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 VIII. NEW BOOKS. Aristotle and the Earlier Peripatetics : being a translation from Zeller's Philosophy of the Greeks. By B. F. C. COSTELLOE, M.A., and J. H. MUIRHEAD, M.A. 2 vols. London, New York and Bombay : Longmans, Green & Co., 1897. Pp. xii., 520 ; x., 512. THIS translation " embraces part ii., div. ii., of the third edition of Dr. Eduard Zeller's work on The Philosophy of the. Greeks in its Historical Development. It is made with Dr. Zeller's sanction, and completes the series of volumes issued from time to time by Messrs. Longmans as translations of the various sections of that exhaustive work." All students and teachers of Greek philosophy in the English-speaking world will welcome this long-expected version. In some respects the section on Aristotle is the best portion of Dr. Zeller's great work, and, in the absence of any complete and satisfactory English book on the subject, it is the portion which it was most necessary to have translated. It is, indeed, a pity that we have had to wait so long ; for the text here translated was published in 1879. Still it probably represents in the main the author's present views, and would require less alteration than some other parts of the English translation. In vol. i.,'p. 102, there is a note, inserted I suppose by the translators, which simply states the fact that since the text was written the treatise on the Athenian Con- stitution has been recovered. The translators have done then: work excellently, and a somewhat careful examination has revealed very few matters to which objection can be taken. In vol. i., p. 28, note 2 contains this sentence : " The continuous lecture on a definite theme is expressed by irpbs dta-iv Aryeii/ : a more cursory treatment by firixfipfw " For " a more cursory treat- ment," should be here substituted " dialectical discussion ". The German is "Deputation" evidently a misprint for "Disputation". On p. 146, the word "exoteric" should be "esoteric". P. 159, "The Genesis of Animals" ; the more usual title " Generation " is surely better in English. On p. 299, notes, the word " Apory " (Germ. Aporie) makes odd English, though it has been used by others. It has not the unlucky ambiguity of Grote's " theories " and " liturgies " ; but is it not more in accordance with English usage to naturalise the form " Aporia " ? On p. 309 ( is translated first by " mind " and then by " spirit " in the same sentence. It would be better to use "mind" in both places. The passage relates to Aristotle's reference to the vovs of Anaxagoras. In vol. ii. p. 137, note, "Ethics " and "Politics" should not be in italics. It is the subjects, not the books, that are referred to. On* p. 171, note 1, "public and private law " would be more English than " public and private right ". "Recht" is always difficult to render; but "right" can only be used by express convention for it. P. 294, " Rhetorical proof proceeds by enthymeme