26 DECEMBER 1914, Page 25

Dr. H. X. Kellen, of the University of Wisconsin, has

published an able study of William James and Henri Bergson (Cambridge University Press, for the University of Chicago Press, 6s. net), in which he points out that these two distin- guished thinkers may be regarded as viewing the problems of existence respectively " with forward and reverted eyes." —We cannot say much for Dr. G. R. Dodson's essay on Bergson and the Modern Spirit (Lindsey Press, 5 Essex Street, London, W.C., 3s. 6d. net); but we should like to know his authority for the lines which he attributes to Samuel Johnson on p. 286; they do not sound Johnsonian.