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Modern Philosophy, From Descartes To Sehopenhauer And...

Bowen. (Sampson Low.)—Translations of the writings of philosophers are as the author says, apt to be much more obscure than the originals ; and what we want, if we care at all......

Wild Life In A Southern County. By The Author Of

"The Game- keeper at Home." (Smith and Elder.)—The writer comes with an introduction which cannot fail to secure him a welcome. He has already shown himself to be a genuine......

A Lancashire Garden.*

IT is always pleasant to read of flowers—which, to some of us, are dear as friends—when a man knows how to write about them. Mr. Bright loves a garden, and has written his notes......

Current Literature.

The Philebus of Plato. Edited by Charles Badham, D,D. Second Edition. (Williams and Norgate.)—Dr. Badham's work is sure to be good and scholarly. As an °mender of corrupt......