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THE QUARTERLY REVIEW OF BIOLOGY 



LE DESSIN ENFANTIN. 

 By G. -H. Liquet. Felix Alcan 



zo francs 4! x -j\\ 2.60 (paper) Paris 



An interesting and scholarly discussion, 

 with many illustrations, of children's 

 drawings. The first half of the book 

 deals with the psychological elements of 

 children's drawings, and the last half with 

 their evolution through successive stages. 

 At the end a chapter is devoted to psycho- 

 logical and pedagogical conclusions. 



L'ESPRIT DE CONTRADICTION. Ses 



Manifestations Individuelles et Collectives. 

 By Paul Chavigny. Marcel Riviere 



8 francs 4f x 7!; 160 (paper) Paris 



A psychological and sociological study 

 of the cantankerous person, who is "agin" 

 pretty much everything, individually and 

 collectively. It is an entertaining and, 

 in some degree, significant book. There 

 is a short bibliography appended. 



THE MIND IN SLEEP. 

 By R. F. Fortune. 



Kegan Paul, Trench, Truhner and Co., Ltd. 

 5s. 4! x 7I; xii +114 London 



This little book derives its chief interest 

 from the examples of dreams which it 

 describes in detail. All of them are of the 

 type of mental conflict dreams, and in the 

 cases given the side that wins in the 

 dream is the side that in working life is 

 not in the ascendant. The theoretical 

 discussion is highly technical and chiefly 

 of interest to the psychiatrist. 



DAS RECHNEN DER NATURVOLKER. 

 By Ewald Fettweis. B. G. Teubner 



5 marks 6 x 8f ; iv + 96 (paper) Berlin 

 An interesting digest of the anthro- 

 pological literature regarding mathemati- 

 cal procedures among primitive peoples. 

 The author finds a psychological phylo- 

 genetic parallelism to the ontogenetic 

 development of the child in the highly 

 cultured races, in respect to the evolution 

 of mathematical thinking and technique. 

 There is an extensive bibliography. 



DE OMNIBUS REBUS 

 ET QUIBUSDEM ALUS 



RACIAL OLD-AGE. Being Further Adven- 

 tures in Philosophy and Containing an 

 Exoneration of Woman. 

 By Henry Allen Henry Allen 



$1.00 6 x 9; 34 (paper) Seattle 



This is an amusing book. The Fore- 

 word reads as follows : 



The manuscript for this booket was rejected by 

 two New York publishing firms. No doubt their 

 judgment was correct, especially so as to the pros- 

 pects of future sales. However, being of a perverse 

 nature, I have decided to publish it with my own 

 labour, using for that purpose a multigraph machine. 

 This is my second experience of this sort. My first, 

 a booklet on gravitational theory, has a perfect 

 "No sale" record. I am much consoled, however, 

 for on visiting an important public library I found 

 neither my own book, nor works of Sir Isaac Newton 

 nor any of the notable writings of Captain T. J. J. 

 See. 



The central thesis is put this way: 



Applying philosophical principles to the problem, 

 the author was enabled to develop the factors for 

 determining racial old-age to the point where it 

 may be possible easily to recognize its presence in 

 the human races and individuals. The broad prin- 

 ciple involved is: The race or specie, as it grows old, 

 repeats the indications of senility to be found in the 

 individual of the race or specie as he or she grows 

 old. As a corollary: The causes of racial old-age 

 are the same as those that bring about stoppage of 



