starched and powdered dignity. In the latter, came monsieur and madame compte et comptesse de V-. In a few hours after their arrival, madame de V- had the pleasure of clasping her daughter in her arms; and the count, reverently laying aside the identical cocked hat, in which we introduced him to you, reader, declared that monsieur Leslie had stolen the bud from him, but he had received in recompense, the beauty of the full blown rose.

Pardon me, gentle reader, I had nearly forgotten one part of my story. Lucile stood by to offer her congratulations, accompanied by her spouse. She had become mistress Antoine Ruet.

J. H. M.

THE SUBTILTY OF LOVE.

A very old song modernized.

You cannot bar Love out,
Father, mother, and you all!
For, mark me! he's a crafty boy
And his limbs are very small;
He's lighter than the thistle's down,
He's fleeter than the dove,
His voice is like the nightingale's;
And oh! beware of Love!

For Love can masquerade

When the wisest do not see;

He has gone to many a blessed saint
Like a virgin devotee;

He has stolen through the convent grate,
A painted butterfly,

And I've seen in many a mantle's fold
His twinkling roguish eye.

He'll come-do what you will;

The Pope can't keep him out;
And of late he's learned such evil ways,
You must hold his oath in doubt:
From the lawyers he has learned,
Like Judas, to betray;

From the monks, to live like martyr'd saints,
Yet cast their souls away.

He has been at court so long

That he wears the courtier's smile;
For every maid he has a lure,
For every man a wile.
Philosophers and alchemists,
Your idle toil give o'er ;
Young Love is wiser than you all,
And teaches ten times more.

Strong bars and bolts are vain

To keep the urchin in,

For while the goaler turned the key

He'd trap him in his gin.

You need not hope by mail of proof

To shun his cruel dart;

For he'd change himself to a shirt of mail
And lie next to your heart.

LECTURE VI.

Constructiveness.-This organ is situated at that part of the frontal bone which lies behind and above the superior and outer angle of the eye, immediately above the spheno-temporal suture, and before Acquisitiveness. In the brain it occupies the posterior part of the anterior lobe. Dr. Gall discovered this organ by noticing that in this region men distinguished for mechanical genius are very wide. Some time after becoming satisfied of the function of this organ, some gentlemen of Vienna presented to him a person concerning whose talents they solicited his opi. nion. He told them that he ought to have a great tendency toward mechanics. They then told Gall that he had been examining the famous painter, Unterbergen, and expressed dissa. tisfaction at the decision; but the painter acknowledged that Gall was quite correct--that he had always had a passion for mechanics, and painted only for a livelihood. He also took the party to his house, where he showed them many machines and instruments, some of which he had invented and others improved. Besides, Constructiveness is an element in the art of painting.

Dr. Barclay used to exhibit to his pupils the skulls of the lion and other carnivorous animals, and ridiculed the Phrenologists for explaining the narrowness of this region in those animals by their deficiency in Constructiveness. "The lion, gentlemen," he would say, "has very strong temporal muscles, for the purpose of empowering its jaws to masticate flesh and bones: now it is evident that the play of these muscles compresses the head in this region, and causes this remarkable narrowness." This seems plausible, but the Professor did not carry his observations far enough. Had he extended his inquiries, he would have found that the form of head alluded to occurs in the fœtus of carnivorous animals, and cannot, therefore, be the effect of the action of their jaws on hard substances. Further, the beaver eats through pretty strong logs of timber with its teeth, and its temporal muscles are strong, yet the head is broad in this region, and the animal is highly constructive. Again, in the human race some have narrow heads and weak constructive talents, though they live on slops; and others broad heads and gat mechanical skill, though they live on hard viands. This is the skull of a beaver: you may see the development of this region very distinctly, and on putting my finger within, I find a distinct hollow corresponding with the external protuberance.

I must here repeat the caution I gave when treating of the organ of Acquisitiveness. The temporal muscle differs in different persons. It is therefore necessary to estimate its thickness in the living head, by feeling at the muscle while the individual moves the lower jaw.

