. Harold Cox is a well-known writer on social and political subjects, and whoever reads him is speedily made aware of his sturdy individualism. His argument in this book is marked by severe logic, and to say that he is no sentimentalist is not to say that he does not appreciate the human aspects of the problem. In his hands the delicate subject of birth control is dealt with clearly and candidly, and it is all to the good that he shirks no difficulty.

History and Progress and Other Essays and Addresses. By HILDA D. OAKELEY. (10s. 6d. net. Allen & Unwin.) A reviewer faced with a book of apparently miscellaneous contents expects to find a difficulty in writing a short notice, though perhaps his difficulty would not be diminished if he were allowed space for a long one. But in Miss Oakeley's volume the lack of unity is more apparent than real. The fifteen essays and addresses which it contains deal indeed with a variety of subjects, but there is a unity of method throughout. The work of her life has lain equally in the fields of practice and of philosophical study, and in these most readable and interesting essays she shows how thought and practice may help and support each other. Thus in her more serious studies (e.g., history and progress" and philosophy and education") she insists that much philosophy, not a little, is required to give to action the force of intelligent motive. And in her slighter papers (e.g., education in home science") she insists equally that what seems merely utilitarian is, when rightly regarded, a thing of the spirit, and not of mere organization. We cordially commend Miss Oakeley's exemplifications of her thesis that if philosophy is divine, it is certainly also human.

Research Publications of the University of Minnesota. Education Series No. I. Studies in Public School Finance: The West, California, and Colorado. By Prof. F. H. SWIFT. ($3. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota.) The author, in an able and penetrating monograph, studies the sources and application of school funds in two States, both typical of the West, yet differing widely in financial administration. Educational finance is an interesting and important subject. But the conditions here investigated are American, not English, and they could not be presented intelligibly to English readers in a short, or indeed in a long book-notice. Great unevenness exists in the United States. Thus, in 1917-18, whilst Montana spent 80 dollars a year for each child attending at school, Mississippi spent but 12; and whereas in Montana the average number of school days for a child was 131, in Louisiana it was found to be only 53. To redress such inequalities Prof. Swift looks to national grants, accompanied by the fixing of Federal minimum standards. Bookless Lessons for the Teacher-Mother. By ELLA F. LYNCH. (8s. net. Macmillan.)

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This was

This book, although written for French students of English, will be no less useful for advanced students learning French in England. Its chief help will be in showing how deceptive is the likeness between English and, French words. done some years ago by Prof. Deshumbert in a book called "Dictionary of Difficulties in French," which we believe is now out of print. Every learner of French knows that he has not gone far in the language before he has to make a list of words to be distinguished. He has to know the difference between curé and curate, diet and diète, abuser and to abuse, librairie and library, and many more. The present book not only deals with difficulties of vocabulary but also of traps in accidence and syntax.

The Poems of Manuel de Cabanyes. Edited, with Introduction, Notes, and Bibliography by Prof. E. ALLISON PEERS. (7s. 6d. net. Longmans, Green.)

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MUSIC.

Music in the Kindergarten and Lower Forms: A Preparatory Course in Aural Training and Musical Appreciation. By L. E. BUCKE. (5s. net. Williams.) Chantez, mes Enfants: Chansons populaires choisis et arrangées par Lady Bell. (1s. 6d. Avec Accompagnement de Piano, with stiff paper cover, 3s. 6d. Cloth cover, 6s. Hachette.) Jn. The Second Book of the Great Musicians: A Further Course in Appreciation for Young Readers. By P. A. SCHOLES. (4s. 6d. net. Cloth, 5s. net, cloth gilt. Oxford University Press.) Church Choir Training. By Prof. H. W. RICHARDS. (Paper covers, 3s. net. Cloth boards, 5s. net. Williams.) The large parcel before us deserves more extended notice than is here possible. Miss Bucke's book is practically and clearly designed to prepare children of six to eight for the course of Aural Culture through Musical Appreciation of Messrs. Macpherson and Read. Chantez, mes Enfants is a charming collection, and the French directions will help those who are qualified to teach both music and French to kill two birds with one stone. Mr. Scholes's book is a worthy successor to his first book of the "Great Musicians.' The style is slightly more advanced; and the work deals with Schubert, Field, Mendelssohn, Wagner, Verdi, and Debussy, with interestingly written chapters on Opera, Oratorio, Organs, and (a good touch, this) Army Bands. Dr. Richards' Church Choir Training" is an admirable work. It will be found valuable by trainers far more advanced than the inexperienced ones to whom it professes to be addressed. Its eighty-four pages cover a wonderful range of topics.

