356 OUTLINES OF PERIODICAL LITERATURE. 
nal region rose to an unusual height ; that, at the organ of veneration it was 
the highest head Mr. C. ever beheld; and that, at the organs of benevo- 
lence, imitation, and wonder, it had few equals; every admirer of Scott’s 
writings, and every lover of’ nature and truth, will peruse this extraordinary 
document with intense attention, surprise and instruction. From this you 
pass on to “phrenological exercises,” which are admirably adapted to fulfil 
their author’s intention; then you reach Dr. Verity’s notes on the develop- 
ment indicated by the antique busts in the collections of Naples, Rome and 
Florence : the doctor’s subjects are Socrates, Seneca, Zeno, Aristides, Archi- 
medes, Tiberius, Vespasian, Titus and Vespasian; and then you arrive suc- 
cessively at three short papers having the titles—singular hallucination of a 
popular clergyman, who imagined that Almighty God, by a singular instance 
of divine power, had gradually annihilated in him the thinking principle and 
utterly divested him of consciousness ; case of pain in the organ of philopro- 
genitiveness in the head of a lady who witnessed an accident happen to her 
child; and an anomalous case of nervous affection, apparently induced by 
sudden excitement in the organ of cautiousness. In an article most remark- 
ably interesting, whether phrenologically or forensically considered, Mr. 
Simpson proves the identity of Eugene Aram’s skull, and he declares on the 
clearest evidence that it contained the brain of a selfish, violent and danger- 
ous person, who was, at the same time, cunning, cautious, and dishonest, 
without moral control, with a limited intellect, but having some taste and 
even a touch of poetical feeling: he, therefore, concludes that it bears out 
the perfect indications of all that is known of that extraordinary individual’s 
character. Beyond the notices of books, which are four in number, the two 
first of which are valuable and instructive, you find intelligence concerning 
the Glasgow, Aberdeen, Blackburn and Dundee phrenological societies, the 
phrenological class at the London and the Westminster mechanics’ institu- 
tions, Mr. Combe’s proceedings in America, and a variety of miscellaneous 
information. In the introduction to his “ Library Table,” as the third “ no- 
tice of books” is designated, the Editor vainly propounds “ three points,” alike 
ill-timed and untenable; but besides this exception, his fifty-eighth publica- 
tion contains many essential contributions to the progress of mental philoso- 
phy. 
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