University of Virginia Library

From Rev. S. Luckey, D.D., editor
of the Christian Advocate and
Journal, Quarterly Review, &c.

I am happy to learn that you are about
to publish a stereotype edition of Professor
Upham's works. To this gentleman
the literary public are much indebted
for his “Elements of Mental Philosophy,”
a work which was greatly
needed as a text-book in our colleges and
academies at the time it was first published.
It is now used, I believe, in
most of our literary institutions; and I
hesitate not to say, it is better adapted
to the wants of students, in the science
of which it treats, than any other work
extant. It cannot but be satisfactory to
the friends of science, that the worthy
author has prepared an edition of his excellent
work, with additions and improvements,
to be issued in a more permanent
form. Of his Treatise on the
Will I cannot speak with the same confidence,
not having read it; although I
have heard it well spoken of by competent
judges.