I have now to point out _L'Esthétique d'Aristote et de ses Successeurs_, by M. CH. BÉNARD, an _Etude sur Francois Bacon_ by M. J. BARTHÉLEMY ST. HILAIRE, and _L'Anthropologie Criminelle et ses Récents Progrès_, by M. CESARE LOMBROSO. M. Bénard is one of the good old masters, who, what they do know, know well, and his book is one of those that it is profitable to possess. The study of M. Barthélemy St. Hilaire is followed by the Report on the Memoirs presented to the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences, which had proposed as a subject "The Philosophy of Bacon." As to M. Lombroso, the celebrated Italian criminologist, he has wished to reply to the objections that have been made to his views, especially by the French medical alienists at the Congress of 1889, and this is why he has written on this occasion in our language: he supports by new facts the notion, hitherto contested, of a "criminal type." * * * * * The last work of which I have to speak, is the _Souvenirs de M. Charles Mismer_,[31] of which the third volume which recently appeared, has for its title _Souvenirs de la Martinique et du Mexique pendant l'Intervention Francaise_. There is in these volumes no express philosophy, as this term is understood, but they are the work of an observing, reflecting mind, and in these pages one sees a man living and growing. In the course of his adventurous existence, M. Mismer, already instructed by experience, by chance acquired knowledge of the _Cours_ of August Comte; he became attached to it, and found there an opening into sociology, a tie by which to link together his personal ideas. He afterwards published several articles[32] in the Review conducted by M. Littré, and he records to-day in his _Souvenirs_ the valuable observations which he has had occasion to make on very different races of men and strongly opposed social states. He is one of those whom the philosophic spirit has led to a philosophic life, and the persons who read his work will thank me for having made them acquainted with a unique and worthy character. [31] In course of publication by Hachette. The other works mentioned are published by Alcan. [32] A part of these articles formed a volume entitled _Principes Sociologiques_. LUCIEN ARRÉAT. BOOK REVIEWS. THE WAY OUT OF AGNOSTICISM, or, THE PHILOSOPHY OF FREE RELIGION. By _Francis Ellingwood Abbott_, Ph. D., Boston: Little, Brown & Co. "This book aims to show that, in order to refute agnosticism and establish enlightened theism, nothing is now necessary but to philosophise that very scientific method which agnosticism barbarously misunderstands and misuses ... It aims to develop the philosophy which must (consciously or unconsciously) underlie any and every free religious movement or institution: namely the philosophy which results from the faithful application of the scientific method to the universe as a whole."