NEW BIOLOGICAL BOOKS 



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dices deal with elementary mathematics. 

 There is little that is original in the book. 

 The sources cited are to a large extent 

 second-hand. Mr. Yule's middle name 

 appears as "Udney" throughout the book. 





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THE QUANTITATIVE METHOD 

 BIOLOGY. 



By Julius MacLeod. 



Longmans, Green and Co. 

 $6.00 5! x 8f; xxiii + zz8 New York 

 The second edition of an original and 

 stimulating treatise, which discusses quan- 

 titative biology along quite unconven- 

 tional lines. The biometrician will profit 

 by reading this book, not for technique 

 but for ideas. 



lin Prince, and F. C. S. Schiller. They 

 like their spirits but are still moderate 

 drinkers — the sort who claim to be able 

 to "take it or leave it alone." 



III. Those "unconvinced as yet." This 

 has an ominous sound. The goblins will 

 probably get them. There are two of 

 these: John E. Coover and Gardner 

 Murphy. 



Finally, IV, are two staunch teetotal- 

 lers, lips-that-touch-spirits-shall-never- 

 touch-mine boys, who are "antagonistic 

 to the claims that such phenomena occur." 

 These two, of whom every scientific man 

 should be proud, whether they are right 

 or wrong, are Joseph Jastrow and the late, 

 and greatly lamented, Harry Houdini. 



The book is great fun, and the Clark 

 University Psychology Department is to 

 be congratulated for having staged so 

 good a show. 



PSYCHOLOGY AND BEHAVIOR 



THE CASE FOR AND AGAINST PSY- 

 CHICAL BELIEF. 

 Edited by Carl Murchison. 



Clark University 



$3 .75 6 x 9; 365 Worcester, Mass. 



This is an entertaining book. Four 



kinds of people contribute to it. These 



are: 



I. Those who are said to be "convinced 

 of the multiplicity of psychical phenom- 

 ena," which we take to be a hedging, pro- 

 fessorial way of designating the worthy 

 folk who swallow their spirits neat, raw, 

 and without reservations as to time, place, 

 or quantity. Here are found those 

 doughty knights, Sir Oliver and Sir 

 Arthur, and four others including, we 

 blush to say, two 9 9 . 



II. Those "convinced of the rarity of 

 genuine psychical phenomena." Here are 

 found McDougall, Driesch, Walter Frank- 



SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGYINTERPRETED. 

 By Jesse William Sprowls. 



The Williams & Wilkins Co. 

 $4.00 5! x 8|; xii + z68 Baltimore 



This is a textbook for beginning stu- 

 dents, written in the traditional mode of 

 such books. The different theories of 

 those who have discussed social psy- 

 chology are expounded, charted in neat 

 tables, and weighed against each other. 

 But the "little red thread" is a very tenu- 

 ous one indeed. About the only one we 

 could find was that the author throughout 

 regards it as impossible for individual 

 behavior to be specifically distinguished 

 from social behavior. It seems odd to 

 find a book about social psychology in 

 which neither Pareto nor Malinowski 

 are mentioned, and in which there is no 

 reference to William Graham Sumner's 

 Folkways. 





