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THE WORTH, TALENT AND PATRIOTISM

JOSEPH KENT GIBBONS,
WHO FELL IN THE SERVICE OF HIS COUNTRY DURING THE GREAT
REBELLION.

By P. L. BUELL.

WITS AN INTRODUCTION BY NELSON SIZEE.

New York:
SAMUEL R. WELLS, PUBLISHER,
No. 389 Broadway.
1868.

TO THE

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BORE THE BRUNT OP EVERY BATTLE,
RENDERING EMINENT BUT UNDISTINGUISHED SERVICES, BRAVELY
SUFFERING FROM WOUNDS OR PATIENTLY ENDURING HUNGER,
INSULT AND CRUELTY IN LOATHSOME REBEL-PRISONS;
OR WASTING AND DYING IN HOSPITALS, THUS
GIVING THEIR PRECIOUS LIVES THAT
THE NATION MIGHT LIVE,
THIS AJTECTIOHATB TBIBT/TE
TO ONE OF THEIR NUMBER, IS GRATEFULLY INSCRIBED,
BY THEIR FRIEND, THE AUTHOR.

CONTENTS.

IntroductionBirth and Parentage . ' .
His Mother, Poetical
Early Habits of Reading
Educational Opportunities
Opinions respecting Poets .
Enters a Printing Office
" Liberty Song "
" The Flag of our Union "
" To E  ." Stanzas to a Sister
Contributions to the Press
" The Christian's Prayer " .
" A Sabbath Morning "
" Wreck ofthe Jeff Davis "
"Angel Visitants"
Religious Conversion
"A Simile"
The Present Crisis .
Views of National Affairs
" Fall of New Orleans "
" The Ups and Downs of Life "
The John Brown Song
Enlistment in the Army
¦" Acrostic" .
Notes from Camp
*,' Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation
^victory . • . .
Hardship ofthe Sick Soldier's Life
" The Soldier's Grave " .
Last Illness ....
" Paraphrase ofthe 128th Psalm" — his last Poem
Last Entry in his Diary
Death ....
Tribute by a Friend .
Christian Life aud Death
Home at Last

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INTRODUCTION.

The Great American Conflict condensed the history of
ages into four years. Its history will never be written,
never fully understood. Here and there some splendid
name evinced its power and won immortality ; but every
regiment, every company, had its hero. There were march
ing in the ranks of the great army of the Republic men of
genius and of culture. In a single company there might be
found men who could build and run a locomotive, who could
edit a newspaper, teach a department in college, manage a
commercial establishment, or conduct a cause successfully in
a court. "When patriotism inspires a people, and a holy cause
calls them forth as in this great conflict, it is not the idle,
the thriftless and dissolute, mainly, who make up the ranks
ofthe army ; nor are they, as in old monarchies, the unwill
ing conscripts torn from family and from business to fight
for a king and for a cause they may detest ; but when the
Stars and Stripes were assailed, when the nation's life was
put in jeopardy by such a rebellion as finds no parallel in
history, from the broad North every church and school-house
sent its representative, every family gave up a member —
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some, half a dozen each— inspired by patriotism and aroused
to valor by the dearest interests that stir the human heart.
Whenever one of those brave patriots fell in battle, not per
mitted to live to see the victory which his hope predicted,
it always gave us sadness. For we regard him as blest
above measure, who, entering, such a contest, for such a
cause, is permitted, though maimed and crippled, to
live to see the ensign of freedom floating again over every
fort and field which the hand of treason and rebellion had
grasped. He who through the battle-shock may. strive and
suffer, if he may but live to see the consummation of his
wishes; is remunerated for every sacrifice made in the tri
umphant, holy cause. How many of those brave-hearted
men pined in prisons, wasted in camps, or fell on the bloody
field before victory was even sure ! For such, and their
memory, let us shed a tear. The " Poet Soldier," whose
memoirs are preserved to his relatives and the few precious
friends who were permitted to know him during his brief
career, was among the number who, by faith, saw the fru
ition of their hopes, but, like the faithful Israelite who ex
pected to reach the Promised Land, fell in the wilderness.
It is a precious legacy for so young a man to leave to his
relatives and fellow-citizens, that he had the clearness of
perception to see the end from the beginning ; to see the
glorious results of his sacrifices and his efforts ; to anticipate
lhat which time only was required to reveal; and thus see
ing with gratitude the result, close his eyes peacefully and
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noble life was not brief. Experience laid the foundation
and faith filled up the picture ; and he, therefore, died as
ripely as many a man of fourscore years. The death of
such a one is a public loss, but his example and his precept
shall bless the world more than many a long life.
When it is remembered that nearly every school district
from which the great Union army was drawn has its hero
and its martyr, many a mother who reads the story of the
" Poet Soldier" will see in it mirrored the qualities of her
own beloved who gave himself that the nation might live.
NELSON SIZER.
New York, Sept., 1868.

