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 134 NEW BOOKS. Though these Studies, made up of the famous Primitive Marriage and iive shorter essays on kindred topics, lie outside the strict province of MIND, they touch it very nearly and may be mentioned again as they were when first collected in 1876 (Vol. ii. 132). They now appear with a number of additional notes, supplied by the lamented author's brother, Mr. D. McLennan, at first hand or (in the case of the now considerably increased Appendix, pp. 165-91, to Primitive Marriage} on the basis of collections of supporting evidence made b} r the author himself. A second volume is promised " containing other writings of the author writings for the most part hitherto unpublished, and prepared for a work which was left unfinished from which it will be possible to gather, in a considerable measure at least, how far the author's views had grown or been developed, how far they had changed or been added to subsequently to the appearance of Primitive Marriage " (first in 1865). The Introduction to Hegel's Philosophy of Fine Art. Translated from the German, with Notes and Prefatory Essay. By BERNARD BOSANQUET, M.A., late Fellow and Tutor of University College, Oxford. London : Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1886. Pp. xxxiii., 175. This is a complete translation of the Introduction to Hegel's ^sthetiL Mr. Hastie's rendering, noticed in MIND, xi. 437, is, it seems, in the latter part, an analysis. The translator has " hoped that the present volume may be of interest to many who, without being students of philo- sophy, are intelligent lovers of art," and has therefore done his best ''to interpret philosophical expressions, instead of merely furnishing their tech- nical equivalents". The prefatory essay (pp. xiii.-xxxiii.) "On the True Conception of Another World " shows how " the ' things not seen ' of Plato or of Hegel are not a double or a projection of the existing world " ; the distinction of the ideal from the real world in the Hegelian philosophy at least being always a distinction " within the world which we know, and not between the world we know and another which we do not know". To illustrate this, M. Bosanquet explains the Hegelian notions of Infinity, of Freedom and of an immanent Deity. The Life of Words as the Symbols of Ideas. By ARSENE DARMESTETER, Professor of the History of the French Language and of Old French Literature, at the Sorbbnne. London : Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1886. Pp. 173. These interesting Lectures which were delivered in London to a limited audience and appear in translation before being published in French although, influenced throughout by the author's psycho- logical aim, are for the most part concerned with (French) philo- logy rather than with psychology directly. There is one chapter (pt. i., ch. 3, pp. 83-105) where "the author deals suggestively with linguistic study as an instrument of psychological research, summing up his conclusion in the following sentence : " Of the different natural manifestations wherein the character of a people reflects itself, their religion, literature, art and institutions, language is the most direct and most immediate, because it does not in the same degree as the others submit to the powerful and personal action of individual men of genius, and because, on the other hand, it is the very expression of the people's turn of mind, it is the very mould of their thought " (p. 105). Life of Antonio Bosmini Serbati, Founder of the Institute of Charity. Edited by WILLIAM LOCKHART, Graduate of Oxford, Exeter Coll., Procurator of the Order in Rome, Rector of St. Ethelreda's, London. 2 Vols. London : Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1886. Pp. xxxiii., 360 ; xi., 352.