Reviews.
| J. S. BASSETT, Hesperian, |  | Editors. |
| W. J. HELMS, Columbian, |
Psychology. By John Dewey, Ph. D.,
Assistant Professor of Philosophy in Michigan University.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1887. pp. xii, 427.
This book is designed purely for class-room instruction. The author has endeavored to produce a work free from metaphysics, which he tells us has no place in psychology. With this in mind, he has also endeavored to make his work an introduction to philosophy in general. He has attempted, by his mode of presenting his subjects, to form in the mind of the student the habit of looking at questions, which may present themselves to him, in a philosophical manner. The obscurity which characterizes most books on this subject, and which always leaves the mind of the beginner in a state of bewilderment, is to a great extent gotten rid of. The definitions are plain and simple; the disquisitions are full but not tedious. At the end of each chapter, numerous references are given to parallel works on the subjects treated. A writer on psychology may reject some of the matter which that subject includes, as for instance, the will, but he cannot make new material; he can only present in an attractive manner that which men have used for centuries. The author has done this admirably.
A Tramp Trip. How to see Europe for fifty cents a day.
By Lee Meriweather. Harper & Bros.
For sale by De Wolfe, Fiske & Co., Boston, Mass.
pp. iv. 276. 1886.
There are many young men who desire to broaden their field of knowledge and more strongly impress upon their minds historic scenes by traveling in Europe, and yet these young men are prevented by not having the amount of money generally requisite for traveling. To such “A Tramp Trip” will be especially interesting. The author tells how he has made a trip in which he saw all the objects of interest, was enabled to study the masses from a standpoint totally inaccessible to the wealthy traveler, and all for the exceedingly low sum of fifty cents a day. A number of tables show the result of his investigation of the social conditions, and therein are some instructive illustrations of the tariff question as applied to foreign countries. The style is the free and easy and there is enough wit to make the work very interesting.