social customs. But let them be the voluntary offerings of friends and relatives who have a tender interest in the young couple, and wish to be remembered by them. Then, even the most insignificant articles will be fraught with sweet associations, and, to say nothing of the money saved, the recipients will be the better able to enjoy the gifts for not having begged them. In conclusion, I have only to say that when you see a marriage notice with the addition of "No Cards," you may safely conclude that the parties are people of taste and culture, and in all probability, of wealth. For, I am sorry to say, it is only the rich who think that they can afford to wear patched boots, and only the wealthy who dare to be married with "No CARDS." NATIONAL TYPES OF FEMALE BEAUTY. IN analyzing briefly the types of female beauty represented in our engraving, we must begin somewhere, and to avoid the appearance of partiality we proceed, as we used to, with a spelling lesson, beginning at the left-hand row and going downward, and next taking the second column in the same manner, and so on throughout the group. We may follow this with types of other nations at a future time. First in the group we have a Turkish beauty, a dark, plump, inexpressive though voluptuous face, without much forehead and without much apparent vivacity. In the next we have a brisk, intelligent, well-formed French face, with pointed features and a dashing style of dress, somewhat unique and independent, showing that she belongs to that polite and facile nation which, while it gives fashions to some of the most influential nations in the world, has no fixed fashion of its own, each lady dressing according to her own figure, complexion, and taste, and always being tasteful; vivacity, emotion, and spirit are her leading traits. In the next, we have the Russian, from that growing giant nation of the North. What staid substantial features! what a neck! what a broad chin! how sedate and earnest the expression! what an ample bust! evidence of no effeminacy, but of healthfulness, vigor, and endurance. There is stamina, if not so much delicacy here. Going to the top of the next column we find the Grecian, with her jaunty hat, classic features, tasteful habit, and symmetry of form, more artistic than utilitarian. Perhaps she would nearly realize the adage, “A thing of beauty is a joy forever;" but in the Russian we see strength, steadfastness, endurance, power, and less of the artistic and ornamental. In the next face we have the Swiss girl, with her masculine hat and short curly hair; the features indicating health, cheerfulness, physical exuberance, with not much culture. Liberty and self-helpfulness rather than sentiment are seen to be the characteristics. Next comes the Swede, with a well-formed head, strong moral sentiments, a full, eloquent eye, and a really womanly face. Jenny Lind has taught us to respect whatever is truly Swedish, and without any knowledge to the contrary to think well of it. Next comes the Chinese, with its contracted forehead and opaque features. There is not much expression of the spiritual in her. Restricted in her education and sphere, she must content herself with dress decoration, and a diffident, submissive, subordinate life. Next, at the top, we have the elegant Austrian. Here is a stately beauty-we are reminded of Marie Antoinette-classical in every feature, straight and dignified in person, with beautifully chiseled features, tresses abundant, exquisite taste in dress, which, though elaborate, is very appropriate. The Austrian woman is loving and lovable, and doubtless merits all the gallantry of her countrymen. The next is a Polish beauty with a square hat and a tassel. She has a good figure, a marked face, and a strong character; but we fancy there is a sadness in the expression, and we can not think of Poland without a feeling of sympathy. In looking at this sad countenance, it is perhaps made more so by looking through sad glasses. In that head, how much of ambition and bravery, how much of affection and patriotism, how much of intensity and power! and there, too, is a faultless figure, full, straight, dignified, suggestive of her noble derivation. We next have the Holland beauty, leaning on her hand. She has a quiet, motherly, loving look; the calmest, the most contented face in the group; and exhibiting a most domestic, good-tempered, and affectionate person. The Japanese beauty doubtless looks beautiful to her countrymen, but those oblique almond eyes, that narrow forehead, and that general expression of weakness is not particularly fascinating to us. Still, there is benevolence if not bravery or beauty there. We will look further. This English face, though beautiful, has less strength of expression than is requisite to illustrate English feminine character. It fails to do justice to the subject. An English-AngloSaxon-beauty has a soft silky skin, a florid complexion, fine auburn hair, blue or gray eyes, an ample chin, an aquiline nose, full rolling lips, sound, regular, and handsome teeth, and is one of the best of wives and mothers. The artist was unfortunate in the selection of his model to illustrate the typical English beauty. There is a class of ladies in England which that face might represent, but there is not enough of breadth and