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MISCELLANEOUS 

 Fdbre : Poet of Science. By Dr. C. V. Legros. 



A second impression of a book first published in 1913, 

 which gives an account of the life of one whom Darwin 

 described as "an inimitable observer " of insects and 

 small animals. 



From a Modern University. Some .\ims and Aspira- 

 tions of Science. By Prof. Arthur Smithells, 

 F.R.S. (Oxford University Press, 12s. 6d.) 

 Occasional addresses given before 1914 on the relation 

 of the modern Universities to the world, on the relation 

 of science to life, on classical and scientific curricula in 

 schools, and allied subjects. Well-informed and interesting. 

 Like Prof. Soddy's book. Science and Life, on similar 

 subjects, it suffers through being a collection of addresses 

 and not a continuous book. A discussion by these authors 

 of the subjects of this book embracing the lessons taught 

 by the war, particularly with regard to the relation between 

 both the modern and the older Universities and public 

 life, would be a valuable one. A book on these lines is 

 badly wanted. 



A Short History of Newnham College, Cambridge. 

 By Alice Gardner, M.A. (Bowes & Bowes, 

 ys. 6d.) 



A singularly interesting account, by a former Fellow and 

 Lecturer of Newnham, of the rise and growth of her old 

 college. In the autumn of 1871 a house was found in 

 Regent Street, Cambridge, and Miss Clough (sister of the 

 poet) and five students began their common life in a new 

 stage in the movement for the higher education of women. 

 They had few comforts, no garden, no games, not a little 

 opposition, and many battles to fight. To-day Newnham is 

 large and fiourishing, with four halls of residence, well 

 stafted, well equipped, and with a tradition of wliich every 

 woman who has passed through her gates is proud. The 

 book is dedicated to two who did much for Newnham in 

 the early days — Jliss A. J. Clough and Henry Sidgwick. 

 It is not in the least controversial in tone, but the case for 

 the admission of Cambridge women to higher degrees is 

 well put. 



A Philosopher with Nature. By Benjamin Kidd. 



(Mcthuen & Co., Ltd., 6s.) 

 Some Birds of the Countryside. The Art of Nature. 



By H. J. M.\ssiNGHAM. (T. Fisher Unwin, Ltd.) 

 Our Title and Its Import. The Presidential Address for 



1920-21, dehvered at Bedford College by Prok. 



Otto Jespersen. (Publications of The Modern 



Humanities Research Association, No. 4. Bowes 



& Bowes, Cambridge, is.) 



PHILOSOPHY 

 The Reign of Relativity. By Viscount Haldane. 



(John Murray, 21s.) 

 -•1 Treatise on Probability. By John Maynard 



Keynes. (Macmillan and Co., Ltd., i8s.) 



PSYCHOLOGY 

 The Analysis oj Mind. By Bertr.vnd Russell, F.R.S. 

 (G. Allen & Unwin, i6s.) 



The Beloved Ego. 

 bs. 6d.) 



The 



Hy Dr. W. Stekel. (Kegan Paul, 



International Psycho-Analytical Library. Edited 

 by Ernest Jones. (The International Psycho- 

 Analytical Press and George Allen & Unwin.) 

 No. I. Addresses on Psycho-Analysis. By Dr. J. J. 

 Putnam. Price 17s. (>d. 



No. 2. Psycho-Analysis and the War Neurosis. 

 Price ys. 6d. 



Dr. Putnam was Emeritus Professor of Neurology at 

 Harvard, and one of the earliest, and latterly the most 

 distinguished, exponents of psycho-analysis in the United 

 States. This book contains twenty-two papers written 

 between igog, when the author became interested in the 

 movement, and 1918, when he died. They are written in 

 a charming style, revealing the outlook of a large-minded 

 and particularly sane American. Most are of an exposi- 

 tory nature. They show (as Dr. Freud points out in a 

 short introduction) how the writer accepted the essence of 

 psycho-analysis, recognised its capacity for throwing a 

 clear light upon the origin of human imperfections, and 

 how he was struck by the prospect of contributing towards 

 the improvement of humanity along analytical lines ; 

 how he then became convinced by his own activities as a 

 physician as to the truth of most of the psycho-analytical 

 conclusions and postulates, and then in his turn bore 

 witness to the fact that the physician who makes use of 

 analysis understands far more about the suffering of his 

 patients and can do more for them than was possible 

 with the earlier methods of treatment ; and, finally, how 

 he began to extend beyond the limits of analysis, demand- 

 ing that as a science it should be linked on to a particula- 

 philosophi,cal system, and that its practice should be 

 openly associated with a particular set of ethical doctrines 

 The book may be recommended to those who have some 

 knowledge of psycho-analysis as heartily as one would 

 recommend a good volume of sermons. 



The second volume contains an article on war shock 

 and Freud's theory of the neuroses, by Dr. Ernest Jones, 

 and three papers on similar subjects read at a Congress 

 at Budapest in 1918. A technical work for advanced 

 students. 



SCIENCE 

 The Scale of the Universe. By H.vrlow Shapley, Mount 

 Wilson Observatory and Carnegie Institution of 

 Washington, and Heber D. Curtis, Director 

 Allegheny University. (Bulletin of the National 

 Research Council of the National Academy of 

 Sciences, Washington, D.C., 60 cents.) 



