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are on such subjects as The Fear of Death 

 and Dying, A Lark's Flight, The Importance 

 of a Man to Himself, Books and Gardens, 

 and Vagabonds. 



A series of philosophical papers has been 

 added to the publications of the University 

 of Pennsylvania, under the editorship of 

 Profs. Fullerton and Cattell. The first num- 

 ber of the series is a thick pamphlet by 

 Prof. George Stuart Fullerton, entitled On 

 Sameness and Identity. In the first part of 

 the essay the author enumerates and de- 

 fines at length seven kinds of sameness, and 

 then proceeds to discuss the samenesses of 

 the real self. He states that " men use the 

 word identity to mark certain kinds of same- 

 ness in which there is little or no conscious- 

 ness of duality." A second division of the 

 paper is a critical presentation of the ways 

 in which various philosophers have dealt 

 with sameness. 



An essay on Maimonides, giving an ac- 

 count of his philosophy, has been published 

 by Rabbi Louis Grossmann, D. D. (Putnam, 

 25 cents). In a rough classification Dr. 

 Grossmann would put Maimonides with phi- 

 losophers of religion, since he devoted spe- 

 cial attention to the relation between meta- 

 physics and Jewish theology. While cred- 

 iting Maimonides with great philosophical 

 insight, Dr. Grossmann is not blind to his 

 limitations, and points out several errors 

 which hampered him in common with his 

 contemporaries. 



An autobiography of rare interest is pre- 

 sented in The Life of George H. Stitart, 

 written by himself, and edited, at his re- 

 quest, by Prof. Robert Ellis Thompson, of 

 the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Stuart's 

 life was associated with some of the most 

 exciting events of our recent history. As 

 the editor characterizes his career, it "ex- 

 tends through a memorable half-century 

 of our country's history, and touches more 

 or less closely upon all the great religious 

 and philanthropic movements of that time. 

 While he has not taken any part in political 

 life or sought any eminence in that field, he 

 has been brought into contact with many of 

 our public men, from the anti-slavery group 

 of half a century ago, to Lincoln, Grant, 

 and the national leaders of our own time. 

 . . . On the other hand, he has occupied al- 

 most a unique position in our ecclesiastical 



life, as representing that spirit of unity which 

 has been awakened in the American churches 

 duping and since the war." Mr. Stuart was 

 born in County Down, Ireland, and came to 

 the United States in 1831, when about fif- 

 teen or sixteen years old. In 1836 he heard 

 one of Mr. Gough's temperance addresses, 

 and from that moment became an upholder 

 of every measure for temperance. He was 

 among the first to join the anti-slavery 

 movement. When the question of the union 

 of Presbyterian churches came up, he did 

 his best to advance it. He was instrumental 

 in introducing the Young Men's Christian 

 Association into the United States and iD 

 extending its organization. Early in the 

 civil war he saw a place in the matter of 

 care for the condition of the soldiers which 

 the Sanitary Commission, admirable as its 

 organization was, could not wholly fill, and 

 called the Young Men's Christian Associa- 

 tion to the institution of the Christian Com- 

 mission, and became its president. In this 

 position he was brought into relations with 

 the officers of the Government and the army 

 and with the soldiers. When General Grant 

 was chosen President, Mr. Stuart was given 

 the first invitation to be Secretary of the 

 Treasury. The condition of his health pre- 

 vented his accepting the office, but he was 

 one of President Grant's most trusted coun- 

 selors, and assisted him in his efforts to 

 have the Indians dealt honestly with. He 

 died in March, 1890. His autobiography, 

 besides delineating himself, is a picture of 

 the times in which he lived, and derives 

 further interest from incidental notices of 

 men eminent in the State, the Church, 

 and philanthropy with whom he had rela- 

 tions. 



A number of articles and addresses have 

 been published by Prof. Charles S. Mack, 

 M. D., in a small volume under the title Phi- 

 losophy in Homoeopathy (Chicago : Gross & 

 Delbridge). The purpose of the book is to 

 furnish students of homoeopathy and the 

 general public with arguments on which to 

 rest a belief in homoeopathic treatment. One 

 of the chapters is an address to some stu- 

 dents in an allopathic medical college, in 

 which a list of questions submitted by the 

 students are answered. An appendix con- 

 tains an essay on the treatment of criminals, 

 and a discussion of an article by one Do 



