The Dublin Review, October, 1869. (Barns and Co.)—The Dublin should
take more pains with its politics. The article on the Irish land law is hesitating, abstract, in a word, not up to the mark,—certainly not written by a politician who deeply cares about the solution of this great problem. It is quite below the needs of a great Catholic and Irish review. The article on Mr. Trollope's last Irish novel is very good, written with humour, insight, and a delicate literary touch. .We always turn to the metaphysical articles of the editor of this review with in- terest, for there is no more accomplished metaphysician in England than Dr. Ward, and though he bases even his philosophy so far on authority that you hardly know where he would have regarded a doc- trine as reasonable if he had not believed it to be authoritative, he sel- dom fails to show subtly the intellectual grounds of his conviction as well as the duty of submission. The article on "Explicit and Implicit Thought" is valuable and really important, though, for our parts, we wish Dr. Ward would give us more of his own exposition and less of Father Kleutgen's ; and the article on " Psychologism and Ontologism " is interesting to an observer of the philosophical disputes amongst the 'Catholics; but the chief metaphysical interest for external thinkers in the question at issue is reserved for a future article.
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