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 320 NEW BOOKS. and will complete the other half in a second volume to appear in the course of this year. The whole scheme falls into four sections : (1) a general delineation of the principles of philosophical Theism as put forward by the Christian Fathers and Schoolmen; (2) an appreciation of its theoretic principles in respect of their intrinsic truth or falsehood ; (3) a considera- tion of the historic raison d'etre of Theism ; (4) an examination of the par- ticular form of Theism propounded by the Italian philosophers (Rosmini, Gioberti) of the present century. The author, in limiting the discussion to the philosophical Theism of Christian thinkers, specially Italian, whether of recent times or of the Scholastic period (represented chiefly by S. Thomas, who has been brought again into more credit than ever by the action of the present Pope), has obviously in view the practical exigencies of his time and country ; but he has written, in the present volume, a book of undeniable philosophic importance, displaying at once wide historic erudition and inti- mate acquaintance with the results of modern inquiry, also no little independ- ence of thought. Of the two sections making up the volume, the expository one, occupied more with the Schoolmen than the Fathers, is comparatively short (pp. 18-77). It is in the critical section, where he brings the scho- lastic doctrine face to face with modern philosophy along its whole course, that the author gives himself free rein. The criticism is disposed in two parts : the general principles of Theism being first considered in them- selves ; and next their scientific systematisation in natural theology, theistic metaphysic, logic, cosmology, angelology and anthropology, psychology, ethics and eschatology. Theistic psychology occupies pp. 422-526, and the criti- cism turns upon (1) the origin of the soul, (2) the duality of substances in man, (3) the relation of soul and body, (4) psychophysical phenomena. The eschatological questions of immortality and bodily resurrection are exhaustively treated from p. 545 to p. 693. The conclusion to which the author comes as the result of his whole survey is that the principles of philosophical Theism are at no point demonstrated and are at variance both with reality and with themselves. He is forward, however, to draw the distinction between philosophy and religion, reason and faith, and pro- mises to enlarge upon this in his remaining volume. Other BOOKS, &c., received : Evolution (as taught), a Myth illusive and degrading, London : Ballan- tyne, Hanson, pp. 254. C. Haddon, A Law of Development, London : Haddon, pp. 48. G. H. Scribner, Where did Life begin ? New York : Scribner, pp. 64. Clavis Rerum, Norwich, Conn. : Robinson, pp. 142. P. Piper, Schriften Notker's u. seiner Schule, Bde. ii., iii., Freiburg i. B. u. Tubingen : Mohr, pp. 644, 415. F. Koegel, Die korperlichen Gestalten der Poesie, Halle : Schwetschke, pp. 46. C. Menger, Die Irrthumer des Historismus in der deutschen Nationalokono- mie, Wien : Holder, pp. 87. J. Volkelt, Ueber die Moglichkeit der Metnphysik, Hamburg, u. Leipxi.u : Voss, pp. 40. J. Bergmann, Ueber den Utilitarianismus, Marburg : Elwert, pp. 33. W. Preyer, Specialle Physiologie des Embryo, Ite Lief., Leipzig : Grielu'ii, pp. 160.