HENRY SIDGWICK had long intended to collect together
essays and addresses written by him at different times;
and some essays on ethical subjects he had published
under the title of Practical Ethics in the "Ethical Library
series (Swan Sonnenschein and Co.) in 1898. The
volume now published contains miscellaneous essays on
other subjects. Several of them were specified by the
author during the last few weeks of his life as suitable for
such a collection, though with some hesitation in one or
two cases. After due consideration, all the papers that he
named have been included; and we have added a few
others, which seemed likely to be of interest to the
general reader.
We have not included any of the papers
published in Mind; some of them will appear more appro-
priately along with some hitherto unpublished philosophical
lectures in a volume which is being edited by Professor
James Ward.
It will be seen that the papers fall mostly into three divisions, according as they deal with literature, economics and sociology, or education; and it seemed best to arrange them, within the limits of each division, in chronological order. The only exceptions are the essay on Bentham and Benthamism, which we have placed between the
