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and serving a convenient purpose for reviews and examinations, we 
regard as a highly useful appendage to an elementary work. No 
better way can be devised for storing in the memory the contents‘of 
a book, than to connect with each head of such an analysis, a train 
of ideas, which, after a few reviews, will, on the ——— — 
ciation, all recur to the mind, almost at a glance. x ae? 
» We commend Professor Olmsted’s book to the oxtainiodelalidl 
teachers of Natural Philosophy, esteeming those the best judges of 
the merits of any class book, who have had an Bamana: -_ wit- 
— on | the mind of the learner. fame 
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Revie: sciiddeing n Notice of Dr. Gaspar SpurzHem; “ome 
oj a aha aed the oration of Professor Charles Poller, Boat 
3 _ at his fu funeral. 
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~ Tr was die will of God, that the course of this eminent and ex- 
cellent man should be finished in this country, only four months from 
the time when he arrived at New York. He had been long” 
to fame, and was the subject of intense curiosity and interest, on the 
= both of those who favored, and of those who did not : 
ar views. With only one exception, no stranger ever proce 
United States, who, (30 far as the short career of Dr. Sp among 
us will justify the parallel,) possessed the power at onee 80 fully 10 
excite and absorb and gratify the public mind, and at the same — 
surpass the public expectation. In every place where he stopf 
‘inspired respect and kindness; and, fortunately for his’ Tames a 
for the feelings of his European friends, the only great in 
effort which he made in America, was put forth ina co 
which, a high state of mental culture and of benevolent feeling ae 
him every possible advantage. Boston, including Cat ‘is both 
a focal and radiant point of intellectual light; and, no where : 
pono could Dr. Spurzheim have-made bis’entrancé with 8" more 
cordial welcome ; his displays, with amore undivided admiration 5 OF 
his exit, with a more sincere and poignant regret. His visits to other” 
arate «5 to be anxiously expected. At Hartford, a ee 
dience, pledged to attend his lectures, was impatiently waiting bis. 
artival ; and the hand, that now attempts a feeble tribute to his mem-— 
ory, was already engaged in the grateful duty, of ag ee jr 
give his courses of instruction in the sister city of Conneetic 
