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 MISCELLANEOUS. 475 Part 4, " Of the Sceptical and Other Systems of Philosophy," by Mr. W. R Browne ; on March 31st, by a paper on Book ii., Part 1, "Of Pride and Humility," and Part 2, " Of Love and Hatred," by Mr. W. E. Beeton ; on April iflst, by a paper on Book ii., Part 3, " Of the Will and direct Passions," and Book iii., Part 1, " Of Virtue and Vice in general," by Mr. P. Daphne ; and concluded on May 19th, by a paper on Book iii., Part 2, " Of Justice and Injustice," and Part 3, " Of the other Virtues and Vices," by Mr. G. Cave. The papers were in every instance followed by a discus- sion. On May 19th, Professor Bain, who was present, made some inte- resting observations on Hume's relation to Utilitarianism, as well as on the relation of the speculative part of Hume'e own system to the practical part. On one of the two meetings devoted to original communications, May 5th, a paper was read by Mr. W. R. Dunstan, Vice-president, on " An Analysis of Force," and ou June 9th, Mr. E. Hawksley Rhodes, Vice-president, completed the subject of Hume by a paper on " Hume's position in the English School of Philosophy " ; both papers being followed by a discussion. The English Translation of Lotze's Mikrokosmus, begun by the late Miss Elizabeth Hamilton (daughter of Sir W. Hamilton) and completed by Miss E. E. Constance Jones (of Girton College), who has also revised Miss Hamilton's part of the work, is now being printed, and will be published by Messrs. T. & T. Clark of Edinburgh. It may here be added, with reference to the English translation of Lotze's Mdapliysik noticed on a former page, that a French translation of the same work has also lately appeared, published by Firinin-Didot at the cost of the translator Mons. A. Duval, now of Montpelier. Prof. Rehnisch, noticing M. Duval's work in the Gottinger Gdehrte Anzeigen (No. 10, 1884), mentions that Lotze himself revised it, and that it has consequently been found useful in clearing up difficulties at particular points of the newly issued second edition of the inal. M. Duval has also ready a translation of the Mikro- German original. M. Duval has also ready kosmus, executed at Gottingen under the author's eye while Lotze was still there, cannot find a publisher willing to undertake the cost of production. The Rev. Dr. John Gibson Macvicar, author of An Inquiry into Human Nature (1852), The Philosophy of the Beautiful (1855, first published in a less developed form, in 1837, with the title On the Beautiful, the Picturesque, and the Sublime), A Sketch of a Philosophy (1868), and contributor of an article on " The so-called Antinomy of Reason " to MIXD VI., died on the 12th February at Moffat, X.B., where he had been parish-minister since 1853. He was born at Dundee on 16th March, 1800. Dr. G. Stanley Hall, who lias for some time been Lecturer (not Pro- fessor, as formerly stated in MIND) at the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, has now been appointed full Professor of Psychology and Pedagogy (the latter subject being understood as Applied Psychology and Ethics). He is to have several Assistants in his work, and his own lec- turing will be confined to graduates. With its Psycho-physical Laboratory, which has begun already to yield results, as our readers have seen in No. XXXIII. , and from which more may be soon expected, the Johns Hopkins is now as well fitted out for scientific work on mind as perhaps even the most advanced German university. In this country, almost the first beginning towards such an academic equipment has yet to be made. Dr. J. G. Schurman, who has hitherto professed English Literature with Metaphysics in Dalhousie College, Halifax, N.S., has now been appointed to a newly-founded separate chair of Metaphysics there. Professor Benno Erdmann has passed from Kiel to Breslau ; Drs. A. Krohn and G. Glogau, extraordinarii at Halle, have become ordinary Pro- fessors at Kiel ; and Dr. H. Vaihinger, from the extraordinary grade at Strasburg, has risen to the higher grade at Halle.