Book Notices

This work of Prof. Dewey is one containing 250 pages or more, and we know of no better way of inforruing our readers of its contenta than to quote the author's own words from the preface : " While the book is an analysis, in outline, of the main elementa of the theory of ethica rather than a discussion of all possible detailed questions, it will not De found the leaa fitted, I hope, to give a student an idea of the main fnethoda and problems of contemporary ethics. Other teachers, indeed, may agree that a general outline is better than a blanketmortgage spread over and forestalling all the activity of the student mind. i 1 1 have not been unmindful of the advisability of avoiding in presentation both undue polemic and undue dogmatism without sufficient reference to the statements of others. I hope the method hit upon, of comparing opposite onesided views with the aim of discovering a theory apparently more adequate, will keep the balance. I have quoted freely from the chief modern authorities, hoping that the tastes here given will tempt the reader to the banquet waiting in the authors themselves. The occasional references introduced are not bibliographical, nor intended as exhaustive statements of authorities consulted; they are meant as aids to an intelligent reading on the part of the general student. For this reason they are confined mainly to modern English writings.