LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY

DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY

Stanford University, Cal.,

June 7, 1915.

Prof. James R. Angell,
The University of Chicago,
Chicago, Ill.

My dear Professor Angell;

I have received your letter of June 1st and I shall
try to answer satisfactorily your several questions.

As to the size: I have looked over the MS again searching for matter that might as well be cut out, but it seems impossible to condense further. Forty pages have already been dropped out of the introduction and resume of the literature. The possible places that first offer themselves are the lists or series of analyses of processes engaged in the one finds that various tests; upon inspecting them, however, these analyses are not really repetitions, new concrete material appearing in each. Since I designed the monograph in part as a case-book for variability of mental processes in mental tests, all of this material, it seems to me, ought to go in. It, of course, is used in the argument concerning the reliability of measurements in mental tests particularly with reference to experiments attacking the doctrine of formal discipline.

As to Thesis: I wish 110 copies in this form, which, as I understand, involves a separate cover, and title page, and the Biographical note. Paper for cover as used by the Review for monographs is satisfactory.

As to the number of copies in the Monograph form: I do not feel that I have the bases for good judgment upon this point. Were I to venture a guess as to the use of the monograph, I should say that students in Normal School and University classes are not likely to be required to use it as a text, but that they may possibly be required to make use of it as a reference-

Professor Angell--2)

DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY

Stanford University, Cal.,

book, which would necessitate duplicate copies in the libraries. With so much testing for general intelligence, for school diagnostic purposes, for vocational guidance, etc., it seems to me that general discussion of the qualitative side of the tests cannot long be escaped, which might create some further demand for the monograph. However, I am inclined to be a little conservative about the demand, altho the toPic is popular. Perhaps it would be best to issue the usual number of copies and if the demand exceeds expectation to sufficient degree another edition could be got out to meet it. If some one in the East who is familiar with instruction in Departments of Education, and Educational Psychology, should estimate the demand a couple hundred copies more, I should be willing to revise my conservative estimate.

As to the cuts: I suppose the proper principle is to reduce as much as is consistent with clearness. In Appendix A.,Plates I. to IV. might, if the lettering is distinct, be run on one page (as suggested in inclosed - NO RUN 2+0PAGE pencil sketch), and Plates V. to VII. on the next page. Legends giving the information written on the Plates should be printed in small type after the Plate Number. Reagent's abbreviation could be run in type at top of page, since the order distributes the plates properly. It is a matter of indifference whether Plate VII. is run all on one line, or is broken as in copy.

Owing to crosslines in Plates VIII. to XI. which come rather close together and need to be differentiated, perhaps the best reduction will be such as will put VIII. and IX. upright on one page, the latter under the other; arrange X. and XI. in the same way on the next page; let XII. take a page length-wise.

Professor Angell--3)

DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY

Stanford University, Cal.,

Plates XIII. to XV. I have re-drawn ever, using a larger value in the vertical scale, and I believe they will reproduce quite well. If they are reproduced about one-half their size, they will take three pages (length-wise). When and where shall I send these revised Plates? I send them enclosed.

Plates XVI. and XVII. will take two more pages.

Table XVIII and Plate XVIII come last, two more pages.

APPENDIX B.

Figures 1. (p.288) and 12. (p. 291) should be reproduced natural size; and Fig. 4. should be reproduced in ordinary printer's Remington Pica lower-case type (p. 289).

Figures 14. to 18. (pp.292-296) should have a page each, I think, (length-wise).

APPENDIX D.

The only Fig. here should follow the text, upright, page-form width. (p.302).

As to the grouping of materials, I think they should come consecutively as numbered, or arranged in MS, except the Plates I.-XI., in Appendix A., the grouping of which I have just suggested. The material in Appendix B, I think will fall naturally into proper form.

All cuts, I think, can be made in zinc etching.

Regarding the re-drawing that is found to be necessary, I believe I should be safer in having the Review do it; requirements for good reproductions would be sure to be met.

It occurs to me that it would perhaps be well to have my position in the University in its proper place on the title page of the Monograph. It was "Assistant in the Department of Psychology," when I prepared the MS.

If I have overlooked any necessary instructions, I shall be glad to be informed.

Very truly yours,

DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY

Stanford University, Cal., August 16, 1915.

Dear Professor Angell:

I am sending you herewith the drawings, re-drawn and grouped as I thought best, or corrected. I hope they will be satisfactory for they are about as good as I can produce and it has been impossible to lay hands on help here just now. My lettering is so miserable, as may be seen from Plate VI, that I have fallen back on the typewriter, endeavoring however to get the print black enough not to require retracing in India ink. I now have everything on the plates, nothing need be set up unless the Press prefers. Grouping has been made; every page of drawing requires a page of monograph.

As to instructions:

Plate I. has a supplement to be added by properly registering it over the accompanying sheet. (I had intended to break the i-t column off and indicate its height in Arabic numbers, but was persuaded to represent it uniformly with the rest in spite of the effect on the size of the reduced plates.)

In reproduction, let the plates be as large as space will permit; except as follows: Let the scale of reduction be the same for the pages grouped toGETHER

(1) Pages 254-7 and 258-260. Reduce to, say, 0.61 diameters. { about 3/3 size

(2) Pages 265-6 and 267-8. .67 diameters. { about 2/3 size

(3) Pages 280, 281, 282, 285, and 286. .52 diameters. { about 1/2 size

Assuming the maximum size of a plate to be 4 1/8 x 7 inches, this will scarcely require a reduction to 1/2 size, except perhaps in the third group, as is indicated above in the proposed reductions.

I must acknowledge my obligations to both you and Mr. Darrow, for the improvement in the drawings which redrawing has afforded.

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS COUNCIL

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Princeton, New Jersey,

August 31, 1915

Dear Sir-

We sent yesterday, August 30, the first 80 galleys of the proof of the Coover monograph to you and to Mr. Coover. The Bibliography, diagrams, and tabular matter are still to come.

The Bibliography cannot be set up since it has references to pages and figures both of which will have to be changed in the original copy when the pages are made up. In the Index the references will have to be changed in the copy after the pages are made up.

Yours very truly,

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
PER G.

Professor James P. Angell,
Hurricane, Essex Co., N. Y.
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