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THE LANGUAGE AND THOUGHT OF THE CHILD. By Jean Piaget. (Kegan Paul. 10s. 6d.)—This book is a serious contribution• to the continuously increasing mass of literature dealing with the psychological study of the child. It contains an amount of carefully tabulated and co-ordinated statistical information, the result of patient observation and careful deduction. At the same time the style is so lucid and so free from purely technical jargon (the translation, by the way, seems to be excellent) that the book can certainly be -read with advantage by persons not specially trained in the science of psychology. It should be of great interest to all who are specially concerned with the education of young children.