In a very recent volume, entitled Present-Day Thinkers and the New Scholasticism, an American professor, Dr. Zybura, put together a very miscellaneous and highly informative collection of opinions of contemporary professors in America and Great Britain on the attitude of modern schools towards the Neo-Scholastic or Thomist movement, together with a number of statements by prominent Neo-Scholastics and Thomists in regard to their attitude to modern philosophy. The aim of the book was largely to call attention to the need, if not for a rapprochement at least for intercourse. It is intolerable that the scholastic movement should keep itself in isolation from contemporary philosophy. Modern schools have much to learn from acquaintance with Thomists. Dr. Zybura very rightly complains of this mutual ignorance. It is remarkable that this very book makes only a passing reference in a footnote to a series of lectures delivered in Oxford and London in 1916 under the auspices of so well-known a foundation as the Hibbert Trust, and published in 1920 and recently re-issued.a

Dr. Wicksteed’s works on Dante are well-known. He approaches St. Thomas by way of Dante, and aims not at criticism, but at exposition. He is concerned here with the Summa contra Gentes, and with apologetic and, to some extent, with the Philosophy of Religion, rather than with philosophy proper or with theology.

1 (B. Herder, London; 12/- net.)

2 The Reactions between Dogma and Philosophy illustrated from the Works of St. Thomas Aquinas. By Philip H. Wicksteed, M.A., D.Litt. (Constable, 1926; 10/6 net.)