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A Manual of Mental and Moral Philosophy, by the Reverend

JOSEPH JONES, consists of selections from LOCKE, I3UTLER, REID and BROWN, dovetailed together with very remarkable skill,5055 to form a compendious system of metaphysics and ethics. The division is threefold,—the first embracing the intellectual qualities intermingled with some useful remarks on ontological points; the' second the emotions; and the third the moral faculties. As re- gards largeness of thought and propriety of expression, no comps. rison can be instituted between the writers we have named and the lucubrations of the phrenologists; but we think the latter's arrangement of the mental qualities is by far the most sensible and natural.