10 FEBRUARY 1883, Page 25

In Locke on Words, with Introduction and Notes by F.

Ryland, M.A. (Sonnenschein and Co.), some readers probably will fail to re- cognise a reproduction of the third part of John Locke's "Essay concerning the Haman Understanding." The book, as it now stands, is a reprint from the seventh edition, published in 1715-16, with an introduction and notes, pat together chiefly with a view of assisting the man of very ordinary capacity, the average reader, who, as a rule, knows little logic and less metaphysics. The table prefixed to the Introduction, giving the chief events of John Locke's life, will doubtless prove useful.