27 FEBRUARY 1915, Page 24

Three years ago a volume was published by the Manchester

University Press containing a series of lectures delivered at the University upon Germany in the Nineteenth Century. The same Press has now issued a second series of three lectures under the same title (3a. 6d. net). The subjects of these additional papers are Theology, Philosophy, and Music, in at least one of which departments the Germany of last century could claim supremacy. The first of these subjects is discussed by Professor• Peake; Dr. Bosanquet gives an out- line of a hundred years of German philosophy; while Mr. F. Bonavia attempts with some success the desperate task of analysing in a score of pages the most prolific period of musical production in the world's history.