To construct, ineans to put detached materials together so as to make a single object. Thus, we construct a house or a ship. This faculty, however, goes farther than this; it seems to be a tendency to fashion in general, and this may be done by putting materials together, or by chipping off fragments, or by moulding, or by drawing lines and laying on colors. This faculty does not invent that is the act of the understanding: it merely fashions or configurates. Though when large it stimulates the understanding to invent what will employ it agreeably in constructing.

lower animals; others are peculiar to man. The former are styled the Inferior Sentiments: of them I shall treat first. I shall begin with

Self-Esteem.-This organ lies at the crown of the head just above the sagittal angle of the parietal bones. When large, the head runs upward and backward from the ear in this direction. It can be readily found by noticing that it lies on the middle line, and in the superior part of the back of the head, and never occupies any portion of the head which looks directly upward.

Constructiveness takes its direction from the other faculties. Combined with large Weight, it leads to machine-making; with Ideality and Form, to statuary; with these and Color, to painting. Compare these heads; in this, of Franklin, it is small; in this, of Canova, very large. The development is greater in the European than in the Malay or Negro, and he is well known to have more constructive talent than either. It is very small, as you see, in the New-Hollander, and of all mankind they are the least constructive. When visited by Capt. Cook, they were naked, built no houses, and had no implements of agriculture, fishing or hunting. They were destitute, in short, of every art But for this organ, man, placed as he is in a universe of which can add comfort or decency to life, depending for a sub-worlds, surrounded by objects vast and magnificent, would be sistence on spontaneous vegetation, and the fishes which are apt to have an overwhelming idea of his own insignificance, left by the tide among the rocks. Compare this skull with that and exclaim, despondingly, What is man, O Lord, that thou of an Italian; how enormous the difference in favor of the lat-art mindful of him? This organ was necessary to give him ter! This Italian skull, known to be at least two hundred years old, was supposed to be that of Raphael, and was preserved as such in St. Luke's academy at Rome; but as Raphael's skull has been recently discovered, objectors say that this mistake refutes Phrenology. All that they can make of the case, however, is, that it did not belong to Raphael, but to somebody else remarkable for Constructiveness, Ideality, Form, Comparison and Causality; and that Raphael's skull, remarkable also for these, is in conformity with his well known character. Compare this, the head of Napoleon, in whom Constructiveness was small, with this, the head of Brunel, the celebrated engineer of the Thames Tunnel, and the inventor of machinery for making blocks for the rigging of ships by means of steam. Here the organ is very large, and this is in other respects a very superior head. The organ is very large, too, in Haydon, the great historical painter of England. Contrast the development in his head to the cast of Hogg, the Ettrick Shepherd. Contrast it again in Wilkie and Wm. Piu. Here is the head of Sir Wm. Herschell, in whom it is very large, and the construction of a superior telescope was the principal foundation of his fame.

razor.

This organ is of great service to operative surgeons, to engravers, to cabinet makers, to tailors and dress-makers. We find some men who for want of it cannot mend a pen nor sharpen a This was the case with a friend of mine in Edinburgh. You perceive it small in the Rev. Mr. Martin, who was bred a watch-maker, but finding no interest in the employment, he gave it up and turned preacher. Lucian and Socrates renounced sculpture. On the other hand, we often find men whom circumstances have prevented from following their natural inclination, and whose occupations do not lead them to its exercise, occupying themselves with mechanics as a pastime and amusement. An eminent Scotch barrister told me that in the very act of composing a pleading on the most abstruse question of law, vivid conceptions of mechanical improvements would dart into his mind, and that he often had to leave his employment to embody them in a diagram in order to get rid of the intruders. Leopold I, Peter the Great, and Louis XVI constructed locks. The late Lord President Blair had this organ large, and he had a private workshop in which he constructed pieces of mechanism.

This organ is very differently developed in different nations. I before showed you the skull of a New-Hollander. This is the skull of an ancient Greek, in which it is very large; and this is the case with almost all I have seen. The organ is larger in the Italians and the French than in the Scotch and English, and they manifest greater constructive ingenuity.

