ELLIS' MAN AND WOMAN. paign, Illinois, commends the principles and methods of kindergarten instruction to the educational public. Professor Krohn writes in full sympathy with the recent developments of psychological science, and from the standpoint of a wide acquaintance with the latest results of physiological and experimental inquiry. He shares the conviction of many other workers in the same field, that the new science is fitted to furnish not only a sound basis for pedagogics, but also a

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... ded corrective to much that is useless or even harmful in our present educational system. His work in its published form, therefore, will excite the same interest in the mind of the class to which it is addressed as it has already aroused when delivered from the lecture-platform. Further, it will serve to give many teachers a preliminary introduction to the newer forms of psychological and pedagogical science. But this, unhappily, marks also the limit of its influence. The selection of topics and the manner of treatment both display the effects of popular discourse in a way that is often tantalizing in the extreme. Sometimes the desire for vividness and attractiveness leads the author not only into statements of doubtful psychological value, but also into an imperfect use of his pedagogical opportunities. It is doubtful, for instance, whether the uninstructed reader will gather a clear understanding of the phenomena of aphasia, agraphia, and alexia from the discussions of p. 78 et scq~> even though the subject is undoubtedly calculated to enforce the fact of the correlation of mind and brain. The treatment of memory and imagination, again, in Lessons XIX-XXI is confused even to the student of psychology; and the omission of all the thought-functions except reasoning neglects the capital chance of driving home the author's excellent remarks on the importance of the imagination in intellectual development. The careful reader will also notice the lack of reference to the sources of the plates, though many of them are old friends, and the entire absence of an index.