MULTIPLE PERSONALITY, AN EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION INTO THE NATURE OF HUMAN INDIVIDUALITY. By Boris Sidis, M.A., Ph.D. (Harvard), and SIMON P. GOODHART, Ph.B. (Yale), M.D. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1905.

    This book is interesting but unsatisfying. One takes it up hoping to have solved one of the greatest problems of psychology and having read it is no wiser than before. One hundred and fifty three pages are taken up with the history of one case. This is interesting reading, but one feels he is at the mercy of the intellectual accuracy of the patient, and people who pass through such experiences as he did are not always accurate in their statements. There is growing up a school of mystical materialism, if one may couple two words so apparently contradictory, and this book seems to belong to that school. It is very interesting, but the nature of human individuality is not explained by it.                                                                           C. W. B.

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