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served as subjects for clinical investigation or as " Versuchsthiere," 

 but they have seldom been so correctly diagnosed as in Mr. Fraser's 

 last tvco articles. The Journal continues its digests of psychologi- 

 cal literature, to which it devotes much care. Such a careful re- 

 view of the contributions to psychology in its various aspects by 

 specialists in the various lines is believed to be presented by no 

 other periodical; several of the most prominent names of special- 

 ists in America will appear as the editors of the different sections, 

 e.g.. Professor Donaldson (Nervous System), Professor Cattell 

 (Association, Reaction), Professor Jastrow (Hypnotism), etc. 



— The American Book Company have issued a new and revised 

 edition of " Cathcart's Literary Reader," a book of selections from 

 English literature which was first published under the editorship 

 of George R. Cathcart some seventeen years ago. The selections 

 are arranged in periods beginning with the age of Elizabeth and 

 coming down to the present day. No attempt is made to give a 

 complete compendium of English literature, only the leading 

 authors, or those whom the compiler regards as such, being repre- 

 sented ; but brief mention is made of many others and of their 

 principal works, so that the volume will serve to a certain extent 

 as an introduction to literary history. The writers of the nine- 

 teenth century are accorded the larger share of the space, on the 

 ground that they are more interesting to us than those of earlier 

 times, which is undoubtedly true ; but we cannot think the editor's 

 choice in all cases a judicious one. In the earlier periods he fol- 



lows the general judgments of critics, giving prominence to those 

 writers who are usually deemed the greatest; but in dealing with 

 contemporaries, as he himself remarks, the guidance of established 

 criticism is less available, and his choice, it seems to us, is not 

 always to be commended. The selections in verse are far more 

 numerous than their importance warrants; such verses as those 

 of Poe on " The Bells" and many others that might be mentioned 

 being unworthy of a place in such a collection ; while, on the other 

 hand, some of our greatest and most influential prose writers, in- 

 cluding John Stuart Mill, John Henry Newman, and Matthew 

 Arnold, are not represented at all. Nevertheless, there is much 

 in the boob that is valuable, and it is certainly superior to the 

 ordinary " reading books," which may indeed teach the pupil to 

 read, but which seldom teach anything of the history of literature 

 or inspire a taste for literary excellence. 



— The manuscript of Part 11. of the " Index to the Literature 

 of Explosives," by Charles E. Munroe, is now ready for printing, 

 and, provided a sufficient number of subscriptions are obtained in 

 advance to warrant doing so, it will be issued in pamphlet form, 

 of approximately 150 octavo pages, at $1 per copy. Part I., issued 

 in 1886, contains the titles of all articles relating in any way to 

 explosives that appear in the American Journal of Arts and Sci- 

 ence, 1819-1886 ; Philosophical Transactions of Royal Society, 1665- 

 1883 ; Journal of Royal United Service Institution, 1857-1885 ; Pro- 

 ceedings U. S. Naval Institute, 1874-1885; Revue D'Artillerie, 



CALENDAR OF SOCIETIES. 



Philosophical Society, Washington. 



May 7.— J. P. Xddings, On the Origin of 

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 and his Sons, Early American Engineers; 

 H. A. Hazen, Scientific Ballooning. 



Appalachian Mountain Club, Boston. 



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 Paths and Camps on Mount Adams ; W. M. 

 Davis, The Relation of Mount Monadnock 

 to Mount Tom. 



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