Studies in Pessimism. A Series of Essays by Arthur Schopen-
hauer. Selected and translated by T. Bailey Saunders, M.A. (Swan Sonnenschein and Co.)—A reader may certainly got a good idea of what Schoponhauer thought from this little volume. In the space of a hundred and forty odd pages, it gives us the cream ..of his philosophy, if philosophy it is to be called. Sometimes he is serious. The theologian will find in him a vigorous ally. "There is nothing more certain than the general truth that it is the grievous sin of. the world which has produced the grievous .suffering of the world." No preacher could speak more to the point, On the other hand, it is difficult to believe that the essay on -"Woman-" was written seriously. Woman is the seams sequior,— this is the upshot of the philosopher's argument. She has usurped a position which does not belong to her, especially by the help of monogamy. Restore polygamy, and you bring her back to her proper level. Even her outward appearance does not please him. -" It is only the man whose intellect is clouded that could give the name of the fair sew to that undersized, narrow-shouldered, broad- hipped, and short-legged race."
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