In the " Collected Works of the Right Hon. F.
Max Muller " (Longmans and Co., 5s.), we have Last Essays: Second Series. These are eighteen in number. All are concerned with the Science of a Religion, a subject that almost engrossed Max Muller's attention in his later years. One appears now for the first time in England, and this is a highly interesting contribu- tion to a question now much discussed,—" Is Man Immortal ? " The answer is in the affirmative, and this conclusion is reached by establishing the existence of an °bola in man independent of affections, intellect, &c.,—a soul, a personality. Of course, if this is conceded the discussion is at an end. Apparently it is without attributes or qualities, for anything that can be predicated of it can be ranged under the category of someth'ng with which the affections or intellect are concerned. It seems a curious return to philosophies of the past.
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