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wholly devoid of mistakes in detail. The pathological data are selected 

 ex parte to prove a case and are made to appear to contradict the doctrine 

 of localization which elsewhere is admitted. The author cites the 

 celebrated instance of the dog deprived by Goltz of its hemispheres, 

 reported in this journal by Professor Edinger, and remarks convincingly 

 that " he exhibited defects only in the manifestations of intelligence, 

 memory, reflection and understanding." (Italics mine.) 



We sincerely regret that we are unable to commend the book, for 

 we believe it to have been intended to promote morality and religion ; 

 but to accomplish such a task in the sphere selected implies familiarity 

 with psychology and metaphysics not in evidence in the book before 

 us. Not everyone who does not adopt the theory of psycho-physical 

 parallelism advocated by the author is a materialist, neither does it fol- 

 low because one believes in the theory of evolution that he is a mate- 

 riahst. It is not necessary for one who is led to admit that, as man is 

 constituted, his mental manifestations are bound up with his cerebral 

 activities so that both present different aspects of his personal life, to 

 deny as a consequence the possibility of mental manifestations other- 

 where and otherhow. Truth is after all the greatest thing that man 

 can seek and a willingness to recognize it whereever it appears is not 

 so dangerous as our author appears to feel. c. L. h. 



The Nervous System, by Lewellys F. Barker.^ 



The revolutions in our knowledge of the structure of the nervous 

 system occasioned by the phenomenal activity within the last decade of 

 students of the newer methods of research naturally involves the neces- 

 sity on the part of the text-book writers of a readjustment to the new 

 points of view. The recent editions of the standard works all illustrate 

 this effort for readjustment, and in most cases, it must be confessed, 

 with only indifferent success. But here we have a new work with no 

 precedents behind it, elaborated for the sole purpose of presenting the 

 new neurology in systematic order. It is, of course, a truism that the 

 key to nervous structure is function, and the text-book of the future will 

 include not only a detailed exposition of the course of the fibers from the 

 cell-bodies of every functionally distinct nucleus but also all of the func- 

 tional connections of whatever sort possessed by these cells. It is need- 

 less to add that Dr. Barker's work falls far short of such an ideal. The 



'The Nervous System and its Constituent Neurones, by Lewellys F. Barker, 

 Designed for the Use of Practitioners of Medicine and of Students of Medicine 

 and Psychology, with two colored plates and 676 illustrations in the text, pp. 

 xxxii-1122. New York, D, Appleton & Co., 1899. 



