howl "murder" at the, top of her voice. Both men rushed to the
bed, and Harvey snatched up the child and commenced to walk
the floor with it in his arms.
"There, there, little fellow; there, there. Don't cry. Nothing's
going to hurt you." He tossed him up and down in an awkward
manner, and even attempted a lullaby. At length the baby nestled
confidently and put its arms about his neck as if for protection.
"See the little thing, Brown. I declare it takes to me like a
cluck to water. There, little sonny, ther4l"
In a few moments it looked up into his face and smiled. That
smile carried all before it. Another outcry, louder than the first,
commenced in the adjoining room. The baby nestled more closely
to Harvey and began to cry again.
"You take those devilish monkeys of yours, Brown, and throw
they out of the back window." The,order .vas executed in just one
minute.
There was little sleep that night for the two students, but the
baby staid, and is there yet, and his proud foster father would not
part with him for a complete encyclopaedia of all the monkey lan
guages of the world. F. L. PATTEE.
One of the interesting and fruitful result's of modern psychology
is the admission of new factors in psychic analysis. The study of
consciousness in itself, description and classification of its various
states, the attempt to reduce to some sort of unity its kaleidoscopic
changes, is being supplemented by psychologies of nerve, muscle,
viscera and gland. Here experiment finds its problems an . d rich
est field. Here, too, lie the sources of explanation, not only for
the "broad sameness" of our experiences (the world in which we
live, the reaction upon our environment, physical and social), but
also for those individual differences, no less apparent to the stu
dent of life.
In no respect is the above-mentioned movement more sug-
Athletics and Life.
ATHLETICS AND LIFE.