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1906. 
A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PHILOSOPHY. 
Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology. Edited by 
Prof. J. Mark Baldwin. Vol. iii. Two parts. Part i., 
pp. xxiv+542; part ii., pp. vit543-1192. (New 
York: The Macmillan Company; London: Mac- 
millan and Co., Ltd.,. 1905.) Price 42s. net. 
ITH the publication of this ‘‘ Bibliography of 
Philosophy, Psychology, and Cognate Sub- 
jects,’ Prof. Baldwin’s great enterprise comes to an 
end, and he and his collaborators are to be congratu- 
lated on the successful completion of a work that 
will be indispensable to the teacher and student of 
philosophy. The compiler of this latest volume, Dr. 
Benjamin Rand, of Harvard, will in particular receive 
the thanks of those who hitherto have painfully had 
to make their own bibliographies from Jahres- 
berichte and various popular indexes, and who in 
the fulness of their ignorance have not been able to 
neglect even the humble catalogue of the Leipzig 
bookseller. 
The work does not profess to give references to 
books and articles that have appeared since 1902; but 
up to that date it seems to be very complete; at any 
rate, a first perusal does not reveal very startling 
omissions. Psychology is, of course, one of the 
strongest features of the Dictionary, and of this 
present volume, of which it occupies 280 pages; and 
the editor points out in a prefatory note that the 
annual volumes of the Psychological Index from 
1902 may be regarded as a supplement of this 
Dictionary. Accordingly, those who this 
Dictionary and secure the index each year from 1902 
“will have for Psychology an exhaustive Biblio- 
graphy, and for the other topics of this volume one 
that is selective and fairly adequate, continuing in- 
definitely into the future.”’ 
The scheme of the volume seems to. cover all the 
ground, and the headings are well arranged. The 
first part is occupied with a few pages containing a 
bibliography of bibliographies; then about fifty pages 
of general works on the history of philosophy; then 
come about 500 pages on philosophers, their works, 
and works upon them. We note that Aristotle has 
twenty-four pages assigned to him, Darwin five, 
Kant thirty-four, and Plato nineteen. Naturally there 
has been some hesitation in selecting for this colum- 
barium any but the most prominent of living philo- 
sophers; Wundt is there, and Bain (though he was 
alive in 1902), but not Mr. F. H. Bradley or Mr. 
Shadworth Hodgson. Those, however, who have not 
attained a place beside Plato and Aristotle, and some 
six hundred of the majestic dead, have tardy justice 
done them under the later head ‘‘ Systematic Philo- 
sophy: Systems and Essays.” Under systematic 
philosophy we have such further headings as 
atomism, evolution (only eight pages!), materialism, 
positivism, teleology, and the like. Then come the 
sections of logic, esthetics, philosophy of religion, 
ethics, and psychology. The biologist and the student 
of the physical side of mental processes will note that 
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to the brain and its functions are given fifteen pages, 
to heredity two, to the nervous system ten, to sensation 
and the senses about thirty-eight. 
under each heading is, of course, alphabetical accord- 
The arrangement 
ing to the names of the writers, which are generally 
printed in heavy type. The main references to epoch- 
making works—and to some not epoch-making—are 
followed immediately by a note of the important 
reviews that greeted their appearance. One must 
heartily commend the fulness with which, e.g. under 
atomism, have the references to Aristotle’s dis- 
cussions of the topic: Phys. II., 4 196 a 25; III:, 4 
203 a But perhaps in dealing with important 
Greek and Latin authors an attempt should have been 
made to distinguish translations and commentaries. 
Without» being captious, however, we must com- 
plain that the number of misprints is a little too large. 
It is irritating to have to inquire whether some new 
writer or thinker has suddenly appeared whose name 
differs from someone of comparative fame only in 
one of the initial letters, H for A, or G for S, or C 
for E. Such misprints must occur, but woe to the 
editor or proof-reader of a bibliography in which mis 
prints attain more than a certain proportion. 
we 
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THE ROMANCE OF THE EARTH AND MAN. 
The Human Epic. The Prehistoric Story of Man- 
kind. By John Frederick Rowbotham. Pp. 214. 
(London: Gay and Bird, n.d.) 
HE author of this remarkable publication, like 
the Mayor of Coquerico in ‘‘ Genevieve de 
Brabant,’’ is by no means averse to blowing his own 
trumpet; accordingly he announces to the world at 
large, on the title-page of his work, that it is ‘‘ the 
twelfth Epic Poem of the world’’; he also modestly 
states that he is ‘‘ The Homer of Modern Times.’’ 
Such courage deserves our applause, even if we fail 
to recognise the modern representative of Greek 
poetry in Mr. Rowbotham. 
The author begins with the evolution of the earth 
and the origin of life, and strives to show the changes 
undergone by the inorganic world and the gradual 
appearance of lowly marine beings in the Cambrian 
and Silurian seas. Of poetic fancies the author 
nothing lacks, but of natural history lore his stocls is 
meagre :— 
““Much fear I him who armed with claws and quills 
Steals stealthily along the weedy mire. 
I dread the shape who bears the bristling gills 
Which seem with rage and venom to respire. 
But chiefly do I fear the lobster dire. 
Four claws he wears, his quarry to assail, 
Two spears he brandishes to wreak his ire, 
Invulnerable gleams his quilted mail. 
O’er such stupendous foe nought living can prevail ”’ 
(p- 27, V- 35)- 
We are quite at a loss to fit the author’s descrip- 
tion with any Silurian, or, indeed, any other fossil 
arthropod ! 
We are next favoured with a view of the Old Red 
Sandstone period and its armoured fishes; then of the 
““Age of Trees ’’—‘‘ One mighty Sunderbund earth’s 
surface seemed . . . which with evaporating moisture 
steamed,’’ but though we surmise this to be a view 
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