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C [laughing]. IVe call it a cheese, but it isn't really. I 

 don't know. 



D [reverently]. The moon is God. [" Is that exactly what 

 you mean .'' "] No ; I mean because God made the moon ; I 

 don't know what it is at all. 



E. I know it is a big thing, and I think to myself it's 

 something like the sun : it shines just as bright. 



F. Don't know, never thought. 



2. What is thunder } 



A. When clouds meet together and make a great noise ; 

 when they bang together. 



B. Don't know. 



C. Thunder makes a noise, that's what it is. 



D. Long pause ; then, " Is thunder God ? Wei!, God sends 

 thunder, does not he ? " Then followed a long outpour on the 

 folly of standing under a tree during a thunder-storm. 



E. A rolling thing that makes a great deal of noise, that's 

 what it is. 



F. Nasty little beasts. Further inquiry brought out, " It 

 kills nasty little beasts that eat the cabbages." 



3. If you went up in a balloon higher and higher, what would you 



come to at last ? 



A. The sky. The sky is heaven. [Very shyly] I forget 

 what heaven is. 



B. We should come to the sky : the sky is water. 



C. I don't know. 



D. I don't know ; but I know if you go up high enough 

 you can't breathe [here followed remarks too numerous and 

 rapid to be taken down]. 



E. Clouds and heaven. 



F. Come to the sky. I don't know what the sky is. 



4. What age do you think it would be nicest to be, and why } 



A. I don't know. I don't want to grow older all of a 

 sudden. 



B. Twelve [but she was too shy to tell me why]. 



C. Seven, because it is a year older, because then I should 

 not have to go to school so long. 



D. Nine, because I think then I should know a little 

 more. 



E. Well, for myself, I should think about thirty, because 

 you would be of age, and could do nearly what you liked. 

 I should go to theatres and cricket, and play football and 

 run races. [" Shall you do any work ? "] Oh, yes ! 

 [" What should you do ? "] Well, if I had my own choice, 

 I should not mind being a coachman, that's what I like — 

 horses. [" Do you like dogs too ? "] Well, I haven't had 

 much to do with dogs. 



F. Twenty, because I could wear trousers then — • and 

 what age would _)/o« like to be ? 



5. What do dogs think about ? Can they talk to each other ? 



How? 



A [much amused]. Oh! I don't know; I don't know if 

 they think or not. They talk in their way, I don't know 

 what they say. 



B. Don't know. I don't think they do think. No. 



C. They don't think at all, do they ? They can bark, not 

 talk properly, but they understand each other. 



D. Think about nothing but eating. No, except they can 

 bark. 



E. Some dogs think about biting people, some about eat- 

 ing things, and some dogs think about being kind to people. 

 They talk in a dog language that people can't understand. 



F. Biting and fighting. I don't know any thing else. Yes, 

 they bark. 



6. If you could go to the bottom of the sea, what should you expect 



to see ? 



A. Sand and stones and fish. I don't think there is any 

 thing else. 



B. Animals, fishes, sand, and stones ; nothing else. 



C. You would not see any thing, because it is so dark when 

 you are under the sea. 



D. I have never seen the sea. [" Tell me what you think 

 it is like."] It's blue, and the waves come up higher than 



this chair. I should see a lot of sand, and a lot of shells, and 

 a lot of fishes, and a lot of crabs. They bite your legs dread- 

 fully, crabs do. 



E. Fish and shells, seaweeds, and some boats, perhaps, 

 that had sunk ; jelly-fish, I dare say, and I've heard [very 

 mysteriously] that there are mermaids, but I don't think so, 

 do you } 



F. Fishes, people which have been drowned. 

 7. What are fairies ? Where do they live ? 



A. There aren't such things. 



B. Don't know. They are fairies ; they are just fairies. T 

 don't know where they live. 



C. Don't think I ever heard of them. 



D. Fairies are spirits : they look rather like an angel. Yes,, 

 rather. We can't see angels ; there might be an angel \n> 

 this room, and you and I could not see it. Angels are sO' 

 light, any one could lift an angel. When Jesus was on earth 

 there were angels. Do you know what wonderful things. 

 Jesus could do ? [A fluent story of the paralytic man fol- 

 lowed.] That was years ago, they don't do such things, 

 nowadays. Fairies live under trees ; acorns are their tea~ 

 cups. 



E. I know there are those, because there was one screamed; 

 out to mother. Very little things, I expect, not much larger- 

 than this [he measured about an inch and a quarter]. They 

 live in the woods and under toad-stools. I expect they come- 

 into our houses at night. 



F. There are none. 



Sense of Beauty. 



1. What flower do you think the prettiest, and why.'' 



A. Oh ! they are all so pretty ; I don't know. [" Suppose 

 I promised to give you a nosegay of several pretty flowers, 

 which would you choose ? "] Forget-me-nots and violets 

 and daisies and may-blossoms ; I don't know what else. 



B. Gardinias, because they smell so nice. 



C. A rose, because it is a very pretty flower ; there is 

 nothing else like a rose. 



D. A sunflower, I think, don't you ? [" I think I like some 

 others better."] Oh ! but just you remember how long they 

 last, and those tiny flowers don't last very long. I say [very 

 confidentially], do you like bread-and-butter pudding ? [" Not 

 much."] I'll tell you what I like, and I am sure you will toOf 

 and that's suet-pudding smoking hot with raisins in it [a long 

 outpour on puddings followed]. 



E. A rose. It has a lot of sort of little things inside,, 

 petals, red and yellow, cream-colored and white. 



F. A white rose. I like them because I think them pret- 

 tier than any other flower. I don't know what it is like. I 

 can't tell you. 



2. What is the most beautiful thing you ever saw .' 



A. Don't know [thought hajd, still didn't know. " Have 

 you seen any beautiful thing lately } "] Yes, the sea, when; 

 it is calm, and sometimes when it's rough. 



B. Roses. 



C. Stuffed animals and things. 



D [thought a long time, then asked] An animal ? [" Just 

 as you think, any thing."] Well, then, I think an air-ball ; 

 how difficult they must be to make ! [Too rapid a descrip- 

 tion followed to be taken down.] 



E. I like the mountains very much. [" Have you ever seers 

 any?"] Oh! I've been to Italy and France anxl Paris. 1 

 was very little, but I remember the mountains. 



F. I don't know. [He thought hard, and then said,, almost 

 as if watching them] Fireworks, sky-rockets, lovely ! 



BOOK-REVIEWS. 



Grundziige der physiologischen Psychologie. Von WlLHEUffi 

 WuNDT. 2 vols. 3d ed. Leipzig, Engelmann. 8". 



Professor Wundt of the University of Leipzig has indelibly^ 

 associated his name with the development of the scientific study of. 



