Short Talks upon Philosophy. By Sir H. Cumynghame, K.C.B., M.A.
(Constable. 8s. 6d. net.) A book without tabulated paragraphs can perhaps hardly be called a textbook. In this case it would be a misnomer anyhow, as the book is both pleasantly bound and pleasantly written. It is a charming guide. - The author, after a little dis- sertation on the general terms which are apt to be ambiguous —such as ideas, existence, subsistence, reality and the like— takes us very gently and easily through the history of the great philosophical systems. At the end he launches himself into another short dissertation in a chapter on "The Incon- scient." The inconscient would seem to be a curious and rather confusing mixture of the Freudian unconscious, von Hartmann's inconscient, and an idea of the author's own creation. But the whole suggestion is tentative, and serves, more or less, as an envoi to a delightful recreative exercise.
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