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 122 NEW BOOKS. tion of these Outlines, to add the second division of Part iii. of the History, concluding the whole work, to the Eclecticism which, in 1883, came last from her diligent pen. Intended, in the first instance, for elementary students, the present volume from the hand of such a master as Zeller has plenty of instruction for more advanced readers also. Naturally, it follows the lines of the Geschichte. Charles Darwin. By GRANT ALLEN. (" English Worthies.") London : Longmans, Green, 1885. Pp. 206. The author " has endeavoured to present the life and work of Charles Darwin viewed as a moment in a great revolution, in due relation both to those who went liffore and those who come after him"; and, bringing a wide knowledge with perfect enthusiasm to the task, he has produced an effective and even brilliant piece. The psychological and other humanist ic implications of Evolutionism are, of course, not overlooked, whether as suggested by Darwin himself or as worked out in the system of Mr. Spencer ; but by the side of these some other names of the century that have passed before as great need hardly have been held in such small account as at p. 198. The Miscellaneous and Posthumous Works of HENRY THOMAS BUCKLE. A new and abridged Edition. Edited by GRANT ALLEN. 2 vols. London : Longmans, Green, 1885. Pp. viii., 433 ; viii., 421. Of all the reactionaries or the laggards who failed to get upon the evolu- tionary track, Buckle receives the hardest cut in the Charles Da, Was it because Mr. Allen had just been wrestling with the labour of bringing Miss Taylor's original three bulky volumes into the compass i >f these much handier two ? It can have been no easy task, and the service rendered to Buckle's memory by the omissions is considerable. As the work now stands, less than half (while yet enough) of Vol. ii. is occupied with " Extracts from the Common Place Book"; "Fragment-" run back from ii. -2~> I to i. 200; preceded by the longer piece " Reign of Elizabeth" from i. 14.'5. Miss Taylor's Biographical Notice, and the originally reprinted papers "Influence of Women," "Mill on Liberty," with Letter on Pooler's Case, come first. Movements of Ivlnjioiix Thought in Britain during the Nineteenth Centura. Being the Fifth Series of St. Giles' Lectures. By JOHN TCLLOCH, ]).!>., LL.l)., Senior Principal in the I'niversity of St. Andrews. London : Longmans, Green, 1885. Pp. xi., 338. Of this series of eight lectures, that which has most philosophical inte- rest is the sixth, on "John Stuart Mill and his School". Most of the school seem to the author to have been entirely wanting in "spiritual instinct ". The younger Mill, although, like his father and the rest of "his school" (described as founded l.y Janie> Mill and as including ('. II. Lewes, he insisted on judging Christianity from its worst instead of from its hrst >ide, had "far higher instincts" than the more consistent nif-mbeis of the si-hool >ncli as (I rote, who vas "more a Millite than John Stuart Mill him--] I ". Yet, a> "men arc not supposed to be and cannot he experts in anything the very rudiments of which they have never learned, we ought not to look upon his writings "as po.-ses.-ing any special authority on the subject" of religion. He ha- done service, indeed, to religious thought "in indicating everywhere the moral side of religion, but his chief service i.- to have .-hown l.y "clearing 'he marches between the great lines of thought" that "determinism in philosophy leads to the ir-