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who have not been in the habit of attending to this aspect of our 

 mental operations. 



— Of the two numbers of the American Journal of Psychology 

 recently issued, one completes the third, and the other begins the 

 fourth, volume of that magazine. The first coutains an interesting 

 article on the attitudes of the insane (" Automatic Muscular Move- 

 ments of the Insane," by Dr. Charles P. Bancroft, superintendent 

 of the New Hampshire asylum), illustrated with a plate showing 

 some typical ones, Mr. Herbert Nichols contributes the historical 

 part of a continued article on the " Psychology of Time," and Dr. 

 C. F. Hodge one on the " Recovery of Ganglion Cells after Elec- 

 trical Stimulation." Besides the usual reviews and abstracts upon 

 psychological literature ("Nervous System," Dr. H. H. Donald- 

 son; "General Paralysis," Dr. Wm. Noyes; "Experimental"), 

 the number contains a long and vigorous critique, by the editor, 

 of Professor James's "Psychology." With this number is fur- 

 nished also a complete index to authors of papers received, and a 

 carefully made subject-index to the large amount of matter gath- 

 ered in the review department. With the first number of the new 

 volume, a change in the title-page and publisher (now J. H. Orpha, 

 Clark University, Worcester, Mass.) has been made. The first 

 article, by Dr. E. W. Scripture, is a very readable account of the 

 arithmetical prodigies that have from time to time astonished the 

 world of less ready reckoners, and of the methods by which their 

 feats have been performed. The other leading article is a con- 

 tinuation from the previous number of Mr. Herbert Nichols's 

 study of the psychology of time. The author first presents the 

 results of his own long course of experimentation, a special phase 

 of this difficult subject, and then makes exposition of an extremely 

 plausible theory of his own with reference to how time is per- 

 ceived and apperceived. The place of the usual reviews and ab- 

 stracts is this time taken by four minor contributions, one upon 

 " Cerebral Localization," by Dr H. H. Donaldson, being a report 

 of six lectures on cerebral localization delivered before the Boston 

 Medico-Psychological Society in February and March of this year, 

 and giving in convenient shape, and sifted of unnecessary detail, 

 a summary of recent anatomical contributions to this important 

 subject. Another is upon " Brain Models," and by the same 

 author. The third is the first installment of a laboratory course 

 in physiological psychology, by Dr. E. C. Sanford, in substance 

 a course given in Clark University. The fourth article is the first 

 of a series upon contemporary psychologists, by the editor, this 

 time upon Zeller, and deals largely with his contributions to the 

 psychology of religion. We are confidently assured that there is 

 no thought of permanently displacing the reviews. 



— The May number of the Atlantic Monthly contains a number 

 of articles of interest to teachers. Chief among these is a paper 

 hy Professor Truman Henry Safford of Williams College, on the 

 "Modern Teaching of Arithmetic." The author traces the teach- 

 ing of arithmetic from the time of the Greeks and Romans to our 

 own day, shows the great influence of Warren Colbum and bis 

 "First Lessons," and ends his paper with a long account of the 

 Grube method and its adaptability to the present times and methods 

 of instruction. 



— The March number of the publications of the American Sta- 

 tistical Association contains " The Growth of Cities in Massachu- 

 setts," by Hon. Horace G. Wadlin; " Rate of Natural Increase of 

 Population in United States," by Herman Hollerith; "The First 

 Census of Massachusetts," by Hon. Samuel A. Green; "The 

 Commercial Death Rate," by Albert C. Stevens; "Parliamentary 

 Elections in Japan," by Theodore M. MacNair; Reviews and No- 

 tices: Reports of Bureaus of Labor Statistics; Notes on President 

 Walker's Article on Statistics of the Colored Race; The Birth 

 Rate in Europe during the Last Twenty Years; United States 

 Census Bulletins; Reports of State Boards of Charities and Cor- 

 rections; Health and Vital Statistics; Statistical Year-Book of 

 Uruguay ; Report of the Comptroller of the Currency ; Municipal 

 Finance, Price Statistics; Minor Notices. 