THE POET SOLDIER.

Joseph Kent Gibbons was born at Granville, Mass., Sep
tember 9, 1840. He was one of a family of twelve children,
two of whom died in infancy, and seven between the ages
of seventeen and twenty-seven. His father, James H. Gib
bons was a man of strong mind and sound judgment ; but
from early life did not enjoy robust health. He had a strong
desire to obtain an education ; and with the advantages af
forded him at the common school, he qualified himself for a
teacher, and was successful in that vocation. Knowing the
value of learning, he gave his children all the opportunities
to obtain it which his circumstances would permit.
His mother's maiden name was Philura Gibbons. She
was a woman of more than ordinary talents ; and remark
ably fond, from childhood, of the beautiful in nature and
art. Her father was a farmer of moderate means, and could
not give his daughters, the advantages of an education be
yond that which could be acquired in the common schools
of New England. In these schools she made commendable
improvement in knowledge, and gained a superior educa
tion, considering the opportunities she possessed for acquir
ing it. Her father objected to her having equal advantages
at school with his other children, because she could get her
lessons at home without a teacher.
She was remarkably fond of poetry and eloquence ; and
her recitations, from the writings of distinguished poets and
orators, at school examinations, elicited the warm commen
dation of such a man as Rev. Timothy M. Cooley, D.D., who,
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for half a century, was a kind of godfather, superintendent
and visitor of the common schools of his parish in East
Granville. She taught school several terms with admirable
success ; and only left a calling that she loved and honored,
to assume the most responsible of all positions a woman can
hold ; namely, that of wife and mother.
It has been said, that " the poet is born, not made ;" and
the subject of this sketch inherited from his mother that
native poetic talent which entitles him to an elevated place
on Mount Parnassus. His talent for poetry was born in
him, and he wrote, not for the purpose of gaining the ap
plause of his fellows, but from an inspiration or mental ne
cessity laid upon him.
His birth-place was on the eastern slope of the Green
Mountain range, commanding a view of that part of the
valley of the Connecticut River lying between the cities of
Hartford, Conn., and Springfield, Mass. The view from this
jleVated place is exceedingly beautiful, and well calculated
to excite the imagination of one whose mind was delighted
with the beauties of nature as seen in the variegated land
scape. His father was a tiller of the soil ; but notwithstanding
the necessity that his children should labor for their sup
port, he gave them all the encouragement and aid in his
power to acquire an education. Joseph, though taught to
perform the usual duties on a farm, never took delight in
them. At an early age, when engaged in work that did not
require mental action, his thoughts would revel in the realms
of science and philosophy, and he would forget that he was
toiling with his hands -in the field. He always intended to
be faithful in the performance of the duties assigned him on
the farm ; but his habit of imagination, thought or absence
of mind, would sometimes cause him to leave the " bars
down" which separated the cattle, from the corn-field- and
a damaged crop was the consequence. When reprimanded
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self by saying, that he forgot to do his duty, because his
mind was engaged in reflecting upon a passage he had re
cently been reading in one of Shakspeare's plays. With a
mind thus constituted, it became evident to his father that
he never would excel in the occupation of a farmer ; and he
encouraged him to qualify himself for teaching. After hav
ing attended fifteen terms at the common school in his na
tive district (commencing at the age of four years), he, in
the winter of 1856-57, being then sixteen, attended a select
school at Granville Corners, taught by Martin Tinker Gib
bons. At this school he was noticed for diligence in his
studies, a quiet, unobtrusive deportment, and an ardent de
sire to improve his mind.- At the close of the winter term
he resumed his labor on the farm, and continued it through
the summer. He commenced a private diary, February 27,
1856, and continued it till December 8, 1862. This led him
to put his thoughts on paper with readiness, and was the secret
of his ability in writing for the press. The following passage
in his diary of April 27,1857, shows his love of the beautiful :
" About three o'clock in the afternoon, at the closing of a
rain-storm, there was seen a rainbow ; which I consider one
of the most beautiful, soul-enlivening sights ever presented
by Nature to mortals while shrouded in this form of clay."
In the month of May, in the same year, he wrote :
" This is a pleasant and beautiful evening. The moon is
now shedding her silvery beams upon earth, and bringing
to light many objects which otherwise must have been
shrouded in night's gathering gloom. It is sweet and ele
vating to sit and muse upon the beauties of such an evening ;
and, I think, as did a certain writer, that there is more to be
learned from nature than from books, because books are
liable to mistakes, and often lead the inquirer after truth
astray ; but nature, if interrogated by the enlightened and
truly refined individual,
