R. G. (Manchester.)-You have more brain-power than physical strength or vitality. Your head is not large enough at the base, and it is too large at the top. You are not enough of an animal, and are too much of a thinker. You must cultivate more force, "cheek," and hardness of mind; get more in love with yourself, and do not make too many sacrifices for others. Your reasoning brain and moral feelings greatly predominate; you cannot help doing good. Although not copious in speech, yet you have good talents to explain. Could teach phrenology better than you can examine heads. Take care of your health, for you have none too much vitality; and do not over-do in your zeal to do good to others.

DUNCAN (Carrickfergus).-You have a vigorous, working, industrious organization, and when you have anything to do worthy of an effort, you take hold in earnest, and generally finish what you begin. There is danger of your straining the point to gain an end; you cannot be half way in anything. You have an open, frank nature, are very sympathetic, and liable to be too generous. You have good practical talents, and could be either a scientist or a literary man, a lawyer or a doctor. Can do business better for another than for yourself. You can love, or let it alone.

A. K.-You are favourably organized for the enjoyment of life, health, and labour. Will not contradict yourself very often; are well balanced in body and mind. Are generally good-natured; yet capable of a high degree of excitement. You have a practical, scientific turn of mind; are a good judge of things, their uses, qualities, and conditions; are wide awake to what is going on around you, and are very fond of experiments. Would have made a good doctor, civil engineer, or builder. Are fond of music and oratory; are aspiring, and anxious to improve, and get up in the world, and be respected. You have a strong social and sympathetic nature, and liable to come too easily under their influence. Your mind, as a whole, is rather too tender, and could do with more destructive and executive power.

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S. R. M.-You have great self-control, especially over your muscular system; are nimble on your feet, and could make an expert gymnast. Are full of spirit, and fond of teasing and joking. Are rather proud, and in sympathy with the superior class. Are very positive, and have presence of mind in times of danger. great amount of energy, but not much cunning, fear, or timidity. Are quick of observation, and easily adapted to any off-hand business. Can make a good master but a poor servant, especially if you were interfered with. You are sharp, pointed, witty and personal in your remarks, and very quick to take a hint, and to see the bearings of a subject. Are good to entertain company. Can succeed as a business man, but are more in your element when you oversee and take the responsibility, hold office, or have a profession.

L. A. R.-You have an intense, earnest, and sincere nature, and

are much given to thought and intellectual pursuits; you have a predominance of the mental temperament, and would prefer to give your time to reading and study, if not to teaching. You will never be satisfied in this world, for what you know will make you want to know more. Your standard of perfection is high, and as you improve it will grow higher and higher. Your greatest enjoyments are not connected with passions and selfish gratifications, but in sentiments, sympathies, and affections. Your mind is the most active when you are alone, for your imagination makes up your whole mind. You have good talents as a scholar and writer, and are particularly interested in the development of first principles. You have great selfrespect, and are firm in your principles.

J. S. R. You are naturally jolly, happy, and capable of exerting a genial and aspiring influence over others. You are a law unto yourself and able to regulate your own conduct. You have all your wits about you, and are alive to the news and doings of the day. You take a great interest in others, whether old or young. You are living for two worlds, this and the next. Are kind, respectful, spiritual, hopeful, conscientious, firm, steady, and uniform. You have energy without undue force; are industrious, but you do not fret about your work. Are thoroughly domestic, and fond of home, and are well adapted to married life. Are a good talker, and can entertain others agreeably. Are orderly, and know where your things are. You have an intuitive mind, are quick to take the hint, and you readily discern the character and motives of others. You will have many friends, no enemies.

W. T. (Glasgow).-You have a temperament and tone of organization that indicates industry, strength, and tenacity. You have a thoroughly practical, utilitarian cast of mind. Your experience and not your imagination is your guide; you deal in facts not in abstract theories. You are a good judge of what you see, and have good powers to plan, lay out, and oversee work. Have talents for a builder or a scientific man. Are plain, if not blunt-spoken; you abominate a hypocrite are firm in your opinions, and were designed to be a master. You work too hard.

J. B. (and others).-Please read the conditions prefixed to these answers to correspondents. They are very simple and we cannot depart from them. From the apparent inability to grasp this fact much dissapointment is occasioned.

