This is an excellent source book of hitherto largely inaccessible American philosophical literature, presenting a series of individual contributions from colonial times to William James. Each section is prefaced by a useful introduction orienting the reader in point of historical and ideological development. The collection well shows, as suggested in an editorial foreword by Sterling Lamprecht, that North American contributions in this field form in themselves a distinct entity of expression; one that cannot be described completely as a new planting and maturation of precedent European trends on fresh ground. The importance of this view is well evidenced in the prefatory sectional analyses, where may be traced many of the distinctive features which emerged as the cultural transitions of the new country took definite shape, and as they achieved partial and special articulation in a succession of writers exemplifying in