"The eight lectures on the elementary psychology of feeling and attention which make up this little book were read during the author's tenure of a nonresident lectureship in psychology at Columbia University, February, 1908. The author has printed them as they were written for delivery, except that quotations from the French and German have, for accuracy's sake, been restored from English translation to their original form. The lecture topics include : Sensation and it Attributes; Sensation and Affection : the Criteria of Affection; The Affections as Gef¿hlsempfindungen; The Tridimensional Theory of Feeling; Attention as Sensory Clearness; The Laws of Attention; and Affection and Attention"--(PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2005 APA, all rights reserved).