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 VIII. NEW BOOKS. [TJiese Notes (by various hands} do not exclude Critical Notices later on.] Institutes of Logic. By JOHN VEITCH, LL.D., Professor of Logic and Rhe- toric in the University of Glasgow. Edinburgh and London : Black- wood & Sons, 1885. Pp. ix., 551. This considerable treatise " designed both for those who are commencing the study of Logic and for those who have gone beyond the elements to the higher questions of the science" is laid out on the traditional lines. Parts ii.-iv. deal successively with "Concepts and Terms" (pp. 165-219), "Judgment" (pp. 220-336), " Inference " (pp. 337-551), after a considera- tion of "The Laws of Thought" (pp. 112-164), with a view of "Logical Psychology " and " Historical Notices," in Part i. The historical notes interspersed throughout give the work a special interest and value, and there is abundance of lively polemic (directed mainly against Hegel on the one hand and Mill on the other) to enliven the exposition ; which, for the rest, should receive all the attention due to the author's mature experience as a logical teacher. Scottish Philosophy : A Comparison of the Scottish and German Answers to Hume. By ANDREW SETH, M.A., Professor of Logic and Philosophy in the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire. Edin- burgh and London : Blackwood & Sons, 1885. Pp. 218. The first outcome of a Philosophical Lectureship in the University uf Edinburgh, recently founded by Mr. A. J. Balfour for a term of three years and held by Prof. Seth. It was the desire of the founder that " the Lectures should be a contribution to philosophy and not merely to the. history of systems " ; accordingly, in the first course of six (delivered in the spring of last year), historical is subordinated to material consideration! The subject is one that called eminently for treatment, and appears ^.n a first glance) to have been handled in a very comprehensive and equitable, spirit. The topics taken up are, in order : (1) The Philosophical Presup- positions : Descartes and Locke; (2) The Philosophical Sct-piicism uf Hume; (3) Reid: Sensation and Perception; (4) Reid and Kant; (5) The Relativity of Knowledge : Kant and Hamilton ; (6) The Possibility of Philosophy as System : Scottish Philosophy and Hegel. In his second course, Prof. Seth will pursue the consideration started in the final lecture. Hobbes. By GEORGE GROOM ROBERTSON, Grote Professor of Philo- sophy of Mind and Logic in University College, London. (" Philoso- phical Classics for English Headers.") Edinburgh and London : Blackwood & Sons, 1886. Pp. vii., 240. "Small as this volume is, untoward circumstances have prevented its completion till long after the first third of it was already in print. Tin- delay is only too likely to have ail'ected the unity of treatment ; still, the original design has been adhered to in the main. That design was, even within such narrow compass, (1) to bring together all the previously known or now discoverable facts of IM.bes's life; and (-2) to give some kind of fairly balanced representation of the whole range of his thought, instead of