As a consequence of the success of the series of ReligionsAncient and Modern, Messrs. Constable have decided to issuea set of similar primers, with brief introductions, lists of dates,and selected authorities, presenting to the wider public thesalient features of the Philosophies of Greece and Rome and ofthe Middle Ages, as well as of modern Europe. They willappear in the same handy Shilling volumes, with neat clothbindings and paper envelopes, which have proved so attractivein the case of the Religions. The writing in each case will beconfided to an eminent authority, and one who has alreadyproved himself capable of scholarly yet popular expositionwithin a small compass.
Among the first volumes to appear will be:—
Early Greek Philosophy. By A. W. Benn, author of The Philosophyof Greece, Rationalism in the Nineteenth Century.
Stoicism. By Professor St. George Stock, author of Deductive Logic,editor of the Apology of Plato, etc.
Plato. By Professor A. E. Taylor, St. Andrews University,author of The Problem of Conduct.
Scholasticism. By Father Rickaby, S.J.
Hobbes. By Professor A. E. Taylor.
Locke. By Professor Alexander, of Owens College.
Comte and Mill. By T. Whittaker, author of TheNeoplatonists, Apollonius of Tyana and other Essays.
Herbert Spencer. By W. H. Hudson, author of An Introductionto Spencer's Philosophy.
Schopenhauer. By T. Whittaker.
Berkeley. By Professor Campbell Fraser, D.C.L., LL.D.
Bergsen. By Father Tyrrell.