DESTRUCTIVENESS finds a representative in a mad bull in a china-shop.

COLOUR is a negro smoking under a tree; FORM, a dandy admiring a pair of very ill-shaped legs. These are unmean ing absurdities.

DRAWING, (a faculty that does not exist), is expressed by an old porter drawing a cart, a drawing-academy, a bar-maid drawing Whitbread's entire, a surgeon-dentist drawing a tooth, and a child drawing a cart. This is a collection of miserable puns.

SPACE is pourtrayed by a Dutchman, whose person is extended enormously behind. This has no meaning.

ORDER. An old schoolmistress keeps a small group of children in order by flourishing a birch before their eyes. There is here a misconception of the nature of the faculty of Order. It is physical arrangement, and the artist has again failed through ignorance of the quality which he meant to ridicule.

COVETIVENESS. Here a young rogue picks a gentleman's pocket, and hands the booty to an old scoundrel who attends to receive it. This is effective: the natural language of the figures is correct and well-expressed.

SECRETIVENESS.-A lady hides her lover. In her countenance and attitude Cautiousness are expressed, and not Secretiveness. Mr Cruickshank never saw a human being whose predominant feeling at the time was slyness, cunning, or secrecy, stand in such an attitude, and assume such a look while practising a trick, or accomplishing a piece of successful deception.

TIME is represented by a time-piece; TUNE by a Jew playing on a barrel-organ; WEIGHT, by a crown; SIZE, by Daniel Lambert, the large man; and FIRMNESS by a paviour beating down newly-laid pavement opposite the Rock Life Assurance Office: all these are lamentable failures, destitute equally of meaning, invention, and wit.

IDEALITY is another instance of ignorance. A man in bed

is terrified, till his hair stands on end, at the appearance of a ghost, which is only his own clothes strangely placed upon a chair, and partly hung on the wall, so as to represent the rude outlines of the human figure. The real expression here is that of Cautiousness and Wonder, but of Ideality there is not a particle. Mr Cruickshank has inquired no farther than the name, and been led astray by the word "idea" it is an ideal ghost, and hence he thought it an illustration of Ideality. Nothing can be poorer than this.

WIT is a scene in which a woman is frightened in a churchyard by some young rogues: behind a tomb-stone; COMPARISON is a very tall and slender gentleman meeting a very short and corpulent lady in "Long Acre;" IMITATION is Mathews lecturing on heads; and APPROBATION is the audience applauding him. These are all weak.

LANGUAGE, however, is admirable. It is a set-to at a scold by the heroines of Billingsgate.

CONSCIENTIOUSNESS also is good. It is a Jew offering a woman a shilling for a whole wardrobe of old clothes. HOPE is a starved beggar picking a bone, and his still more famished dog hoping to get the bone itself when he has made the most of it. This is very fair. VENERATION represents John Bull admiring, with profound respect, a huge carcass of beef" fed by Heavy side," and is clever. CAUTIOUSNESS is a lady showing a handsome foot as she picks her steps on a dirty pavement. BENEVOLENCE is flogging a criminal at the tail of a cart; while CAUSALITY, interpreted "Inquisitiveness," is the figure of Liston in the character of Paul Pry. This last is a sad blunder, and bespeaks, we fear, very little Causality in the head of Mr George Cruickshank. He has seen, in Dr Spurhzeim's book, that Causality prompts to the inquiry," why," and not perceiving the difference between "what" and "why," he has selected Paul Pry as the representative of Causality! Paul, however, rests quite contented with the "what," and never goes so deep as "why." His character is a compound of Individuality, which asks "what,"

and Secretiveness, with the least possible portion of Causality; and the figure of Liston is an admirable caricature of the natural expression produced by the first two faculties, while it has no relation whatever to the last.

On the whole, we are gratified at the appearance of this pub. lication; for the successful instances will convey to artists some idea of the effect which they may produce by studying nature, and representing her real features.

ARTICLE XIII.

Travels in Phrenologasto. By Don Jose Balscopo. Translated from the Italian. 8vo, pp. 126. Calcutta, Smith and Company, 1825.

PHRENOLOGY has made a deep impression on this generation. It is censé by the wise and learned to be a nonsensical absurdity, a delusion, and every thing else that is unsubstantial or wicked; yet they cannot let it calmly await its fate, but are stirred up, by secret fear and ill-suppressed hatred, to give it importance by the magnitude of their exertions to stay its progress, and root it out from the public mind. For twenty years the press has been labouring to accomplish its overthrow by ridicule, argument, and bold assertion; and the task is still unfinished: Mr Cruickshank caricatures it; Mr Jeffrey, at this moment, is printing a third anathema against it, from his own pen, to be fulminated in the next Number of the Edinburgh Review; and even in Asia the press teems with wit and allegory in ridicule of the science. For the credit of Asia, however, the work before us is by much the best that has appeared on its own side of the controversy. It is an imitation of Gulliver's Travels, and is executed with very considerable humour and ability.

