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Chief Ancient Philosophies—Platonism. TV Thomas B. Strong, M.A. (S.P.C.K.)—This volume

will be found of varying interest to the general reader. Part of it will be more or less over his head, as, for example, the chapters on " Plato's Doctrine of Being" and " Plato's Doctrine of Nature and Man." We do not mean by this that they are not as intelligible as the nature of the subject admits. On the other hand, the general reader cannot fail to appreciate the picturesque narrative of " Plato's Life and Times," and ought to be able to enter into the essay on "Plato's Politics," and still more into that on " Plato's Ethics." Mr. Strong has had a very difficult subject to handle, and the public are obliged to him for his effort to explain and popularise it.