strength to represent the true English woman. There has been in this representative so much refining as to abolish the elements of strength, leaving only effeminate dignity. The last in the group is the German beauty. She is plump, strong, broad, and substantial. Health, constitutional vigor, endurance, and power are seen here, rather than artistic grace or aristocratic refinement. A motherly affection is evinced in the full back-head, and is also shown in the mouth, the luscious loving lips, and in the eyes. We see in this face, not much of aspiration, not a restless, discontented nature, but one who would love her husband, her children, her home, her friends, her pets, her duties, cares, and responsibilities, and be satisfied when she had fully met the claims of all these. In some of these beauties we perceive wit, love of dash and display; in others, earnestness, sincerity, and a sense of duty; but in the German, in the Hollander, the English, and in the Russian we find those domestic qualities which give strength to a nation, and those constitutional developments which give power to a people. In the Grecian, and in the French and Austrian we find grace, elegance, brilliancy, sprightliness, dash, and wit; in the Swede, sincerity and tenderness; and in the Polander, power, patience, perseverance, patriotism, and a shade of melancholy. In the Asiatics, there is not much of the vital or the voluptuous, and much less of the mental and the spiritual. Take off the bands of barbarism and supply them with the light of a higher spiritual life, and they will take on expressions in accordance with the superior culture, true philosophy, and religion thus afforded. In conclusion, we may state that the way to be BEAUTIFUL is to be HEALTHFUL, VIRTUOUS, and GOOD. To be selfish, vicious, dissipated, and bad, is to be ugly and repulsive. Vain, fashionable flirts always come to a bad end; while the temperate, the gentle, the kind, the meek, just, devotional, trusting, and selfsacrificing, no matter how plain in feature, are always reliable, lovable, good, gracious, and godly. THE AMERICAN FACE.-Dr. Bellows writes the Liberal Christian, from Florence, as follows: "Mr. Powers, the sculptor, says the American face is distinguished from the English by the little distance between the brows and the eyes, the openness of the nostrils, and the thinness of the visage. It is still more marked, I think, by a mongrel quality, in which all nationalities contribute their portion. The greatest hope of America is its mixed breed of humanity, and what now makes the irregularity of the American face is predestined to make the versatility and universality of the American character. Already, spite of a continental seclusion, America is the most cosmopolitan country on the globe. Provincial or local as manners or habits may be, ideas and sympathies in America are world-wide. And there is nowhere a city in which so many people have the complete world under their eyes and in their hearts and served up in the morning press with their breakfast, as New York!" WHAT WE ALL SEEK.-There are those that say happiness is nothing; that one should not care or look for it. When you hear such a sentiment expressed, know that the speaker is saying what in his inmost soul he disbelieves. While nobody believes that happiness is the only object to be sought in life, there is not that human being who, while he lives, say what he may, is not seeking it either openly or unacknowledged to himself. NEW YORK, JULY, 1868. "Ir I might give a short hint to an impartial writer, it would be to tell him his fate. If he resolved to ventare upon the dangerous preetpice of telling unbiased truth, let him proclaim war with mankindneither to give nor to take quarter. If he tells the crimes of great men, they fall upon him with the iron hands of the law; if he tells them of virtues, when they have any, then the mob attacks him with slander. But if he regards truth, let him expect martyrdom on both sides, and then he may go on fearless, and this is the course I take myself."-De For. THE PHRENOLOGICAL JOURNAL AND LIFE ILLUSTRATED is published monthly at $3 a year in advance; single numbers, 30 cents. Please address, SAMUEL R. WELLS, 389 Broadway, New York. A NEW VOLUME. WITH this number we enter upon the FORTY-EIGHTH VOLUME of the PHRENO LOGICAL JOURNAL. To disseminate a knowledge of science. and philosophy, as revealed by the study of Man, physically, intellectually, and spiritually, is one of our leading objects. There are journals devoted to particular interests, such as Agriculture, Commerce, Finance, Mechanism, Art, Literature, Music, Politics, Medicine, Law, Religion, etc.; but this magazine occupies a field quite exclusively its own. While we take a lively interest in all reformatory, educational, and comprehensive measures for the advancement of society, we seek more especially to unfold the nature of man on scientific principles, enabling each to see himself as he is; to know his faults, and how to correct them; his virtues, and how to make the most of them. It is believed that by a knowledge of the laws of our being, human life may be prolonged and rendered vastly more useful than at present. What other journal now published more effectually teaches these laws and conditions? Physicians have to do