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accuracy are disregarded in this of observation. In a letter on Anti- 

 pathies, Sir G. Mackenzie proposes a subject which, as the editor says, " is 

 abundantly worthy of minute attention, but will require exact observations, 

 and a very careful analysis of the cases observed, before useful results can be 

 expected." Mr. Simpson visited Mr. Heldenmair's school at Worksop, and 

 he describes its economy with approbation. From his facts to show the con- 

 nexion of disease with war, Dr. Barlow derives the conclusion — that war not 

 only gives rise to disease ; but, wherever a tendency to disease exists, war 

 increases its force and augments its fatality. Four miscellaneous articles 

 are occupied with the discussion of matters relating to the new science of 

 mind : six papers containing cases and facts ; notes on opinions ; short com- 

 munications ; and intelligence, bring us to the end of the number, which is dis- 

 tinguished by extensive and varied erudition, and especially by a fine tone 

 of moral feeling. 



LVI. comprises nine " Miscellaneous Papers," beginning with an exposi- 

 tion of Dr. Elliotson's characters of the original phrenological discoverers : 

 this is distinguished by exemplary candour and its irresistible effects : the 

 doctor is a gallic idolater and combats with the recklessness of a cyclopic gla- 

 diator, in exaltation of the image he would compel the world to worship. 

 Observations on the new system of colonization, with reference to South 

 Australia and New Zealand in illustration, have for their chief purpose to 

 show, that political economists ought constantly to keep in view the influence 

 of different mental characteristics in producing results from fixed extrinsic 

 circumstances, and that the planters of colonies should pay due attention to 

 this important element in their calculations of the means for ensuring suc- 

 cess. The recent attacks on the new science of mind are considered with 

 great good humour, and they are proved to be a mere array of false or falla- 

 cious or foolish imaginings by the strength of the strongest demonstration. 

 In this article, a liberal magazine is convicted of " a spirit too sordid and 

 grovelling for the appreciation of the higher moral bearings of phrenology." 

 Mr. Simpson's letter on sound and tune, is not inharmonious : his reasonings 

 on force and resistance, are weighty and sensible. The sixth and seventh 

 papers happily expose two " deliberate attempts to impede the progress of 

 knowledge and truth," on the part of those comfortable little philosophers 

 who jocosely designate themselves " the great in science." Mr. Hy tch offers 

 some ingenious suggestions on the unascertained Organ above that of 

 Ideality," and he seems to regard it as the instrument of a Faculty which 

 enables us to experience a " love of the past :" it is followed by a succinct 

 account of the causes which occasioned the resignation of Sir W. C. Ellis as 

 superintendent of the Middlesex county lunatic asylum. Among the seven 

 " Causes and Facts," the first is one of congenital idiocy, and the subject of 

 it, a boy, is represented as " a living fact supporting the truth of the great 

 physiological principle — that the brain of a human head measuring only 

 fourteen inches in horizontal circumference is inadequate to perform its 

 function of manifesting mind sufficient for the necessary business of society, 

 or even for the individual's own preservation." The rest are entituled, a 

 curious affection of language ; an instance of temporary derangement induced 

 by a sudden shock to excited benevolence ; a sudden affection of the philo- 

 progenitive feeling ; a notice on the cerebral development of a professor 

 lately deceased ; an apparently singular phenomenon in apoplexy ; and a 



