Aristotle on His Prede- 



cessors* Being the first book 

 of his metaph3'sics. Translated 

 from the text of Christ, with intro- 

 duction and notes. By A. E. 

 Taylor, M. A., Fellow of Merton 

 College, Oxford; Frothingham 

 Professor of Philosophy in Mc- 

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This book will be welcome to all 

 teachers of philosophy, for it is a transla- 

 tion made by a competent hand of the 

 most important essay on the history of 

 Greek thought down to Aristotle, written 

 by Aristotle himself. The original served 

 this great master with his unprecedented 

 encyclopedic knowledge as an introduc- 

 tion to his Metaphysics; but it is quite 

 apart from the rest of that work, forming 

 an independent essay in itself, and will re- 

 main forever the main source of our infor- 

 mation on the predecessors of Aristotle. 

 Considering the importance of the book, it is strange that no translation of it appears 

 to have been made since the publication of that by Bekker in 1831. 

 . The present translation has been made from the latest and most critical Greek text 

 available, the second edition of W. Christ, and pains have been taken not only to repro- 

 duce it in readable English, but also to indicate the exact way in which the translator 

 understands every word and clause of the Greek. He has further noted all the im- 

 portant divergencies between the readings of Christ's text and the editions of Zellar 

 and Bonitz, the two chief modern German exponents of Aristotelianism. 



Not the least advantage of the present translation is the incorporation of the trans- 

 lator's own work and thought. He has done his best, within the limited space he has 

 allowed himself for explanations, to provide the student with ample means of judging 

 for himself in the light of the most recent researches in Greek philosophical literature, 

 the value of Aristotle's account of previous thought as a piece of historical criticism. 



Zarathushtra, Philo, the Achaemenids and Israel. 



A Treatise Upon the Antiquity and Influence of the Avesta. By Dr. 

 Lawrence H. Mills, Professor of Zend Philology in the University of 

 Oxford. 1906. Pp. 460. Cloth, gilt top. $4.00 net. 



Professor Lawrence H. Mills, the great Zendavesta scholar of Oxford, England, has 

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 Christian faith has been paramount, and a proper knowledge of its significance is in- 

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and olDle* Three Lectures on the Significance of Assyrio- 

 logical Research for Religion, Embodying the most important Criticisms 

 and the Author's Replies. By Dr. Friedrich Delitzsch, Professor of Assyr- 

 iology in the University of Berlin. Translated from the German. Pro- 

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A new edition of "Babel and Bible," comprising the first, second and third lectures 

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