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 134 NEW BOOKS. Much of the criticism, the sarcastic part in particular, is remarkably obscure. The author attacks " that antiquated mode of thought which goes on incessantly frying up the ever-youthful dignity of Vico in the oil of Hegel, which has learnt to fuse Plato and Savigny into one amphi- bious and elusive conception of law, or is continually trying to inscribe its own philosophic hotch-potch on the sacred aureole of Thomism ". Nor are the generalisations much more lucid. In summing up his views on the last page, the author remarks : " There results from the phenomena of law such a specific efficacy operating on the conditions of society as may give scope in the philosophy of law for a special normative doctrine, distinct from that which sociology might deduce from the general ap- preciation of social modifiability ". Criticism and dicta of this pattern occupy most of the work. An immense number of authors are quoted, and a vast range of topics dealt with, law perhaps less than most. But the author in his forthcoming volumes must keep more closely to facts and indulge less luxuriantly in high abstract generalisation if he wishes to interest the ordinary student of legal philosophy. RECEIVED also : Mrs. B. Bosanquet, The Standard of Life, and other Studies, London, Macmillan & Co., New York, The Macmillan Company, 1898, pp. vi., 219. (3s. 6d.) Leibniz, The Monadology, etc. (translated with introduction and notes by A. Latta), Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1898, pp. x., 437. (8s. 6d.) J. Watson, An Outline of Philosophy, Second Edition, Glasgow, James Maclehose & Sons, 1898, pp. xxii., 489. A. Alexander, Theories of the Will in the History of Philosophy, New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1898, pp. 357. J. Seth, The Scottish Contribution to Moral Philosophy, Edinburgh and London, W. Blackwood & Sons, 1898, pp. 43. (6d.) J. E. Creighton, An Introductory Logic, New York, The Macmillan Company, 1898, pp. xiv., 392. (5s.) A. E. Dewar, From Matter to Man, London, Chapman & Hall, 1898, pp. viii., 289. A. W. Benn, The Philosophy of Greece, London, Grant Eichards, 1898, pp. x., 308. (6s.) W. M. Bryant, Life, Death and Immortality, with kindred essays, New York, The Baker & Taylor Co., 1898, pp. vi., 442. W. "Wallace, Lectures and Essays on Natural Theology and Ethics (Edited by E. Caird), Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1898, pp., xl., 566. (12s. 6d.) H. E. Marshall, Instinct and Reason, New York, The Macmillan Company, London, Macmillan & Co., 1898, pp. xiii., 574. (12s. 6d.) E. Naville, Le Libre Arbitre, Deuxieme Edition, revue et corrigee, Bale et Geneve, Georg & C ie -, Paris, Felix Alcan, 1898, pp. xiii., 311. (5 fr.) J. Eoux, Psychologic de L'Instinct sexuel, Paris, Librairie J. B. Bailliere et Fils, 1899 ; London, Williams & Norgate, pp. 96. (1 fr. 50.) D. Nys, La Notion de Temps d'apres les principes de Saint Thomas d'Aquin, London, Williams & Norgate, 1898, pp. 232. (2 fr. 50.) P.-F. Thomas, ^Education des Sentiments, Paris, Felix Alcan, 1899, pp. 279. (5 fr.)