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U n d e r the title of “ The Path I Took, and where it Led Me : An Autobiography and Argument ” (6d.), an octogenarian “ Monmouthshire Farmer” will shortly issue, through Messrs. Watts & Co., a chatty pamphlet of reminiscences. Blunt and direct in style, transparently sincere, and enlivened by many acute observations, this narrative of a staunch old Rationalist’s life and intellectual fortunes will be sure to interest, despite its natural lack of literary method. It has had the advantage of Mr. G. J. Holyoake’s sympathetic revision.
I n addition to the work, “ Thoughts on Religious Problems,” which Canon Gore has edited and provided with an introduction, Messrs. Longmans will shortly publish a further volume from the pen of the late Mr. Romanes, to be entitled “ Mind and Motion.” We also understand that Mrs. Romanes is preparing a biography of the deceased scientist, and is to have therein the assistance of Dean Paget. I,ater on a volume will be issued consisting of the contributions o f the Professor on philosophic and scientific subjects to various reviews and magazines, together with papers o f a similar character read to learned societies.
Messrs. Longmans & Co. have issued the third volume o f their new edition of Professor Max Muller’s “ Chips from a German Workshop." It contains the essays on Language and Literature. The fourth and concluding volume, now in preparation, is to contain the essays on the Sciences of Language, Thought, and Mythology.
Messrs. Smith, E lder, & Co. will publish immediately the biography of his Freethinking brother, Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, upon which Mr. Leslie Stephen has been engaged during the autumn and winter months.
Within the next two months two important additions will be made to the “ Ethical Library,” which is published by Messrs. Swan Sonnenschcin & Co. One of them is to be Mr. Leslie Stephen’s Ethical Discourses, some of which, we are informed, have not been delivered nor published before. The second is to be by Professor Sidgwick. This “ Library ” owes its origin to the London Ethical Society, of which Mr. Stephen and Professor Sidgwick arc two of the most prominent members and supporters.
Messrs. Buss, Sanders, & Foster announce a series o f biographies of prominent statesmen, including the eminent F r e e t h in k e r and Republican, Castelar.
Messrs. Macmillan have issued " A Confession of Faith ” (3s. 6d.), by “ An Unorthodox Believer," the object o f the writer being to show that the religious spirit, in what seems to him the true sense, is independent of belief in the miraculous.
Mr. J a m e s P l a t t , the author of the well-known series of books on “ Money,” “ Business,” “ Morality,” etc., has just published, under the title of “ Recollections and Reflections” (2s.), what he modestly terms “ a brief summary of fifty years’ work.” Mr. Platt has always been an unpretentious and indefatigable worker in the cause of mental and moral reform, and this, though all too meagre, memorial of his eminently useful life will be heartily welcomed by his numerous admirers.
M e s s r s . \V. B l a c k w o o d & S o n s have published a book entitled “ John Stuart M i l l : A Study of his Philosophy,” by Mr. Charles Douglas, Lecturer in Philosophy at Edinburgh University.
Mr. M. P h i l l i p s has written a work on “ The Teaching of the V edas: What Light Does it Throw on the Origin of Religion ?” (6s.).
M r. S a m u e l L a i n g has written the preface to a book just published by Messrs. Chapman & Hall, and entitled “ The Progress of Science: Its Origin, Course, Promoters, and Results,” by Mr. C. Marmery.
A n e w volume o f the Religion of Science Library is published, entitled “ On the Origin of language and the Logos Theory” (is.), by Ludwig Noire.
M e s s r s . W a t t s & Co. have issued a new pamphlet from the pen of Mr. Charles Watts, being a Secularist’s answer to the question, “ Why Do Right ?” (3d.).
A t h i r d edition is published of Edmund Garrett’s “ Isis Very Much Unveiled : The Story of the Great Mahatma H oax” (is.). It contains Mr. Judge’s “ reply," with a rejoinder by Mr. Garrett.
CHARLES BRADLAUGH.*
SECOND NOTICE.
A s t r i k i n g difference is manifest between the biography penned by Mrs. Bonner and the chapters written by Mr. Robertson. The one writer tells her story with a tenderness which is eager, even at the risk of discursiveness and overcrowding of details, to display every incident and trait connected with a beloved father’s memory. The other is naturally more aloof and dispassionate, and relates the facts at his disposal with method, compactness, and unity. Not, indeed, that Mr. Robertson is wanting in real reverence for Charles llradlaugh’s life and work. Caustic, censorious, and over-inclined to detect flaws as Mr. Robertson has sometimes shown himself to be, it is evident that one corner of his heart is always warm with grateful recollection of
* “ Charles liradlaugh : A Record o f his Life and W ork.” By his daughter, Hypatia liradlaugh lionner. With an account o f his Parliamentary Struggle, Politics, and Teachings, by John M. Rnlrcrtson. (London: T . Fisher Unwin.) 2 volt.} 21s.