with patching up diseased bodies, rather than with teaching the people how to retain health or to avoid disease; the clergy look after our morals and point out the paths of virtue and the ways of vice; lawyers stir up or settle our disputes for a consideration; bankers discount notes and take care of our cash; merchants, manufacturers, and the rest practice their special vocations; but it is ours to expound the natural laws, and teach man how to live and turn all his talents to the best account. The time was when even this JOURNAL ter the Edinburgh Phrenological Journal, which has been long since discontinued, by dint of much pushing, a good deal of begging, and with the aid of untiring and zealous friends of Phrenology, notwithstanding its glaring faults, it has outlived all its kindred, and is now firmly established. and the valuable plant left in possession of the clear, rich ground. Phrenology is now assuming a respect able position, and attracting that attention to which its merits entitle it. Good men now study it, practice it, apply it. commend it, promulgate it. Editors everywhere speak kindly of it, though they condemn its parasites. Physicians are observing how potent is the influence of the mind on the body, even to kill, or to cure! The clergy interpret truth on a broader and more comprehensive platform than hitherto. Emperors, kings, and rulers, the world over, are conceding lunatics, imbeciles, and idiots are manthe inalienable rights of man. Prisoners, aged, treated, and trained in accordance with their crimes, conditions, tempera ments, and capacities. This is done with a view to their improvement as well as for their restraint. How much of this educational, prison, asylum, governmental and religious progress is due to PHRENOLOGY we can not pretend to say; but we do most sincerely believe that the world is greatly indebted to it for the light which it has thrown on all questions concerning MAN and his relations to life, to death, and to the future. The cause of failure on the part of other similar journals and that which sunk this so low in the estimation of many good men, was the cold, fatalistic tendencies of some of its promoters or advocates. Coupled with these repulsive doctrines was the taking on of every crazy crotchet suggested by addled brains and long-haired egotists. These small-minded noisy creatures were echoed by a still more miserable constituency, made up of blatant skeptics and pretenders. Some of these eccentrics went so far as to claim "original discovery," and sought to throw the founders, Gall and Spurzheim, overboard; but they were short-sighted, and their claims short-lived. A bad odor, however, was emitted by these creatures which tended to bring the subject into contempt many sincere persons failing to discriminate between the counterfeit pretender and the genuine original. Besides, these egotistical popinjays mixed up with Phrenology all the current vagaries, "isms," and foolish speculations of the numerous vampires afloat in the world, for which our noble science was in no respect responsible. One class claimed that even the criminal must needs follow his bent, and commit such acts as his bumps" inclined him to do; a doctrine not only subversive of all civil law, but entirely contrary to the true philosophy of Phrenology and Theology. Is it surprising that good men turned away in disgust from such teachings? Phrenology has also been unfortunate in other respects. It has not until within a few years commanded the highest cultured literary talent, and many of its best facts have been put forth in a rough, best facts have been put forth in a rough, crude, uncouth style, so as to repel persons of taste, refinement, and culture. Some of the writers were actuated by no higher sense than that which appeals to the rabble and excites laughter in the buffoon. This class, fortunately for science, good taste, and good morals, are We can promise no more at present than to go on eliminating errors, and elaborating those truths and principles which legitimately grow out of this system of mental philosophy. Being favored with the same generous spirit on the part of readers which has hitherto been accorded us, we shall constantly aim to make the JOURNAL still more worthy the encouragement and support of its patrons. THE DAY. WHAT New Year's day is to New Yorkers, what Thanksgiving day is to New Englanders, what St. Patrick's day is to Irishmen, and what Christmas is to children and Christians, the FOURTH OF JULY, our National Independence day, is to every patriotic American. To lor ers of political and religious freedom throughout the world, this day has a deeper significance than is realized by was feebly edited and as feebly support- rapidly disappearing. They will shortly noisy boys, or even by young orators who delight to hear the echo of their own voices. It means religious LIBERTY for all men voter from the "Dominion" to the line of Mex- patriot and as a Christian. God speed the VOTERS IN AMERICA. and women to worship God according | We have only to express the hope, that every VOTE.-Expression of wish, preference, or choice as to measures proposed; electing officers; the passing of laws by one having an interest in the subject or question. A vote may be by the voice, by uplifted hand, or by ballot.