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 NEW BOOKS. 41)5 before whom he was in the habit of tilting in the Dublin Revieic. The other Essays (i.-xiii.) are the complete series of papers which he was able to produce in pursuance of a plan, formed from 1871, for the philosophical establishment of Theism more expressly against " those antitheists who pro- he phenomenal philosophy ". The enterprise, as his son and editor states in the vigorous Introduction to these volumes, fell into two parts, only the first of which dealing with "the fundamental fallacies in the Experience- system of philosophy, as represented especially by the late Mr. Stuart Mill, and the absolute necessity of admitting the power of the human mind to perceive with certainty some immediately evident truths beyond the phenomena of consciousness" he considered himself to have accomplished. The second part of his task " to draw out, on the principles thus estab- lished, an argumentation exhibiting the various intuitions in the intel- lectual and moral order, truths of observation and deductions, whereby the existence of a Personal God, with the characteristics which Theists attri- bute to Him, may be established" he was barely able to indicate in ' Ethics and its Bearing on Theism" (1880, here xii.) and the latest Essay of all, "Philosophy of the Theistic Controversy" (1882, xiii.). Of the others, one (xi.) is a reply to the exhaustive criticism which Mr. Shadworth Hodgson made in MIXD XTIII. on the various pieces (vi.-x.) which the author had been producing on the subject of Free-will and of Causation from April 1874. The first five, opening with "The Rule and Motive of Certitude " and then occupied with a consideration and more than one reconsideration of Mill's views on " Necessary Truth " and the "Founda- tion of Morality," are (with the lat- xiii., xiv.), those of the whole series which, though their interest is now in various ways lessened, still call for more detailed notice in these pages. It is certainly matter for congratulation that work of so much intrinsic force, as well as representa- tive importance, should, in these carefully edited volumes, have been brought into public view from the comparative seclusion in which it went on. Logic, in Three Books of Thought, of Investigation and of Knowledge. Also 'physic, in Three Books, Ontology, Cosmology and Psychology. By HERMAXX LOTZE. English Translations edited by BERNARD BOSAX- QUET. M.A., Fellow of University College, Oxford. Oxford : Claren- don Press, 1884. Pp. xxiii., 538 ; xvi., 539. Some preliminary account was given in MIND XXXIV., 323, of the contents of tlie-e two volumes, on the appearance of which the editor and the other translators as well as the Clarendon Press are to be congratulated. The translators of the Logic are Mr. R. L. Xettleship, Mr. F. H. Peters, Mr. F. C. Conybeare, the Editor and Mr. R. G. Tatton ; of the Metaphysic, the late Prof. 'Green, the Editor, Rev. C. A. Whittuck, and Prof. A. C. Bradley. The whole being revised by the Editor (who is responsible in every case for the rendering finally adopted), a better result has been at- tained by such co-operative effort than was likely to be achieved by any single hand, however competent, over so large a field. Both volumes will, it is hoped, before long be subjected to detailed criticism in these pages ; the originals, in which the lamented author deposited his maturest views, having had their appearance merely chronicled the Metaphysik in 1879, 2nd edition of the Logik (after the 'ist in 1874) in 1880. Of the intended Vol. iii. that was to conclude the "System'"' with Practical Philosophy, Aesthetic and Philosophy of Religion, no materials were found after the authors death sufficiently advanced for publication excepting the paper subsequently published in Sord u. Siid (June 1882) under the title " Die Principieu tier Ethik ".