Constructiveness is sometimes large when Intellect is deficient. Thus, some of the cretins of Switzerland are employed in making watches. Dr. Rush mentions two cases in which a talent for design had unfolded itself during a fit of insanity. And he adds, that there is no insane hospital in which examples are not found of constructive talent suddenly developing itself during their insane condition.

due importance in his own eyes, to impart that degree of satis faction with self which leaves the mind open to the enjoyment of the bounties of Providence and the amenities of life; it inspires us with that confidence in our own powers which is essential to every great achievement, and even to the proper appli cation of our faculties in the every-day business of life. Some have expressed their surprise that there should be an organ for esteeming one's self, seeing that humility is a virtue; but they forget that humility is the opposite of arrogance, not of proper self-esteem.

Gall discovered this organ by noticing the head of a beggar of extraordinary manners. This beggar was the son of a rich merchant from whom he had inherited a considerable fortune, but was so proud that he thought it beneath him to apply to busi ness, either for the preservation of his paternal fortune or the acquisition of a new one. Gall moulded his head, and on examining it with attention found the organ of Cautiousness small, with a small head in general, but this part much developed. He pursued his inquiries and finally established the organ.

The organ is very large in this cast, which was given to me at Boston. The head, you perceive, is very long upward and backward from the ear. I was told that the gentleman whose head it represents manifests the feeling to a most ridiculous extent. Love of Approbation lies on the sides of Self-Esteem. When large it gives remarkable fullness and breadth to the upper and back part of the head. I will present some heads to you in which these two organs are in various states of development. This is the Boston head, in which Self-Esteem is large and Love of Approbation small. This is the head of Mrs. Aldin, in which Self-Esteem is small and Love of Approbation large. This is the head of the Rev. Mr. Martin, in which both organs are large. Here are three others: this is the head of an Irish soldier who shot three men; in it Self-Esteem is very large and Love of Approbation very small. This is the head of Francois Gordonnier, the French poet, in which Self-Esteem is small and Love of Approbation very large. This is the head of Sheridan, in which both organs are large. This is the head of Pope Alexander VI, in which Self-Esteem is very large: contrast it with the development in this, the head of Melancthon, in which it is small; here you perceive, too, splendid moral and intellectual regions.

The proper development of Self-Esteem is an essential element in a great character; but when too large it produces arrogance, superciliousness and selfishness, and in children pettishness and wilfulness of temper. The man of inordinate SelfEsteem sees every thing through the medium of self. He is a world unto himself, to which all things must concentrate. He is a standard to which the manners, morals and opinions of others ought, he thinks, to conform. This feeling in predominance is to a great extent the fountain of that intolerant zeal so frequently manifested by professing christians on behalf of their sectarian views. "There is no grace," says Cowper, "that The natural language of Constructiveness is to turn the head the spirit of self can counterfeit with more success than a relisidewise, in the direction of the organ. Dr. Spurzheim re- gious zeal. A man thinks he is fighting for his own notions. marked that women in whom it is large, when entering a milli- He thinks he is skilfully searching the hearts of others, when ner's shop turn their heads on one side toward the article they he is only gratifying the malignity of his own, and charitably are examining. I have observed that children with it large, in supposes his hearers destitute of all grace, that he may shine the learning to write, move their heads with their pens, and delight more in his own eyes by comparison. When he has performed in flourishes; while those with it small will hold their heads this notable task, he wonders that they are not converted: he still and upright, and write stiff, plain hands. This is a hint to has given it to them soundly, and if they do not tremble, and writing-masters to let the heads of their pupils alone, for their in-confess that God is in him of a truth, he gives them up as reprostinctive movement or position will best aid the mind and the hand. bate, incorrigible, and lost forever." This is a fine description Sentiments. We now come to that genus of the faculties of a minister who depresses his hearers that he may himself be called Sentiments. Some of these are common to man and the exalted.

There is at this time a great war going on in my own country between two religious parties, one of which has certain endow ments which the other thinks it ought not to have. A minister of the established church, making a speech at one of their meetings, maintained that the true religion should be endowed; "But," said he, "it is asked, which is the true religion? I an. swer, ours is the true religion." This assertion, which was merely an amusing manifestation of Self-Esteem, was received with loud applause.

with a passion for uniques. It has been said that but three far things were coined during Queen Ann's reign. This combina tion would prompt its possessor to give one hundred pounds for one of these farthings, and one thousand if the other two were destroyed.