-Webster. IMPARTIAL-if not universal-suffrage must be the rule of a republic, and it should be uniform in all the States. In the following we observe differences which are not "impartial," and we propose that the subject be submitted to the people of the nation, and a uniform impartial plan be adopted. At present each State now represented regulates the matter of voting as follows: MAINE-Every male citizen. NEW HAMPSHIRE-Every male inhabitant. Real Liberty means freedom from bad habits; especially liquor drinking, tobac co smoking and chewing, and the like. What species of slavery or bondage can be worse than these? The sort of Liberty we celebrate is freedom from vice, crime, and from bad habits, as well as from monarchical and despotic government. We celebrate the Fourth of July not only as the birth of a new-born Nation, but as embodying principles which IOWA, NEW JERSEY, OHIO, CALIFORNIA, OREmust, in the nature of things, in time completely revolutionize all the kingdoms and nations of the earth. Then let all Americans sing with gladness that ever-glorious song "Hail, Columbia, happy land." NATIONAL REPUBLICAN CONVEN- THIS body met in Chicago on the 20th day of May, and on the 21st adopted a platform of principles, and unanimously nominated Gen. ULYSSES S. GRANT for the office of President of the United States, from the 4th of March next. Hon. SCHUYLER COLFAX was then nominated for the office of Vice-President by a very decided majority. Messrs Wade, Fenton, Wilson, Curtin, Hamlin, and Speed also received a very complimentary vote. Mr. Colfax is one of our most popular parliamentary officers, and as such his Speakership of the House of Representatives for several sessions of Congress has made him more widely known, perhaps, than almost any other civilian of his age. He was born in the city of New York, March 23d, 1823. Gen. Grant was born April 7th, 1822, at Point Pleasant, Clermont Co., Ohio. The candidates, one being 46 and the other 45 years of age, are, we think, the youngest men who have ever been nominated for these high offices. The Democratic Convention, to nominate candidates, will assemble on the 4th of July, after which we propose to publish the likenesses of all the candidates and the platform of principles on which they respectively go before the American people asking their suffrages. MASSACHUSETTS-Every male citizen. GON, NEVADA, WEST VIRGINIA, AND COLO- NEW YORK-Every male citizen, but colored In those States which were engaged in re- Personally, we would require the voter to be able to read and write, and to prove a good moral character. Neither aliens, criminals, drunkards, lunatics, imbeciles, or fools should ever vote. As to negroes, Indians, and Asiatics, we would require not less, in the way of qualification, than is required of native whites. But let us have impartial-though properly qualified-suffrage throughout the Union. DAILY LECTURES ON MAN. WE have now arranged to give daily lectures in New York on Phrenology, Physiology, and the training of the mind and the body for health, usefulness, and success. We have fitted up a handsome lecture-room at 389 Broadway, on the second floor of the building in which is located our collection of skulls, casts, busts, paintings, etc., where the lectures will be delivered. These lectures will be plain and practical, intended to teach men how to "read character;" to show mothers how to train and man age children; to advise young men how to select the right pursuits; to inform employers how to select servants, apprentices, clerks, and confidential agents; in a word, to “ PUT THE RIGHT MAN IN THE RIGHT PLACE." We are satisfied that the experience of a third of a century ought to make the sugges tions in our lectures valuable to all but the useless class of society, and we do not see how even this class could listen to the analysis of the human mind, its powers and capabilities, the privileges and duties of life, without becoming incited to do something, and to be something worthy of humanity. These lectures will be given for the present every day, Sundays excepted, between 3 and 4 o'clock in the afternoon. They will continue an hour, and the admission will be free. Should this proposition meet the favor of our citizens and strangers visiting the city, so that we shall have an audience each day, it will give us pleasure to minister to their instruction and profit. And it remains for the people to decide whether these lectures shall become a permanent institution. These popular lectures will not supersede or interfere with our semi-annual professional classes for teaching thoroughly those who wish to practice Phrenology as a profession and an art. As we have elsewhere announced, & class for ladies will be commenced on the first Monday in September, and the class for gentlemen on the first Monday in January next. The popular daily lectures are intended for non-professional people, who need and desire information suited to daily life, self-improvement, domestic culture, choice of occupation, etc.; and we have no doubt that time will. prove the utility of this method of public instruction. SCIENCE vs. RELIGION. ARE science and religion inimical? If not, why is it that many very religious persons oppose the study of geology, phrenology, and other sciences? Such questions imply