■226 Notices respecting New Books. 



leautifulHopaWs. M. Akerblad reads HO TIAIS KAAOS {o iroclg 

 xaXoi) ike beautiful child. 



After giving just praise to the two collections of painted Greek 

 Tases by Mr. Millingcn, I must speak of those published in France 

 by M. Dubois deMaisonneuve. The first appeared in two volumes 

 folio, with explanations by the late M. Millin under the title of 

 Piiintures de Vases. The public will doubtless receive with equal 

 satisfaction the new collection publishing by the same gentle- 

 man, under the title of " Introduction a I'Etude des Vases An- 

 tiques d'Argiie Peints," &c. and of which three numbers have' 

 been published out of the eight which the work is to contain. 



An Inqitiry into Doctor Gall's System concerning Innate Dis- 

 positions, the Phi/siology of the Brain, and Materialism, Fata- 

 lism and Moral Liberty, including some generalReJlections on 

 Prison Discipline, the Prevention of Crimes, and the Reforma- 

 tion of Malefactors, ^c. By J. P. Tupper, M. D. Fellow 

 of the Royal College of Surgeons, F.L.S., Member of the Me- 

 dical Society of Paris, and of the Society of Arts and Sciences 

 of Bordeaux, and Surgeon Extraordinary to H. R. H. the Prince 

 Regent*. Svo. pp. 150. 



Dr. Tupper is of opinion that the doctrines of Dr. Gall and 

 his co-professor Spurzheimf are wholly fallacious — that in their 

 particular as well as their general application, they confound 

 good and evil ; and render it next to impossible to discriminate 

 between virtue and vice, to distinguish innocence from guilt. 

 The question is not one of that nature in the discussion of which 

 we are disposed to participate. We feel somewhat under the 

 same impression as Dr. T., when he remarks that the cranio- 

 logical system in dispute "relates to things which appear far 

 beyond the reach of all human understanding." p. 187. We 

 owe it, however, to the author, to state that we have read his 

 work with much pleasure ; that we recognise fully the laudable 

 motive which has induced him to venture into the field of philo- 

 sophical polemics; and that, if he has not always succeeded ia 

 convincing us of the soundness of his views, he has at least left 

 lis most favourably impressed with his acuteness and candour as 

 a controversialist. — The following are the subjects treated of in 

 the course of the work : — Objections to the first principles of 

 Dr. Gall's system. — Of innate dispositions. — Of the difference of 



*Also author of An Essay on the Probability of Sensation in Vegetables, 

 of which a second edition has been published, containing Additional Ob- 

 servations on Instinct, Sensation, Irritability, &c. 



t We mention the name of Spurzbcira, as he is the joint professor of the 

 same i>hilosophy, although we believe that there are a few points upon which 

 they differ. 



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