The Phrenological Journal

We have read this work with mucli attention for the year past, and we will say a word nbout its character. We d iiot agree wiih a!l the views advaneed n it ; its representations somelimes bonler on exlravagance ; and its prop'stions ofïen need much and important qualification. Bul, as an original, radical work of inquiry into the great principlf.s of human n;iture, as oscertained through tlieir developments, mentol and phytica', it surpasfes any work we have ever read, The writer hns an extraord'nnry faculty ofs'.arting new genpral propositions of all kinds, and relating to nearly all subject3 In our reading, we have not roet with a greater profusión in nny author. And several times in a pngo we sometimes pause to ask ourselves - Is ü)s s,o ? Il ia here that the PECULiAKiTi of the work lies. No progressive student of hu i-an characler, can read it without interest arid profit. - VVhethpr the writer be correct or not,'he sets his readers !o thinkin. To trate what we mran, we will tane asentence or to at random froni liis articln on " Signs of Character." Il is subject is Laugliter : "The lnugh is not less expre-sive of charncter ihan the walk. Every one has lus own way of lnughing. Those who ha! ha! right out, " good and ttiong," have livelv pereeptions, nndalo positiveness of cbnracter; for those who laugh heartily, doeveryíhing else " with ther miglit," .nnd nreihorough going, efficiënt, ;ind whole-souled. Whntever they are, they are killy, and wliat they are not. they nre not lo an eqi al extent. A1 t hei r likes, a!I iheir dislikes, partake of the snme tendency to cxtremfs ; as dn, likewiíe, nll their vírtnous, nll ihir lvicious tendencias. Like Jciemiah's grnpes, white tr is good in tlipm is very gnod, and whntever is bad is proportionally bal Nor aro they dcceptive. What thry aie, lhy appear to hn. In othrr word;, Seci'Ptivenfss is una]], and their wlicle is spontai cous r.Dil sincere. Tliey will never praclice nnyrunning. unríeihant'erl game?, or sail undpr false colors. IndeeH, thpv apppar lo be even more thon tliey really are. Tru-t thrm. " Tl.ey wil] also gei e:olly bp found to be good w 'i'ke.rs, for H ev labor jut na i t' ey laugh. Nor will tucjl Le Bftóle br-iined. On the onnlrarv, they will peri céivfi quickly -ni least fvinee powkr of : mmc! - yet nny laek disciplii e."' Now. in tliese two seMcnce, nre i o I less ihan iwenty bioad d'siincl [ ropofition-', all predicnted upon t! e simplo fact thai a man laughs in a rlicuiar ; manre-r. Tbey moy be all true, or only i parti illv trup ; or somc may be fully true, and others totnJIy fnlse. Yet here they ! are Ihrown nut igptlifr as sn many factK-, for the correclness of wh'cll tl. e riter , ap)paU t) theobíervation of every reader. The same t -ndency lo prnposiiion makiug ij seen in all Mr. Fowlw'g works. - It sefins to he impossible for li!m to write a seiHence withoiit assertingsomething. Tha Consrvalive clns-es in Politics, i Religión, an 1 Moials, who tremb'e at the bare questioning of ancient dogmas, will i nothive iniich interest in tlu's Journal. - Ft goes fi-r Progression in everthing, an f, Ihsrefore, cannot but be distnstef'ul lo thein. The work is afïbrded verv cheap ; gle numbers 81 ; Cl ibs of twenty, $10. 05" The Phrenological Journal for December has come to hand. lt contains a likeness and sketch of llorace Greeley, Editor of the New York Trib.jne. He is yetonly in liis 33th year, and it is but nbout 13 years since lie slarted the New Yorker. Before that l:e workeJ as a journeyman printer, hnving served a regular appreiiliceship lu thu trade. Greeley commeoced wiihoui any powerfu' friends or nfluence lo give him n start; and the power he now wields in society must be attribuled rnainly to his own talents and energy . lt is chiefly as a ready and powerful writer that has become known to ths public. His kuowledge of staiistics have given him a reputation wilh his party ; but it is mainly by his advocncy of various reforms liwt he ha? secured the attachment and confidence of multitudes ín most of the Free Siates.- I'hough not always the most consistent of mortals, he has made his party mucb [rouble by fus honesiy nnd ind?pendence. His paper represente the views of the Radical portion of the Whjg party, ns the Courier and Enquirer does of the Cons&rvntive. Ilence the ncessant wa'fare between them.