EFFECTS OF VALEBIAN ON TIQEES. 



IN Mr. Buckland's interesting article on lion- 

 taming in No. 29 of LAND AND WATER, he 

 mentions the peculiar sympathy, or mesmeric 

 power, that appears to exist between certain human 

 beings and animals. This power seems to be 

 acquired in a great degree by an intimate knowledge 

 of the habits and nature of the animal to be tamed, 

 of its various moods and variations of temper, and 

 the proper time to take advantage of each. Any 

 one in this manner, if sufficiently patient and kind 

 with animals, can render many of them tame 

 and affectionate towards him ; but in some few 

 cases there exists a more intimate relationship 

 which gives the human being a complete power of 

 moral control over the beast, and seems to affect the 

 most ferocious specimens of the same class in an 

 equal degree with those whose dispositions are 

 milder, and more amenable to human influence. 

 In like manner a few vegetable and mineral sub- 

 stances appear to exercise the same mysterious 

 power over the feelings of the brute creation, and to 



