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 NEW BOOKS. 299 Institutiones Juris naturalis sen Philosophice moralis universce secundum Principia S. Thomce Aquinatis ad usum scholareiu aclornavit THEO- DORUS MEYER, S.J. Pars I. Jus Naturae generale continents Ethicam generalem et Jus sociale in Genere. Cum Approbatione Rev. Archiep. Friburgensis. Friburgi Brisgovise : Herder, 1885. Pp. viii., 498. This is the second of the series of works dealing with philosophy from the Scholastic point of view begun by Father Pesch's Institutiones Philoso- phic naturalis (See MIXD, Vols. vii. 424 and viii. 144), and forms the first part of a treatise on moral philosophy. In this part all the general questions of ethics and philosophy of law are discussed and decided accord- ing to principles derived from Thomas Aquinas. It has been found neces- sary (the author says) to refer frequently to later writers on the same subjects, and especially to the more recent, not indeed for the sake of completing the doctrine of S. Thomas for, as far as moral science is concerned, hardly anything is to be found really established in modern authors that has not already been in some manner either explicitly or implicitly asserted, and for the most part still more clearly and fully treated by the Angelic Doctor ; but "partly that new errors which are to be vanquished by ancient truth may be known from their own new springs, partly that the historical evolution of science and its present condition may appear ". The references both to modern and to ancient authors are extremely copious. RECEIVED also : W. R. Gowers, Lectures on the Diagnosis of Diseases of the Brain, London, J. & A. Churchill, pp. vi., 246. J. K. Bluntschli, The Theory of the State (Authorised Translation), Oxford, Clarendon Press, pp. xx., 518. E. B. Bax, A Hand-book of the History of Philosophy, London, G. Bell, pp. 419. Hegel & Michelet, Philosophy of Art (Translation), Edinburgh, Oliver & Boyd, pp. xv., 118. P. K. Ray, A Text-book of Deductive Logic, 2nd Ed., London, Macmillan, pp. xvi., 311. J. Longland, Who and what is God ?, 2nd Ed., London, Hamilton, Adams, pp. 79. E. Droz, Etude sur le Scepticisme de Pascal consideree dans le Livre des Pensees, Paris, F. Alcan, pp. 394. C. Lafontaine, L'Art de Magnetiser, 5me Ed., Paris, F. Alcan, pp. xii., 314. G. Cesca, II Monismo meccanistico e la Coscienza, Treviso, L. Zoppelli, pp. 29. B. Labanca, II Cristianesimo primitive, Torino, E. Loescher, pp. xxiv., 448. Abelardius, La Religione come Scienza, Cremona, Tipog. sociale, pp. 111. A. Bastian, Die Seele indischer u. hellenischer Philosophic in den Gespenstern moderner Geisterseherei, Berlin, Weidmann, pp. xlviii., 223. R. Eucken, Die Philosophic des Thomas von Aquino u. die Kultur der Neuzeit, Halle a. S., C. E. M. Pfeffer (R. Strieker), pp. 54. A. Steudel, Ueber Materie u. Geist, Stuttgart, A. Bonz, pp. 58. A. Freiherr von Berger, Raumanschauung u. Formale Logik, Wien, 0. Konegen, pp. 48. J, Bergmann, Vorlesungen iiber Metaphysik mit besonderer Beziehung auf Kant, Berlin, Mittler, pp. viii., 490. J. Kreibig, Epikur, Wien, Halm u. Goldmann, pp. 50. P. S. de Laplace, Philosophischer Versuch iiber die Wahrscheinliclikeiten (Uebersetz.), Leipzig, Duncker u. Humblot, pp. x., 198. NOTICE of most of these will follow.