Instead of offering a vitally new and inspiring approach to his subject, the author here presents us with a mausoleum of ancient concepts and methods based on a nondynamic, atomistic psychology which carefully avoids any fruitful theoretical implications. This is the more regrettable since a book coming from a person of Woodworth's experience and reputation cannot fail to have great influence on the teaching of experimental psychology in our colleges.

Typically free from the bias of any constructive point of view ('controversies between the schools can be happily left aside'), the author launches into a stale eclectic potpourri quite in the best tradition of the journals of academic psychology. Human behavior becomes a series of odd laboratory curiosa divided up into chapters