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alysis of the work, of which only one portion is yet published, is- 

 sued from the official press of Washington in a massive quarto volume, 

 and accompanied also, we should add, with a series of maps which con- 

 stitute an important feature of the work ; it has been re-printed in a 

 cheap form, by Messrs. Appleton & Co., of New York, for general 

 circulation. The official publication, however, will be followed, 

 speedily as the labors of the government press can produce them, by 

 three other volumes, some of the contents of which may be expected 

 to present even more valuable features, than the interesting, though 

 semewhat diffuse, narrative of Dr. Hawks. The first of these forth- 

 coming volumes will be devoted chiefly to Natural History ; the se- 

 cond is set apart for the Astronomical Observations ; and the third 

 will complete the work by furnishing an account of the Hydrography 

 of the Expedition. 



D. W. 



Typical Forms and Special Ends in Creation : By Rev. James 

 McCosh, LL. D., Professor of Logic and Metaphysics, in the 

 Queen's University in Ireland, and George Dickie, A. M., M. D. 

 Professor of Natural History, in the Queen's University, in 

 Ireland. 



"Writers on Physico-theology have for the most part been accus- 

 tomed to restrict themselves within what Dr. McCosh, with his co- 

 adjutor Professor Dickie, consider too narrow a field. They have 

 labored — and with all success — to point out instances of design in the 

 works of nature; but have stopped here, as if this exhausted their 

 case. Physico-theology has thus been virtually identified with Tele- 

 ology. But this, the writers of the work before us think, is; doing 

 injustice to the subject. Equally significant, in their opinion, with 

 the special ends contemplated in creation, is the circumstance, that, 

 in the contrivances made with a view to these ends, a general plan or 

 pattern has been adhered to. Physico-theology — or, to employ the 

 much better name suggested in the work under review, Cosmology, 

 an excellent term, which deserves to be rescued from the unworthy 

 uses to which it has hitherto been put — comprehends, besides the 

 science of SPECIAL ENDS, or Teleology, the science of TYPICAL 

 POEMS, or Typology. 



When a man builds a house, he has in view certain special ends. 

 He constructs windows, to admit light ; doors, for ingress and 

 egress ; and so forth. But at the same time, it will be invariably 

 found, that, at least in some measure, the architect follows a general 



