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 NEW BOOKS. 121 dwelling only upon those humanistic portions of it by which he has com- monly been judged. Readers will not proceed far before they apprehend the reason why the account of the 'System' has here been imbedded in the ' Life ' in departure from the usual order of exposition in books of the kind. More than of almost any other philosopher, it can be said of Hobbes that the key to a right understanding of his thought is to be found in his personal circumstances and the events of his time." The Politics of Aristotle. Translated into English, with Introduction, Marginal Analysis, Essays, Notes and Indices, by B. JOWETT, M.A., Master of Balliol College, Regius Professor of Greek in the University of Oxford, &c. Vols. i., ii. 1. Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1885. Pp. cxlv., 302, 320. This important work first begun by Prof. Jowett about fifteen years ago in connexion with his Platonic studies will be reviewed later on. It has come to hand at the last moment, and there is time only to mention that while Vol. i. consists of Introduction (after a few pages of Preface) and Translation, Vol. ii., of which the present first part is composed of Notes, will be completed shortly (in a second part) by a collection of Essays, which promise to be of great interest. They will deal not only with the Politics (in a variety of aspects) but also with the life and, to some extent, the general philosophical work of Aristotle. The Indices, due to the hand of the translator's " friend and secretary," Mr. M. Knight, are of notable ex- cellence. Kant's Introduction to Logic and his Essay on the Mistaken Subtilty of the Four Figures. Translated by THOMAS KINGSMILL ABBOTT, B.D., Fellow and Tutor of Trinity College, Dublin. With a few Notes by COLERIDGE. London : Longmans, Green, 1885. Pp. 98. To what he has previously done for the spread of Kant's doctrine, by translation of the more important ethical works, Mr. T. K. Abbott now adds by his present version of the general introductory part of the Logik (issued by Kant's pupil Jasche in 1800), pp. 1-78, and also of the earlier essay Die falsche Spitzfindigkeit dcr vier syllog. Figuren (1762), pp. 79-95. The body of the Logik he leaves aside, as having in it too much of the traditional School-doctrine and not enough of Kant's own thought to justify translation. The notes taken from Coleridge's copy of the Logik in the British Museum are but three short jottings. Outlines of the History of Greek Philosophy. By Dr. EDWARD ZELLER. Translated with the Author's sanction by SARAH FRANCES ALLEYNE and EVELYN ABBOTT. London : Longmans, Green, 1886. Pp. xv., 363. The Grundriss here translated appeared at the end of 1883, having been undertaken by the distinguished author (in response to requests for such a general sketch of Greek philosophy from him) as soon as he had completed the third edition of his great historical work. A fit interpreter was at hand in Miss Alleyne, who had already done excellent service in her rendering of various parts of the Geschichte; but we learn (now for the first time), with sorrow, from the preface supplied by the co-translator who took up the task at p. 90, that " in the prime of life and in the full vigour of her powers she died, after a month's illness, August 16, 1884". Mr. Abbott pays, from personal knowledge, a high tribute to her intellect and character ; and the loss to the cause of philosophical study in this country by her death will be widely felt. She already had it in view, on comple-