Alfred Edward Taylor (1869B1945), an international authority on Plato, here gives auseful introductory sketch of the life and thought of Hobbes. Constructed from the original texts of Hobbes and his contemporary biographers, as well as the later studies of Croom Robertson, T`nnies and Leslie Stephen, this accessible book also includes a brief account of Hobbes's life.

AAn admirable little book. J. W. N. Watkins, in Hobbes's System of Ideas.