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VIII. PHILOSOPHICAL PEEIODICALS. PHILOSOPHICAL REVIEW. Vol. xv., No. 3. A. Lalande. ' Philosophy in France (1905).' [Discusses (1) the rationalistic and fideistic tendencies of French pragmatism ; (2) the current movement towards a well-defined moral system of education ; and (3) certain recent works in psychology and aesthetics.] E. Albee. ' The Significance of Methodological Principles.' [An examination of Kant's relation to rationalism seems to force us tO' the conclusion that ' regulative ' principles can have no philosophical justification except in so far as they presuppose or correspond to the ' constitutive ' principles of experience ; yet these latter, in the nature of the case, can never be formulated. We escape the difficulty by realising that methodological principles are meaningless save in their functional relation to concrete experience. Knowledge and experience are thus progressively organised, on the implicit but inevitable assumption of the organic unity and immanent rationality of the world.] E. C.. Wilm. ' The Relation of Schiller's Ethics to Kant.' [In his early work, Schiller sought to mediate between naturalism and spiritualism, now by i intermediate metaphysical agent, now by the forms of beauty. Contact fith the critical philosophy deepened and clarified his thoughts ; he is an idependent critic of Kant, and gives fuller recognition to the desiderative side of man's nature.] E. H. Hollands. ' Schleiermacher's Development Subjective Consciousness.' [It is the really original contribution of shleiermacher to have pointed out the part which subjective convictions, olay in unifying and completing our experience. He thus appears, in his theory of subjective development, as supplementing rather than as op- posing Hegel.] Discussion. S. S. Colvin. ' The Intention of the Noetic Psychosis.' [Transcendence means, not a going beyond experience, but the giving to it of a quality which in the moment of knowing removes its fleeting character, and assures it the permanence and reality which make it possible to be known.] Reviews of Books. Notices of New Books. Summaries of Articles. Notes. PSYCHOLOGICAL REVIEW. Vol. xiii., No. 3. J. M. Baldwin. ' The Fechner Number.' L. J. Martin. ' An Experimental Study of Fechner's. Principles of ^Esthetics.' [An experimental examination of certain of the aesthetic principles laid down by Fechner in his Vorschule, without prejudice to the question whether or not the experiments really cover sesthetic ground, and without reference to any aesthetic theory on the part of the author. The longest study is devoted to the principle of the ' (esthetic limen,' with lines, differently curved and coloured, as materials : the relation of the aesthetic to the stimulus limen would seem to depend upon the method employed. Further chapters discuss the principles of persistence, summation, practice, etc. ; of association ; of contrast, sequence and comparison ; and of the expression of pleasure and dis- pleasure. The principle of association is widened by reference to chrom-