"THERE is not a more dangerous evil than a flattering, dissembling counsellor. While he talks, his advice has hands and feet; but when it should be put in practice, it stands like a mule, which will not be spurred forward."-Luther.

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Phrenological Magazine.

OCTOBER, 1883.

M

W. E. GLADSTONE. *

A DELINEATION BY L. N. FOWLER.

R. GLADSTONE is one of the marked men of the age as to political standing, learning, and personal influence.

His phrenological organization is equally marked, and the science is fully sustained by what is known of his true character, aside from the opinion of his political friends and opponents.

His head is large, giving him his predominating power; yet he has a strong frame, a vigorous muscle, and a tenacious constitution. His strong osseous system has a great regulating and balancing influence, while his muscular system aids to give strength and stamina to his character. He has not a superabundance of arterial and digestive force, so that he does not show an excess of impulsiveness or animal feeling; hence he does not often go beyond his strength. He thinks, talks, waiks, and works without much friction. He has more balance of per than most men. He can take average

views of subjects, and does not delight in extremes of sensationalism. He has a great amount of force and executive ability, and has pluck to endure hardships and even severe labour. His frame is as well adapted to physical exercise as his brain is to the manifestation of thought and feeling, and he must have a distinct pleasure in work. His head is prominent in the crown and above the ears, giving him an acute sense of character, desire for position, influence, and appreciation, joined to a high degree of perseverance and determination of mind.

This delineation appeared in the first number of the PHRENOLOGICAL MAGAZINE, which, though several times reprinted, is out of print. Therefore, as the demand for the delineation still continues, it has been thought best to reprint it in this form.-ED. P. M.

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He has a marked degree of intellectual power. His frontal lobe is long, and very fully developed, and he is particularly large in the perceptive faculties, which give him great range of observation, definite and correct perception of things, their qualities, conditions, and uses; also shape, proportion, the laws of gravity, colour, the order, and the arrangement of things and ideas, a ready power to estimate numbers, recall places, to acquaint himself with facts, and the results of experiments, and to give him general scholastic and experimental memory. His large Language, joined to his great variety of knowledge, enables him to express himself in a free, and easy, and copious manner. His very large Order, connected with his great discipline of mind, enables him to arrange all his thoughts before utterance; while his large Constructiveness and Ideality aid to give scope to his mental operations, finish to his style of speaking, and ingenuity in the constructing of his sentences. His Secretiveness and Cautiousness aid to give reserve and tact, if necessary, in presenting his ideas; while his very large Comparison and Intuition give him great insight, penetration, and aptitude in getting at the essence of truth, together with great power of illustration, thus enabling him to make the most of his knowledge and experience.

He has superior ability for scientific or literary pursuits; can apply ideas, illustrate thoughts, and criticise positions taken, and make improvements; as well as originate, invent, start the debate, and lay the foundations.

The strength of Mr. Gladstone's character, however, is in his moral brain. His portraits indicate that all the organs are full or large in development. Probably Hope is the smallest of the group. He is not given to extravagant anticipation, and in making his plans he makes considerable allowance for failure. His hope is greater for the far than the near future. Conscientiousness, Veneration, and Benevolence are all controlling faculties, and must have an intense and abiding influence on character and motive. He could never allow himself to be governed by expediency without doing violence to his nature. There is something of the Hebrew prophet in his moral composition. Naturally slow to adopt innovations, and accept new ideas, he is conservative rather than revolutionary; yet once possessed of what appears to be a sense of duty, and it is as if he were given a command from above to "go and do this thing." His large Cautiousness, together with his Conscientiousness, makes him hesitate in taking a new position or a fresh responsibility; but having taken the step, he withholds not his hand from the plow.

Duty to God, duty to man, and duty to himself, as regards his allegiance to truth, must have always constituted the ultimate court of appeal in his character, and the decision therein come to, whether arrived at soon or late, compels his obedience, and having accepted a position, few men would more resolutely and steadfastly manifest the courage of their opinions. Mr. Gladstone might have been a more "popular"

man, in the ordinary sense of the term, if he had had more affability, suavity, and bendingness of mind (if I may coin a phrase), but it is not easy for him to be "all things to all men." Life to him is "real" and very " earnest," and though his mental constitution is such that he could have excelled in many spheres, he would not have been in his element save in one that brought him into direct contact with the actual problems of life.