Tavo Masterpieces on Education 



JAMES'S TALKS ON PSYCHOLOGY 



TALKS TO TEACHERS ON PSYCHOLOGY AND TO 

 STUDENTS ON SOME OF LIFE'S IDEALS. By Wil- 

 liam James, Professor in Harvard University, Author of 

 "The Principles of Psychology," etc. xi -(- 301 pp., i2mo, 

 gilt top. ^1.50, net, 



Contents: Psychology and the Teacliing- Art ; The Stream of Consciousness ; 

 'Ihe Child as a Behaving- Organism ; Education and Behavior ; The Neces- 

 sity of Reactions ; Native and Acquired Reactions ; What the Native Reac- 

 tions Are ; The Laws of Habit ; The Association of Ideas ; Interest ; Atten- 

 tion ; Memory ; The Accjuisition of Ideas ; Apperception ; The Will ; The 

 Gospel of Relaxation ; On a Certain BHndtiess in Human Beings ; What 

 Makes Life Sig'niticant. 

 In writing these " Talks " out, (he author has fi^radually weeded out as much 



as pos'^.ible of the analytical technicalities of the science. In their present 



form tliey contain a minimum of wh.it is deemed '"scientific " in psychology 



and are practical and popular in the extreme. 



The Nation : " His style hjs the quality of a communicable fervor, a clear, 



prrave passion of sincerity and conviction, from wliich some vibration detaches 



iiself and passes into the reader, and forms him into the writer's mood." 



TA^ Critic : " When pedagogical libraries can show a preponderance of fuc'i 



books, they may well begin to rival the fiction departments in popularity,'' 



WALKER'S DISCUSSIONS IN 

 EDUCATION 



By the late Francis A. Walker, President of the Massachu- 

 setts Institute of Technology. Edited by James Phinney 



MUNROE. 342 pp., SVO. S3. CO, /Iff. 



The author had hoped himself to collect these papers in a volume. 



T/te Dial: "A fitting memorial to its author. . . , The breaath of his 

 experience, .'is well as the natural range of his mind, are here reflected. Tlie 

 subjects dealt with are all live and practical. ... He never deals with them 

 in a narrow or so-called ' practical '' way." 



Literature : " The distinguishing" traits of these papers are open-minded- 

 ness. breaith, and saniiy. ... No capable student of educatinn will overlook 

 General Walker's book; no serious collection of books on cd ucation will be 

 without it. The distinguished author's honesty, sagacity, and courage shine 

 on every page," 



The Boston Transcript : " Two of his conspicuous merits characterize these 

 papers, the peculiar power he possessed of enlisting and retaining the attention 

 for what are commonly supposed to be dry and difficult subjects, and the ca- 

 pacity he had for controversy, sharp and incisive, but so candid and g-enerous 

 ♦hat it left no festering wound." 



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