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 438 NEW BOOKS. Vol. ix. 156) of the scope and method of their undertaking, and they are now to be heartily congratulated upon the execution. Some defects or slips that could be noted in their first volume have been made good, and the remainder of the work, in the final form it assumed at Schopenhauer's hands, appears (upon an examination of passages selected at random) to have been rendered with as much care in detail as intelligent grasp generally. If Schopenhauer as he was slow in obtaining recognition from his countrymen during his lifetime has had to wait a quarter of a century from his death for his English public, he has at least been fortunate in securing translators able and determined to do his remarkable qualities jus- tice. Vol. ii. begins with the striking "Criticism of the Kantian Philosophy" which (in less developed form) was added as Appendix to his work as it originally appeared in 1819; and from p. 163 follow the "Supplements," which, first added in 1844 and increased in 1859, are a continuous product of his ripest thought rather than a mere elucidation of his earlier ideas (as their name and parallel construction would seem to import). Besides providing a iiseful and much-needed Index (with the help of the devoted Frauenstadt's Schopenhauer-Lexikori) the translators, according to their formerly announced plan, have given at the end an Abstract (pp. 477-86) of the early (1813) dissertation On the Fourfold Boot, d-c., which laid out the main lines of all Schopenhauer's later thought. What else he thought necessary to be added to the systematic exposition of his philosophy i be found in the Paralipomena of 1851 (published with the Parerga). Autobiography of Friedrich Frobel. Translated and Annotated by EMILIE MICHAELIS and H. KEATLEY MOORE, Mus. Bac., B.A. 'London : Swan Sonnenschein, 1886. Pp. 144. The different pieces here brought together, all bearing on the life and labours of the founder of the Kindergarten system, are issued by the translators as some kind of substitute for a rendering of Froebel's chief work Die Menschenerziehung, which they had proposed to undertake for the English Froebel Society, on occasion of the centenary of the master's birth in 1882, but appear not to have been encouraged to carry through. Their common enthusiasm for the cause and their helpful difference of nationality have enabled them to reproduce Froebel's ideas and words in a thoroughly trustworthy form. The main autobiographical piece (pp. 3-101), consist- ing of an unfinished letter addressed to the Duke of Meiningen in 1827, should be full of interest for all those who wish to understand the st: mixture of mystical feeling and somewhat perplexed intelligence with practical good sense in the nature of the great educational reformer. To this piece are added, by way of supplement, a shorter account of his life included by Froebel in a letter (1828) to the philosopher Krause ; a sketch, entitled "Critical Moments in the Froebel Community,' 1 by his adherent Barop, writing by way of reminiscence about the year 1862 ; and finally a full chronological abstract of the principal events both in the life of Froebel and in the development of the Kindergarten movement, abroad or in England, down to the present time. Lectures on the Diagnosis of Diseases of the Brain. Delivered at University College Hospital. By W. R. COWERS, M.D., F.R.C.P., Assistant- Professor of Clinical Medicine in University College, c. London: J. & A. Churchill, 1885. Pp. vii., 246. These Lectures (which serve to complement the author's earlier Diagnosis of Diseases of the Spinal Cord] have been recognised as one of the best recent products of the English neurological school, and should be carefully noted by psychologists that are concerned to get trustworthy information