Review
Reviewed Work(s): Sonnenschein's Cyclopaedia of Education by Alfred Ewen Fletcher and
Sonnenschein
Review by: W. H. B.
Source: The American Journal of Psychology, Vol. 2, No. 3 (May, 1889), p. 510
Published by: University of Illinois Press
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o PSYaEOLOGICAL LITERATURE.
EconyoXrrby tn Intelltual Work. W. H. BURNHAM. Scribner's Maga-
zine, March, 1889.
This is an attempt to outline the principles that underlie economic
mental activity. The relation of unconscious cerebral processes to
the problem of economy is especially considered. Adopting the
theory that bases attentlon upon emotion, the writer urges that an
emotional stimulus is necessary for economical mental work, and
concludes that emotional dissipation in childhood and at adolescence
is likely to leave the mind barren of healthy interests and without
emotional support in its intellectual activity.
Sonnenechetn's Gyclopayedtay °r GJdqbea>gton. Edited byALFRsD EWEN
FLETCHER. Syracuse: C. W. Bardeen. London: Swan Sonnen-
schein & Co. 1889.
Among the contributors to this convenient hand-book are Oscar
Browning, Sir Philip Magnus, James Sully and other eminent educa-
tors. It covers a wide field, containing not only articles relating to
the history, theory, and practice of education, biographical sketches
explanations of pedagogical technicalities, and the like, but also
articles upon the mental activities, the sentiments virtues, and
other psychological and ethical topics. In the psychoiogical articles
the attempt is made to show the pedagogical aspect of the subjects
treated. Although its psychological horizon is necessarily limited
the book is a valuable addition to educational literature. An excel-
lent bibliography of thirty-four octavo pages is appended.
W. H. B.
ZeXrrwory s a Power of :E:nowledge. WM. L. EVANS, M. A. New York,
1O z D.
This book outlines the psychology of memory and the associatio
of ideas, and contains a mnemonic system based otl the princiDles
of the Pick-" Loisette " method. The author adopts * figure alphabet,
connects dissimilar words by " intermediates,' and gives mnemonic
series of words for }ractice. One of the best features of his psycho-
pedagogical discusslon is the emphasis placed upon the training of
the attention. It may, however, be doubted if the author's method
of effecting this training-s. e. by the treadmill recitation of mne-
monic series-is altogether the best one.
Report of tAse Comrnittee on Phanterns < Presentitnents. JOSIAR
ROYCE. Proc. Amer. Soc. for Psychical Research, Vol. I, No. 4,
This report is the most important and most extensive of those in
this number of the Proceedtngs. The material upon which it is
based consists, so far as published, of between 70 and 80 cases, of
which 33 are considered in the body of the article. These are
classified and treated 1lnder the following headingsv I. SubJec-
tive lIallucinations of Familiar Type * II. Instance.s of Recognized
Sorts of Unconscious Cerebrationv III. Pseudo-Presentiments
and, IV. Coincidences. The most important feature of the revort
is the theory of Pseudo-Presentiments, advanced in the tSird
section. In a word, it is that normal persons are occasionally sub-
ject to a trick of memory something like that which gives one in a
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