The Year Book Press continues its praiseworthy activities in getting good words set to sound and attractive music. Its parcel of nearly twenty songs contains all varieties from unison to four-part. settings, and we can only recommend teachers to ask for lists and specimens. The tercentenary of Byrd's death falls on July 4th of this year; and the Oxford University Press issues betimes several of his sacred compositions from the Carnegie edition. All are for five voices, and should be left to expert choirs to attempt; but we hope that the latter will make the austere magnificance of these works widely known. Messrs. J. Williams send some Sight Reading cards, and a music copybook, both emanating from Mme Mathilde

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Verne's Children's College of Music; two Romantic Sketches for piano, by W. Gaze Cooper, useful for advanced Sight Reading; volumes of a careful performing edition of Gibbons and Bull, edited by Margaret H. Glyn; some useful and attractive Little Solos for the Violoncello" (Primary and Elementary Grades) by W. E. Whitehouse; Salut de Printemps," a fairly difficult but brilliant moto perpetuo for violin by Hans Wessely; and other piano pieces. Musical Groundwork: A Short Course of Aural Training. By F. H. SHERA. (3s. 6d. net. Milford: Oxford University Press.) Chantez, Mes Enfants: Chansons Populaires choises et arrangées. Par Lady BELL. (Is. 6d. Avec Accompagnement de Piano, stiff paper cover, 3s. 6d. cloth cover, 6s. Hachette.) Song and Play for Little Folks: With Words, Actions, and Photographs. Words and Arrangement by Lucy M. Sidwell. Specially set to Music by ANNE M. GIBBON. (2s. net. McDougall.)

Music for School and Home. By J. T. BAVIN. (2s. net. BIRCH ) PHILOSOPHY.

Comparative Humanology. By the Rev. E. J. WARMINGTON. (12s. 6d. net. Jarrolds.)

Causes and Consequences. By Sir BAMPFYLDE FULLER. net. Murray.)

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The Hávamál: With Selections from Other Poems of the Edda, illustrating the Wisdom of the North in Heathen Times. Edited and Translated by D. E. M. CLARKE. (10s. 6d. net. Cambridge University Press.)

POETRY.

Johnson. Prose and Poetry, with Boswell's Character, Macaulay's
Life, and Raleigh's Essay. With an Introduction and Notes
by R. W. CHAPMAN. (3s. 6d. net. Clarendon Press.)
We welcome this latest volume of a fine series that has already
proved its worth. It has a short introduction in which the
editor gives his reasons for including-at the risk of being taunted
as a timid follower of tradition-Macaulay's life of Johnson,
to which he considers that Sir Walter Raleigh's Leslie Stephen
Lecture will act as a partial corrective. We agree with him
that a book abounding in contradiction and diversity of opinion
will be enjoyed by the intelligent reader, and certainly the
teacher will not be ungrateful for the provision of some con-
troversial matter for his students. The whole of "The Vanity
of Human Wishes is given, with selections from the rest of
Johnson's principal works, and, in addition to the famous
Chesterfield letter, which could hardly have been omitted, we
find the less-known, manly, and characteristic one to James
Macpherson (Ossian).

The Poet's Year. An Anthology. Compiled by ADA SHARPLEY.
Part I. January-April. Part II. May-August. Part
III. September-December.
(25. each. Cambridge

University Press.)

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The sovereign rule that an Anthology shall be tolerant had due weight with the compiler of The Poet's Year," and she has no more hesitated to risk the hackneyed than the littleknown or ultra-modern, the result being a collection ranging from bits of the old Coventry play, "The Tailors and Shearers, to poems of living authors. Though there is not an undue preponderance of any one writer, the ancients are better represented than the moderns; we wonder that no single specimen of George Meredith, too often regarded even by the student as a novelist only, should have found a place. By a pretty fancy a passage is given for each day of the year, in some way appropriate to it, though not slavishly seasonal, while each month is ushered in by a stanza from the " Faerie Queene (VII, 7). The shape of these homely little volumes is unusual and attractive, and the selection the work of a reader of taste and discernment.

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An Introduction to Poetry. By Prof. J. B. HUBBELL and Prof. J. O. BEATY. (128. net. Macmillan.)

The Study of Poetry. By R. L. BLACKWOOD and A. R. OSBORN. (2s. 3d. net. Macmillan.)