a want of knowledge. Truth is a unit, and there can be no conflict between religious truth and scientific truth. The fact that religious bigots oppose the real or assumed claims of science proves nothing but the ignorance of one or both of the disputants. The salvation of our souls is not dependent on the age of the world, its geological formation, nor on the dogmas of finite man. Our faculties were all given to us for use-affections, ambitions, sympathies, love of art, music, devotion, self-defense, and reason to enlighten and guide all our feelings and emotions, He who ignores the study of science or the proper exercise of reason in educational spheres might as well ignore any other class of our duties or the exercise of our God-given powers. Any religionist who attempts to enslave the minds of men by denying their personal freedom and accountability to God, or the free use of their intellects, is an enemy to his race. The days of priestly infallibility and of persecution on account of religious opinion are past, especially in this country. The race has outgrown that narrow pretension; man has discovered that it is right for him to exercise his faculties to the fullest possible extent, to learn all that it is possible for him to know, and that what God wisely determined he should not know, he never will or can know. But it is no part of the duty of finite man to set the limits. God created us with a spirit to investigate and learn all we can of his works. Earth, air, water, and the living creatures and plants thereof, all offer themselves for man's examination and study. Nor is there any danger of our finding out any of His hidden secrets. We are finite. HE is infinite. Ignorance is the parent of superstition and slavery. Education is the parent of liberty and the bulwark of freedom. Ignorance and monarchy go together. Education and selfgovernment go together. The hope, the only hope, of our democratic republic is in our free common schools and in religious freedom. Science and religion, when rightly interpreted, will not clash, but will harmonize, support, and aid each other. Let us therefore learn all we can of the sciences, and get all the genuine religion we can, that we may develop into the perfect being our Creator intended us to be come. LORD BROUGHAM. OBITUARY. HENRY, LORD BROUGHAM, the eminent exChancellor of England, who as a legislator, reformer, and author had attained a high position forty years ago, died on the 9th of May last, at his country residence near Cannes, France. He was born in Edinburgh, September 19th, 1778, and had therefore nearly completed his ninetieth year. His unusual longevity was due to the natural vigor and endurance of his constitution. His portrait, small as it is, shows a powerfully marked motive temperament. He was, as it were, constituted of finely tempered steel, which possessed both the qualities of elasticity and toughness. He was active, lithe, sprightly, but at the same time intense, tenacious, untiring, and persistent. His industry as a scholar, a lawyer, a statesman, is unparalleled. The fibers of his brain seemed capable of sustaining any labor, any strain, which his disposition or intellectual pursuits could impose on them. He would sometimes work day and night with scarcely an interval of repose, and when he had attained the object of his labor, he appeared as fresh and vigorous as at the commencement of his undertaking. In fact, even in advanced life he was ever active. There is nothing striking in his countenance as regards peculiar genius in a department philosophical or artistic. His temperament and practical organization, his keen observing powers and superior analytical talent, and his untiring activity formed the basis of his great executive abilities. PORTRAIT OF LORD BROUGHAM. Benevolence is conspicuous in his top-head, In 1808 he settled in London, where the "Natural Theology," and "Sketches of States- POPULAR LECTURES IN NEW YORK In addition to our professional lectures to students, we have given, during the past winter and spring, many popular lectures on Phrenology, as applied to temperance, education, etc., in various parts of New York, Brooklyn, Williamsburg, Harlem, and other places contiguous. In Brooklyn there was a course given at the Park Theater, when the house was filled from pit to dome. Mr. Greeley and other eminent advocates of temperance were among the speakers. As we aim to bring Phrenology and Physiology to bear upon every question, the lecture we were invited to give was chiefly based on those subjects. Dr. Bennett, the now venerable reformer, informed us that a gentleman came to him after one of the lectures, desiring to sign the pledge, and though he then had the title of M.D. and LL.D. to his name, he heard an argument based on physiology which convinced him that it was his duty to pledge himself to use no more alcoholic spirits. He had before heard many temperance arguments, but when from a phrenological stand-point the subject was presented, he became convinced that it was his duty to lay aside the occasional glass and give his name and his influence to the temperance cause. Early in April we gave a brief course of lectures in the National Hall in Harlem; our chief attempt there was to show parents the proper method of training the dis positions, guiding