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topics. Speculative Philosophy succeeds, 

 introducing Mathematics, on which hangs 

 the great department of Applied Mathe- 

 matics, including all physical sciences ex- 

 cept the biological. The various branches 

 are carefully discriminated, and room is 

 found among them for the so-called Occult 

 Sciences, and for Military and Naval 

 matters, the series appropriately conclud- 

 ing with Chemistry, or the science which 

 aims at the resolution of all matter into its 

 original elements. The remaining sections, 

 though most important and extensive, are 

 very simple in arrangement, and may be 

 dismissed very briefly. They are : His- 

 tory; Geography, with Voyages and Topo- 

 graphy; Biography; Poetry and the 

 Drama ; Belles Lettres, including Fiction ; 

 and Philology. The arrangement is in- 

 variably the same: collected works on 



