I.—Foreign Psychological Literature

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Archivio Italiano per le Malattie Nervose.—The first four parts of this Journal, which we introduced to our readers in our number for April last, are now before us. The original memoirs they contain are, “On Phrenopathy considered Pathologically in its Genera and Species,” by Professor Carlo Livi; “On the Relations of the Sulphocyanide of Potassium in the Saliva to the Poisons of Hydrophobia and Curara,” by Dr. Filippo Lussana; “On the Asylum of Ancona,” by Dr. Filippo Cardona; “On the Influences of Soil, Climate, and Grade of Civilisation upon the Character of Insanity and on Idiocy, studied in relation with Sicily and the Department of the Loire in France,” by Professor Pignocco; “On the Therapeutical Action of Arnica on certain Neuroses,” by Dr. Brizio Cocchi; “On the Cerebellar System as the Organ of Physical and Moral Excitation, and on Certain Abnormal Varieties of Sensation causing Insanity,” by Dr. G. Clerici; “An Introductory Lecture to a Course of Clinical Psychiatry at Venice,” by Dr. Berti; “On the Statistics of the Asylum of San Servili at Venice,” by Dr. Biffi; and “On the Remembrance by the Insane of the Circumstances be-falling them, with especial Reference to Legal Medicine,” by Dr. F. Bonucci.