the passions, and cultivating the intellectual and moral powers of their children. Besides giving us a cordial reception and attentive hearing, many mothers brought their stubborn daughters and wayward sons to have us describe their characters and give them special instructions how to guide and regulate them. We have no doubt that the good effects of this brief course of lectures will be felt and long remembered in Harlem. We also gave a course of seven lectures in Union Hall, Brooklyn, E. D. The subjects of this course were First-How to read character scientifically, including the principles and proofs of Phrenology and the Temperaments. Second-How to rise in the world, or Phrenology applied to the choice of pursuits. Third-Physiognomy; the signs of character as indicated by form, feature, gesture, walk, laughter, eyes, nose, mouth, chin, neck, etc. Fourth-The moral sentiments; and how to awaken, guide, and cultivate them, especially in the young. Fifth-How to train up a child; the passions, how to understand and guide them; high-tempered boys, timid children, and how to treat them. Sixth-Vanity, pride, ambition, appetite, juvenile thieves and liars, how to reform them; self-culture, etc. Seventh-Intellectual culture; the practical and the theoretical; memory, and how to improve it; the natural language of the faculties, every feeling and sentiment having its gesture, attitude, and indication unconsciously evinced by the person. We receive also invitations to lecture for societies, for teachers' conventions, and other occasions, which we accept when our professional duties will permit. Some times we go 150 miles to give a single lecture by invita tion. If our duties at home would permit these excursions, we could make them very frequently during the lecturing season. Thus in public and in private, in temperance associations, in school-gatherings and otherwise, by writ ing, teaching, printing, are we trying to spread the knowledge of phrenological truth, and we believe no day passes in which some one is not largely benefited by our instructions; reformed of bad habits; taught a higher and better rule of life, and led to be more in the sight of themselves, their neighbors, and their God. Men generally know more of everything else than of themselves. The majority of well-meaning people are living in ignorance of some of the plainest principles of physiology; they wonder why they are sick, or bilious, or unhappy, ful; perhaps it is the abuse of their Alimentiveness or some other propensity which the phrenologist could point out, and thus open to them a new and better way. or unsuccess PROFESSIONAL INSTRUCTION IN PRACTICAL PHRENOLOGY. THERE are thousands who desire to know more of themselves than they do, and to learn how to read the characters of their fellow-men correctly. Some wish to follow Phrenology as a profession; to devote themselves to teaching it as a science, and to practicing it as an art. Others, connected with schools, with medicine, with the ministry, or with business, feeling that they are not able to understand mankind readily, that they are constantly making mistakes in their estimation and treatment of others, are now seeking the aid which Phrenology affords. They have also a strong desire to find out how much there is in Phrenology that will aid them in forming conclusions respecting themselves, and in guiding their judgment and conduct toward others. That some people read mind and character better than others, advantage. No brighter field is open to enterprising and intelligent men and women than that of practical Phrenology. We propose to open a summer class for ladies, the first Monday in September next. Woman, besides making the best teacher and the best nurse, may, for aught we can see, become an equally good phrenologist; and as the avenues opened to woman for usefulness and remuneration in honorable employment are not very numerous, we think she will hail this opportunity with delight, greatly to her own advantage and to the public weal. Ladies wishing to become members of this class will write us, asking for a circular entitled Professional Instruction in Practical Phrenology, For Ladies." On the first Monday in January next our annual class for gentlemen will be opened, and those wishing to become members will do well to address us at once, asking for a circular rela they are aware; that it is important that theytive to the class of 1869, in which they will should be able to read character better than they now can, they are also aware; hence their desire to examine the phrenological methods. We In order to meet this growing public want, we instruct classes every year in those facts and principles which thirty years of careful study and practice enable us to teach. By public lectures and publications we can do much, but we can not reach the whole community. are attempting every year to instruct persons who shall be able to go out into the great harvest-field and instruct the public. There is, to-day, a great demand for good lecturers and examiners throughout Europe and America. Some have attempted to supply this demand, and feeling conscious of a lack of scientific information, and of that amount of practical experience necessary to success, they have become discouraged and left the field. Such persons