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donic consciousness," in other words there is the element of feeling 

 to be recognized from the first. 



In passing, we may note the definition of emotion growing out 

 of the discussion. "Pleasure and pain of accommodation, plus 

 pleasure and pam of habit, plus a certain lot of qualities contributed 

 to consciousness by more or less habitual processes of muscle, organ, 

 and gland, going on at the time." 



We cannot follow the discussion into details which the reader fa- 

 miliar with the previous works of the author may anticipate in a 

 measure. It is sufficient to repeat that the perusal of the book will 

 prove suggestive to all careful readers. 



C. L. H. 



Psychology of Childliood.' 



The demand for an adequate theory of psychogenesis has been 

 so long-standing and so urgent that we wonder not so much at the 

 present zeal with which observations and experiments are being pushed 

 along this line as at the fact that this development has been so long 

 retarded. Since comparative psychology and child-psychology now 

 have the field and promise to hold it for some time to come, the ap- 

 pearance of several excellent manuals designed to guide subsequent 

 students is a real advantage not only to these students themselves but 

 to their science. In the department of child-psychology Mr. Tracy's 

 work will spare the beginner much of the tedious bibliographical 

 drudgery and should at the same time so equip him as to produce re- 

 sults more coherent in themselves and more easily assimilable into the 

 body of the science than much which has preceded. He has pre- 

 sented us in 170 pages with a fairly complete account of the best ob- 

 servations thus far made on infant psychology, without, however, ex- 

 tending it to children of school age. The work is, as suggested in 

 the introduction, more than a compilation. The matter is well di- 

 gested and is unified by a sound psychological principle. The author's 

 psychology is conservative and no new or startling theories are ad- 

 vanced. In fact the chief value of the book lies in this absence of all 

 'special pleadmg.' 



In discussing memory on page 68 the question is asked. Which of 

 the senses furnishes the most vivid and lasting memory-images ? The 

 muscular sense is regarded as of paramount importance here. Noth- 



iTracy, Frederick. The Psychology of Childhood. 2d Ed. Boston, D. 

 C. Heath and Co., 1894. 



