A STUDENT'S HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY.
A Student's History of Philosophy. By Arthur Kenyon Rogers. (Macmillan and Co. 8s. Gi.)—The author of this book means it in the first place to be an educational text-book,—" an account of philosophical development which shall contain the most of what a student can fairly be expected to get from a College course, and which shall be adapted to class-room work." This is, of course, the proper position to be taken up by a Professor of Philosophy. The chances are, however, that the general reader, who is, per- haps, more concerned to know exactly what thought has achieved in the region of metaphysics than to have details of the processes by which the work has been accomplished, will be as much pleased with this volume as the young student, for it has three virtues in the eyes of such as he,—it is written in a delightfully simple style ; it is admirably arranged ; and, when this is at all possible, the gist of each author's system is given in his own language. So one can travel comfortably from Thales to Mr. Herbert Spencer, confident, at all events, that his guide does not mi-represent the men whose Made he seeks to put into nut. shells. Moreover, as Mr. Rogers gives a judiciously selected list of authoritative works on every period of which he treats, his readers can with ease supplement all his comments and verify his statements. Many as the manuals of philosophy are nowadays, there is perhaps not. one that is more distinctly a handbook than this.
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