come to us for additional information and training in this field of their love and ambition, and it gives us pleasure to state that not a few of those who have gone out from us are now doing a good and profitable work; and we receive letters almost daily from our former students thanking us for the benefits which our instruction afforded them, and for the better success which they are now enabled to secure in the promulgation of the science. In order to guard the public against being imposed upon by persons who profess to have received instruction from us, and have not, we give to each graduate who takes our course of instruction a certificate or diploma verifying the fact that he has received the necessary instruction, and that he goes forth with our approval and indorsement. While this serves the lecturer as an introduction, it assures the public that he is worthy of patronage as a phrenologist. There is no other subject, perhaps, which more readily awakens public attention than that science which reveals human character and teaches men what they are best adapted to follow, and points out to them the pathway to success and happiness, and at the same time indicates wherein they are liable to go astray, and what faculties they can use to the best find a synopsis of the course of instruction, the books necessary to be read, together with terms and other matters of interest. In order that proper preparations may be made for those who are to become members of either class, we desire to learn at as early a day as possible what number of students to provide for. Please address, "FOR INSTRUCTION," Office of the PHRENOLOGICAL JOURNAL, 389 Broadway, New York. "DON'T LEAVE THE FARM." [THIS is the burden of the following neat verses, which are dedicated to those restless youths who look to the exciting theater of city life for fame and fortune, when the chances for health, wealth, and happiness are far greater in peaceful agricultural pursuits. The advice is as sound as it is pleasantly administered.] Come, boys, I have something to tell you; Come near, I would whisper it low: You are thinking of leaving the homesteadDon't be in a hurry to go. The city has many attractions, But think of the vices and sins; They've wealth in gold without doubt; The goods are first high and then low; The great busy West has inducements, The orchards are loaded to-day; Though profit comes in rather slow, MOHAMMED. "We follow the religion of Abraham the orthodox, who was no idolater."-The Koran. BY EDWARD W. TULLIDGE. IT has been the habit of Christian writers to stigmatize Mohammed as "the great false prophet" and as an anti-Christ; but in this age of liberal views, even sound believers in the divine mission of the Christ from chosen Isaac's seed can afford to do justice to the great prophet who sprang from the loins of his brother Ishmael. Heterodox philosophers, on their side, will class the whole race of prophets and apostles together, and view them simply as marvelous psychological and sociological problems. They will treat the genuine of this peculiar order as rare types of beings whose visionary and inspirative natures saw empires in their own fervid minds. Out of such as these new civilizations and empires have grown; and it has ever been found in the course of nations that when the old empires have been rapidly passing through their states of decay, and the world needed a new impulse, then human giants have risen with their peculiar dispensations. In Mohammed and his mission there is a genuine assumption of the Abrahamic covenant claimed by a descendant of the eldest son of the "Father of the Faithful;" and unless we give due weight to this fact, and its workings in the mind of this great representative of the line of Abraham's first-born, we shall make discordant that which is in itself grandly harmonious. "In thee, and in thy seed, shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed," was the covenant made to the "Father of the Faithful;" and Mohammed claimed his portion thereof. Yet did the Arabian prophet magnanimously give unto the seed of Isaac the principal succession in the sacred prophetic line, affirming that, though it was latent in the race of Ishmael, the gift of prophecy, with the holy apostleship, was not vouchsafed to any of his seed until he (Mohammed), the last of the Prophets, came, while from Isaac had sprung a long succession of prophets to carry on the Abrahamic dispensations. "We follow," says the Koran, "the religion of Abraham the orthodox, who was no idolater. We believe in God and that which has been sent down to us, and that which was sent down to Abraham and Ishmael and Isaac and Jacob and the tribes, and that which was delivered unto Moses and Jesus, and that which was delivered unto the prophets from the Lord. We make no distinction between any of them, and to God we are resigned." Mohammed was born in Mecca, the sacred city of Arabia, in 569 of the Christian era, and he came of the illustrious tribe of Koreish, of which there were two branches descended from two brothers. His ancestor Haschem, through his commercial enterprise, made Mecca a great commercial mart, notwithstanding the city was located in a barren and stony country; and the tribe of Koreish became powerful and wealthy. Haschem was looked upon as a |