“On the whole the work will hardly enhance the reputation of the author of ‘Adolescence.’ First presented as a series of lectures during the war, it reveals in many places the highly colored effects induced by war-time emotions. Besides it views the psychologic features in life out of all due proportion.” H: Neumann
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HALL, GRANVILLE STANLEY. Recreations of a psychologist. *$2.50 Appleton
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“Vacation skits” the author calls this collection of short stories, whose merit he claims to be their illustration of psychological principles. The first of these stories, “The fall of Atlantis,” is a new version of the Platonic myth, and records what happened to the world after the year 2000—the record purporting to have been made by the writer’s subliminal self while his conscious mind was in a state of amnesia. The other stories are: How Johnnie’s vision came true; A conversion; Preëstablished harmony—a midsummer revery of a psychologist; Getting married in Germany; A man’s adventure in domestic industries; A leap year romance; Note on early memories.
“Dr Hall is in error when he styles his work in these fields ‘crude and amateurish if judged from the standpoint of literature’; he is right when he claims a distinct merit for it as a means to the enunciation of scientific principles. The literary touch and the psychological implication characterize the book throughout.” E. N.
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HALL, HERSCHEL SALMON. Steel preferred. *$2 Dutton
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