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 TH. RIBOT, La Psychologic des Sentiments. 107 system of a sentiment where truth would wreck its object. And in proportion as thought is highly organised in a sentiment and the whole system thus formed has a strong and well-connected structure, in that proportion will it be a fertile source of fallacies whenever some other sentiment seeks to deflect it from its object. 1 The work which has been here reviewed is, in respect of its general principles, in a sense unique. No other attempt so far as I know exists to study psychologically the perplexing intellectual differences between men, to discern the distinctive types which they present, and, what is still more difficult, the principle which penetrates them and affords the basis for their classification. No mind but one trained in habits of self-reliant and independent thought could make any headway in this unexplored department of comparative psychology. But in my judgment the chief value of the work will lie in the detail of it, in the many admirable types which the author has portrayed and analysed with fine penetration. We may hope that British psychologists will no longer abandon to their French fellow- workers the glory of being the only pioneers in this profoundly interesting and important field of comparative psychology. ALEXANDER F. SHAND. La Psychologic des Sentiments. Par TH. EIBOT, Professeur au College de France, Directeur de la Revue Philosophique. Paris : Felix Alcan, 1896. Pp. xi., 443. THIS important monograph forms an addition to the Bibliotheque de Philosophie Contemporaine. Its appearance will be welcomed by all students of psychology ; for no department of psychological literature is poorer than that which treats of the feelings ; and little has been done in the way of bringing together the various sug- gestions which have been offered towards a connected theory of this difficult subject. To do this is the main intention of M. Eibot's work : its aim is "to set forth the present state of the psychology of the feelings ". It is needless to say that the task is performed with the acuteness and felicity of exposition to which M. Eibot has accustomed his readers; and that, even in "marking time," he neglects no occasion of making his own interesting contribution to the solution of the questions that are raised. He omits no important aspect of his subject ; and he makes use of every kind of evidence which bears upon it. His treatment of it is specially distinguished by the prominence which he gives, on the one hand, to the indications of the development of feeling furnished by observation of children, and, on the other hand, to the contribution 1 For an account of this theory of the sentiment, I must refer the reader to my article in MIND, N.S., vol. v., pp. 214 to 226.