Self-Esteem is the foundation of that love of distinction and of titles which is so common in my own country, and from which this country is by no means free.

When diseased, the organ leads the patients to consider them selves great personages, as kings, queens, generals, great poets, or even as God himself. It is larger in men than women ; and the former are more liable than the latter to insanity from pride. Its natural language is a strut in the gait, a lofty carriage of the head, and a repulsive manner and tone of voice. Whea excited, it draws the head back. You see the natural language expressed in the most striking manner in this caricature of Lots XVIII. It was printed at the time that there was a contenzion between this king and the people about a charter. The French, very reasonably in my opinion, thought that France belonged ta them, and that they had a right to form their own charter. Leus

The person in whom this organ is too small, lacks proper self-confidence. He is often unable to pursue even a virtuous course, through diffidence of his own judgment. Inferior talents, combined with a strong endowment of Self-Esteem, are often crowned with far higher success than more splendid abilities joined with this sentiment feebly developed. Dr. Adam Sinith remarks that it is better to have too much than too little of this feeling; because, if we pretend to more than we are entitled to, the world will give us credit for at least what we possess; whereas, if we pretend to less, we shall be taken at our word, and mankind will rarely have the justice to raise us to our true merit. Self-Esteem is an essential element in censoriousness. Per-thought that France belonged to him, and he out of the ple sons in whom it is large are often found discussing the characters of his condescension would bestow a charter upon them. They of others, and degrading them. It is the fancied superiority of revenged themselves by drawing him in this attitude with abou self which produces the enjoyment of detraction. They take as much contempt in his face and manner as if he were giving their neighbors down a peg that themselves may appear a peg to a dog a bone. I mentioned, that before the Rev. Edward Irhigher. Enry is the result of Self-Esteem and Destructiveness. ving became distinguished, in fact while he was yet a stude The one is offended at the superior happiness, excellence, I examined his head and found very large Self-Esteem and wealth or station of others, and Destructiveness hates them for Wonder. This represents him in the pulpit: you see he is it. It is this organ which renders true the saying, that we al-drawn back in the attitude of self-importance. It is easy to perways find something to console us for the misfortunes of our neighbors.' This organ is extremely active in society. In my own country the learned professions look down upon and despise the merchants as a plodding set, and the merchants look down upon the doctors and despise them for their poverty. The whole sale dealers look down upon the retail dealers, and these look down upon the handicrafts-and the men of title look down upon and despise all. These are strange fantastic tricks, from the spirit of which this country is by no means free.

ceive that he is winding up a period in which he tells his bearers that he has done his duty, and that if they will go to percition, their blood will be on their own head. Here is the full-length portrait of a lady: her erect and composed attitude indicat the presence of this organ. At the close of a battle between twe cocks, you see the abasement and exaltation of this organ. The one slinks away with his head down, and the other stretches p his head and proudly struts while issuing a victorious crow. Self-abasement bows the head into a direction contrary to that Predominent Self-Esteem is a foe to advancement, rendering of Self-Esteem, as in this beautiful representation of our Semen quite satisfied with themselves, and with whatever belongs viour, who is supposed to be saying: 'Thy will be done.' to them. An eminent phrenologist sailed as a passenger from Love of Approbation.--I have pointed out the direction of this the Clyde to a foreign port. In the captain of the vessel Self-organ, and presented to you a number of specimens. Dr. Gail Esteem was very large, and Reflection and Conscientiousness met with a woman in a lunatic asylum who fancied herself the deficient. He said that when he first saw this vessel he esti- Queen of France. He expected to find the region of Self-Es mated her very lightly, but that after commanding her a while teem largely developed, but instead there was a distinct hollow he thought her the best ship belonging to the Clyde. This was and a large round protuberance on each side. This at first evidently because she had become his vessel. Madame de Staël caused him much embarrassment. But he soon perceived that describes the effect of inordinate Self-Esteem on even a powerful this woman's insanity differed much from that of men alienated mind. He spent his time,' she remarks, in admiring the as-through pride. The latter affected a masculine majesty, and tonishing magnificence of his own abilities and attainments.' This organ and Benevolence large, give a solemn, good-natured, patronizing air. Men possessing this combination are apt to address others with the epithets, My good sir,'' My good fellow,' and the like.

were grave, calm, imperious, elevated, arrogant. This wom on the contrary, manifested a restless frivolity, an inexhaustible talkativeness, affected forwardness, eagerness to announce high birth and boundless riches, promises of favor and honor. She solicited attention, and strove by every means to obtain admiration. From that time he perceived the difference between SelfEsteem and Love of Approbation.

