The herald., 1898-05-29

les The first is by Prof. Hugo Muenster-
berg of Harvard, who recently sounded in
the Atlantic warning to teachers against
expecting to get mental facts for educa-
tional uses by dabbling in psychology. He
now contributes paper entitled PSYCHE
logy and the Real Life" he analyses the
nature of real life, the conception of per-
sonalities, their action and relations. and
he points out that psychology is not the
study of real life, and that it is not sub
stitute for the sciences, that consider the
inner life as a will system to be analysed
and explained-but is supplement to
them. If properly directed, he sees before
it welcome future. Psychology is an
! end, as the last word of the naturalistic
century which lies behind us; it may be-
come a beginning, as the Introductory
word of an idealistic century to be hoped
for"
Public Ownership Review, published
monthly here, puts forth it's platform for
the consideration Of the people, thus:
I. Public ownership of all monopolies,
including land and trusts.
II. Complete civil service reform.
III. The initiative and referendum, pro-
portional representation and the impera-
tive mandate.
". Immediate employment for the I'M
employed upon public works.
Jean Grand-Carteret of Paris has devot-
ed his life to collecting all the caricatures,
French and foreign, on the political events
of the day, and republishing them on re
duced scale in dainty volumes. His latest
issue is a very extensive collection of the
caricatures that the Dreyfus-Zola case has
brought out, not only in Paris but in Ber-
lin, Vienna, St. Petersburg, Rome, Turin
Madrid, Brussels and even in New York.
In terse language, that can offend none
but the most sensitive of his countrymen
M. Grand-Carteret has elucidated his pic
torial compilation.
In English Literature and the vernac-
ular," Prof. Mark II. Liddell vigorously
follows up his April Atlantic plea for better
teaching of English. He points out the ten
dency of a live language to drift away in
its vernacular-its everyday use-from it's
literary forms, not only in construction
but also in continual changes of tSe mean
ing and pronunciation of words; so that
the written words of 800 years ago, while
undergoing no change to the eye, no longer
conveys the sense or the sound of the orig
inal to the brain. These vernacular changes
have been such that we now either misun-
derstand or wholly fail to understand even
famous passages of Shakespeare, which
we imagine we appreciate, because the
sound and the meaning, and ofttimes the
spelling, have been so changed. He makes
strong plea for all writing to be done in
bold, straightforward English words, be
cause "such a habit of direct expression
would surely bring with it clear thinking.
The teaching of English would become
what it ought to be--the training of the
mind to think clearly, to formulate thought
unconsciously, to get knowledge through
the channels of thought worn for it by
countless generations of English thinking
minds"
The L. C. Page company has long list
of books in preparation, many for imme
,diate publication. First is ''In Kings
Houses" by Mrs. Julia C. r. Dorr,
who has survived reading her obituary
notices of last autumn, and is in very good
health. The book will be illustrated by Mr..
F. T. Merrill, and will appear with Bob
bic McDuff," by Mr.. Clinton Ross, which
is to be illustrated by Mr.. 3. w. Cline
dinst; "Rose A. Charlotte by Marshall
tSaunders, and 1.-THE Making OF Saint"
by Mr.. w. Somerset Vaughan, will be
ready June 1. A little later will come