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june 10, 1927 WILMETTE LIFE 31 PSYCHOLOGY AND ITS USE "Psychology is an attempt to gain a scientific understanding of human nature. We are all deeply interested in knowing human nature. When we are uot talking about ourselves we are usually talking about our neighbors. Some knowledge of ourselves is necessary if we are to achieve self control and develop normal habits of behavior. ~foreover, he who is a good judge of .men has one of the essentials of success in dealing with people." Everett Dean Martin in his booklet for the American Library association gives a brief survey of psychology, the different schools, and what it can do for successful living. "Psychologists are developing an impartial and objective technique for the study of personality. I know no study more effective in leading the student along the path of sound and independent judgment. It explodes many su-· perstitions and prejudices ... the average reader may gain much that is interesting and valuable from books on the subject, especially '"·hen he has learned to distinguish between those which arc genuine and those which are not." I fc recommends the following as mtere:; ting and authoritative: Jamt:s-Psychology. \\. ood worth-Psychology. \ , . atson-Behaviorism. Freud-Ge neral In trnduction to P sychoanalysis. ~I artin-Psychology. S\\·iit- Psych,ology and the D a y' s \Vork. · I :\llport-Social Psychology. Additional Books DewcY-H uman ~aturc and Conduct. (~o(l<lard-Psycholog~· of the Xormal and Subnormal. l amc:-;-Habit. ) am es-T alb to Teachers 011 Psychology. Ja stro\\'-Charactcr and Temperament. ~f cDougall-Outinc o f Psychology. Rohinson - ~.find in the ~faking. Ro=- ~- ~ocial Psychology. Dickson - ~{ ental Te sts for the C la:-; srOlllll Teacher. Tcrmatl - ~fea s urent e nt of Tntclligenn:. Dc\H'\·-H ow \Ve Think. On' r s-treet- TnAuencing Human Beha,·i::> r. JJ 1111~1t IP ffilf ~~Jr ~JP)Jh~ The John Day company has had a "prize" letter in it s prizt> novel contest. It is from a man who wishes LO know if he may submit a novel written In· his dead wife and if so should he e;1ter it under hi~ own name si11ce the Jach· is dead, and if so would it be entered under nove Is written by a man or by a woman, and finally, if neither oi these is feasible, how about entering it under the name of his present wife, who, however, it further develops is n::>t a novelist. Truly the man himself is. he has woven a plot there. \rnile all sorts of honors are being heaped upon Elizabeth Madox Roberts for her novel "The Time of Man," her publishers announce that he.r ne.xt novel will be ready for publication in the fall. The usual prayer will go up from the reading public's heart. The latest welcome additions to The o d e r n Library series are .. The House with the Green Shutters," a novel of remarkable power by George Douglas 'Brown, and "Chinese Ghosts" by Lafcadio Hearn. 1 ~~