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 588 NEW BOOKS. point of view of his own. "Criminology" he regards as the complement or reverse of Political Economy (in its newer socialistic form), both falling within the general doctrine of Sociology. The little treatise is worthy of all attention. II Cristianesimo primitive. Studio storico-critico di BALDASSARE LABAXCA, Professore di Filosofia morale nella Universita di Pisa. Torino : E. Loescher, 1886. Pp. xxiv., 448. The chapter of most philosophical interest in this work, which is in- tended chiefly as a historical and not as a philosophical st udy, is the sixtli (pp. 209-268), on the relations of ancient phflosophy to primitive Christianity. The author has in view to follow up this volume by another, dealing with " Christian Philosophy in relation to primitive Christianity, in its most important problems, historical and scientific ". The book is inscribed " to Giordano Bruno, the martyr of free thought". FRIEDRICH UEBERWEQ'S Grundriss der Geschichte der Philosophic. Erster Theil : " Das Alterthum " ; Zweiter Theil : " Die mittlere oder die patristische u. scholastische Zeit ". Siebente, mit einem Philosophen- u. Litteratoren-Register versehene Auflage bearbeitet u. herausgegeben von Dr. MAX HEINZE, ord. Professor der Philosophic an der Universi- tat zu Leipzig. Berlin : E. S. Mittler, 1886. Pp. ix., 360 ; viii., 305. The first two parts of Ueberweg's standard work, last issued in 1880-1, here reach their seventh edition. Prof. Heinze, who has now so long been charged with the laborious task of keeping the book on a level with the most recent special inquiry in all parts of the field, has worked again in an effective manner, incorporating the necessary references to the newer literature, often with critical observations ; and yet, in the case of Part i., managing, by occasional curtailments and omission of antiquated references, to come off with an increase from the 6th edition of only some 20 p.- Part ii. is even less extended in the gross, but now compas.-es its fifteen centuries much more adequately than when Ueberweg first went over them in but two-thirds of the space. The editor here proceeds upon original study of his own as well as the work of others ; he regrets that he has been able to utilise vol i. of A. Harnack's new Lehrbuch der Dogmen-gtschiJite only for his final revise. Worterbuch der philosophischen Grundbegriffe. Von Lie. Dr. Fr. KIRCHNER (" Philosophische Bibliothek," Hefte 314-9.) Heidelberg: G. Weiss, 1886. Pp. 459. This work is by the same indefatigable and versatile author whose Catechism, of Psychology and (so-called) Catechism of History of Philosophy have been noticed in former Nos. of MIND. It was not possible to judge as favourably of the second of these manuals as of the other, written so obviously as it was in very hot haste. The present work, in which the author uses over again his historical knowledge in the altered guise of a dictionary of philosophical terms, also gives the impression of being somewhat over- rapidly put together. It has been first issued in the form of three double- parts of the cheap and varied collection of philosophical masterpieces (and of commentaries on them) published under the direction of J. H. v. Kirch- mann for a considerable time past. Of the useful ness of a handy philo- sophical dictionary there can, as the author rightly says, be no question; and he has shown himself, were it only by the very range, of his former writings, by no means devoid of the qualifications for writing one that should really prow useful. He states his objects to have been (1) to treat the most important philosophical notions, (2) to aim at the utmost possible