Page:Philosophical Review Volume 11.djvu/113

From Wikisource
Jump to navigation Jump to search
This page has been proofread, but needs to be validated.
97
NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS.
[Vol. XI.

clearly the part that specifically Russian conditions have played in the development of Tolstoi's views. The most important paragraphs of the second attempt to prove that in the writings of Marx other forces besides the purely economic are taken into account, and that the supreme authority of the moral ideal is recognized throughout. This conclusion is reached, it is hardly necessary to say, only through the citation of isolated passages, and by impressing upon a number of these one of two or three possible interpretations. But it is well worth bringing together what Marx has said upon this subject, if only to show how meager it is.

Frank Chapman Sharp.
The Works of George Berkeley. Including his Posthumous Works. With Prefaces, Annotations, Appendices, and an account of his Life. By

Alexander Campbell Fraser, Emeritus Professor of Logic and

Metaphysics in the University of Edinburgh. In four volumes. Oxford, at the Clarendon Press, 1901.—pp. lxxxvii, 527; 415; vi, 412; viii, 611. $6.00.

Professor Fraser has once more imposed upon us a debt of gratitude by the publication of the new Clarendon Press edition of Berkeley's works. The name of the venerable editor has been closely associated with Berkeley's philosophy for a generation, and the interest in and occupation with Berkeley in recent years, not only in England and America, but in France and Germany as well, has been largely the result of his labors and inspiration.

The first edition of the work before us appeared in 1871, in three volumes, with an additional volume devoted to the life and letters, and also containing the Commonplace Book and some short papers which were then published for the first time. The editor has described in the preface to Volume I the changes which occur in the present edition of Berkeley's works. I quote a few passages: "In the present edition of Berkeley's Works, the introductions and the annotations have been mostly rewritten. A short account of his romantic life is prefixed, intended to trace its progress in the gradual development and application of his initial principle; and also the external incidents of his life in their continuity, with the help of the new material in the Percival MSS. and the correspondence with Johnson. ... The rearrangement of the works is a feature in the present edition. Much of the new material that was included in the 1871 edition reached me when the book was far advanced in the press, and thus the chronological arrangement, strictly followed in the present edition, was not possible. A chronological arrangement is suggested by Berkeley himself." ... "The first three volumes in this edition contain the philosophical works exclusively arranged in chronological order under the three periods of Berkeley's life. The first volume includes those of his early life; the second those produced in middle life, and the third those of his later years. The miscellaneous works are presented in like manner