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 262 CRITICAL NOTICES. the Leibnitian monad (pp. 289, 295). The plurality of organisms he seems to accept, and he recognises the difficulty of accounting for one such being's knowledge of (mother, which breaks through the "immanence of Reason" in the former (p. 290). After rejecting Eenouvier's solution (that there is a universal whole, finite and determinate, but at the same time inconceivable), he takes our breath away by identifying the individual and the universal whole, and ignoring even the appearance of difference between them. We turn with something more than interest to the one chapter which remains, to discover how the sea of diffi- culties that surges round such a position is to be driven back : but w~e find that only our curiosity, and nothing more, is satisfied. I am forced to conclude that the author has only accomplished a general demonstration of the irrationality of his fundamental dogma the Immanence of Eeason as he understands it. S. H. MELLONE.