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NEW BOOKS. 135 The first volume of this work appears to have been published by itself some time ago and, a second edition being called for, is now issued in smaller form along with the second volume. " The compiler of the first volume " (here unnamed, but originally, we believe, given as G. Stuart Mac- Walter) having meanwhile died, Father Lockhart assumes editorial responsibility for the whole work as now completed. It has come to hand too late to be more than simply noted here with the single remark added that, while the 'Life,' drawn, from the best sources, is evidently full of interest, it is followed in vol. ii., among other chapters of general characteri- sation, by five (pp. 216-303) giving account and estimate of Rosmini's philosophy. Phantasms of the Living. By EDMUND GURNEY, M.A., late Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, FREDERIC W. H. MYERS, late Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and FRANK PODMORE, M.A. 2 Vols. London : Rooms of the Society for Psychical Research, also Triibner & Co., 1886. Pp. Ixxxiii., 573 ; xxvii., 733. This long-expected work, the massive result of an inquiry conducted with astonishing vigour and pertinacity, has already become so well known in its main features through the daily and weekly press, that, for the pre- sent, it may suffice here to simply note its appearance. For all but an " Introduction " of xxxv. pp. and in vol. ii. a " Note on a suggested mode of Psychical Interaction " (40 pp.), due to Mr. Myers, Mr. Gurney is solely responsible, though he has been helped throughout in " the collection, ex- amination and appraisal of evidence " by both of his associates, and has also obligations to acknowledge to a number of other persons. The volumes are mainly taken up with the record and discussion of " cases," but, besides the " Introduction," several chapters, especially c. iv. " General Criticism of the Evidence for Spontaneous Telepathy" (i, 114-85), are occupied with questions of general principle. These, it need hardly be said, are marked by no ordinary ability, while they display the fullest sense of the serious scientific issues involved in the inquiry. Hume. By WILLIAM KNIGHT, LL.D., Professor of Moral Philosophy, University of St. Andrews. (" Philosophical Classics for English Readers.") Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood & Sons, 1886. Pp. x., 239. The editor of the " Philosophical Classics" here makes his own contri- bution to the series, of which, as planned, only two volumes Bacon and Spinoza are still outstanding. He has given a much larger proportion of his volume (100 pp.) to the Life than Prof. Huxley did in like case, yet has managed, without going much beyond his predecessor's limits, to give fuller account also of the Philosophy, in respect of its origin, import and consequences. In the Life, which is very interestingly written, the author has been able to add several points of importance, from new sources, to the story as previously made out by the careful research of Hill Burton. The account of the Philosophy is rightly based on the Treatise of Human Nature, rather than the later works. The volume would have appeared earlier but that the author has been engaged in collecting materials for a larger work on the philosophy of Hume, to follow the present more popular sketch. Leading and Important English Words: Explained and Exemplified. An Aid to Teaching. By 'WILLIAM L. DAVIDSON, M.A., Author of the Logic of Definition. London : Longmans, Green & Co., 1886. Pp. vi., 214.