11 OCTOBER 1890, Page 45

Induction and Deduction. By Constance W. Naden. Edited by R.

Lewins, M.D. (Bickers and Son.)—Miss Naden was an able and accomplished woman. Her first intellectual work was poetical. In this she attained no little excellence. Then she gave her mind to philosophy, the essay which is here printed being her principal effort in this direction. We cannot help regretting that Dr. Lewins has not performed his editorial work with more discretion. Why could he not withhold his quite un- necessary annotations ? It really seems as if the final cause of the volume Was not to give to the world some of the work of a gifted writer cut off in her prime, but to air the editor's atheism. Such notes as "religion excludes reason, and vice-veral," are simply impertinent, and were not in the least called for.