Self-Esteem is large in the North American Indians, who are remarkable for pride and personal dignity. It is large in the English and Americans, and is the foundation of that love of Love of Approbation is the drill-sergeant of society, and adliberty which characterizes this arrogant and turbulent race. It monishes us when we depart too widely from the line of march is large in the Hindoos, who think themselves the wisest people of our fellows. It is the butt, too, on which wit strikes, and in the world, but have no other quality that inspires love of which enables ridicule to shame us out of faults and improprie liberty. It produces that egotism, that proneness to use the em-ties. When excessive, it craves for compliments, and is the phatic I-'I did this; I said that '-which characterizes the discourse of some people. During the wars of the French revolulution, when the British nation were struggling for existence against all Europe, excluded from the continent, and mostly confined to their island, their patriotism was invoked in all modes, and their Self-Esteem continually stimulated. They thus learned to consider themselves the only civilized people in the world, and were greatly astonished on visiting the continent after the peace, to find any great, good and amiable quality as abundant elsewhere as at home.

enemy to independence. It is led by fashion, and ever acts
before adopting a course of conduct, what will the world thi
of it? A person in whom it is excessive, gives openly, that he
may receive praise. He feels rebuffs keenly, and a thousas.
things occasion excessive pain which pass over one in whe
Self-Esteem is large without exciting attention. In the French,
Love of Approbation is predominant, and they think the Eagish
cold, haughty and arrogant.
In the English, Self-Esteem a
predominant, and they think the French low-spirited, fang

and trifling.

Self-Esteem often restrains men from forming improper con- Love of Approbation combined with Benevolence, produces nections; it inspires with the dislike of every thing mean and politeness and desire to please; with Self-Esteem, love of fae contemptible in behavior. Combined with Acquisitiveness and with Alimentiveness, it leads men to boast of feats in eating a small Benevolence, it produces a disposition to acquire and keep drinking, producing the four-bottle men, whom Lord Chester property, and make misers; with Acquisitiveness, Love of Ap-field in charity calls liars, because, if he believed them, he should probation, Ideality and Form, it leads people to collect and ex-call them beasts. Combined with Ideality without larze Inte hibit statues; with these and Color, to collections of paintings; lect, it produces love of dress and ornament, and ambiti with Acquisitiveness, Love of Approbation, and Eventuality, lead the fashions; with Ideality and Constructiveness, leve

works of art. Combined with Language, it produces a fondness A young lady, a relative of my own, went to a boardingfor composition, for love of fame as an author; with Acquisitive-school, the governess of which was very particular about the ness, it produces admiration of wealth; with Combativeness, manners of her pupils; and among other things, she taught and an otherwise low organization, it forms the bully, who loves the young ladies that they were to lean their heads over the left to be considered the best fighter in his neighborhood. The or- shoulder. In my young relative, Self-Esteem and Firmness gan is very large in the American Indians; and the love of deco- were rather large, and consequently it was natural for her to rations and ornaments, whether these consist of stars, garters hold her head erect. She did her best, however, to follow diand medals, or of tattooed faces, bored noses and eagles' feath-rections; but after sitting for some time with her head on one ers, springs from it. We find some men who are apt to captivate us very quickly by their attentive and respectful manner, but we often find in a while that all is not gold that glitters. We learn that all their attentions are bestowed for the purpose of obtaining approbation and praise for themselves.

