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156 tional analysis, as carried out in the whole body of regulative doctrine with which it is connected. His own view of proposition remains devoid of all logical value, till he can show that it is of equal account for regulating the process of judgment or use of prepositional forms, to say nothing of mediate reasoning. He may limit himself most profitably to the grammatical question.

The present edition adds to the contents of the second (enlarged) edition, which appeared in 1879, a translation of the General Introduction to the composite treatise Die Metaphysik der Sitten (why called in the translator's preface Metaphysische Anfangsgründe der Sittenlehre?) and of the Preface and nearly the whole Introduction to its second part (as first published) the Metaphysische Anfangsgründe der Tugendlehre. Mr. Abbott can now, perhaps, claim with reason to have given "the whole of Kant's works on the General Theory of Ethics," but when he reaches his fourth edition it might still be well to enlarge still farther by the addition of the body of the Tugendlehre, surpassing his predecessor Semple in the rendering of this as much as he has done in the other pieces common to their two attempts to present Kant's ethical doctrine in English; nor would it be amiss to throw in (with Semple) the Introduction to the Rechtslehre also.

Miss Alleyne, who began by translating (with the help of Prof. Goodwin) that section of Part II. of Zeller's great work which treats of ' Plato and the Older Academy,' and who afterwards successfully took up the whole of Part I. dealing with the 'Pre-Socratic Schools,' has now added to her achievement a rendering of that section of Part III. which is occupied with 'Eclecticism,' after the other section on the 'Stoics, Epicureans, and Sceptics,' already translated by another hand. The publishers again announce, as on the publication of the 'Pre-Socratic Schools' in 1881, that with the long-promised division of Part II. on 'Aristotle and the Elder Peripatetics,' still "in preparation," the English Translation of Zeller's work will be completed; but, as they have been better than their word by now adding the present section on 'Eclecticism,' so it may be hoped they will again extend their view and really complete the work with a translation, by Miss Alleyne's competent and diligent hand, of the second division of Part III. which includes the later Scepticism, beginning with the school of Ænesidemus, and the final effort of Neo-Platonism.

Vol. XXII. of the "English and Foreign Philosophical Library" presents a translation of the first four Books of Schopenhauer's famous work, containing the whole direct exposition of his systematic thought. Two volumes, to follow, will complete the translation of the work as it stood in the third edition issued in 1859 shortly before the author's death; the