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150 NOTES AND COERESPONDENCE. as the habitation of the awful one at all, except very occasionally. And even during the time that I have just mentioned, though it was at times terrible to him, it was usually only the] bathroom and nothing more, for he would walk into it fearlessly with or without me, and only once or twice I have noticed him take my hand and lead me rather anxiously out of the room, giving however no reason for doing so. About two months ago, my little boy being then two years and two months, he came to me and said coniplainingly, though not apparently at all frightened, " Cocky in Hennie's tungup ". " Tungup " is his word for stomach. As this remark was shortly followed by an attack of diarrhosa, I have no doubt that he felt some pain in the part indicated, which he attributed to the malicious agency of "Cocky". Again, twice within the last few months he has complained, saying, " Cocky on Hennie's head ". Whether he felt some pain or discomfort in his head I cannot say, but I think it probable that he did. I think the fear of " Cocky " is now passing away. I seldom hear his name mentioned. The last time I heard any striking reference to him was a fortnight since. We were staying away from home. In the bedroom which we occupied was a bed hung round with a dark valance. He lifted this up inquisitively to see what was underneath ; but to his eyes, accustomed to the light, all looked pitch dark. He quickly let the valance drop, and ran to me saying, " Cocky under muvver's bed ". When his belief in and fear of " Cocky " was at its height his references to him were constant, and I have only mentioned here those of especial interest. He personifies the sun in an amusing way. One day when he was about two years and two months old he was sitting on the floor in a great temper over some trifle. He looked up and saw the sun through the window. He suddenly stopped crying and said angrily, " Sun not look at Hennie ". He said this two or three times, and then finding the sun per- sistently " looked " at him, he changed his tone to one pathetically imploring and said, "Please Sun not look at poor Hennie". I have noticed this adjuration of the sun when he has been crying two or three times since. R K STEVENS. THE ARISTOTELIAN SOCIETY FOR THE SYSTEMATIC STUDY OF PHILOSOPHY. The Seventh Session was opened on Monday, Oct. 26, by an Address from the President on " Philosophy and Experience," in which the prin- ciples of a new method for applying subjective analysis to the whole con- tent of experience were laid down, and the resulting systematisation of philosophy described. On Monday, Nov. 16, the subject of Kant's Ethical S stem, selected as the special subject for the present Session, was opened by a paper from Mr. Scrymgour, on Kant's GruniUfyiniy :./ M't"/>hystfc dtr Sitten. On Monday, Nov. 30, one of the evenings devoted to original communications, Mr. D. G. Ritchie read a paper on Plato's Phmdn, which was followed by a discussion. [For short notice of the President's Address, see p. 123, above]. Dr. W. B. Carpenter died on the morning of 10th November last, from the effects of a frightful accident. He had just completed liis 72nd year, having been born on 29th October, 1813, at Bri.-tol. IVsides doing th.-t-rate work as a naturalist all through his life, he signalised himself early by his philosophical grasp of biological principles, and was led, through careful study of the physiology of the nervous system in man and animals, to the development of striking and original views in psychology. These, after having long before been sketched out in occasional writings and in his well-known Human Physiology, got final expression in his Principles of