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This article presents descriptive notes on various books. W.D. Wilson, author of "Lectures on the Psychology of Thought and Action," reviewed in the "Nation" of April 11, has pointed out that one misrepresented him in saying that he thinks instinct and clairvoyance to be due to a direct action of the spinal cord. If writer Dean Afford were alive now, he would like to read the Kansas Magazine, whose English we borrow in describing a variety of the human species which is christened the Catfish Aristocrat. The salvation of modern art by means of "real washtubs and a real pump" is lot yet completed. Yet one notices the new "Life of Maclise" going over with a busy murmur of admiration the actual pulleys, actual ropes, tompions, and marlinespikes collected by that painter for his fresco of "Nelson."