July 14, 1922] 



SCIENCE 



45 



Analysis of Mind is grounded. Yet I can not 

 forbear to call the interested reader's attention 

 to the mortal wound which Russell himself 

 inflicts upon his argument by his treatment, in 

 Lecture XII, of belief. He has rested the whole 

 realistic theory of consciousness as "neutral 

 stuff" on the denial of the "personal" or "func- 

 tion" conception of consciousness.- Yet here 

 he insists that "believing," a present occur- 

 rence "in the believer" is "an actual experi- 

 enced feeling,"^ a personal "attitude."^ Pro- 

 fessor Keyser, to be sure, might regard this as 

 one of those "notably frequent public recanta- 

 tions of experience" which testify to Russell's 

 "ceaseless re-examination of seeming certitudes 

 and ... to an unsurpassed intellectual can- 

 dor." But I can not force myself to such a 

 pitch of liberality. I am willing to grant 

 Russell the privilege of changing opinion with 

 every volume, of arguing in 1921 for the neu- 

 tral monism which in 1914-1915 he so bril- 

 liantly refuted.^ But liberality may be carried 

 too far, and for my part I protest that nobody, 

 be he Bertrand Russell himself, shall be at 

 liberty in the course of a given argument to 

 recant, publicly or privately, one of the 

 premises of the argument itself. 



Mary Whiton Calkins 

 Wellesley College 



METHODS OF GERMAN PUBLISHERS 



In Germany the chief publishers of mathe- 

 matical books and periodicals are Springer, 

 Teubner, and Vereinigung wissenschaftlicher 

 Verleger (a combination of the fu'ms: Goschen, 

 Guttentag, Reimer, Triibner and Veit). They 

 have decided that for their mathematical pub- 

 lications of 1922 America shall, in general, be 

 required to pay at least as much as $2.40 per 

 100 marks of the price for Germany. 



Of Jahrbuch iiber die Fortschritte der Matli- 

 ematik, volume 45, part 3 (conclusion) has not 

 been published; but part 1 (1920, 12 + 368 

 pages) and part 2 (1921, 6 + 526 pages) are 

 sold in Germany for 73 and 190 marks respec- 

 tively. The corresponding prices for America 

 are $4.65 and $9.00! Such extortion ought 



= Op. cit., pp. 17 £f. 



3 Op. cit., pp. 233 ff. 



* Op. cit., p. 243. 



5 Cf. The Moni^t, XXIV, XXV, passim. 



appreciably to hasten the appearance of an 

 American abstract journal, the establishment 

 of which has been already approved by the 

 National Research Council. 



But again. Journal fiir die reins und ange 

 ivandte Mathematih (Crelle), volume 151 

 (1920-21), is sold in Germany for 9'6 marks; 

 the price to America is $6.00! 



The publisher of these two periodicals is 

 Vereinigung wissenschaftlicher Verleger. 



The above facts, obtained from the pub- 

 lishers themselves on May 26 and May 31, 1922, 

 will probably suggest to mathematicians the 

 immediate cancellation of all contemplated 

 orders for the publications of Vereinigung 

 wissenschaftlicher Verleger — at least. 



R. C. Archibald 



Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 

 June 12, 1922 



RUSSIAN SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE 



The officers of the Russian Entomo-Phyto- 

 pathologieal Congress sent a request some 

 months ago to American scientific societies and 

 investigators to send to Russia literature on 

 entomological and phytopathological matters. 



In connection with this request the Russians 

 promised to send Russian scientific literature in 

 exchange. Certain difficulties, however, have 

 been found to exist, principal among which is 

 a regulation by the Soviet government made 

 about two months ago which prohibits the 

 sending out of literature from Russia without 

 a special permit. This permit seems very diffi- 

 cult to get. The Russian scientific men, there- 

 fore, who have received American scientific 

 literature in response to their request, feel much 

 embarrassed by their inability to respond by 

 sending Russian literature here, and I have 

 promised to make known, in this way, the facts 

 which have prevented their promised sending 

 of Russian literature to those Americans who 

 have kindly sent scientific papers to them. 



Vernon Kjbllogg 



QUOTATIONS 

 PHYSIOLOGICAL EFFECTS AT HIGH 



ALTITUDES 

 In the Friday evening discourse delivered at 

 the Royal Institution last week Mr. Joseph 



