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tant ones given. Every one cannot be men- 

 tioned, of course, but it would be a distinct 

 gain if names like Alanus ab Insulis, Antis- 

 tlienes, Aristarchus of Samos (he is, it is true, 

 mentioned under tlie Copernican Theory), 

 Beda Venerabilis, Bolingbroke, Buridan, Cal- 

 derwood, Cardanus, Digby, Euler, Fiske, Ga- 

 lileo, Gaunilo, Gerbert, Gizycki, Glogau, Guy- 

 au, Ilamann, Hegesias, Herschel, Wilhelm 

 von Humboldt, Kepler, Laas, Laniennais, Lan- 

 franc, Laplace, to call attention to but a few 

 prominent omissions, could take the place of: 

 Abbadie, Abdalatif, Achenwall, Johann Alan- 

 us, some of the Alexanders, Allamand, Arnott, 

 Atwater, Beaseley, the two Hodges and others 

 comparatively unimportant. It is a pity, too, 

 that no biographies are given of living think- 

 ers, say of men like Baumann, Brentano, Diih- 

 ring, Eucken, Kuno Eischer, Fouillee, Hart- 

 mann, HofFding, Jodl, to say nothing of 

 English and American writers of note ; but per- 

 haps that would have increased the size of 

 the work beyond all reasonable expectations. 



The bibliographies are uneqiial in value. 

 The psychological bibliographies are usually 

 excellent, including, as they do, the best mon- 

 ographs in the field. The literature on es- 

 thetics is also good. The philosophical, logic- 

 al, ethical, epistemological and educational 

 lists of references, cannot as a rule compare 

 with the others; some of them are quite 

 meager, often ignoring the best recent litera- 

 ture. It is one of the most valuable functions 

 of a work like the Dictionary to guide the 

 student in his reading and to put him in 

 touch with the best work done everywhere. It 

 would be an advantage if the third volume of 

 the Dictionary coiild give not only the names 

 of books, but critical comments on some of 

 them. 



In conclusion I should like to call attention 

 to a few minor details. There should be some 

 uniformity (1) in German spelling, (2) in 

 the use of the English possessive, and (3) in 

 French titles. Sometimes the old style of 

 German spelling is vised, sometimes the new. 

 "We get Urteil and Urtheil, FunMion and 

 Function, DefeM and Defect, Produht and 

 Product, etc., etc. Sometimes the Dictionary 

 uses the apostrophe followed by s in English 



possessives ending in s, sometimes it uses the 

 apostrophe only. Thus we find St. Vitus's, 

 Cornelius's, James's, St. Thomas's, Leibnitz's, 

 and Descartes', Averroes', Leibnitz', and so on. 

 In the French titles capitals are sometimes 

 used and sometimes not. There are a few 

 other cases in which we get differences in spell- 

 ing. The Dictionary writes Kratylus and 

 Kritias, but Crates, Carneades, Cleanthes. 

 Quesnai and Quesnay occur, Franljfurt and 

 Erankfort, Clement and Clemens, Renaissance 

 and Renascence, spatial and spacial, and if I 

 am not mistaken Occam and Okham. 



The terms adoptionism and Adoptionismus 

 are used instead of adoptianism and Adop- 

 tianismus, which are the more common forms. 

 Clanberg should be Clauberg. Instead of 

 Agent the Germans use 'the term Agens in the 

 sense employed on page 25. The usual Ger- 

 man equivalent for common sense in the 

 meaning given on page 200 is gesunder or 

 gemeiner Menschenverstand. Aslcese is more 

 common than Asceticismus. The counter- 

 reformation is Geg en-reformation in German. 

 On page 92 Hoffding is referred to as an au- 

 thority on mediaeval philosophy. Schmidt's 

 'Ethik der alten Griechen' is spoken of as a 

 history of ethics on page 344 ; it is a history of 

 Greek morality and ideals rather than of Greek 

 systems. The title of Ziegler's book is: 'Die 

 Ethik der Griechen und Romer.' On page 67 

 the term patristic fathers is used. On page 500 

 a passage from Munro's translation of Lucre- 

 tius is given without credit. On page 5 a 

 translator's name is given as Eilkin, on page 

 189 as Falkin, on page 557 as Eelkin. Homo- 

 ousios (p. 67) should be homoi-ousios. On 

 page 596, first column, eighth line from the 

 bottom, the word to should be placed between 

 that and phenomena. 



Typographical errors are: Nature for Na- 

 tur (p. 5) ; 1794 for 794 (18) ; peritheral for 

 peripheral (28) ; Gaston for Galton (46) ; base 

 for bare (61) ; Bohme for Bohme (124) ; idio- 

 motor for ideo-motor (217) ; Adeckes for 

 Adickes (246) ; Elsenhaus for Elsenhans 

 (216) ; Seipsis for Scepsis (320) ; Baumvor- 

 stellungen for Raumvorstellung (364) ; 21 for 

 214 (521) ; Erauenstadt for Erauenstiidt (537) ; 

 instinct for institut (579) ; Mansell for Man- 