The Chief Middle English Poets. Selected Poems, Newly Rendered and Edited, with Notes and Bibliographical References by JESSIE L. WESTON. (10s. 6d. net. Harrap.) The Chief Elizabethan Dramatists Excluding Shakespeare. Selected Plays by Lyly, Peele, Greene, Marlowe, Kyd, Chapman, Jonson, Dekker, Marston, Heywood, Beaumont, Fletcher, Webster, Middleton, Massinger, Ford, Shirley. Edited from the Original Quartos and Folios, with Notes, Biographies, and Bibliographies by Prof. W. A. NEILSON. (15s. net. Harrap.)

The Fairy Flute. By ROSE FYLEMAN. Fourth (School) Edition. (IS. 6d. Methuen.)

The Rise and Fall of the French Romantic Drama: With Special
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By F. W. M. DRAPER. (15S. net. Constable.)
The Spirit of Brotherhood. A Play in Two Scenes for the use of
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The Pedlar: A Narrative Poem.
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Blackwell.)

By R. W. BOND.

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PSYCHOLOGY.

An Introduction to the Psychology of Religion. By R. H. THOULESS. (7s. 6d. net. Cambridge University Press.) This volume contains the substance of a course of lectures delivered at Cambridge to candidates for ordination. It deals in successive chapters with what are termed respectively the traditional, the natural, the moral, the affective, and the rational elements in religious belief. Conscious and unconscious processes are then briefly analysed, largely from a psychoanalytic standpoint. The instincts generally, and the sexinstinct and herd-instinct in particular, are discussed in their relations to religious experience, mainly upon lines laid down by McDougall. And the final chapters treat of worship and prayer, and of mysticism and conversion. The whole is written in a lucid and non-technical style, and in a sane and impartial spirit. Mr. Thouless has accomplished an unusually difficult task with an unusual measure of success.

Some Applications of Psycho-Analysis. By Dr. O. PFISTER. Authorized English Version. (16s. net. Allen & Unwin.) The chief purpose of this book is to show, by detailed illustration and concrete cases, in what psycho-analysis consists, and to what degree its methods and its principles have already been fruitful in the investigation of various spheres of human thought. The first chapter briefly describes the broad conceptions and hypotheses underlying the psycho-analytic technique, and exemplifies the procedure by a few instructive instances. The following chapters discuss in turn the application of psycho-analysis to art, to ethics, to metaphysics, to the work of the missionary, and to the study of child-life. The chapter on psycho-analysis and child-life is a reprint of a semi-popular lecture, and will be found a little disappointing by those who have read Dr. Pfister's earlier and more systematic account of The Psycho-analytic Method." Suggestive as it is, the book as a whole is of interest rather to the specialist than to the teacher. Outwitting our Nerves: A Primer of Psychotherapy. By Dr. J. A. JACKSON and H. M. SALISBURY. (7s. 6d. net. Kegan Paul.)

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We can promise our readers that this book, by two American medical women, is one that they are not likely to fall asleep over. It tingles with life and actuality on every page, and whilst nowhere shocking is everywhere plain-spoken. Jackson states that for more than a decade she has dealt with nervous cases on the lines of psycho-analysis and re-education, and that her house, apparently a sort of nursing home, has been called a psychological boarding-school. Out of her experience she addresses" the general practitioner and the average layman in terms that any educated person can understand. The liveliness of the style is indicated by some of the chapter headingsThe Story of the Instincts, The Red Trouble, That Tired Feeling, Dietary Tabors, The Bugaboo of Constipation, A Woman's Ills, That Interesting Insomnia, Feeling our Feelings, Choosing our Emotions, Finding Vent in Sublimation. We have read the book from end to end with great interest.

Remembering and Forgetting. By Prof. T. H. PEAR. (7s. 6d. net. Methuen.)

To write as a master of one's subject, and to make that subject vivid and interesting, is given only to the few, especially when the subject lies within the sphere of mental science. Prof. Pear is one of the gifted few. His book, as the title almost implies, lacks the form and comeliness which one associates with an elementary treatise on psychology, but it is none the worse for that. After dealing with memory, the precept, and the image, Prof. Pear gives a valuable re-statement, with original illustrations, of the modern study of dreams; indeed five out of the nine chapters of which the substance of the book consists are devoted to the exposition of dreams. Of the four chapters relegated to an appendix, the one entitled The intellectual respectability of muscular skill is of special value to teachers

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