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 X. MISCELLANEOUS. The Clarendon Press vill in April publish, in two volumes octavo, an English Translation of the late Professor Lotze's Logik and Metaphysik, edited by Mr. B. Bosanquet, Fellow of University College, Oxford. These volumes form Parts i. and ii. respectively of the System der Philosophic, in which Lotze had intended to give a final and complete exposition of his philosophical views. The projected Part iii. would have dealt with the Philosophy of .Esthetics and with Moral Philosophy ; but the author's death shortly after he had entered, as was hoped, on a wider sphere of activity by accepting a Professorship at Berlin, prevented this completion of the System. Each of the volumes consists of three books. In the first book, " Of Thought," the Logic deals with the traditional forms of notion, judg- ment, and syllogism, subjecting them to a free criticism, and to an interpreta- tion directed to elucidating their real nature and use. In the second book, " Of Investigation," no distinct system is followed, but the actual methods of proof and of research are analysed in extreme detail and with copious illustration. Book third, " Of Knowledge," approaches the problem (which has so far been kept in the background) of the relation between knowledge as it exists in the human intelligence, and any reality independent of or external to that intelligence. The first book of the Metaphysic bears the name of " Ontology," and under this title treats of the modes of being and of inter-connexion which may or must be attributed to a world of things if it is to be thought of as actually existing. The second book, " Cosmo- logy," criticises the specific forms and principles which are the groundwork of our knowledge of nature ; such as Time, Space, Motion, and the limits and significance of the mechanical aspect of the world. In the " Psycho- logy " (book third) the author discusses the nature and activities of the soul, and its relation to the principal nervous centres ; treating, for instance, of the growth of a sense of locality both in sight and in touch, of memory and association, of attention, and of the initiation of voluntary acts. In this book the author restates with some modifications his well-known doc- trine of local signs. The Translation is the work of several persons ; it has been carefully revised throughout, and submitted, where it seemed necessary, to mathematical experts. Tables of Contents and Indices have been added. The Aristotelian Society for the Systematic Study of Philosophy, which has recently had a considerable accession of members, now holds its meet- ings at the rooms of the Royal Asiatic Society, 22 Albemarle Street, on alternate Mondays, at 8 P.M. as before. At the meeting of Jan. 7th, a communication was read from Mr. Charles Bray "On the Analogy between Sir I. Xewton's Universal Spirit and the Force of our Modern Discovery, 13 which was followed by a discussion on the subject of Force. The study of Hume's Treatise of Human Xature was commenced on Jan. 21st, by a paper on Part i., " Of Ideas, &c., n by Mr. H. TV. Carr ; and was continued on Feb. 4th, by a paper on Part ii., " Of the Ideas of Space and Time," by Mr. W. Cockburn ; and again on Feb. 18th, by a paper from Mr. A. F. Lake on Part iii., " Of Knowledge and Probability " ; the reading of the papers being in ever}- instance followed by a discussion. At the meeting of March 3rd, reserved for original communications, a somewhat elaborate paper was read by Mr. E. P. Scrymgour, Vice-President, on " Perception and Con- ception, a Vindication of Idealism " ; discussion of which occupied the remainder of the evening.