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 124 NEW BOOKS. Miss Baldwin's translation is accurate and fairly readable ; we have noticed slips only on pp. 24, 106, 108 ("tumbled about some"!). A humorous printer makes the nurse " scald " the children under her care ; and modernised spelling tells us that the dog loves the " curb " (kerb). It is regrettable that many works which are familiar in English trans- lations should still be cited in German form. The signs that call atten- tion to footnotes are ingeniously ugly, and very disturbing to the reader. The Story of the Mind. By J. M. BALDWIN. Library of Useful Stories. New York : D. Appleton & Co., 1898. 16 mo. Pp. vii., 236. Price 40 cents. In this little volume Prof. Baldwin has gathered together his views of psychology at large, quoting freely from his previous works, " relying frankly on his own experience, and in debatable matters giving his own opinions". The result is a compendious Handbook to Baldwin, very useful in view of the magnitude of the author's recent output and the wide range of periodicals over which his essays are scattered. The ten chapters deal with the Science of the Mind, What our Minds have in Common (introspective psychology), the Mind of the Animal and of the Child, Body and Mind, Experiment, Suggestion and Hypnotism, the Training of the Mind, the Individual Mind and Society, the Genius and his Environment. An appendix gives a selected list of works in English. The Unconscious Mind. By ALFRED T. SCHOFIELD, M.D., M.R.C.S. London : Hodder & Stoughton, 1898. Pp. xv., 436. Price 7s. 6d. 'The author truly remarks in his Introduction that his book " well-nigh appears to be little more than a collection of extracts". It cannot be said that he has either added to our knowledge of psychology, or pre- sented what is already known in a specially luminous or forcible manner. JBut doubtless the work will find a public which will derive instruction irom it. It is sufficiently readable. Psychology for Teachers. By C. L. MORGAN. New York : Chas. Scribner's Sons, 1898. Pp. xi., 240. ft 1.00. 'This is a clearly written little book, in which the outlines of a psycho- logy are filled out by practical educational suggestions. As Superin- tendent Jameson's Preface shows, it has already found favour with American teachers. Of the psychology, as psychology, little good can be said. It is regret- liable that Prof. Morgan, like the late Prof. Romanes, is content to spend his energies upon popularising the older psychology, with its hierarchy of logical abstractions and its neglect of actual mental processes. Famili- arity with the books recently published by Jodl and Stout would have done away, e.g., with the old-time ' impressions of relation ' and with many another relic of the English psychology of forty years ago. Nirvana : A Story of Buddhist Philosophy. By P. CARUS. Tokio, Chicago and London: Open Court Publishing Co. Pp. 41. Price $1.00. 'To its other literary enterprises the Open Court Publishing Co. has added the publication of works on Eastern philosophy, printed on crepe paper and illustrated by Japanese artists. One of these, Karma : a Story of Early