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The Doctrine of Retribution Philosophically Considered (the Bampton Lectures for

1875). By William Jackson. Second Edition. (Hodder -and Stoughton.)—Mr. Jackson, besides revising the text of his vete, able lectures, has prefixed a preface, the object of which is to give "a popular view of the general argument." This preface is itself a valu- able little treatise, and might, with some necessary modification, be used separately as a statement of the case of the believer. It would be "a short and easy method" with atheists, such as is often felt to be wanted. We shall quote one definition from it :—" Retribution in these pages is precisely a proprium cuique, and let me observe that the very idea of Responsibility cannot subsist without such a proprium,—i.e., Respon- eibility is the correlative of Retribution."