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the northern sea. All the species that pass 

 from east to west seem to be northern forms. 

 Lonicera involucrata, however, crosses the 

 continent from New Brunswick to the sea- 

 level of the Pacific coast. Very few plants 

 whose center of distribution is west of the 

 Rocky Mountains appear in the flora of the 

 East. Pseudotsuga Douglasii comes as far 

 east as longitude 114; Pinus Murrayana, 

 longitude 110; Rubus nutkanus reaches 

 Sault Ste. Marie, and Gojdyera Menziesii the 

 shores of Lake Ontario. 



Some species which in those northern 

 regions bind the floras east and west will 

 interest naturalists generally by reason of 

 peculiarly isolated distribution. Thus, Ar- 

 meria vulgaris, common on sea-shores around 

 the entire North, is found in profusion on 

 the summit of Mount Albert, Gaspe. Vac- 

 cinium ovalifolium, reported in the United 

 States from a single locality on the south 

 shore of Lake Superior, occurs at many 

 stations in the far Northwest and also on the 

 summit of Mount Albert. Galium kamt- 

 schaticum, another arctic species, occupies 

 the same interesting locality. Heliotropium 

 curassavicum, characteristic rather of our 

 Southern flora, surprises us by appearing 

 abundantly away north and west of the Sas- 

 katchewan. 



Six parts will show this excellent cata- 

 logue complete. Of these, the four already 

 published are devoted to phenogamous plants 

 exclusively; Part V will present the ferns 

 and mosses ; while algas and fungi are rele- 

 gated to Part VI. 



Handbook of Psychology ; Senses and In- 

 tellect. By James Mark Baldwin, 

 Ph. D., Professor in Lake Forest Uni. 

 versity. New York : Henry Holt & Co- 

 1889. 8vo. Pp. 343. Price, $2.26. 



In this book the author displays a thor- 

 ough acquaintance with the works of those 

 writers on the subject whose general philo- 

 sophical attitude is different from his own, 

 and he often adopts their conclusions, freely 

 recognizing their merits. The references 

 show a wide acquaintance with psychological 

 works in all languages, and are impartially 

 made, with no discrimination in favor of 

 either Trojan or Tyrian, the author evident- 

 ly intending that the reader shall be made 

 fully acquainted with the literature of the 



various topics treated. The work is that of 

 a scholar, the style is good, and many special 

 themes are well handled. This is particu- 

 larly true of sensation, though the selection 

 of the word tone to characterize the quality 

 of sensation as pleasurable or painful does 

 not seem to us felicitous. So also the chap- 

 ter on illusions is an excellent presentation 

 in condensed form of a class of very inter- 

 esting mental phenomena. 



But while the author makes good use of 

 the results of scientific psychological study, 

 his work is vitiated by an inability to get rid 

 of the notion that Psychology must be 

 made a servant of Theology. We are re- 

 minded by his book of Dr. McCosh's works, 

 though Dr. Baldwin is much less anachronis- 

 tic. The difficulty is the old heresy that the 

 human mind has a special and higher faculty 

 for seeing things invisible, by a rational or 

 intuitional apprehension. The moment we 

 apply the term intuition alike to presenta- 

 tive knowledge and to representative prod- 

 ucts concepts, judgments, inferences as 

 does Dr. Baldwin, we destroy the funda- 

 mental psychological distinction, and make a 

 jumble of mental science. This is what is 

 always done by those who insist on a " rea- 

 son " and on " rational intuitions." 



We have yet to see any fairer or better 

 handbooks of psychology than Prof. Bain's 

 and Mr. James Sully's, and either of these 

 we should certainly recommend in preference 

 to the present work, which, spite of excel- 

 lences, is essentially misleading by reason of 

 errors mostly growing out of the above- 

 mentioned confusion. 



" The New Review." Edited by Archibald 

 Gove. Monthly. London and New York : 

 Longmans, Green & Co. Price, 15 cents 

 a number, $1.75 a year. 



This addition to the number of monthly 

 reviews deserves to be classed with the best. 

 The first number was that for June, 1889, 

 and the issues that have already appeared 

 have been filled with the contributions of 

 able and well-known writers. Being an 

 English magazine, of course it contains some 

 articles that the American reader would skip 

 as being of rather remote interest ; but much 

 of its contents knows no nationality, for in- 

 stance, " After the Play," by Henry James, 

 and " The Dying Drama," a reply by William 



