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VIII. MISCELLANEOUS. Mr. James Thornton, High Street, Oxford, who published three years ago a handsome reprint of Hobbes's Leviathan (now followed by a cheaper Student's Edition), will this winter issue impressions of two other of Hobbes's works, edited by Dr. Ferdinand Tonnies, which will be much more than reprints. Dr. Tonnies, to whose acute and scholarly " Remarks on the Philosophy of Hobbes," we drew attention at the time they began to appear in the Vierteljahrsschrift fur wiss. Philosophic, iii. 4 (1879, con- tinued in iv. 1, iv. 4 and v. 2) found as the present writer from examination of a MS. at Hardwick had also independently found that the two treatises printed, in 1650 and ever afterwards, separately as Human Nature and De Corpore Politico were originally and properly parts of one single treatise entitled The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic, which had been cir- culated in written form in 1640, some months before the calling of the Long Parliament. The fact is of great significance for the true under- standing of the development of Hobbes's thought (as explained in the article on Hobbes in the new edition of the Encyclopcedia Britannica) ; but Dr. Tonnies farther found by a careful comparison of no less than five MSS. copies in the British Museum, with a reference also to the Hardwick MS., that the printed text of the composite treatise, as it has hitherto passed and been taken up by Molesworth into the standard edition, is faulty at many points, especially in the part that has become classical in psychological literature under the name of Human Nature. He has sought, then, by a painstaking collation to obtain as pure a text as possible, and this it is that will appear, before Christmas, in the first of the volumes announced. The other volume, to appear a little later, is of an interest second only to that of the first. It will give the pure text of Behemoth, from what Dr. Tonnies believes is the original MS. of the work, now pre- served in St. John's College, Oxford. This characteristic work of Hobbes's old age, which, being held back by royal command, first saw the light surreptitiously some months before his death in 1679 and was afterwards printed with a somewhat better text in 1682, will now for the first time appear in its completeness, with many errors corrected and deficient pas- sages supplied, some of which Dr. Tonnies has had trouble in restoring from the erased state in which they appear even in this MS. erased, as he supposes, for political reasons and therefore now of more interest to be restored. The sub-title (after Behemoth) will be Or the Long Parliament instead of The History of the Causes of the Civil Wars &c., as heretofore. To the first volume will be appended an original imprint, from a collection of MSS. tracts in the British Museum, of what appears to be the earliest philosophic or scientific writing by Hobbes, in which he was groping his way to his later mechanical theory of Sense. Dr. Tonnies first drew attention to the tract in 1879, and, in now printing it for the first time, will add farther a series of illustrated extracts from the extensive MS. treatise on Optics, composed in English by the year 1646, part of which was in modified form afterwards incorporated by Hobbes in the De Homine (1658) and of which otherwise only two or three pages have before beenjprinted (by Molesworth). EDITOR. Messrs. Longmans have just published, at last, a " People's Edition " of Mill's System of Logic, uniform with the like-named edition of the Prin- ciples of Political Economy on sale for many years back. The Logic runs