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In the series of "Manuals of Catholic Philosophy" (Burns and

Oates), we have Logic, by Richard F. Clarke, S.J.; and The First Principles of Knowledge, by J. Rickaby, S.J. To discuss these two volumes in detail would take us far out of our province. We must content ourselves with saying that they are written in the interests of the scholastic philosophy, as against the systems of modern • era. Mx. Clarke, for instance, defends the old Aldrich whom some of us knew at Oxford, before he had been improved off the fase of the earth (though Mr. Clarke thinks that he "has not yet disappeared from Oxford") by Mensal and his successors. Mr. Rickaby deals with the subject of applied or critical logic.