LITERARY NOTICES, 



years ago. Dr. Talmage's treatise is very like 

 the Handbook as to scope and method, and 

 the author quotes his predecessor frequently 

 in foot-notes. It is divided into four parts, 

 treating respectively of Air and Ventilation 

 with chapters on Heating and Lighting, Wa- 

 ter, Food and its Cookery, Cleansing Agents, 

 to the last of which is added Poisons and 

 their Antidotes. In each of these divisions 

 the laws of Nature that especially concern 

 the matters in hand are stated, and the evil 

 effects of disregarding these laws in each 

 case are pointed out. The text is much 

 strengthened by illustrations. The book has 

 been adopted as a text-book for the Territory 

 of Utah, and the present is a second and re- 

 vised edition prepared for such use. The in- 

 troduction of this subject into the schools can 

 not fail to do much good. 



Introduction to Physiological Psychology. 

 By Dr. Theodor Ziehen. Translated by 

 C. C. Van Liew and Dr. Otto Beyer. 

 New York: Macmillan & Co. Pp. 284. 

 Price, $1.50. 



The recent introduction of the inductive 

 and evolutionary mode of treatment into the 

 field of mental science has brought forth 

 abundant fruit where, for a long time, bar- 

 ren speculation had held sway. Psychology, 

 or a division of it at least, has become a 

 natural science, and knowledge of mental 

 processes has been rapidly extended in con- 

 sequence. Especially has this work gone on 

 actively in Germany, and the facts obtained 

 have received two distinct interpretations — 

 the one held by Wundt and his school, the 

 other by Miinsterberg and Ziehen. Only one 

 treatise on physiological psychology — the 

 large work by Prof. Ladd, of Yale — has ap- 

 peared in English, hence the translators have 

 thought that such a small introductory com- 

 pendium as the present volume would be de- 

 sirable. The work originated in a series of 

 lectures that Dr. Ziehen has delivered at the 

 University of Jena for several years. It has 

 been the aim of the author throughout to 

 develop all explanations from physical or 

 physiological data, and to account for the 

 presence of certain functions by an applica- 

 tion of the laws .of evolution. The doctrines 

 that he presents differ essentially from 

 Wundt's theory and conform closely to the 

 English psychology of association. By intro- 



ducing an especial auxiliary function, the so- 

 called apperception, for the explanation of 

 certain psychical processes, Wundt evades nu- 

 merous difficulties in demonstration. This 

 book is intended to show that such an " aux- 

 iliary function " is superfluous, and that all 

 psychological phenomena can be explained 

 without it. 



Chemical Lecture Experiments. By G. S. 

 Newth, F. I. C. London and New York : 

 Longmans, Green & Co. 1892. Pp. 323. 

 Price, $3. 



This book is of some importance to 

 chemical lecturers and teachers, as well as 

 being a valuable assistance to the chemical 

 student. It consists of six hundred and 

 thirty-two illustrated experiments, which are 

 given with remarkable lucidity, the author 

 claiming that " no account of any experiment 

 has been introduced upon the authority sole- 

 ly of any verbal or printed description, but 

 every experiment has been the subject of his 

 own personal investigation, and illustrated 

 by woodcuts from original drawings." It is 

 arranged in such a manner that students may 

 learn from it the methods of preparation and 

 most of the important properties of the non- 

 metallic elements and their more common 

 compounds. As a companion to the lectures 

 which he may attend, the chemical student 

 will find fully described in this book most, 

 if not all, of the experiments he is likely to 

 see performed upon the lecture table, there- 

 by relieving him from the necessity of labori- 

 iously noting the apparatus, etc., used by the 

 demonstrator. Many of the experiments are 

 novel and interesting, and the tables which 

 form the appendix will be found to contain 

 important information for which books of 

 reference are usually needed. 



An overgrown volume of nearly fifteen 

 hundred pages on Education in the Industrial 

 and Fine Arts in the United States comes to 

 us from the Bureau of Education. This is 

 only the second part of a special report by 

 Isaac Edwards Clarke, and the editor states 

 that most of the matter intended for this vol- 

 ume has been relegated to a third part. There 

 is first an Introduction of over a hundred 

 pages, in which the editor devotes several of 

 the early pages to telling how his first part 

 has been praised. Soon after this come three 



