Two Masterpieces on Education 



JAMES'S TALKS TO TEACHERS ON 

 PSYCHOLOGY 



AND TO STUDENTS ON SOME OF LIFE'S IDEALS. By 

 William James, Professor in Harvard University. Author 

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

 gilt top. $1.50, net. 



In writing- these " Talks " out, the author has gradually weeded out as much 

 as possible of the analytical technicalities of the science, while preserving all 

 of the concrete practical applications. In their present form, they contain a 

 minimum of what is deemed " scientific " in psychology and are practical and 

 popular in the extreme. In the last two articles the author trenches upon 

 ethical grounds and speaks for the rights of individualism in a way which 

 readers of his Will to Believe will recognize. 



Contents : Psychology and the Teaching Art ; The Stream of Consciousness ; 

 The Child asa 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 Acquisition of Ideas ; Apperception; The Will; The 

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

 Makes Life Significant. 



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., 8vo. $3.00, net. 

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



The Dial: "A iitting" memorial 10 its author. . . . The breadth of his 

 experience, as well as the natural range of his mind, are here reflected. The 

 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 brea-ith,' and sanity. . . . No capable student of education will overlook 

 General Walker's book; no serious collection of books on education 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 

 capers 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- 

 nacity he had for contioversy, sharp and incisive, but so candid and generous 

 that it left no festering wound." 



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