LOUIS CLARK VANUXEM LECTURES.
The four lectures delivered at the dedication of the Graduate College of Princeton University in the •utumn of 1913 have been issued in a single volume with the title of Louis Clark Vanuzem Lectures (Humphrey Milford for the Princeton University Press, es. 6d. net). The four lecturers came from the Universities of Paris, Berlin, Oxford, and Cambridge. Professor Boutroux discusses "Science and Culture," and raises the question whether "it might not be maintained that science in the state she has reached during the ages, far from being favourable to culture in the claseio sense of the word, rather tends, by the growing importance she gives to specialization, to substitute for culture a mechanical training of an entirely different sort." Professor Riehl writes upon "The Vocation of Philosophy at the Present Day" in the characteristic style of German idealism. Mr. A. D. Godley, in a paper on "The Present Position of Classical Studies in England," declares that the moral to be drawn from it is that " diseetablishment is not always and everywhere bad for the disestablished." Finally, Dr. Shipley, taking for his subject " The Revival of Science in the Seven- teenth Century," traces the birth of the scientific renaissance in England, and quotes Cowley and Donne. The four lectures have little in common, but each seems curiously to typify the University from which it springs. Professor Boutroux may be said to exhibit clarity and culture, and Professor Riehl obscurity and Indium Mr. Godley writes upon the classics, and Dr. Shipley writes upon science and poetry. Thus the volume gains an appearance of unity from the very disparity of its contents.
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