culties of man, recognized in the system of Phrenology, which are sometimes to be met with in our best authors, who wrote before Phrenology was heard of. This is just what is to be looked for, if Phrenology is a true system of mind; and the correctness of many such delineations is just an additional proof, if any was wanted, that it is so. The poets drew, as we do, from nature and observation; and wherever their delineations are correct, they are found to harmonize with the phrenological system. We mean to give, from time to time, specimens of them, without regard to method or arrangement, as one of the best means of accustoming our readers to think phrenologically, and to translate descriptions of character from ordinary into phrenological language. We may afterwards propose some of them by way of phrenological exercises; but at present we shall point out, in a few instances, what the faculty or faculties are, the manifestations or combinations of which have been, as we think, successfully described. The simple feeling of Benevolence, as manifested in regard to the inferior animals, is well described by a poet in whom that feeling was highly predominant : The heart is hard in nature, and unfit Nor feels their happiness augment his own. The bounding fawn that darts across the glade When none pursues, through mere delight of heart, And spirits buoyant with excess of glee; The horse as wanton, and almost as fleet, That skims the spacious meadow at full speed, Then stops, and snorts, and throwing high his heels, The very kine that gambol at high noon, Though wild their strange vagaries, and uncouth 2т With which kind Nature graces ev'ry scene, The comfort of a reasonable joy.-CowPER. The "Love of Approbation," when accompanied with slender intellect, and weak Conscientiousness and Selfesteem, leads to a vain desire of applause, even in circumstances the most abject-a vanity which is more the object of our compassion than our censure. The manifestations arising from such a combination are thus described by a skilful anatomist of vanity : Now friendless, sick, and old, and wanting bread, How she, too, triumph'd in the years of old. At church, she points to one tall seat, and " There 'We sat," she cries, "when my papa was mayor."-CRABBE. Bashfulness is thus described and traced with perfect accuracy to the phrenological combination of feelings to which it owes its existence,-Self-esteem, Love of Approbation, Cautiousness, and Secretiveness, all large, and not balanced with sufficient Firmness and Combativeness: I pity bashful men, who feel the pain Our sensibilities are so acute, The fear of being silent makes us mute. We sometimes think we could a speech produce Faint as a chicken's note that has the pip: Like hidden lamps in old sepulchral urns. Lest they miscarry of what seems their due.-COWPER. Wit, Self-esteem, and Combativeness, with moderate Benevolence, Veneration, and Conscientiousness, produce a disposition to deride every thing and every person, and to laugh at all that is serious and praiseworthy. Such a combination would produce the following character :— . Disdain and scorn ride sparkling in her eyes, All matter else seems weak: she cannot love, I never yet saw man, How wise, how noble, young, how rarely featured, If low, an agate very vilely cut: If speaking, why, a vane blown with all wind: Which simpleness and merit purchaseth.-SHAKSPEARE. The manifestations of Wonder, both in the youthful and aged mind, and its uses in inciting us to quit our homes, and search in foreign climes for objects new and astonishing, and also the delight which is felt in relations of what is supernatural, a pleasure which is so great as to overcome all the uneasy feelings of fear which such relations inspire,—are thus described by Akenside:-- Witness the sprightly joy when aught unknown Strikes the quick sense, and wakes each active power Of all familiar prospects, though beheld For this the daring youth Breaks from his weeping mother's anxious arms, Each trembling heart with grateful terrors quell'd. The following description of solitary musing is given by a poet who delighted in this species of mental exercise. And it will be observed, that in describing the feelings which are alternately excited in the mind in such reveries, he enumerates almost by their names, and at all events with perfect distinctness, the principal phrenological sentiments and propensities:-Veneration, Ideality, Benevolence, Hope, Selfesteem, Firmness, Conscientiousness, Love of Approbation, Amativeness, Philoprogenitiveness, and Adhesiveness :— He comes! he comes in every breeze the power His near approach the sudden starting tear, Beyond dim earth exalts the swelling thought. Of tyrant-pride; the fearless great resolve; ARTICLE XXII. THE ENCYCLOPÆDIA EDINENSIS AND PHRENOLOGY., Ir is some evidence of increasing liberality towards our science, for which we ought to be grateful, that a work, evidently intended for popular use, and certain, if at all well conducted, to be extensively read, should show a disposition not only to do justice to the labours and discoveries of Gall and Spurzheim, but also to profit by them. We are induced to offer this remark in favour of the Encyclopædia Edinensis, now in course of publication, to which our attention has been repeatedly called by the candour it has manifested, whenever any allusion was made in it to Phrenology. The articles on Beauty, Education, and Language, are evidences of this; and to them we have to add Mind,-a very brief |