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344 It is vastly complex, but it has already some practical importance. This journal is to gather for the science of genetics a harvest rich in facts relating to human pedigrees and the inheritance of normal characters as well as peculiarities. It is to give prominence to agricultural and horticultural problems also. The first number contains very interesting articles on human pedigrees, the evolution of man; there is a plea for a more virile sentiment in the administration of human affairs; an interesting chapter on the relation between Mendelism and sex, together with reviews and book notes. Altogether this journal makes a very interesting and attractive first appearance.

L y Evolution de la Mdmoire. Par HENRI PIERON. Paris, Ernest Flammarion, 1910. 360 p.

This author first treats of the inorganic persistencies of human memory in general, then considers rhythmic persistencies, first in the vegetable and then in the animal world. In the second part, animal memory is treated and he describes the various experimental methods showing adaptation and the acquisition of habits, censorial memory. In the third book he comes to man, discusses first of all the modalities of memory, the stages of acquisition, conservation, recognition, evocation and localization. The varieties of memory he classifies as ethnic, individual, ontogenic and pathogenic, and then turns to its utilization in education. The final chapter is mainly devoted to what the author calls the socialization of memory.

Attention and Interest. A Study in Psychology and Education. By FEUX ARNOLD. New York, The Macmillan Company, 1910. 272 p.

This book considers first attention in relation to a given situation, its objective psychophysical physiological aspects. The second deals with interest, its motor and ideal aspects. And last comes education with attention and interest in the schoolroom. The author attempts to clarify and arrange the many facts that have been brought to light by numerous experiments in the psychological laboratories. He does not hold to any special theory or school but seeks to present the facts as they are.

Der Wille. Versuch einer Psychologischen Analyse. Von EI,SE WENT- SCHER. Leipzig, B. G. Teubner, 1910. 189 p.

The author begins with reflex action and that of animals and then discusses successively the motive of will, the analysis of the act of will, its development in child life, its relation to thought, its function in moral conflicts, its energy, its freedom, and the modes of analysis.

Vorlesungen uber die Psychopathologie des Kindesalters fur Mediziner und Padagogen, von WII<HEI<M STROHMAYER. H. Laupp'schen Buchhandlung, Tubingen, 1910. 303 p.

The author, who is a privat docent in Jena, after a few general lectures treats of neurasthenia and chorea, hysteria, epilepsy, weak-mindedness and its symptoms and treatment, and moral insanity. It is a comprehensive and excellent work, with a good bibliography appended.

A Text-Book of Mental Diseases, by EUGENIC TANZI. Authorized translation from the Italian by W. Ford Robertson and J. C. Mackenzie. London, Rebman Limited, 1909. 798 p.

This is an admirably lucid and comprehensive treatise which is quite up-to-date in most respects and constitutes a very valuable addition to the literature available for experts who read English. The chief chapters are as follows: the seat of the psychical processes, the causes of mental disease, their anatomical substratum, sensibility,