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... ntent at http://about.jstor.org/participate--jstor/individuals/early-journal--content. JSTOR is a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary source objects. JSTOR helps people discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content through a powerful research and teaching platform, and preserves this content for future generations. JSTOR is part of ITHAKA, a not--for--profit organization that also includes Ithaka S+R and Portico. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org. 478 478 PSYCHOLOGIOAL LITERATURE. PSYCHOLOGIOAL LITERATURE. lies only too fi2red between. It is this step-motherly repression this reluctance and paucity of concession, the shoals of asice scruples on which he tries to run aground the argosies of hope and promise which may be yet the best thing in a movement so vas4 and so rapidly growing -these are what come dangerously near nlaking this a " psychoiogy without a soul," in a sense more fatal than the author's insistent hylophobia dreams of. This is a book of the old dispensation, dignified and prophetic of but not itself a gospel of? the new. These souls are not lost altiough they die without seeing the full light. The intellect is convinced, but the heart is not converted. Nature is not yet heartily loared and trusted. The reason for this halting attitude, we believe lies not in thb author's lack of long familiarity with the practical details of laboratory and clinic so much as in a sluggishness of religious perception, a lack of prophetic insight and depth. No one has so clearly seen that the old days of opposition between faith and science the days of Huxley's early papers of Tyndall's prayergauge, of a mairialism never academic, and now made obsolete by dynamisn-are forever gone, and that a new sense of harmony has arisen, as shown in neo-0hristians like Phillips Brooks, who boa#ted that he had never preached on the relations between science and religion, but always had felt them one like Drummond, who sees in evolution only the most potent reiniorcement of Christianity like C. M. Williams, in his "Evolutional Ethics; " Paul Desjardins, ana many yolmger men who are to shape the future. Professor Ladd can no more extract sunshine from a cucumber than he can get new religious light or heat from scientific psychology, which to an increasing number is more and more dear because big with promise for larger ahristian living. These things should, of course, have no place in a text-book, but should shed a kindly light over it. Without it, we repeat, we are dealing with psychology without a soul, and the teacner is merely kindling a back fire, lest the fire of the "burning bush" spread and kindle the soul with a little enthusiasm. These hbme-spun metaphors may express, at least the present writer's sentiment toward the general spirit and att?tude of the book. Its other chief defect is shared with many other text-books. The time, we think, has fully come when every psychological course, and7 therefore, te2rt-book, should at least glance at the anthropological, the morbid, the psychogenetic side. Of all three of these fields,taught every year at this university svith much copiousness, there is scarcely a trace, while instinct is very inadequately treated Unlike details concerning the senses, these lie in the scope of the book, but are simply ignored. Yet, just these are the newest and most promising lines of development. In fiIle, like Porter's " Intellect," this volume is a very valuable and faithfully made summary within it# field, and it is there it should be judged. It contributes little that is new, and in it# present bulk can do little good as a class book. The small edition which will no doubt follow, we shall await with interest.