side, she took a kink in her neck, and had to resume her natural position. She would then get a scolding, would again try to hold her head in the required position, but the kink would again come; and finally the governess gave up the attempt, remarking that she got on very well in every thing else, but that she Dr. Gall draws with great accuracy the distinction between was excessively awkward and incorrigibly vulgar. I subsePride, which is an abuse of Self-Esteem, and Vanity, which is quently saw this lady, and remarked that in her head Love of an abuse of the organ of which we are now treating. "The Approbation was enormous, and that she naturally threw her proud man," says he, "is imbued with a sentiment of his own head in this position; and because it was natural to her, she superior merit, and from the summit of his grandeur, treats with conceived it to be the beau ideal of graceful position. contempt or indifference all other mortals; the vain man at- Cautiousness.-This organ is situated near the middle of the taches the utmost importance to the opinions entertained of him parietal bone, where ossification generally commences, beneath by others, and seeks with eagerness to gain their approbation. what are called the parietal protuberances. Compare these The proud man expects the world will come to him and ac-skulls: This was picked up on the plain of Waterloo ; you see knowledge his merit; the vain man knocks at every door to that it seems truncated. This is a common Scotch female skull, draw attention toward him, and supplicates for the smallest por-in which it is very large. In this, the skull of a Cingalese boy, tion of honor. The proud man despises those marks of distinc. the size is immense. tion which on the vain confer the most perfect delight. The proud man is disgusted by indiscreet eulogiums; the vain man inhales with ecstasy the incense of flattery, although profusely offered, and with no very skilful hand."

The diversified forms in which its activity appears are well
exposed in the following lines of Young's 'Love of Fame:'
'The love of praise, howe'er concealed by art,
Reigns more or less in every human heart:
The proud, to gain it, toil on toil endure;
The modest shun it but to make it sure.
O'er globes and sceptres, now on thrones it swells-
Now trims the midnight lamp in college-cells;
'Tis Tory, Whig; it plots, prays, preaches, pleads;
Harangues in senates, squeaks in masquerades;
It aids the dancer's heel, the writer's head-
And heaps the plain with mountains of the dead-
Nor ends with life, but nods in sable plumes,
Adorns our hearse, and flutters on our tombs.'

This organ is the fountain of fear, or the instinct of self-preservation. Gall was struck by the extreme irresolution of a clergyman of Vienna, who could never decide upon any thing. A few days afterward, at an examination of a public school, this clergyman sat beside a Counsellor of State, of the same irresolute character, and so proverbial for his indecision as to have received the nick-name of Cacadubio. Dr. Gall sat imme. diately behind them, and observed the great projection of their heads in this region. Conceiving that Indecision and Circumspection might be connected with this particular part of the brain, he pursued his investigations, and soon verified his conjecture.

Fear appears to me to be the primitive feeling of this organ. Fear cannot be the absence of courage, as it is a positive emotion, which the negation of a quality cannot produce. The tendency of this sentiment is to make the individual apprehend danger, to make him keep a constant look-out, to hesitate before he acts, and to look to consequences, that he may be as sured of safety. A full development is essential to a prudent

When the organ is too large, it produces a wavering, doubting, undecided disposition, and may occasion an absolute incapacity for vigorous and decided conduct. A great and involuntary activity of it constitutes panic, in which the mind is hurried away by an irresistible emotion of fear. I have noticed that it is almost invariably large in children, and we must all admire this providential arrangement. It is a guardian better than fifty

This passage is imbued with the very soul and spirit of the faculty.character. This faculty is too much cultivated in education, by being almost universally appealed to as the chief stimulus to exertion and good behavior. It is only where improper subjects are taught, or proper ones are taught improperly, that such an appeal is required. In excessive activity it prompts to the equivocation, not at home,' when the person is otherwise engaged. It, as well as Self Esteem, prompts to the use of the first person: but its tone is that of courteous solicitation, while that of Self-nurses, and the place of which no external care can supply. A Esteem is arrogant and presumptuous.

