SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.
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Dr. Bernard Bosanquet has just published Three Lectures as Aesthetic (Macmillan and Co., 3s. 6d. net), which were delivered by him at University College, London, during last autumn. The subject is naturally not treated fully, but the interest of the study is by no means diminished by this fact. Dr. Boaanquet has limited himself to an attempt (1) to show what we mean when we speak of "aesthetic" experience as contrasted with any other sort of experience; (2) to show the grounds on which we distinguish and relate the various provinces of aesthetic experience—the beauty of Nature, for instance, and the whole of the fine arts; and (9) to consider the contrasted qualities of aesthetic experience—that is, the qualities to which we give the names of beauty and ugliness. The volume makes an interesting contribution to this difficult branch of philosophy.
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