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 NEW BOoKs. 409 Happiness: Essay* <>n tin- M<-t/,i///</ f Lif<'. By C. HILTY. Translated by F. G. PEABODY. London : Maornillan & Co., Limited; Nc York': The Macmillan Co., 1903. Pp. x 154. This little book contains selected essays from the First series of Prof. Hilty's Das Gluck (1891). The essays themselves are short homilies, admirably written, upon practical ethics, and the translator has been unusually successful in catching the spirit of his originals. The seven ehapt- entitled "The Art of Work," " How to Fight the Battles of Life," The Children of This World are Wiser than the Children of Light/' " The Art of Having Time," "Happiness," " The Meaning of Life". The book is well printed, and Prof. Hilty's rather copious footnotes are either omitted or relegated to the end of the volume. Had the translator furnished an index the volume would have met with the reviewer's unqualified approval. Syllabus of Lectures on the History of Education, n-ffk x.'l-ti<i /;//;//'i*//v/y/// /.,-. By E. P. CUBBERLEY. New York : The Macmillan Co. ; London : Macmillan & Co., Limited, 1902. Vol. i., pp. xii., 1-129 ; vol. ii., pp. viii., 130-302. An exceedingly useful book. " The aim has been to give the student breadth of view by familiarising him with the literature of the subject, and to provide some training in methods of independent work. ... A close connexion has been maintained between the history of the civilisa- tion of a people and the ideas on and progress of education among them. . . . An attempt has also been made to separate what was mere theory from what was actual practice, what was particular or local from what was general." The syllabus is richly supplied with maps and illustrations, and the pages are printed only on one side. A Discussion of Composition as Applied to Art. By J. V. VAN PELT. Illus- trated by the Author. New York : The Macmillan Co. ; London : Macmillan & Co., Ltd., 1902. Pp. viii., 275. A book intended partly for students of architecture, partly for the general reader who wishes to know something of architecture as an art. The discussion falls into six parts : the first treats the general laws of char- acter in art ; the second, general technical laws ; the last four have to do with applications, two being theoretical discussions of decoration and plan, and two containing practical suggestions in the same subjects. The writer is a graduate of the ficole des Beaux Arts, and follows in the footsteps of his teachers. Unfortunately, he seems to have thought out his book in French, so that it reads more like a translation than an original composition in English. He has, however, made use of German psychological sources. His confidence in the affective laws laid down in Lehmann's Hauptyesetze is, perhaps, overgreat ; and when he says that " pure green has no direct complement " he is following Helmholtz a little blindly ; no spectral complement is what is meant. On the other hand, the chapter on Optical Effects makes sound and conservative use of recent work upon the geometrical optical illusions. Etudes esthetiques. Par GEORGE LECH ALAS. Felix Alcan, 1902. The essays in this book may each be studied separately, though many of .them have a logical connexion with one another. The introduction and