When this organ is deficient, the individual cares little for the opinion of others; and if the selfish propensities predominate, the combination produces what are called 'impracticable' men, whose whole feelings are concentrated on self. Rebuffs and indignities never affect them. Free from restraints of delicacy, they practise upon the benevolence, the friendship, the interest of others, and often achieve their ends in spite of obstacles which to a sensitive mind would have been insurmountable.

boy of six years of age, in whom it was very small, took off his clothes, and was about to jump into an old quarry full of water after his cap, which had been blown into it, when he was stopped by a passer-by. His mother was continually in alarm about him; danger he seemed incapable of comprehending. The boy subsequently died; and the mother, after the first emotions of grief were over, expressed her thankfulness that he had passed away.

When this organ is small, and Hope large, the future seems We have in our country an interesting class, called dandies, full of joy and gladness; there is a confident looking forward which I perceive you are not without. In these, Love of Ap- for brilliant success, with, too often, a neglect of the means of probation is, in general, predominant; and I have almost always success. A person so organized seems to think that all desirafound them, at bottom, to be polite, obliging, and good-natured. ble things will come unsought. He is subject, however, to keen This faculty is, however, more active in women than in men, visitations of disappointment; Hope does not fulfil her promises, and a greater number of them become insane from this feeling. and a pang follows. Elasticity is, however, soon regained, The natural language of this feeling is to carry the head back-another alluring object presents itself, which, in its turn, eludes ward, and a little to the side; it imparts to the voice a soft, soli-the grasp. citing tone, clothes the countenance in smiles, and produces in When Cautiousness is large and Hope small, the present the lips that elegant line of beauty which resembles Apollo's cannot be enjoyed, on account of fearful forebodings. The bow. You see the natural language well manifested in this future seems dark and cheerless, and evils are suffered by antidrawing. A lady, after I had delivered this lecture on one occa-cipation which are never realized in fact. sion, told me that she was surprised at my considering women more vain than men, when the latter might be seen with long, curled hair, their heads turned to one side, and a little cocked upward, walking about in the most affected manner. I mention this, that both sides may be heard.

It may be diseased; in fact, in the old country it is more often diseased than any other organ. When it is so, it gives most fearful apprehensions. A lady, in whom it was morbidly affected, rose thirteen times in one night to see if her children were alive. In this case, Philoprogenitiveness also was large. When the

organ is in this diseased condition, people often try to laugh the patient out of the notion. They might as well try to laugh them out of the tooth-ache. The rational way is to subject him to a course of moral and physical treatment adapted to the peculiarities of his case.

NATIONAL MELODIES OF AMERICA;

In Dr. Dodd, who was executed for forgery, this organ, as you perceive, is very small. Compare it with this of the Rev. Mr. Martin, or this of king Robert Bruce. Dr. Dodd committed forgery on the Earl of Chesterfield. He was brought up for examination privately, and his case excited very painful sensations. All the persons got up and went out of the room, inity, and in advancing their country in the scale of nawhich there was a fire, leaving Dr. Dodd with the papers by which alone he could be convicted, hoping that he would destroy them; but on their return they found, with horror and surprise,

that he had not done so.

In many animals, this region is found in a state of high activity, and is always larger in the female than in the male. This was noticed by Gall, and is corroborated by Captain Franklin and others. This organ is large in the Hindoos, who, with Combativeness small, are remarkably timid; and in the North American Indians, who, with large Destructiveness and small Combativeness, make war by stratagem. It was small in the skull of the soldier in New Holland who killed and ate seven men. When combined with large Vitativeness, it produces ha

bitual fear of death. Combined with large Acquisitiveness and Self-Esteem, it produces general caution and slowness in business; the individual saves, and is content with small and secure

profits. If Cautiousness be small and Acquisitiveness large,
the consequence is rash speculation. When large in children,
it is, as I before remarked, better than fifty keepers. A lady
was very apprehensive for her little son, who had a disposition
to climb and perform other feats of activity. Perceiving his
Love of Approbation and Cautiousness large, I told her that the
boy performed his feats to gratify the first, and would not under-
take them unless observed. Therefore her remedy was to let him

alone, for his Cautiousness would guard him from danger.
This organ is larger in the English than the Turkish head.
Mr. Forster, who was travelling in disguise through Turkey,
was detected by a Georgian merchant, by the superior develop
ment of this part in Mr. Forster's head to that of the Turkish,

Dr. Brown speaks of Melancholy as a primitive emotion. This
is an abuse of the faculty.

