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 NEW BOOKS. 301 present one it may be safely said that it is much the best yet issued. Not less safe is the prophecy that the next will be a good deal better. The Philosophy of Law. An Exposition of the Fundamental Principles of Jurisprudence as the Science of Right. By IMMANUEL KANT. Translated from the German by W. HASTIE, B.D. Edinburgh T. & T. Clark, 1887. Pp. xxxvi./265. This translation of Kant's Rechtslehre has been undertaken by Mr. Hastie in the conviction that, as in philosophy generally, so in the philosophy of law no advance can be made except as the result of a previous "return to Kant". The Preface and Introduction, as he mentions, have already been translated (by J. W. Semple), but they are now, with the rest of the book which appears in English for the first time, translated anew. The Christian Platonists of Alexandria. Eight Lectures preached before the University of Oxford in the Year 1886 on the Foundation of the late Rev. John Bampton, M.A., Canon of Salisbury. By CHARLES BIGG, D.D., Assistant Chaplain of Corpus Christi College, formerly Senior Student of Christ Church, Oxford. Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1886. Pp. xxvii., 304. These " Bampton Lectures " are rather a contribution to the history of philosophical theology than to the history of philosophy directly ; but incidentally they contain abundance of philosophical interest. They are founded both on study of the Alexandrians themselves and on full know- ledge of the work of English and foreign scholars. In his very copious notes the author shows himself especially anxious to give reasons for his acceptance or rejection of the opinions of German historians and critics on disputed points of interpretation of texts and filiation of doctrines. The treatment is throughout in an impartial spirit. The titles of the Lectures are (i.) " Introduction. Philo and the Gnostics," (ii., iii.) " Clement," (iv.-vi.) " Origen," (vii.) " The Reformed Paganism," (viii.) " Summary ". The Historical Basis of Modern Europe (1760-1815 j. An Introductory Study to the General History of Europe in the 19th Century. By ARCHIBALD WEIR, M.A. London : Swan, Sonnenschein, Lowrey & Co., 1886. Pp. xx., 616. One chapter of this work (c. xii. "Critical Philosophy and Sensational Psychology," pp. 471-505) is expressly devoted to the philosophical development of modern Europe. Starting with Locke on one side, and Descartes on the other, the writer gives a sketch of the stages of British and Continental thought, down to the Kantian philosophy, the Common Sense School, and " the Metaphysics of Association ". The present sketch is partly derived from his Introduction to the Critical Philosophy of Kant (noticed in MIND vi. 596). Psychology. By JOHN DEWEY, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Philosophy in Michigan University. New York : Harper & Brothers, 1887. Pp 427. This is a treatise on psychology written for class-room instruction, with full sense, as might be expected from the author, of the difficulties and obligations to be faced at the present time by any expositor of the science, owing to its peculiar relations with philosophy. Difficulties and obliga- tions alike have from different points of view been so much insisted upon in the pages of MIND of late years, that some detailed Critical Notice of