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at the same time a mother, cannot carry out a system of observations 

 on young children under proper direction without deriving much of edu- 

 tional value from it. True, the scientific results of such amateurish 

 study will be slight ; yet aside from this, the societies for child study 

 find ample justification as educators of parents and primary teachers. 

 It would seem as if no one could observe the hap-hazard way in which 

 children are usually allowed to grow up in the home and the hopelessly 

 mechanical treatment which they too often receive during the first 

 years at school without being impressed with the importance of a more 

 thorough pedagogical training on the part of those upon whom devolves 

 the moulding of the child's mind during its most formative period. Of 

 course there is the danger that inexperienced hands may bungle and 

 develop self-consciousness instead of self-possession on the part of the 

 child. And here much depends on the direction given. 



The Illinois Society for Child Study would seem to be especially 

 favored in its leadership. The presence on its executive committee of 

 such men as Drs. W. O. Krohn, H. H. Donaldson, A. Meyer, and 

 Bayard Holmes, carries with it the assurance of high scientific ideals 

 and a very practical application of them. The papers thus far issued 

 in the official organ of the society are of a very miscellaneous char- 

 acter and of very unequal practical importance. They are all 

 suggestive and well adapted to their double purpose of education 

 and permanent scientific record. Probably the most important single 

 paper is Dr. Krohn's translation, in the first number, of Preyer's " Di- 

 rections for Conducting a Daybook Recording the Development of the 

 Infant from Birth." c. j. H. 



Princeton Contributions to Psycliology.^ 



These semi-annual publications evidence a very commendable 

 activity on the part of the Princeton psychologists. The studies in the 

 present fasciculus may be characterized as practical and suggestive 



^ Edited by J. Mark Baldwin. Vol. I, No. 2. Reprinted from The 

 Psychological Review. Princeton, N. J., The University Press, Price 50 cents. 



Contents. 



I. Studies from the Psychological Laboratory [I-V] : I. Memory for Square 



Size : J. Mark Baldwin and W. J. Shaw ; II. Further Experiments on 

 Memory for Square-Size: H. C. Warren and W. J. Shaw; III. The Effect 

 of Size-Contrast upon Judgments of Position in the Retinal Field: J. 

 Mark Baldwin ; IV. Types of Reaction : J. Mark Baldwin assisted by 

 W. J. Shaw; V. Sensations of Rotation: H. C. Warren. 



II. Sensory Stimulation by Attention : J. G. Hibben. 



