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THE PHILOSOPHICAL REVIEW.
[Vol. III.

tions. Recognition consists in a sort of feeling (sentiment); it is found where the attention is forced by interest, or where the act of apperception is rapid and forcible.

E. B. T.
Les laboratoires de psychologie expérimentale en Allemagne. V. Henri. Rev. Phil., XVIII, 12, pp. 608-622.

Contains a long description of Wundt's Institute, and an account of researches at present in progress (pp. 608-618): followed by briefer notices of the Göttingen (pp. 618-621), Bonn (pp. 621, 622), and Berlin (p. 622) laboratories.

E. B. T.
On the Discrimination of Groups of Rapid Clicks. T. J. Bolton. Am. J. Ps., V, 3, pp. 294-311.

As the result of some 2,500 observations, it was found that a difference of one click in a group of ten could be noticed when the clicks were given at the rate of 133 per second, and a difference of one in nine when the rate was 153 per second. No clicks dropped out of consciousness in groups of eight or nine given at the rate of 153 per second. Increase in the number of clicks in a group did not diminish the discreteness of the clicks.

W. B. Pillsbury.
Statistics of Dreams. M. W. Calkins. Am. J. Ps., V, 3, pp. 311-343.

This article is based on the records of 375 dreams of two observers, covering a period of seven or eight weeks. The course of dreams was largely determined by association, though often altered by the intrusion of new perceptions. The dreams reproduced the objects and events of perception and vivid imagination of the waking life. The objects of the will, emotions, and thought, were not reproduced unless also objects of perception. Many illusions occurred in dreams, some of which were recognized as such while dreaming. Several instances of seeming prevision were noticed, but none that could not be explained from their connection with the waking life.

W. B. P.
On the Pressure Sense of the Dream of the Ear and Facial Vision. F. B. Dressler. Am. J. Ps., V, 3, pp. 344-351.

Numerous observations proved that the drum of the ear was not sufficiently sensitive to changes in the pressure of the air to sense