To their excellent " Everyman's Library" Messrs. Dent have added
seven interesting volumes (Is. 6d. net each). The Selected Papers on Philosophy by the late William James will be welcomed by many readers. It includes excerpts from his leading works', such as "What Pragmatism Means" from his best-known book, and a chapter on "The Positive Content of Religious Experience.') At the present moment James's wise remarks on "The Gospel to Relaxation" are specially valuable. He was thinking of the American "hustler "when he wrote that" eagerness, breathlessness, and anxiety are not signs of strength ; they are signs of weakness and of bad co-ordination " ; but his words apply equally to the rose of a nation in a war which is now becoming a supreme test of nerves. The other additions are the racy, though not very accurate, Memoirs of Cardinal de Retv in two volumes, Maine's Ancient Law, Duruy's History of France—written half.a.century ago—in two volumes, and Nikolai Gogol's Tams Bulbs, and other Tales, Which should increase the reputation in England of the fust great Russian novelist, a native of the Ukraine or Little Russia. Each work has an Introduction by a competent hand.'
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