HUMAN PSYCHOLOGY.

By J. R. Butler and T. F. Karwoski. New York: Pitman Publishing Corporation. 1936. p. 463. $2.50.

In no field, perhaps, is our ignorance greater or more amazing than in that of human behavior and its motivation. Here, where the world is so translucent for brilliant insights and unique interpretations, we see darkly and prate in platitudes. A psychology, therefore, which treats the subject freshly, even in a few of its chapters, is a welcome achievement.

The persistent and creative research of one of the authors of this book is reflected in the original and luminous chapters on vision and experimental aesthetics: in the organization of visual knowledge about the duplicity theory, in the consideration of the blind-spot (a topic about which we seem to have a marked academic anopsia), in the linkage of visual (and auditory) phenomena with recent neurological discoveries, in a Gestalt interpretation of aesthetic experience, and in the implications of an "Einheit der Sinne." An organic unity is achieved for a portion of the book by the resourceful use of the principle of partial identity in several of the chapters, and by the consideration of eidetic imagery as a factor in both ordinary and extraordinary experience. The authors give a further freshness to their work by the selection of many new illustrations which truly and effectively illustrate.

It is easy enough, of course, to discover flaws in almost any book. A text by two authors may well reveal a duality of literary styles, a difference in outlook (with respect to schools), and some variance of objective in the writing. What is more important, however, is that the authors did not consider themselves merely "re-write men," but have offered in this book some original material and a new envisagement of the more familiar material.

A carefully selected Reading List on Business Administration, prepared by the Faculty of the Amos Tuck School of Administration and Finance of Dartmouth College, in response to requests from alumni and others for advice concerning outstanding books on various phases of business, is now available for general distribution. Its 62 pages represent the most important books on business published within the last two decades, with emphasis, wherever possible, on the most recent volumes or editions. This pamphlet is being sold at a nominal price of thirty cents.

The Reading List includes about 300 titles, each book being accompanied by a meaty and interesting annotation telling of its contents or distinctive approach. The divisions under which these books are classified include: The business system and economic policies, the administration of business, industrial relations and personnel management, marketing, foreign trade, finance, accounting, business statistics, and business law.

The September issue of the Annals ofthe American Academy contains an article by Professor Harry L. Purdy entitled Theregulation of transportation rates.Caesar and Virgil's magic in England by Professor George L. Frost appears in the November issue of Modern LanguageNotes.

Professor M. E. Choukas has an article in the American Sociological Review for October entiled The Culture lag conceptReexamined.

The American political scene published by Harper and Brothers contains a chapter Presidential campaigns by Professor Harold R. Bruce.

Professor Herbert F. West is the author of an in memoriam essay Don Roberto (Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham). This well written and extremely interesting tribute to Professor West's friend has been privately printed in an edition of one hundred copies at the Dartmouth Press.

The league and the small states by Professor Harold Tobin appears in the Hungarian Quarterly for October.

Professor Charles H. Voelker is the author of an article Prophylactic technicfor spasmophemia in Mongols which appears in the October issue of the Americanjournal of orthopsychiatry.

Professor Theodore Karwoski is the author of Psychophysics and mescal intoxication which has been offprinted from TheJournal of general psychology. Professor Karwoski and William D. Serrat '35 are the authors of An Investigation of the effectof auditory stimulation on visual sensitivity which has been reprinted from the Journal of Experimental Psychology for October.