18 NOVEMBER 1882, Page 24

Sensation and Pain. By C. F.Taylor, M.D. (Putnam's Sons, New

York, 1881.)—This book is an interesting lecture on Sensation and Pain, in which much emphasis is laid upon the distinctions between objectively caused pain and emotional pain, and between centrally initiated sensory impulses and externally excited sensations. Many anecdotes are related to illustrate the dictum that "nothing is less true than that one can believe the evidence of one's senses." Some of these narratives are drawn from the occurrences of every-day life, some from surgical operations, and some from the field of battle. Doubtless, they are extremely valuable, as furnishing reasonable explanations of many of the phenomena of clairvoyance, trance, and jugglery.