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 128 PHILOSOPHICAL PERIODICALS. Psychical Elements, and Some Eecenfc Criticism. I. The Criteria of the Elements and Attributes.' [Shows, in the light of an historical survey, the criteria employed by Wundt to mark off the elements and their attributes ; maintains, as against Washburn, that his usage is con- sistent.] A. I. G-esell. 'A Case of Symbolistic Writing with Senile Delusions.' [History of the Case ; illustrations and analyses of the -writing.] M. F. Washburn. ' Minor Studies from the Psychological Laboratory of Vassar College.' A. Hey wood and H. A. Vortriede. ' I. Some Experiments on the Associative Power of Smells.' [Under the experimental conditions, odours have no greater power of recall than nonsense-syllables. In real life, the infrequency and isolation of parti- cular odours gives the sensations an unusual hold upon the attention.] Psychological Literature. Book Notes. Index. THE JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY, PSYCHOLOGY AND SCIENTIFIC METHODS. We regret that we have not hitherto been able to take notice of this new specimen of American philosophic enterprise. It is published fortnightly in New York, and ably edited by Prof. F. J. E. Woodbridge of Columbia University. Each number contains twenty-eight pages and is made up of short articles (the longer ones extend over several numbers), discus- sions, reviews of books and abstracts of periodicals, and ' notes and news '. The Journal is now in the second year of an existence which seems amply justified by the conveniences it offers for discussion and the excellence of its contents, among which a series of important articles by Prof. James may be specially mentioned. Altogether there is no period- ical which better avoids the crambe repetita or gives a clearer insight into the progress of philosophy across the Atlantic. We append a list of the papers and more important discussions for the year 1905 : II. 1. B. <3. Ewer. ' The Idea of Possibility.' r. E. Lutz. < Biometry.' II. 2. William James. ' The Thing and Its Relations. ' [Plea for the accept- ance of immediate conjunctions and polemic against F. H. Bradley's denial of the thinkableness of relations.] Meeting of the American Philosophical Association. II. 3. Meeting of the American Psycholo- gical Association. II. 4. H. Hoffding. ' A Philosophical Confession ' [of his sympathy with irrationalism, pluralism and pragmatism]. B. L. Gildersleeve. ' A Syntactician among the Psychologists. ' [' Greek syntax is all in favour of will as the priiis.'] W. C. Gore. ' Image or Sensation.' II. 5. "William James. 'The Essence of Humanism.' [To have seen that "though one part of experience may lean upon another part to make it what it is in any one of several aspects in which it may be considered, experience as a whole is self-containing and leans on nothing".] P. J. E. Woodbridge. ' The Nature of Consciousness. ' [Not a receptacle, but only a form of connexion of objects.] W. R. Newbold. 'Taurellus.' B. H. Bode. '"Pure Experience" and the External World.' [Accuses James of solipsism.] II. 6. R. M. Yerkes. ' Animal Psychology and Criteria of the Psychic. ' A. H. Pierce. ' In- ferred Conscious States and the Equality Axiom.' II. 7. C. H. Judd. 'Radical Empiricism and Wundt' s Philosophy.' ["The temper and tendencies of the two systems are much alike."] William James. ' How Two Minds Can Know One Thing.' [It can be 'appropriated' by and figure in the two.] H. B. Alexander. ' Phenomenalism and the Prob- lem of Knowledge.' II. 8. J. Royce. ' Kant's Doctrine of the Basis of Mathematics.' [His theory "has been in one respect wholly aban- doned by the modern logic of mathematics," but its " immortal soul " is that his distinction of analytic and synthetic is false because true thinking is both.] C. J. Keyser. ' Some Outstanding Problems for Philosophy.' [{Mathematical.] II. 9. S. S. Colvin. ' Is Subjective Idealism a Neces-