Literary Notices. Ixxi 



" bausch analysis" as unsatisfactory to-day as ever. Biitschli's recent 

 experimental imitation of protoplasm can hardly be said to help us much. 



Cami'AYRE, G. Translated by Payne, W. H. The Elements of Psychol- 

 ogy. Lee and Slupai-d, Boston; $i.oo. 



This volume is mechanically well adapted to the use of students. It 

 is needless to say that it treats the subject from the subjective standpoint 

 and quite conservatively. The use of such terms as "the faculties" 

 seems unfortunate inasmuch as the discussion is much more adequate than 

 this terminology leads one to expect. 



The author recognizes the limitations and the student is not misled 

 by dogmatic definitions of consciousness, memory and the like. The 

 technical and historical index which is appended would be more useful if 

 made more accurate and extended. '■'■ Cerebral circunn'olutions^^ are de- 

 fined as "the sinuous furrows presented by the upper surface of the 

 brain." " Cells. A term in natural history, denoting anatomical elements 

 which unite with fibres to form tissues." 



The calm and judicial tone of the book and the very conservatism, 

 which might be regarded a defect in a general work, added to the clear- 

 ness of thought and style, recommend it to pedagogists. 



Cheney, S. P. Wood Notes Wild. Lee and Shepard, Boston, 1892; $2.00. 

 (See editorial.) 



Clevenger, S. V. Comparative Physiology and Psychology. Jansen, 

 McClw-gb' Co., Chicago, 1885. 

 (See elsewhere in this number.) 



Transactions of the Congress of American Physicians and Surgeons. 



Second Triennial session, Sept. 22-25, 1891, New Haven, 



1892. 



This well printed volume contains Chas. L. Dana's paper on Scleroses 



of the spinal cord and S. Weir Mitchell's interesting address on the early 



history of instrumental precision in medicine, which is overflowing with 



interest to the non-medical as well as the professional man. 