Suicides have generally this organ and Destructiveness large, and Hope small. Cautiousness, when stimulated to excess,

gives rise to intense melancholy, anguish and anxiety; and by

thus rendering life extremely miserable, it indirectly prompts to this result. Let no one suppose suicide to result from mere

The poetry by George P. Morris, Esq., adapted and arranged by Chas. E. Horn. Part I. New York, Davis & Horn: 1839. Men whose energies have been successfully directed to the development of our mental or physical re sources, to bring into action the elements of prosper tions,-seldom fail to receive their reward. Fame and emolument are the certain fruit of exertions, the results of which are seen in national greatness and individual wealth. But labors, the tendency of which is to ele vate and refine, to add to our domestic enjoyments and cheer our solitude, are often treated with contempt while they awaken our sympathies, and held up as frivolous while they excite our admiration. The accumulation of wealth and its attendant honors, hold out the greatest incentive to the exertion of our powers. The quiet and unobtrusive student glides unnoticed through the crowd, and the satisfaction which arises from his suc cess is too often the only reward for years of great ex ertion and weary solicitude. The influence which he exercises is unseen in its operation and silent and slow in its progress. He rears no imposing monument to perpetuate his fame, his only road to distinction lies through the intricate mazes of popular favor, and he often passes through life unrewarded and neglected, leaving to his heirs the fruits of his labors, and to pos terity the vindication of his name.

When we consider how little we know of the origin of many of the sublimest productions which the genus of the past has bequeathed us, and of those gifted minds whose inspiration has opened for us a path into the regions of fancy, it is natural to inquire how far sources of pure and elevated enjoyment, and to award we are indebted to contemporary writers for these

to them the full measure of our admiration and homage. error of judgment. It proceeds from internal and involuntary Many productions, the result of humorous whim or feelings of a diseased nature, the misery and torment of which, fitful inspiration, have served their purpose when they he who has never felt them cannot accurately conceive. I once have been read, laughed at or admired, and then are knew a case from this combination: large Self-Esteem, Com-numbered with "the things that were." But the works

bativeness, Destructiveness, and Firmness. The suicide was a

boy of thirteen years of age, whose brother, after trying various other modes of reclaiming him from vicious conduct, had severely beaten him. The boy, seeing no other mode of revenge, hanged himself; and so firm was his resolve, that he kept his legs drawn up to the body, lest they might touch the floor.

This faculty gives a tendency to open the eyes wide, to roll the eye-balls sideways, and to turn the head from side to side. From this arises the term Circumspection. A hare surprised in the field, setting on its hind legs, its eyes open, and its head moving to and fro, is a fine emblem of this expression. The

language of Destructiveness, Secretiveness and Cautiousness, is
well expressed by Sir Walter Scott, in his Lord of the Isles:"
"For evil seemed that old man's eye-
Dark and designing, fierce, yet shy;

Sull, he avoided forward look,

But slow and circumspectly took

A circling, never-ceasing glance,

By doubt and cunning marked at once,
Which shot a mischief boding ray

From under eye-brows shagged and gray."

HINTS.

Study ease of accent, attitude, gesture; and it will at length become what is called second nature.

of true genius bear within themselves the elements of perpetuity, they become incorporated with the national mind, and give a tone to its exercise, whether for utility

or amusement.

It is such works as address themselves to our finer feelings, like the songs before us, that possess this dis tinguished preeminence. They are touching and på thetic, and strike the chord of our dearest sympathies. Possessed of no exotic grandeur or dazzling brilliancy, they are simple flowers scattered by the waysides of life, whose modest and unassuming beauty charm and variegate the paths of our existence. On that account they are, as they ought to be, treasured and admired. Some of them are already familiar to the lovers of sweet poetry; the airs to which they are adapted, are purely national. It is as a national work that they appear be fore us, and in that light they demand an extended no

tice.

In his preface to these melodies, Mr. Horn has so happily illustrated their origin and progress, that we Politeness is the shadow of kindness, but the shadow is worth cannot do better than lay it before our readers. He

nothing without the substance.

C.

says: