I publication will not I hope be deemed super .-Its contents have, in great part, been collected and translated in France and Italy; in Germany many of the Discussions have been separately translated; and their general collection has once and again been recomanded in the leading critical Journals of America. In this country also, a considerable number are comprised dhe "Selections from the Edinburgh Review" by Mr Crosse. M. Peisse, the learned French translator, has sdded to the articles, published by him under the name "Fragments de Philosophie," sundry important conributions of his own;-an Introduction, an Appendix, and Notes. Of the last especially I have frequently availed myself. In printing these criticisms, I have made a few oportant corrections; and some not unimportant dit ons,-in length at least, for the new extends to above a half of the old. At the same time, I was not were from evincing, by the way, the punctual accuracy of tan atatements, advanced in these criticisms, which had evriously and, sometimes even, vehemently assailed. h. one instance, the counter criticism was indeed of such a character, and came from such a quarter, that I could tot in propriety let it pass without a full and formal refu In preparing an Appendix, supplementary of the previons discussions relative to the English Universities, I |