Henry Lonpievhle Mansel, an English author, born at Cos^rove, Northamptonshire, Oct. 6, 1820, died there, July 30, 1871. He was educated at Oxford, became a fellow of St. John's college in 1842, was ordained priest in 1845, became Waynflete professor of moral and metaphysical philosophy in 1859, and was appointed dean of St. Paul's, London, in 1868. His first publication was a small volume entitled "Demons of the Wind, and other Poems" (1838). In 1851 he produced his Prolegomena Logica, a philosophical introduction to logic, and prepared an edition of Aldrich's Artis Logicce Rudimenta (5th ed., I860). In 1856 he delivered at Oxford a "Lecture on the Philosophy of Kant." which was printed, and designed by its brevity to attract readers who would be deterred by a more elaborate exposition. His most important work is the Bampton lectures delivered before' the university of Oxford in 185*, and published under the title of "The Limit-; of Religious Thought" (5th ed., 1868). Mr. Mansel was one of the editors of the aca-demieal lectures of Sir William Hamilton (1859 - 61), and the author of the article on "Metaphysics " in the 8th edition of the " En-cy lopa-dia Britannica," which was reproduced separately in I860 under the title "Metaphysics, or the Philosophy of Consciousness" (2d ed., 1866). He also published "The Limits of Demonstrative Science Considered," an inaugural ecture entitled - Psychology the Test of Moral and Metaphysical Philosophy," and "Philosophy of the Conditioned" (1866) A series of his lectures on "The Gnostic Heresies of the First and Second Centuries " with a biographical sketch, was published in 1874.