474 Notices respecting New.Books : Mr. Lubbock's Remarks 



tural history, — the sciences of botany and zoology, — in which it is 

 obviously of the highest moment : with regard to the domains and 

 subjects of inorganic nature, its introduction is of very recent date 

 indeed ; while, in relation to the various departments of human 

 knowledge itself, it is yet almost unknown among us. 



On these accounts, that a second edition of Mr. Lubbock's " Re- 

 marks " on the subject last adverted to has been called for, is a cir- 

 cumstance at which we may rejoice as indicating that the attention of 

 men of letters and of science has fairly begun to be directed to its 

 interest and value, and to the improvement which it confessedly re- 

 quires. • 



As we omitted to notice the first edition, we shall now, after enu- 

 merating the contents of the work, state briefly the object which the 

 author has in view, and extract his own modified classification of the 

 different branches of knowledge. 



" System of Bacon. — System of D'Alembert. — System of Locke. — System of 

 Bentham. — System of Chambers. — System of Ampere. — System of Comte. — Sy- 

 stem of the Encyclopaidia M etropolitana. — System proposed by the Author. — 

 Classification of Books proposed by the Author. — Classification of the distinguish- 

 ed Men of modern times. — Societies for the promotion and advancement of 

 Science. 



" Fr. Baconi Partitio universalis Doctrinae Humanse. — Systeme figure des Con- 

 naissances Ilumaines, from D'Alembert's Works, vol. i. p. 333. — Division of the 

 Intellectual Faculties, from the Manuel des Aspirants au Baccalaureat-es-lettres. — 

 Chambers's Divisions of Knowledge. — Classification des Connaissances Ilumaines, 

 l)y Ampere. — System of M. Destutt Comte de Tracy. — Tableau Synoptique of M. 

 Comte. — Plan of the Encycloptcdia Metropolitana. 



" Classification of Books. — IdeaLeibnitiana Bibliothecse ordinandi contractior. — 

 Table Methodique of Brunet. — Library of the London Institution. — Library of the 

 Royal Institution. — Nouveau Systeme Bibliographique. — Libraiy of Queen's Col- 

 lege, Cambridge.— Classification from the Edinburgh Review. 



" Original Classification of the Institut Royal de France. — Present Classification 

 of the Institut Royal de France." 



Mr. Lubbock commences by alluding to the universal acknow- 

 ledgement, that in consequence of the progress of science, the divi- 

 sions which were formerly proposed by Bacon and D'Alembert are 

 not suited to its present condition. He then cites the critical ex- 

 amination of their labours by Dugald Stewart, which terminated, 

 unfortunately in his judgement, only in a conviction that the logical 

 views of those philosophers on the subject are radically and essen- 

 tially erroneous. 



After remarking, further, that " the classification of human know- 

 ledge is intimately blended with the classification of literature," and 

 expressing his opinion " that Dugald Stewart may not have given 

 attention to the assistance which can be derived in the consideration 

 of the former question from the labours of Leibnitz, Brunet, Mr. 

 Home, and others, who have considered specially the latter ques- 

 tion," Mr. Lubbock reviews and discusses, concisely, it is true, but 

 in a very explicit and definite manner, the classifications of human 

 knowledge or of books, severally proposed by Biicon, D'Alembert, 

 Leibnitz, Locke, Cousin, Bentham, Chambers the Encyclopaedist, 

 Ampere, and Comte, including also "the system of the Encyclopaedia 

 Metropolitana," which latter it may perhaps add to the interest of the 



