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442 of English and American readers, who may care to know something of the philosophy of Aristotle." The reader cannot, however, help feeling that the idea of interesting a larger audience has, to some extent, conflicted with the purpose of instructing the serious student, and that the work would have gained by being more definitely consecrated to the one end or the other. So far as the student of the Ethics is concerned, it is difficult to see the raison d'être of such a treatment as this, after the "monumental commentary" of Professor Stewart. On the whole, the book will probably find more favour with the general reader than with the student or the lecturer on Aristotle. It seems to have grown out of the notes of lectures by the late Professor Chandler, to whom Mr. Stock makes the handsomest acknowledgment of his indebtedness.

The presentation takes the form of a series of lectures by Aristotle, interrupted occasionally by questions and suggestions on the part of Theophrastus, Eudemus, and Nichomachus, who, with the master himself, are styled the "persons in the Dialogue." The chief title of the volume, however, more accurately describes its contents; it is rather a series of lectures than of dialogues. Each lecture deals with some main topic of the Ethics. The interruptions are so infrequent as not seriously to interrupt the continuity of the exposition; and while they occasionally afford a useful point of departure for the further and more precise development of Aristotelian doctrine, it can hardly be said that this is so generally the case as to make the interruptions worth the while, at least for the serious student of the text. The lectures cover the first five books of the Nicomachean Ethics, which include the account of the moral virtues. The omission of the intellectual virtues, of the discussion of friendship, and of the final account of the place of pleasure in happiness, is, of course, a serious limitation.

J. S. sc|Hermann Diels}}, mit einem Anhang über griechische Thüren and Schlösser. Berlin, Georg Reimer, 1897.—pp. 163.}}

It is thirty years since Stein edited the text of Parmenides, and since then the principles of philological criticism have been considerably modified. It was Stein's purpose, so the writer informs us, to make over the traditional text of Parmenides by transposition, emendation, and athetesis, so that it should conform to his conception of what poetry ought to be. The present edition, on the other hand, is simply to give the traditional verses in the form in which tradition has preserved them. Accordingly the fragments are kept separate, so as to avoid the illusion of completeness which continuous numbering might produce; repetitions are carefully retained (1.37 and 8.1; 1.33 and 7.2 cf. 6.3); 8.15b, which Diels himself had regarded as a prose comment of Simplicius is restored to its place in the text; and, finally, but not least important, the dialect of each line is given according to the author by whom it was transmitted,