Hallucinations and Illusions

This book, which is one of the " Contemporary Science Series," is an English edition of the German original, which grew out of an examination of the " International Census of Waking Hallucinations of the Sane," and forms, in the words of its sub-title, "A Study of the Fallacies of Perception " of great interest. Psychology is still a very young science, and it is only within the last few years that it has taken its place as an accurate? and to a great extent experimental?study of facts. There is already an extensive literature on the subject, and Mr. Parish is evidently well acquainted with it. In fact, the work is the outcome of a great deal of research and careful reasoning. Dreams, hypnosis, fallacies of memory, association and dissociation, after-images, &c., are each dealt with in relation to