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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 principle of asso- 

 ciation, all recur to the mind, almost at a glance. 



We commend Professor Olmsted's book to the examination of 

 teachers of Natural Philosophy, esteeming those the best judges of 

 the merits of any class book, who have had an opportunity of wit- 

 nessing its effects on the mind of the learner. 



Art. XX. — Obituary JVotice of Dr. Gaspar Spurzheim ; compi- 

 led chiefly f-om the oration of Professor Charles Follen, delivered 

 at his funeral. 



It was the 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 known 

 to fame, and was the subject of intense curiosity and interest, on the 

 part, both of those who favored, and of those who did not favor his 

 peculiar views. With only one exception, no stranger ever visited the 

 United States, who, (so far as the short career of Dr. Spurzheim among 

 us will justify the parallel,) possessed the power at once so fully to 

 excite and absorb and gratify the public mind, and at the same time to 

 surpass the public expectation. In every place where he stopped, 

 he inspired respect and kindness ; and, fortunately for his fame, and 

 for the feelings of his European friends, the only great intellectual 

 effort which he made in America, was put forth in a community, in 

 which, a high state of mental culture and of benevolent feeling gave 

 bim every possible advantage. Boston, including Cambridge, is both 

 a focal and radiant point of intellectual light; and, no where in this 

 country, could Dr. Spurzheim have made his entrance with a more 

 cordial welcome ; his displays, with a more undivided admiration ; or 

 his exit, with a more sincere and poignant regret. His visits to other 

 places began to be anxiously expected. At Hartford, a large au- 

 dience, pledged to attend his lectures, was impatiently waiting his 

 arrival ; and the hand, that now attempts a feeble tribute to his mem- 

 ory, was already engaged in the grateful duty, of inviting him to 

 give his courses of instruction in the sister city of Connecticut, 



