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 PHILOSOPHICAL PERIODICALS. 421 complicated co-ordinations not new rhythms of more synthetic type are the basis of appreciation. The constitution of objective rhythmical forms and the laws of their synthesis are to be sought in the relation of the successive sounds of the rhythmical sequence to a co-ordinated system of motor impulses.] Discussion and Reports. E. B. Titchener. ' The Relations of Feeling and Attention.' [Critical note upon the results of Zoneff and Meumann. Philosophische Studien, xviii.] K. Gordon. ' On McDougalPs Observations Regarding Light and Colour Vision.' [McDou- gall's conclusions are often premature, sometimes logically surprising. The Hering, M tiller, Franklin theories are in the line of progress ; McDougall's is a step backward. Especially questionable is his explana- tion of the sensation black.] E. F. Buchner, ' Some Characteristics of the Genetic Method.' [The genetic method (1) "presupposes the work of analysis as being more or less completed," and selects from analytical results such lowest forms of conscious action as feeling, instinct, auto- matic processes. It thus has a special material and a special field. It combines induction and deduction, the ' thing ' and the ' process ' views of mind. The method (2) leads to a psychology which is very different from stimulus psychology, and tends to do away with brain psychology : a psychology in which method and content are identified. (3) It removes the old-time dispute about psychical causation, and seeks to fill the void left by that removal. (4) It is not, as is sometimes said, the ' final and the highest method of psychology ' ; but it is the right way of attacking one of the veritable problems of mind. (5) It makes characteristic assumptions: of racial consciousness, of psychological heredity, etc.] Psychlogical Literature. New Books. Notes. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY. Vol. xiii., No. 3. S. Bell. ' A Preliminary Study of the Emotion of Love between the Sexes.' [Portion of a comprehensive study of the normal psychology of sex ; account, with typical cases from questionary returns, of the first two stages in the genesis of sexual emotion. (1) Children of three to eight years of age. " The presence of the emotion is shown by ... hugging, kissing, lifting each other, scuffling, sitting close to each other ; confessions to each other and to others, talking about each other when apart ; seeking each other and excluding others, grief at being separated ; giving of gifts, . . . making sacrifices, . . . jealousies, etc." Discussion of the primacy of touch in sexual emotion. (2) Girls, eighth to twelfth ; boys, eighth to fourteenth year. " Shyness, modesty, especially in girls, self-con- sciousness and consequent efforts towards self-repression ; inhibition of the spontaneous, impulsive love-demonstrations " of Stage (1). "Con- spicuous absence of pairing ; . . . mutual confessions are seldom made." "The impulse to conceal the emotion . . . is fundamental." Significance of games in which bath sexes are engaged ; influences of teasing, showing off, etc.] E. F. Buchner. ' Fixed Visualisation : Three New Forms.' [Full description of a number, day and month form. The biographical data throw no light on the genesis of the forms, and the writer makes no attempt to explain them.] C. J. France. ' The Gambling Impulse.' [A study of gambling, historical and critical, the latter based upon ques- tionary returns. (I) In face of chance and risk, two opposite feelings arise : fear and faith. In gambling, the ' faith-type ' of man is selected. Belief in immunity from harm, in ultimate success, "this feeling of certitude is the great biological organ which functions to suppress the idea of chance and to minimise the respect for the danger in risk ". (2) Man has evolved in an environment of uncertain content. " The need of tension, together with the feeling of faith in one's safety, is perhaps one of the most effective of all agents reacting against the great psychic