— The May issue of Psyche, a Journal of Entomology, contains 

 " A List of the Orthoptera of Illinois, — IV." (concluded), by Je- 

 rome McNeill ; "A Supplementary Note on Diabrotica, 12-punc- 



tata," by H. Garman; " Descriptions of the Preparatory Stages of 

 Two Forms of Cerura Oinerea Walk.," by Harrison G. Dyar; 

 "Two New Tachinids," by C. H. Tyler Townsend; "Edwards's 

 Butterflies of North America;" "Packard's Forest-insects;" 

 Personal Notes; and Proceedings of the Cambridge Entomological 

 Club. 



— Houghton, Mifflin, & Co. will publish immediately Mr. 

 Fiske's work on the "American Revolution," in two volumes. 



— T. Y. Crowell & Co. have just ready the third volume of 

 Sybel's work on " The Founding of the German Empire." This 

 volume is almost wholly occupied with events that occurred 

 between 1848, when King Christian of Denmark died, and 1864, 

 when the preliminaries of peace between Denmark and Germany 

 were signed. 



— G. P. Putnam's Sons have just ready, in the Questions of the 

 Day Series, ' ' The Question of Copyright ; " the second edition, 

 thoroughly revised and extended, of W. Swan Sonnenschein's 

 "The Best Books," a list of the best available books in every de- 

 partment of literature ; and a sketch of the life of Charles Darwin 

 in the Leaders of Science Series. 



— D. Appleton & Co. announce for early publication Baldwin's 

 " Applied Psychology and Art of Teaching; " Herbart's " Psy- 

 chology; " " A Descriptive Guide-Book to Canada," including ac- 

 counts of the opportunities for sportsmen and tourists, by Charles 

 G. D. Roberts; new editions of Appleton's "Dictionary of New 

 York," " Summer Resorts," and "General Guide to the United 

 States and Canada; " and " North America," Vol. XV. of Reclus's 

 great work, "The Earth and Its Inhabitants." 



— Hypnotism, which is now attracting such widespread atten- 

 tion, is considered in No. 3 of the Fowler & Wells Library, under 

 the title of "How to Magnetize; or. Mesmerism and Clairvoy- 

 ance, a Practical Treatise on the Choice, Management, and Capa- 

 bilities of Subjects, with Instructions on the Manner of Proce- 

 dure," by James Victor Wilson. The work closes with a chapter 

 on animal magnetism as a therapeutic means, written by Dr. 

 Fleming. 



— The fifth volume of the Century Dictionary has just been 

 issued. The fourth was issued six months ago, and it is expected 

 to complete the book by the publication of the sixth and last 

 volume in the autumn. The present volume brings the work 

 down to Stro-, the words defined numbering now about 185,000. 

 This number is the more surprising when it is considered that no 

 effort has been made to swell the total, but, on the contrary, care- 

 ful selection has constantly been exercised. It would have been 

 easy, by the admission of self-explaining derivates, and of " new 

 words " from unauthoritative (unscientific and unliterary) sources, 

 to have increased the list by many thousands. In the above enum- 

 eration transitive and intransitive uses of the same verb, and sub- 

 stantive and adjective uses of the same word, are counted but 

 once (being entered under one head in the dictionary) instead of 

 twice as in the older dictionaries (where they are entered sep- 

 arately as different "words"). The fifth volume is more dis- 

 tinctively literary in character than those that preceded it, owing 

 to the greater proportion of literary words in R and S. It con- 

 tains, however, many important scientific terms, as spectrum, 

 spectroscope, Saturn, etc., and a glance at the pages will show 

 many unusually interesting definitions, as under ship, rifle, shoe, 

 relation, relief, run, rack, safe, star, steam-engine, stand, etc., 

 with hundreds of exquisite engravings of art-objects. The bulk 

 of the volume consists of the letter S, which (as far as Stro-) 

 occupies 716 pages, with about 21,500 words. The entire letter 

 will occupy 860 pages, being the largest in the dictionary. 



— "Crustacea from the northern coast of Yucatan, the harbor 

 of Vera Cruz, the west coast of Florida, and the Bermuda Islands," 

 is the title of a paper by J. E. Ives, in the Proceedings of the 

 Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, March 31. The Crus- 

 tacea treated of in this paper were collected for the greater part 

 on the northern coast of Yucatan and in the harbor of Vera Cruz, 

 during the early months of 1890, by the expedition in charge of 

 Professor Angelo Heilprin, sent by the Academy of Natural Sci- 



