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original and at the same time to make the rendering acceptable to those 

 who are unfamiliar with the peculiar structure of Old English verse. 



A book on English Folk-Song and Dance, by Mr Frank Kidson and 

 Miss Mary Neal, should be of special interest in view of the recent efforts 

 which have been just in time to rescue a valuable, but rapidly disappearing, 

 national inheritance, and which are now giving it a renewed vigour in the 

 life of the people. 



Perception, Physics, and Reality, by Mr C. D. Broad, Fellow of 

 Trinity College, is an enquiry into the information that Physical Science 

 can supply about the Real. 



Philosophy: What is it? by Dr F. B. Jevons, consists of five lectures 

 delivered before a branch of the Workers' Educational Association which 

 had expressed a desire to know what Philosophy is ; the truth, implied in 

 this request, that Philosophy is the concern of the average man and of 

 practical life is one which this book seeks to emphasise. 



The British Revolution, by Dr R. A. P. Hill, deals with the political 

 problems of the moment from the philosophical standpoint. The author 

 seeks to show that Theory, so commonly the suspect of practical men, 

 " is a draught-horse and will drag a load." 



Pragmatism and French Voluntarism, by Miss L. S. Stebbing, is an 

 essay written with especial reference to the notion of Truth in the de- 

 velopment of French Philosophy from Maine de Biran to Prof. Bergson. 



Dr F. R. Montgomery Hitchcock has written a study of the teaching 

 of Irenaeus of Lugdunum. 



A book on Elementary Logic by Mr Alfred Sidgwick gives some 

 account, for beginners, of both the old system and the new in the study 

 of this subject : i.e. it treats Logic (i) as a carefully limited subject to get 

 up for an examination, and (2) as a free study of some of the chief risks 

 of error in reasoning. 



Dr A. R. Forsyth's lectures delivered before the University of Calcutta 

 during January and February 191 3, will be published under the title of 

 Lectures introductory to the Theory of Functions of Tivo Complex Variables. 



A second edition of Volume I of Dr A. Russell's Theory of Alternating 

 Currents will shortly be published in the Cambridge Physical Series. Besides 

 many additions to the earlier chapters, four new chapters have been added 

 to the book, including one on High Frequency Currents. 



Dr Hobson'« lecture on John Napier, and the Invention of Logarithms, 

 16t4, commemorates the tercentenary of the publication of John Napier's 

 work which embodied this great discovery. 



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