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A Swede, And "the Most Pessimistic Of Living Pessimists."...

many volumes are long records of unending crises of soul." Now we are quite willing to read the works of a pessimistic philosophy provided the philosopher be of sufficiently......

Saint Louis. By Marius Sepet. With A Preface By George

Tyrrell, S.J. (Duckworth and Co. 3s.)—Freeman has some- where compared Washington, Charlemagne, and Alfred as ideal rulers. Probably a comparison between Alfred and the good St.......

Bits Of Blarney. By Robert J. Martin (" Ballyhooly ").

(Sands and Co. 3s.)—The stage Irishman dies so hard that we fear he is immortal ; and, at all events, it is annoying to find Mr. Martin, who bears a well-known Irish name, doing......

Vassar Studies. By Julia A. Schwartz. (g. P. Putnam's Sons.)

—" Vassar" is a well-known women's college, a sort of American Girton. The " Studies" are not stories, they are sketches of college life. Their "essential motive," according to......

Tunisia. By Herbert Vivian. (c. A. Pearson. 15s.)—mr....

paid a visit to Tunis, and written a book describing its government and inhabitants. The bulk of these, about one million eight hundred thousand, are of course Arabs. There are,......

Psychology And Life. By Hugo Miinsterberg, Professor Of...

Harvard University. (Archibald Constable and Co. 6s.)—It is not very easy to catch the central idea of Professor Mansterberg as set forth in this volume. The writer says that......