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216 UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO QU1\RTERLY promise, and can a promise of which most men have never heard be the reason why they acknowledge the duty of submission? Moreover, Berkeley denies that the problem of allegiance is to be solved by means of any theory of the basis of the legitimacy of a ruler's power; the obligation is directly prescribed by natural law. On both these points nothing really divides Berkeley and Hume except the latter's reinterpretation of natural law as psychological law. A Discourse addressed to Magistrates is on prejudice. It anticipates in some respects the revival of prejudice's fortunes in Hume and Burke. For Berkeley, however, it is not primarily, as with these other two, a question of the limits of rational contrivance in polities or the superiority of prejudice to abstract reasoning. It is with the backward glance to the unprejudiced noble savage that he is concerned. What is esteemed and admired in those creatures is not really innocence but just ignorance, not virtue but necessity. Only lack of opportunity saves them from being thoroughly disgusting. The Discourse seeks to show the absolute dependence of decent civil life upon the powerful effects of prejudice. Needless to say the enlightened freethinker is a principal target as always in the advice which Berkeley offers to magistrates. . BOOKS RECEIVED CROUSE, NELLIS M. Lemoyne d'Iberville: Soldier 0/ New France. New York: Cornell University Pressj Toronto: The Ryerson Press. 1954. Pp. xii, 280. $5.00. DANTZIG, TOBIAS. Henri Poincare, Critic of Crisis: Reflutions on his Universe 0/ Discourse. Twentieth Century Library. New York and London: Charles Scribner's Sons [Toronto: S. oJ. Reginald Saunders and Company Limited]. 1954. Pp. xiv, 150. $3.85. DEUTSCHER, I SAAC. The Prophet Armed: Trotsky: 1879- 1921. London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press. 1954. Pp. xii, 540. $6.00. DORAN, MADELEINE. Endeavors of Art: A Study 0/ Form in Elizabethan Drama. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press. Pp. xvi, 482. $6.00. DOUGLASS, PAUL F. Six upon the World: Toward an American Culture for an Industrial Age. Boston: Little, Brown and Company [Toronto: Little, Brown & Company (Canada) Limited]. 1954. Pp. x, 444. $5.50. NOEL, MARY. Villains Galore: The Heyday of the Popular Story Weekly. New York: The Macmillan Company lToronto: The Macmillan Company of Canada Limited]. 1954. Pp. xli, 320. $5.75. PATRICK, J. MAX, cd. Samla Studies in Milton: Essays on John Milton and His Works. By Members of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association. Foreword by JAMES HOLLY HANFORD. Gainesville: University of Florida Pross. 1953. Pp. xvi, 198. $3.50. RtE SMAN, DAVID. Individualism Reconsidered and Other Essays. Glencoe, Illinois: The Free Press. 1954. Pp. ii, 530. $6.00. WILKINS, ERNEST HATCH. A History 0/ Italian Literature. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press [Toronto: S. J. Reginald Saunders and Company Limited]. 1954. Pp. xii, 524. $9.75. ...