ws:--the letters to
M. Valat and J. S. Mill, in _La Critique philosophique_ (1877);
correspondence with Mde. de Vaux (ib., 1884); _Correspondance inedite
d'Aug. Comte_ (1903 foll.); _Lettres inedites de J. S. Mill a Aug.
Comte publ. avec les responses de Comte_ (1899).

_Criticism._--J. S. Mill, _Auguste Comte and Positivism_; J. H.
Bridges' reply to Mill, _The Unity of Comte's Life and Doctrines_
(1866); Herbert Spencer's essay on the _Genesis of Science_ and
pamphlet on _The Classification of the Sciences_; Huxley's "Scientific
Aspects of Positivism," in his _Lay Sermons_; R. Congreve, _Essays
Political, Social and Religious_ (1874); J. Fiske, _Outlines of Cosmic
Philosophy_ (1874); G. H. Lewes, _History of Philosophy_, vol. ii.;
Edward Caird, _The Social Philosophy and Religion of Comte_ (Glasgow,
1885); Hermann Gruber, _Aug. Comte der Begrunder des Positivismus.
Sein Leben und seine Lehre_ (Freiburg, 1889) and _Der Positivismus vom
Tode Aug. Comtes bis auf unsere Tage, 1857-1891_ (Freib. 1891); L.
Levy-Bruhl, _La Philosophie d'Aug. Comte_ (Paris, 1900); H. D. Hutton,
_Comte's Theory of Man's Future_ (1877), _Comte, the Man and the
Founder_ (1891), _Comte's Life and Work_ (1892); E. de Roberty, _Aug.
Comte et Herbert Spencer_ (Paris, 1894); J. Watson, _Comte, Mill and
Spencer. An outline of Philos._ (1895 and 1899); Millet, _La
Souverainete d'apres Aug. Comte_ (1905); L. de Montesquieu Fezensac,
_Le Systeme politique d'Aug. Comte_ (1907); G. Dumas, _Psychologie de
deux Messies positivistes_ (1905). (J. Mo.; X.)

FOOTNOTE:

[1] For Comte's place in the history of ethical theory see ETHICS.

COMUS (from [Greek: komos], revel, or a company of revellers), in the
later mythology of the Greeks, the god of festive mirth. In classic
mythology the personification does not exist; but Comus appears in the
[Greek: Eikones], or _Descriptions of Pictures_, of Philostratus, a
writer of the 3rd century A.D. as a winged youth, slumbering in a
standing attitude, his legs crossed, his countenance flushed with wine,
his head--which is sunk upon his breast--crowned with dewy flowers, his
left hand feebly grasping a hunting spear, his right an inverted torch.
Ben Jonson introduces Comus, in his masque entitled _Pleasure reconciled
to Virtue_ (1619), as the portly jovial patron of good cheer, "First
father of sauce and deviser of jelly." In the _Comus, sive Phagesiposia
Cimmer