Letters on the Philosophy of the Human Mind. Third series.
By Samuel Bailey, author of "Essays on the Formation of Opinions," &c. (Longman and Co.)—The author of this book acknowledges in his preface that " it would be unreasonable to expect that the third series of a work like the present should attract the attention of any but the possessors and the readers of the two preceding volumes." As we are certainly in no position to claim the benefit of the exemption which is here held out, Mr. Bailey will not blame us if wo take advantage of it to some extent. We may, however, observe that this volume closes its author's disquisitions on the philosophy of the human mind. It contains, be- sides, an examination and condemnation of Comte's doctrine that the mind cannot directly contemplate itself, and that, therefore, the science of psychology has no existence ; a number of brief discussions on identity, causation, evidence, the laws of nature, language, and moral sentiment. Mr. Bailey, who has, we believe, recently published some rather extraordinary suggestions for the improvement of the text of Shakespeare, does not appear to be at all afraid of thinking for himself, either as a philosopher or as a poet.
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