Glover. He discusses at some length in the introduction the difficulty of rendering the word 'tea', and finally decides upon Serica Calda or Sericus humor. But in the two poems in which he uses these somewhat ugly phrases it is tea the meal, not the beverage, which is referred to: and waiving the question whether the child's tea does not usually consist of the more prosaic glass of milk (accompanied of course by abundant bread and jam), it would surely have been justifiable for even the most conscientious translator to use the simple word cena. One thinks with horror of the dreadful inferences which students of future ages would draw, if Stevenson's English were lost and the Latin alone remained to guide the diligent scholar in his researches upon the diet of the nursery: 'What! Tea at that age! Monstrous!' But these be trifles: the book is a delight, and Professor Glover is to be congratulated on so admirably performing a task which will be equally welcome to lovers of Stevenson and of Latin. W. D. WOODHEAD. SURVEYS. The Quarterly will henceforth publish short surveys of important new books or discoveries in the various departments of knowledge. These surveys are designed to guide the general reader who, himself no specialist, wishes to keep in contact with the advance of knowledge. It is hoped to cover the most important subjects annually. PHILOSOPHY. Mr. F. H. Bradley's The Principles of Logic (Oxford University Press, 2nd ed., 2 vols.; 36s. net) has become a classic and a bibliographical rarity in the author's life-time. Most logical treatises appeal to a small constituency, and it would be affectation to affirm that Bradley is simple reading. But the book is written with rare brilliance; it has marked a turning point in the life of many readers, and changed the current of English speculation in the drab days of forty years ago. Now, after being accessible for years in a pirated edition only, the original text has been reprinted intact, as a classic should be, but with notes after each chapter, and with twelve additional essays which reveal the old dialectical power undiminished. The death of Bernard Bosanquet removes the other acknowledged leader of English philosophy. His debt to Bradley was great, and Bradley in turn expresses gratitude for all that Bosanquet has taught him since the first edition of the Principles. His last book, The Meeting of Extremes in Contemporary Philosophy (Macmillan Company; Toronto; $2.50) argues with the skill of a master that the modern schools of Realists and Idealists, each emphasizing a particular aspect of reality, are nevertheless driven 'to investigations and appreciations which will carry [them] to seek completeness in regions within [their] opponents' spiritual home.' Not that the book is an eirenicon. On the contrary it is a most dexterous piece of dialectic against the complementary errors, as the author regards them, of the Realists and the Italian Neo-Idealists. He upholds the unity that cannot appear in its full nature within the temporal series of events against those theories that take time as real and interpret the universe as primarily historical. I have, however, the impression that the author does less than justice to the objective element in Benedetto Croce. The argument ramifies into numerous suggestive branches, such as the nature of religion in contrast to morality, the meaning of progress, the modern form of the ontological argument, the eternal novelty of 7+5. We may at the same time mention Some Suggestions on Ethics and What Religion Is (Macmillan), which are primarily intended for the general reader, and bring out that antithesis between the purely moralistic and the religious attitudes which the author believes to be emerging as a fundamental division of modern thought. We may connect with one side of Bosanquet's book Professor Pringle-Pattison's The Idea of Immortality (Oxford Press; Toronto). This is an historical and critical treatise written with great lucidity and with a fine temper. Its main argument turns on that assertion of the significance of the individual which is familiar from the previous Gifford Lectures on The Idea of God. There is but space to note three points. (1) In the author's view the belief in immortality is a secondary, not a primary, element in religion. (2) He justly refuses to bind up the conception of immortality with progressive individual morality-Kant's error. This, it will be noted, is in harmony with the distinction between mere morality and the religious view of eternal life. (3) He refuses to agree that morality depends upon the hope of immortality. To think otherwise is surely to make all fair and good things valuable because of something else, though they bear their value on their face here and now. It is a lapse of faiththough a common one-to think that anything could make justice and kindness, cruelty and lechery, matters of indiffer ence. Realism continues to dominate philosophical discussion. The core of the view is, we suppose, the refusal to take mind as more than one among the other orders of things in the un verse, and it may be opposed to that speculative philosophy SURVEYS. The Quarterly will henceforth publish short surveys of important new books or discoveries in the various departments of knowledge. These surveys are designed to guide the general reader who, himself no specialist, wishes to keep in contact with the advance of knowledge. It is hoped to cover the most important subjects annually. PHILOSOPHY. Mr. F. H. Bradley's The Principles of Logic (Oxford University Press, 2nd ed., 2 vols.; 36s. net) has become a classic and a bibliographical rarity in the author's life-time. Most logical treatises appeal to a small constituency, and it would be affectation to affirm that Bradley is simple reading. But the book is written with rare brilliance; it has marked a turning point in the life of many readers, and changed the current of English speculation in the drab days of forty years ago. Now, after being accessible for years in a pirated edition only, the original text has been reprinted intact, as a classic should be, but with notes after each chapter, and with twelve additional essays which reveal the old dialectical power undiminished. The death of Bernard Bosanquet removes the other acknowledged leader of English philosophy. His debt to Bradley was great, and Bradley in turn expresses gratitude for all that Bosanquet has taught him since the first edition of the Principles. His last hook, The Meeting of Extremes in Contemporary Philosoph Tacmillan Company; Tor $2.50) argues with the schools of Realists and ticular aspect of reality tions and appreciation completeness in region home.' 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