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dike has been prominent in adding to our knowledge of animal 

 psychology and his books are authoritative, clear and interesting. 

 His psychological discussions are free from the technical expres- 

 sions that rendered much of the older psychology unintelligible 

 to the layman. Every nature teacher dealing with animals 

 should read a book of this sort so as to appreciate the problems 

 and to guard against hasty conclusions and anthropomorphic 

 expressions. 



The Evolution of Auimal Intelligence. S. J. Holmes. Her.ry 

 Holt & Company, pages 2!)(). $2. To. 



Dr. Holmes in this book gives a very good summary of the 

 work that has been done in recent years on the experimental 

 study of intelligence in animals from the Protozoa up. The 

 headings of the chapters will give an idea of the scope of the 

 work: Chapter I, Introduction; H, Reflex Action; HI. The 

 Tropisms ; IV, The Behavior of Protozoa ; V. Instinct ; \T, The 

 Evolution of Instinct ; VH, The Non-Intelligent Modifications of 

 Behavior; VHI, Pleasure. Pain, and the Beginnings of Intelli- 

 gence ; IX, Primitive Types of Intelligence in Crustaceans and 

 Molluscs ; X, Intelligence in Insects ; XI, Intelligence in the 

 Lower \'ertebrates ; XII, The Intelligence of Mammals; XIII, 

 The Mental Life of Apes and Monkeys. 



God's Calendar by W'm. A. Quayle, pages 76 with thirteen full 

 page plates. Jennings and Graham. Sl.oO. 



This charming book is a series of brief essays on the months 

 with an introductory one on God's Calendar. The plates are 

 exquisite ; each is appropriate to one of the several months. Any- 

 one who knows Bishop Ouayle's diction will anticipate a pleasure 

 in reading this book and he will be in nowise disappointed. 



The Career of the Child, Maxmilian P. E. Groszmann. Rich- 

 ard G. Badger. Publisher. Boston, pages 335. price $2.50. 



Frederick E. Bolton. State L^niversity of Iowa, writing the 

 introduction to this book says. "It would mean much if every 

 teacher from the kindergarten through the university could be 

 well grounded in the fundamental principles of biolog\\ anthro- 

 pology, psychology and sociology." 



