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Coleridge and De Quincey on Kant are fully discussed, we call attention to- 
them. The author points out certain particulars in which the two English 
thinkers have done very scant justice to the opinions of the great German 
metaphysician. 
THE lEISH SWITZERLAND.* 
S IR W. WILDE is, par excellence^ the archaeologist of Ireland, and in the 
handsome volume which he has been good enough to send us, he has — 
if we may use an Hibernicism appropriate to the occasion — given us the 
history of its pre-historic remains. In describing the events of interest 
which occurred in the course of his tour, he has furnished the future ex- 
plorer with a pleasant and well- written guide-book to the west of Ireland. 
This cannot fail to be of service, and we should think it must be especially 
valued by the English tourer,” as the Dublin carman ” is wont to style 
him. We cannot say much for the science of this volume ; indeed, any 
opinion on this score must be adverse to the author, always save and except 
as to the one subject of archaeology. Having ourselves done ” Connemara 
on foot, in days when steamers on Lough Corrib were undreamt of even by 
the visionary, we can testify to the high botanical and geological interest of 
the whole country from Lough Mask to Clifton. Yet we regret to find that 
Sir W. Wilde says very little on this point to satisfy the ardent naturalist. 
The illustrations are pretty, and the mechanical features of the book are 
creditable to Irish publishing.” 
A:MERICAN CHEMISTRY.t 
T he character and mode of arrangement of this work are so different from 
our English text-books that at first sight one is disposed to think the- 
general plan an objectionable one. A little reflection, however, will show 
that there is a reason, and a good one, -for all this. The aim of .the authors 
is to provide the student with a work which shall be a companion to tho 
laboratory, not merely for the purpose of pursuing analyses, but for the- 
study of chemistry in its widest sense. In America, it would seem that- 
the principles of general chemistry are not taught in the lecture -room, but in 
the laboratory, and that the student, by a course of experimental research and 
inductive reasoning, is led through the successive steps by which the science- 
* Lough Corrib, its Shores and Islands,Twith Notes of Lough Mask.”" 
By Sir W. Wilde, M.D. Dublin : MHlashan and Gill, 1867. 
t A Manual of Inorganic Chemistry, etc.” By Ch. W. Eliot and F. 
II. Storer, Professors in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 
London: Van Voorst, 1868. 
