The January number of Mind is rather dry and technical,
and one misses the pen of Professor T. H. Green, that " lost leader," as Mr. Bryce has styled him. The best papers are the opening one, by the editor, on "Psychology and Philosophy ;" and the first of what pro- mises to be an -interesting series, styled "A Criticism of the Critical Philosophy," by Mr. Henry Sidgwick. Under the title of "On Some Points in Ethics," Dr. Bain contribntes a rather scrappy, yet fair and careful review of Mr. Leslie Stephen's well-known work. Dr. Bain is so little given to smart sayings, that we may quote from his article, a sentence which approximates to epigram, and, per- haps accidentally, is otherwise suggestive :—" Fitness for the con- ditions of life, on which the author dwells so much, is fitness to beat, and not to be beaten ; and we are obliged to call this progress, merely because, in some instances, the beater has been the better of the two." The critical notices in Mind are uniformly very careful, and among those in the present quarter's number is one of Dr. Martineau's "Spinoza," by Mr. F. Pollock, which is excellent alike in tone and in style.
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