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VI. CKITICAL NOTICES. Lehrbuck der Psychologic. Von FBIEDBICH JODL, o.o. Professor der Philosophie an der Universitat zu Wien. Stuttgart : Cotta'sche Buchhandlung, 1896. London : Williams & Nor- gate. Pp. xxiv., 768. THE world is growing a little weary of the multiplication of psy- chological text-books, and any new candidate for its approval must possess distinctive merits to be tolerated and very marked ex- cellences indeed to be welcomed. The present work lays solid grounds for favour in the thoroughly systematic treatment and well-proportioned disposition of the material ; in the comprehen- siveness with which it surveys and the abundant learning with which it exhibits the whole field of modern normal psychology ; in the equally broad and, in the main, judicious spirit shown in the discussion of critical questions ; in the extensive references to the best literature, of which, besides the citations at the proper places, there is an alphabetically arranged catalogue of twenty-nine pages at the end of the volume ; in the clear and vigorous style. The book is not specially dominated by any particular Tendenz, nor can it lay any special claim to originality ; it is not a contribution to knowledge, it will probably not arouse any very lively discussion on account of new and striking views. But if the student desires to become acquainted, under the guidance of a master of expo- sition, with the most generally accepted body of psychological doctrine at the present time, he will go, if he is wise, to this text- book as, on the whole, the best for this purpose of all the text- books which German scholars have provided in recent years. One feature which strikes the English reader favourably is the frequent reference to the works of English and American psychologists and the adoption of many of the special termini and conceptions which we have become familiar with in our own language, e.g., the conception of the sensation and ideation -continuum and of the extensity of sensations, Stout's definition of apperception, etc. It is impossible to classify the author as belonging to any " school," but as suggesting a direction which he does not follow, his re- mark may be quoted that " it is the error of all errors in psycho- logy to suppose that mental development is constructed out of the elements discovered by analysis " (p. 177). The book is divided into two parts, a general and a special. The first consists of three chapters, dealing respectively with the