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Faculty of Columbia College, by William If. 

 Thomson. The author finds the expressions 

 of modern physiologists on the connection 

 between nerve and consciousness indefinite 

 and unsatisfactory. He examines the devel- 

 opment of the nervous system from the low- 

 est vertebrates up to man, and discussing 

 the questions at issue, concludes that there 

 is that in consciousness and mental opera- 

 tions that can not be accounted for by nerv- 

 ous action alone, but something must be 

 called in to assist ; therefore matter, force, 

 and consciousness are three distinct realities. 

 In Architecture, Mysticism, and Myth 

 (Macmillan), a study is presented by W. R. 

 Letliaby of the influence of Nature and men's 

 ideas of the universe and of divinity on their 

 art. The author distinguishes between the 

 common use of the term architecture, which 

 is rather applied to building, and the sense 

 in which he employs it, as " the synthesis 

 of the fine arts." " As the pigments are but 

 the vehicle of painting, so is building but 

 the vehicle of architecture, which is the 

 thought behind form, embodied and realized 

 for the purpose of its manifestation and 

 transmission." The two are regarded as 

 " quite clear and distinct as ideas the soul 

 and the body." Of these enumerated ulti- 

 mate facts behind all architecture, which 

 have given it form, the author studies par- 

 ticularly the influence of the known and im- 

 agined facts of the universe, the connection 

 between the world as a structure and the 

 building as a whole. His study brings him 

 evidence " of a cosmical symbolism " in the 

 buildings of the younger world, and of the 

 intention in the idea of the temple " to set 

 up a local reduplication of the temple not 

 made with hands, the world temple itself." 

 Beginning with the form of the world in the 

 first chapter of his study, the three or four 

 chapters that follow deal with the relation of 

 the building to it as a whole, and the rest of 

 the work with parts and details. The book 

 is an interesting one, the argument is re- 

 enforced with citations from mythology and 

 folk lore, and the whole is appropriately 

 illustrated. 



In Philosophy and Physical Science an in- 

 augural address as professor in Adalbert Col- 

 lege Mattoon Monroe Curtis turns the tables 

 on the champions of scientific culture, and 

 sets forth the claim that " philosophy is the 



central discipline about which all others 

 cluster, and by which they are to be esti- 

 mated ; that upon the great problems of 

 physical science there is at present little 

 ground for sweeping generalizations and 

 rigid dogmatisms; that principles of faith 

 are the foundations of all our beliefs con- 

 cerning external realities ; that the specula- 

 tive elements in physical science are its most 

 prominent and necessary features ; and that 

 in all speculative questions wisdom com- 

 mands honesty, moderation, and charity." 



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