Theoliogical and Literary Intelligence [pp. 378-386]

586 ThEOLOGICAL AND LITERARY INTELLIGENCE. [April,
~onrnal of Mental Science, edited by Drs. Maudsley and Clouston. January. 1
Thos. Laycock, Reflex, Automatic, and Unconscious Cerebration. 2. H. C. Major
the Brain of the Chackma Baboon. 3. W. L. Lindsay, Mind in Plants. 4. Clouston on Skae's Classification of Mental Disease. 5. D. Yellowlees, Plea of Insanity in
Cases of Murder-case of Tierney.
Mr. George Long's Decline of the 1?ornan Republic is completed by the publication of the fifth volume. It is distinguished for thoroughness and impartiality, and
a constant use of the oiiginal authorities.
A new and important work on Michael Angelo, by Mr. Heath Wilson, of Florence, is announced by Murray. It is based on the Italian work by Signor Gotti, but
gives the results of elaborate studies by the author.
As showing the drift of speculation, Mr. Frederic Harrison's two essays on the
Religious and Conservative Aspects of Positivism, in the Contemporary Review (Nov.
and Dec. 1875), are worthy of note. Mr. Harrison is one of the editors and translatorS of the new English edition of Comte's Positive Philosophy. Positivism is to
him the most religious and conservative of creeds and tendencies. It alone, he
thinks, can preserv~mankind fr9m atheisn' and materialism. "Progress," he says:
"is only the development of order." Religion, Philosophy, and Action are the
three great "faculties" of humanity. These give us Comte's grand "hypothesis,"
of the Church, Education, and Society (Polity). All these are indispensable, and
all work together. A "collective and organic ~ower" presides over the whole development of mankind. "The spiritual conception" of such a being, he says, " is one
of the grand conceptions in the progress of civilization, which mankind owes to
Theology."
The new philosophical quarterly, Mi?Zd, Jan., 1876, contains the following articles:
Prefatory ~Vords, by the Editor, Prof. G. C. Robertson; Herbert Spencer, the Comparative Psychology of Man; James Sully, Physiological Psychology in Germany;
John Venn, Consi~stency and Real Inference; Henry Sidgwick, the Theory of Evolution in its Application to Practice; Shadworth H. Ilodgson, Philosophy and Science; Philosophy at Oxford, by the Rector of Lincoln College; Early LiFe of Jame~~,
~iill, by Prof. Bain; Critical Notices, Reports, Notes, by G. H. Lewes, Prof. Flint,
J. G. McKendrick, Prof. T. M. Lindsay, C. Couplan~t, l~i-of. Bain, and the Editor.
- The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge has in preparation a series of
popular manuals on the various non-Christian systems of religion: Prof. Monier,
Williams on Hinduism; Rhys Davids on Buddhism; Mr. J. W. H. Stobart, of
Lucknow, ~n Islamism; Rev. H. Rowley on the Fetish Systems.
The Canon of Canterbury, undcr the direction of the Master of Rolls, is to edit a
series of volumes, containing all - the extaLt materials for the Life of Thomas a'
Beckett, Archbishop of C~nterbury.
Dean i~iowson and Canon Spence are preparing a Commentary on the Acts of the
Apostle's.- Some of the best works of Albericus Gentilis are to be republished at Oxford; he
is buried in St. Helen's, Bishopsgate. A monument is also to be erected to him in
Italy, and a prize scholarship founded at Oxford in commemoration of his services.