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An Introduction to the History of Science by Walter LibbyReview by: Theodore de LagunaThe Philosophical Review, Vol. 27, No. 5 (Sep., 1918), pp. 556-557Published by: Duke University Press on behalf of Philosophical ReviewStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2178470 .

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556 THE PHILOSOPHICAL REVIEW. [VOL. XXVIIL

This volume contains important suggestions for further reading after each lecture, and a good general bibliography of Hindu philosophy at the close, as well as an index or glossary that explains quite fully the meaning of several dozen Sanskrit terms that would be found in such reading.

EDGAR L. HINMAN.

UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA.

Un Pensatore Americano: Josiah Royce. FRANCESCO OLGIATI. Milano, Edizione di "Vita E Pensiero," 19I7.-PP. II4.

Josiah Royce is no stranger in Italy. The Spirit of Modern Philosophy, The World and the Individual, and The Philosophy of Loyalty, translated by Giuseppe Rensi, have found in Italy many sympathetic readers and reviewers. Of a few Italian writers who have commented at length upon Royce's philo- sophy mention is made in the introduction to the present monograph.

Un Pensatore Americano, a collection of separate essays contributed orig- inally to the Rivista di Filosofica neo-scolastica, is an admirable introduction to Royce's idealism. Mainly expository, it reproduces faithfully-perhaps too faithfully--Royce's ideas and language. The reader gains from this synthetic study a wonderfully vivid impression of Royce's thought and style.

The author bases his interpretation of Royce's system chiefly upon the works translated by Rensi. References to the other writings of Royce are frequent but not copious.

The volume begins with a study of the "origins" of Royce's idealism. These are traced to The Spirit of Modern Philosophy. The constructive part of this book is interpreted as the "synthesis" of the historical views there portrayed. A long review of the earlier book is followed by a summary ex- position of the chief topics in The World and the Individual.

The author has entered into Royce's system with remarkable penetration. His over-emphasis of its theological implications is to be regretted. And that he has paid so little attention to the epistemology of " interpretation " and the metaphysics of the "community "-the cardinal teachings of The Problem of Christianity-is equally to be regretted.

J. LOEWENBERG.

THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA.

An Introduction to the History of Science. By WALTER LIBBY. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, I9I7.-PP. Xi, 288.

This little work is an 'introduction' in the pedagogical sense of the term. It is not a history. It has neither the method nor the structure of the most elementary history. Rather it attempts to do for its field what the various collections of 'hero tales' have done so well for the political history of Europe and America-break a way into the subject and open it up to a more seriously interested study.

How useful the book may be in this way need not be argued here. For the teacher or student of the history of philosophy, the book is of the least possible

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No. 5.1 NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS. 557

value. Fifty-six pages are devoted to the whole period before the seven- teenth century; fourteen of these are given to the Greeks, and very meager pages they are. One sentence is devoted to the theory of Copernicus (p. 55): "He came to see that the apparent revolution of the heavenly bodies about the earth from east to west is really owing to the revolution of the earth on its axis from west to east." There is thus no reference to the annual motion of earth or sun! This may be taken as a fair index of the scholarly pretensions of the book. It has none. The seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth cen- turies are more fully, but scarcely more adequately treated. There is however a considerable amount of biographical material, which to the bright young student may be usefully suggestive.

THEODORE DE LAGUNA.

BRYN MAWR COLLEGE.

The following books also have been received:

A Commentary to Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. By NORMAN KEMP SMITH.

London & New York, MacMillan & Company, i9i8.-pp. lxi, 6I5.

Some Suggestions in Ethics. By BERNARD BOSANQUET. London, The Mac-

Millan Company, i9i8.-pp. Viii, 248.

The Origin and Evolution of Life. By HENRY FAIRFIELD OSBORN. New

York, Charles Scribner's Sons, i9i8.-pp. xxxi, 322.

Human Nature and its Remaking. By WILLIAM ERNEST HOCKING. New

Haven, Yale University Press, i9i8.-pp. xxvi, 434. An Ethical Philosophy of Life. By FELIX ADLER. New York, D. Appleton &

Company, i9i8.-pp. viii, 380.

Elements of Constructive Philosophy. By J. S. MACKENZIE. London, George

Allen & Unwin Ltd., New York, The Macmillan Company, i9i8.-pp. 487.

The New -Rationalism. By EDWARD GLEASON SPAULDING. New York,

Henry Holt & Co., i9i8.-pp. xviii, 532.

The War and the Coming Peace. By MORRIS JASTROW, JR. Philadelphia and

London, J. B. Lippincott Company, i9i8.-pp. 144. The Psychology of Conviction. By JOSEPH JASTROW. Boston and New York,

Houghton Mifflin Company, i9i8.-pp. xix, 387.

The Processes of History. By FREDERICK J. TEGGART. New Haven, Yale

University Press, i9i8.-pp. ix, i62. An Elementary Handbook of Logic. By JOHN J. TOOHEY. New York,

Schwartz, Kirwin & Fauss, i9i8.-pp. XiV, 24I.

General Types of Superior Men. By OSIAS L. SCHWARTZ. Boston, Richard

G. Badger, i9i8.-pp. 435. The Challenge of the Universe. By CHARLES J. SHEBBEARE. London, Society

for Promoting Christian Knowledge, New York, The Macmillan Company,

i9i8.-pp. XXiV, 245.

Liberty and Democracy. By HARTLEY BURR ALEXANDER. Boston, Marshall

Jones Company, i9i8.-pp. Viii, 229.

The Field of Philosophy. By JOSEPH ALEXANDER LEIGHTON. Columbus,

Ohio, R. G. Adams & Co., i9i8.-pp. xii, 4I4.

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