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ritical, impartial in tone and exhaustive in treatment."--_Boston Advertiser_. New York: D. APPLETON & CO., 72 Fifth Avenue. * * * * * A NEW BOOK BY PROF. GROOS. THE PLAY OF MAN. By KARL GROOS, Professor of Philosophy in the University of Basel, and author of "The Play of Animals." Translated, with the author's cooperation, by Elizabeth L. Baldwin, and edited, with a Preface and Appendix, by Prof. J. Mark Baldwin, of Princeton University. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50 net; postage, 12 cents additional. The results of Professor Groos's original and acute investigations are of peculiar value to those who are interested in psychology and sociology, and they are of great importance to educators. He presents the anthropological aspects of the subject treated in his psychological study of the Play of Animals, which has already become a classic. Professor Groos, who agrees with the followers of Weismann, develops the great importance of the child's play as tending to strengthen his inheritance in the acquisition of adaptations to his environment. The influence of play on character, and its relation to education, are suggestively indicated. The playful manifestations affecting the child himself and those affecting his relations to others have been carefully classified, and the reader is led from the simpler exercises of the sensory apparatus through a variety of divisions to inner imitations and social play. The biological, aesthetic, ethical, and pedagogical standpoints receive much attention from the investigator. While this book is an illuminating contribution to scientific literature, it is of eminently practical value. Its illustrations and lessons will be studied and applied by educators, and the importance of this original presentation of a most fertile subject will be appreciated by parents as well as by those who are interested as general students of sociological and psychological themes. D. APPLETON AND COMPANY, NEW YORK. End of Project Gutenberg's Collected Essays, Volume V, by T. H. Huxley *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK COLLECTED ESSAYS, VOLUME V *** ***** This file should be named 15905.txt or 15905.zip ***** This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: http
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