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tendencies that thought may arise and develop." It seems of doubt- 

 ful propriety to regard either as derived from the other since both are 

 probably primitive. 



In conclusion, the author regards it as established that there is a 

 constant and rigorous parallelism betv/een the conscious life and the 

 motor life and that the phenomena of consciousness act and react up- 

 on each other like the motor phenom.ena to which they correspond. 

 While accepting many of the fundamental postulates of the newer 

 monists and often adopting their phraseology, he maintains a strictly 

 dualistic attitude throughout, quoting with approval Paulhan, "There 

 are not a spiritual world and a material world acting upon each other; 

 there is a parallelism between them and not reciprocal action." 



While we should in many cases draw conclusions different from 

 those of the author from the evidence presented, yet the book has 

 much to commend it as a sincere and conservative attempt to solve 

 some of the deeper psychological problems of today. 



c. J. H. 



The Standard Dictionary. 



By courtesy of the publishers (Funk and Wagnalls Co., New 

 York) we have placed upon our table a copy of the Standard Diction- 

 ary. While a critical review of philological principles would be out 

 of place here, yet the work possesses some points of practical interest to 

 the student and the author which merit notice. It claims to offer a 

 layer vocabulary than any other English dictionary; and, while not a 

 dictionary of technology, we have found the selection of technical 

 terms in anatomy, physiology and medicine comprehensive and well- 

 selected beyond our expectation. The large number of such terms 

 admitted has been made possible by frequently grouping them in ta- 

 bles under the name of the specialty to which they belong, thus under 

 craniometry over two hundred special terms are defined. The phonetic 

 spellings recommended by the American Philological Association are 

 given a place along with the current forms ; the rules for the com- 

 pounding of words are an advance upon anything which has thus far 

 appeared, though the application of even these simple rules seems 

 rather cumbersome ; illustrations are very numerous and usually ex- 

 cellent. The full page color plates are worthy of special mention. 



A convenience of the greatest practical value is the position of 

 the definition, which immediately follows the vocabulary term. So 

 also, the most common significance is placed first, the others follow- 

 ing in order of usage ; last of all the etymology, the quotations, deriv- 



