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...then professor at Heidelberg, and afterwards at Berlin, and died in 1831. His "Logic" was published in the years 1812-1816. His works were collected and printed, after his death, in eighteen volumes. In English the best account of his life is that of Edward Caird, in Blackwood's "Philosophical Classics." Of Dr. Hutchinson Sterling's famous and historically important book, "The Secret of Hegel" (2 vols. 8 vo., Edinburgh, 1865), much both good and evil can well be said, but the work is at all events useless to the elementary student. More valuable for a fairly equipped beginner...
...Critique of Pure Reason" in 1781; published his other principal works between this year and 1793; and died in 1804. The best English translation of the Critique is that by Max Muller. The translation in Bohn's Library, by Meiklejohn, is now regarded as superseded. Wallace's "Kant" in Blackwood's Philosophical Library (Edinburgh and Philadelphia, 1882), Edward Caird's "Critical Philosophy of Immanual Kant" (2d. ed., New York, Macmillan's, 1889, 2 vols.), J. H. Stirling's "Text-Book to Kant" (New York, Putnam's, 1882), and John Watson's "Philosophy of Kant in selections from his writings...
...Annexation would add greatly to the resources of this country, in wheat lands, forests, furs, fisheries, coal, iron, etc.- No. Am. Rev., Feb., 1889, 54-73; Science 3, 756; Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine...
Honorary Degrees.LL.D. - Frederick Temple Blackwood, Earl of Dufferin, Nathan Clifford, William Goodwin Russell, Thomas Chase...
RACINE sends us a good number of the Mercury this week, and an article in it on the Dr. Faustus of Christopher Marlowe is particularly good. But why not give us original translations of Horace, instead of one from Blackwood...