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These four modes are exemplified at length. (2) Motor activity as completion of the analogy, (a) Linguistic form, as influenced by analogical completion. Citation of instances from Osthoff, etc. (b) Linguistic content, as thus influenced; metaphor. Instances from Brinkmann, etc.

The general position of the author with regard to psychological questions is sound and moderate, and thanks are due to him for his choice of method. The main defects of the book are its popular style,—departure from scientific form leads at times to a Lazarus-like diffuseness of exposition,—and a somewhat uncritical use of authorities, which seems to argue an only partial acquaintance with logical and psychological literature. These defects, however, do not by any means outweigh the merits of the monograph.

E. B. T.

 

Psychology, descriptive and explanatory. A Treatise of the Phenomena, Laws, and Development of Human Mental Life. By George Trumbull Ladd, Professor of Philosophy in Yale University. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1894.—pp. xiii, 676 (Index, 671-676).

This volume—which had far better have been two—presents to us Professor Ladd's system of Psychology. The "book designs to give a clear, accurate, and comprehensive picture of the mental life of the individual man; and also to explain this life as it appears in the light of all the resources of modern philosophical science, and with the idea of development, as essentially characteristic of this, as it is of all life, constantly kept in mind." After the introduction, it falls into three parts: the most general forms of mental life; the elements of mental life; the development of mental life. This division "abandons even the appearance of retaining the old and vicious theory of faculties." The work is strictly psychological; "philosophical problems" are "reserved for another volume."—Review will follow.

E. B. T.

 

Grundriss der Psychologie, auf experimenteller Grundlage dargestellt. Von Oswald Külpe, Privatdocent an der Universität Leipzig. Mit 10 Figuren im Text. Leipzig, Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann, 1893.—pp. viii, 478 (Index, 472-478).

This book is the first adequate text-book of experimental psychology which has appeared; and its contents satisfy the high expectations which psychologists who had followed Dr. Külpe's previous work could not but form. The treatment of mind is synthetic: (1) the elements of consciousness,—sensation, feeling; (2) the combination of the elements,—fusion, association; (3) the state of consciousness.—Detailed review will follow.

E. B. T.