Essay on the Creative 

 Imagination. By Prof. Th. 



Ribot. Translated from the 

 French by A. H. N. Baron, Fel- 

 low in Clark University. 1906. 

 Cloth., gilt top. Pp. 357. $1.75 

 net. (7s. 6d. net.) 



Imagination is not the possession 

 only of the inspired few, but is a func- 

 tion of the mind common to all men in 

 some degree ; and mankind has displayed 

 as much imagination in practical life as 

 in its more emotional phases in mech- 

 anical, military, industrial, and commer- 

 cial inventions, jn religious, and political 

 institutions as well as in the sculpture, 

 painting, poetry and song. This is 

 the central thought in the new book of 

 Th. Ribot, the well-known psychologist, 

 modestly entitled An Essay on the 

 Creative Imagination. 



It is a classical exposition of a branch 

 of psychology which has often been dis- 

 cussed, but perhaps never before in a 

 thoroughly scientific manner. Although 



the purely reproductive imagination has been studied with considerable enthusiasm from 

 time to time, the creative or constructive variety has been generally neglected and is 

 popularly supposed to be confined within the limits of esthetic creation. 



Cnildrcn. Hints from Practical Experience for Parents and 

 Teachers. By Paul Carus. Pp.207. $1.00 net. (4s.6d.net.) 



In the little book Our Children, Paul Carus offers a unique contribution to peda- 

 gogical literature. Without any theoretical pretensions it is a strong defense for the 

 rights of the child, dealing with the responsibilities of parenthood, and with the first 

 inculcation of fundamental ethics in the child mind and the true principles of correc- 

 tion and guidance. Each detail is forcefully illustrated by informal incidents from the 

 author's experience with his own children, and his suggestions will prove of the greatest 

 possible value to young mothers and kindergartners. Hints as to the first acquaintance 

 with all branches of knowledge are touched upon mathematics, natural sciences, for- 

 eign languages, etc. and practical wisdom in regard to the treatment of money, 

 hygiene, and similar problems. 



Yin Chill Wen, The Tract of the Quiet Way. With Extracts from 

 the Chinese commentary. Translated by Teitaro Suzuki and Dr. Paul 

 Carus. 1906. Pp. 48. 25c net. 



This is a collection of moral injunctions which, among the Chinese is second 

 perhaps only to the Kan-Ying P'ien in popularity, and yet so far as is known to the 

 publishers this is the first translation that has been made into any Occidental language. 

 It is now issued as a companion to the T'ai-Shang Kan-Ying P'ien, although it does 

 not contain either a facsimile of the text or its verbatim translation. The original 

 consists of the short tract itself which is here presented, of glosses added by commen- 

 tators, which form a larger part of the book, and finally a number of stories similar 

 to those appended to the Kan-Ying P'ien, which last, however, it has not seemed worth 

 while to include in this version. The translator's notes are of value in justifying cer- 

 tain readings and explaining allusions, and the book is provided with an index. The 

 frontispiece, an artistic outline drawing by Shen Chin-Ching, represents Wen Ch'ang, 

 one of the highest divinities of China, revealing himself to the author of the tract. 



The motive of the tract is that of practical morality. The maxims give definite 

 instructions in regard to details of man's relation to society, besides more general com- 

 mands of universal ethical significance, such as "Live in concord," "Forgive malice," and 

 "Do not assert with your mouth what your heart denies." 



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