We have to notice a second edition of Force and
Matter by Dr. Louis Buchner, translated from the tenth edition of the original Kraft and Stog (Triibner), a book on the philosophy of which, possibly the ablest popularization of materialism that has-ever been given to the world, we have no need to express our opinion. The noticeable thing in the volume before us is the series of Prefaces, in which Dr. &Whiter has replied to his assailants, a numerous tribe, who are probably not very polite in their language, and who certainly do not get much polite- ness from our author. Of one gentleman's work he says that "the contents prove the almost childish imbecility of the author, the inside of whose head must somewhat resemble the cabbage mart of Gottingen after market-day." There is one side, it would seem, on which German culture might be further developed with advantage.
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