Excerpt from The Critic, Vol. 27: A Weekly Review of Literature and the Arts; July-December 1895

Readers OF Plato's Republic will find in Bernard Bosan quet's Companion to Plato's Republic for English Readers an invaluable help. The book is a commentary adapted to Davies and Vaughan's translation. Its introduction contains some very pertinent notes on the popular Greek ideal of happiness, the Greek household, the age of Plato, and the unity of the state. It is throughout so well done that we foresee it will be found to have met a real need. (macmillan Co.) the elements OF inductive logic, a text-book, by Prof. Noah K. Davis, is a companion volume to the same author's Elements of Deductive Logic. The book has many attractive features, but neither in method nor in content is it different from long-standing text-books on the same subject. (harper Bros.) matter, force and spirit; or, Scientific Evidence of a Supreme Intelligence, is a little book published without name of author. (g. P. Put nam's Sons.) A valuable book to students of Lotze's phil osophy is A Critical Account of the Philosophy of Lotze: The Doctrine of Thought. By Henry Jones of the University of Glas gow, at one time a pupil of Lotze. (macmillan Co.) A new text-book in ethics comes from Columbia. Ele ments of Ethics is the work of Prof. J. H. Hyslop, who launched a text-book on Logic a few years ago. The Ethics is a much bet ter piece of work than the Logic. It shows, in the first place, more independence of arrangement and treatment, and, secondly, some freshness in conception. It is, however, too plainly a text book of the conventional type. It is not in the spirit of what is called the inductive method, and is notably deficient in referen ces for collateral reading; a book rather for the memory than for the understanding, for the receptive than for the constructive and active, searching mind. It is a good, readable book, but in the light of current ideals in education it is not altogether a promising text-book. Text-books nowadays should be rather guide-books than text-books. (charles Scribner's Sons). A more promis ing book for the class-room is Dewey's The Study of Ethics. A Syllabus. It is rather carelessly prepared. And is not a very successful bit of book-making, but the fact that it was made up of sheets printed from time to time through the year for class use, in part accounts for these external defects. Prof. Dewey believes that amid the prevalence of pathological and moralistic Ethics there is room for a theory which conceives of conduct as the nor mal and free living of life as it is. He undertakes, accordingly, a thorough psychological analysis of the process of active experience, deriving from this analysis the principal ethical types and crises. He does not teach ethics. He does. On the contrary, the rather original and the highly valuable thing of conducting an investiga tion in the sphere of conduct. Illustrations of all sorts, and ref crenees to philosophical literature, are on every page. Users of this book. However, whether instructors or pupils, are under the wholesome necessity of thinking. (ann Arbor Register Pub. Co).

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