Don Jose Balscopo, a native of Padua, having constructed

a balloon on entirely new principles, présents himself before the people of England, and ascends from the gardens of Ranelagh, on the 5th of November, amidst the waving of hats and the acclamations of thousands. He rises to a great height; falls asleep; awakes; and sees land not above six miles over his head. His balloon gently touched the ground, and, after rebounding three times, he alighted among the inhabitants. This nation had the sky below them instead of above; and though he was perfectly secure in walking with his head downwards, he could not but at first indulge some apprehensions on that score. The people are a very wise and intelligent nation; and he "was afterwards taught, that this ap"parently perverted order of things was only an optical decep❝tion, arising from the inverted position of objects on the retina "of the eye, to which experience only makes us accustomed."

The inhabitants wore their hair very closely shaven, had their heads painted white, and the surface divided by black lines into "a variety of little fields and enclosures."—"These "divisions, among the bulk of the people, amounted altogether "to 33; but a few gentlemen, dressed in long black gowns, "who appeared to possess some authority among them, had ex"tended them, by fainter lines, to a much greater number."The dresses of both sexes were ornamented with skulls; and

one lady, whose name I refrain from mentioning, on whose "dress was a great profusion of these insignia, afterwards as"sured me, that they represented the skulls of all her ancestors " in a direct line for fifteen generations, and amounted to the "enormous number of 32,768.”

The Lord Chamberlain hospitably entertains the author, and shows him the country, city, shipping, &c., and then narrates the history of the island. "Signor Balscopo, said "he, the flourishing country which you here see, is the famous "kingdom of Phrenologasto, the capital of which, in the Italian

tongue, is Cranioscoposco. The origin of the nation, as it has "been recorded in all our most learned works, and handed "down by tradition through twenty-five centuries, is highly "curious and instructive. Our forefathers, you must know, "from whom the whole colony is descended, were originally σε twelve inhabitants of that part of the globe to which you belong, which is called Egypt. At the time when that country was renowned for the occult sciences, and had obtained a

"glory for learning and philosophy which has been since eclipsed by the pre-eminence of other states, there lived a sect "of philosophers who devoted their whole labours to the study "of craniology. Start not, young man, he continued (for I began to be incredulous), start not at this information which I "observe was unknown to you, and from which I can perceive "that you look upon that noble art as an invention of modern "days. Is it then indeed true, that this profound science, "which was once the glory of Egypt, has been again lost to the "world? Holy fathers! can it be so? No wonder that the "world is in its present state of degradation and darkness! "Alas! alas! too truly did the wise Proco, looking through his telescope on the world below, allege, that the art there had "again sunk into oblivion !

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"But to return to my history:-So great was the progress "which our ancestors made in this science, and such the success of their studies, that, by great care and perseverance, they "at length brought the development of all the faculties of the "mind to the very highest perfection; but being, from national "taste, peculiarly addicted to the study of mathematical learn"ing, they gave the principal part of their attention to the cul"tivation of those organs which gave birth to this science; so "that, in process of time, by the examination of the different gases, and certain speculations on the properties of air, one of "the most learned of my countrymen succeeded in forming a "balloon, in which, with the help of a proper stock of provi"sions, he declared it was quite practicable to make a journey to the moon. The greater part of the people, who had no perfect idea of the boundless extent of science, and the perfectibility of human skill, treated the proposition as chimeri"cal; but our astrologers had many years before predicted that "such a journey would be undertaken, and philosophers were "more induced to attempt it from the hope of obtaining some "further insight into their favourite study of astronomy. A "committee was accordingly formed, a joint-stock established, " and twelve of the most adventurous speculators in the king"dom embarked with their wives and families in this balloon, "which was as large as a good-sized ship. Having laid in a

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plentiful stock of provisions, the whole party, after three "months' voyage, landed very comfortably on this island, "which we have since ascertained is only a tenth part of the "distance to the planet they were in quest of.

"The noble science, which thus conducted our ancestors to "this delightful spot, became of course the peculiar study and delight of their posterity. The elevation to which they had "ascended, gave, it is said, superior elasticity to their mental "faculties, which, as tradition records, is unknown in the land "from which they came. Be that as it may, they quickly per"ceived the important truth, which before was very imperfectly