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This Essay constitutes an attempt to solve the problem of æsthetics. The subject falls into four parts :-Beauty, Ugliness, Sublimity, and Meanness. Berkeley's Idealism, which "admits of no answer," is applied to æsthetic phenomena, and a reflex basis claimed for the entire science. A code of laws is predicated for beauty, and is made use of to explain the mental and material factors in a recognition of the beautiful; to define poetry and to test and analyze its psychology; to expound the conditions in which alone beauty can exist; to define and analyze wit; to explain the disparity of beauty in regard to its amount, as appearing in different objects; and to elucidate its relation to utility. Ugliness and disgust are examined and found to be antithetical to beauty and admiration. Sublimity is investigated, its essential condition sought after, and the psychology of awe inquired into. Meanness and contempt are found to be the antitheses of sublimity and awe. The laws predicated of the above phenomena are subjected to the test of facts, and examples are taken from natural and artificial objects, from ornaments, works of art, buildings, places, scenes, animals, and human beings, etc. The Essay being an effort to reconstruct the science of æsthetics on a new and rigid basis, destructive criticism is all but excluded from its pages; the conclusions of previous authors are left to stand on their own merits, or, by application of the results arrived at here, to be ipso facto corroborated or exposed.

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"It does not fall within the plan of this work to enter into an account either of the life of Muhammad, or of the wide and i rapid spread of the system founded by him. The first has been done by able writers in England, France, and Germany. I could add nothing new to this portion of the subject, nor throw new light upon it. The political growth of Muslim nations has also been set forth in various ways.

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Mr. Fenton writes very interestingly upon an interesting subject. He works, too, in a field which has hitherto been but little cultivated. Comparative sociology is but a recent study, and there has hardly been time to apply its results in detail to Hebrew social institutions. Mr. Fenton attempts such an application.

It is not difficult for him to illustrate Hebrew customs by parallels from India and elsewhere; and often light is thus thrown on otherwise unintelligible phenomena. But we must confess that the author does not seem to us either to establish the fact of the particular line of development which he seeks to trace, or, in many cases, to prove the existence of the law or custom which he makes its basis. As an instance, his deductions with regard to the terms Migrash and Sádé may be referred to. But though these reservations have to be made, the general reader and the Biblical student may both derive larger and clearer ideas of the ancient Hebrew world from the perusal of this little book.-Modern Review.