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until it has arrived at some great and important truth. I
think few have greater respect for books than myself; still,
they have their origin in, and their foundation upon, the
laws of nature. I say this of the scientific and philosophical
works which have been written from time to time ; and I
say it, not because I love books less, but nature more."
On the following fourth of July he showed his love of
books, as he states in his diary, by purchasing Milton's
" Paradise Lost," together with the poems of Pindar and
Anacreon. On the 12th of the same month he says :
" I have been reading ' Paradise Lost,' which more than
fills my expectations, and as far as grandeur and sublimity
are concerned, far surpasses any work I ever read." *
He spent the summer of 1857 in labor and reading, and
attended the Select School at Granville Corners the suc
ceeding winter, under the same teacher as the year previous.
In the winter. of 1858-9, he attended a select school in East
Hartland, Ct., and had for his instructor Rev. Mr. Hall the
Congregational clergyman of that place. From the tone
of his diary during the term he spent at this school, it
appears that he was well pleased with his teacher and the
course of study that he pursued. He wrote several essays
for a paper called The Acorn, conducted by the members of
the school, which exhibited originality of thought and a
vivid imagination. At the close of the term, February 18
1859, he made the following entry in his diary :
" Think, on the whole, that I haye made very good pro
gress in my studies the past winter — have been throuo-h with
astronomy and rhetoric, b.Qth of which were new to nie and
commenced to read Latin."
He left school for home, and to labor on his father's
farm during the spring and summer ; but he did not lay
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not devoted to labor, innocent amusement, or social inter
views with relatives and friends, was improved in reading
and study. In this manner he continued to improve his
mind while he was engaged in tilling the soil. Only a few
days after the close of the school, he made record in his
diary of visiting the bookstore nearest to his home, which
was eleven miles distant, in the town of Westfield, Mass.,
and of purchasing Young's "Night Thoughts." The day
after he purchased this book he wrote : " Passed the day in
study and doing chores." On the 15th of March he wrote :
"The day has been rainy, and my time was passed princi
pally in reading Blair's ' Lectures on Rhetoric' " A short
time after this, he said : " Rain fell from morning till night
without intermission ; consequently, I spent the day in the
perusal of some of my favorite authors." He was a diligent
student of the Bible, and generally attended religious ser
vices. Sunday, April 3, 1859, he wrote: " Weather stormy ;
did not attend church ; passed the day at home in the perusal
of the Scriptures." He had a retentive memory, and re
flected much on what he read. He also had the faculty of
just criticism. On Friday, April 22, 1859, he wrote as follows :
" Finished my first perusal of " Night Thoughts," with
which work I have been agreeably entertained. It contains
many original and startling proofs of the immortality of the
soul ; some sublime passages ; a good many beautiful met
aphors, and one simile, in Night 544, that would do honor
to any poet."
Soon after this he took up Burns' poems, and on Saturday,
June 3, 1859, the following occurs in his diary :
" Finished reading the poetical works of Burns, and, on
the whole, have been highly delighted with them. My
slight knowledge of the Scottish dialect, in which nearly
half of the poems are written, doubtless deters me from
perceiving many of the beauties of this world-famed poet.
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Saturday Night,' which I consider this author's master
piece, than from any other poem, of its length, I ever read."
Shakspeare was his favorite author, still he took time to
read the writings of poets of less fame. On Sunday, August
14, 1859, he made an entry in his diary as follows :
" Finished reading Pollok's ' Course of Time,' which, on
the whole, I like very well. Many parts of the work failed
to make a very favorable impression upon my mind at the
first perusal. Indeed, I have little doubt that this would be
the case if I were to read it often. I think the fifth and
seventh books better than the rest. They contain the most
beautiful and sublime passages to be found in the work,
together with some vivid descriptions and ennobling senti
ments." He seemed, at this early age, to appreciate scientific truth
as well as poetry and imaginative writings. The following
passage from his diary of August 24, 1859, contains some
hints to scientific writers and lecturers, to which they would
do well to give heed :
" Have read a tew copies of the Duily Republican, which
contain the theories of the American Scientific Association
which assembled in Springfield a short time since to discuss
their favorite topics. Some of their facts and conclusions
are quite entertaining and appear plausible, but my ignor
ance of the subjects they treat upon, together with their
frequent use of technical terms, of which they seem unusu
ally fond, deters me from fully appreciating many of their
theories, which otherwise, doubtless, would be both instruct
ive and entertaining."
He had no taste for cruel sports, as will be seen from the
following extract from his diary of November 23, 1859 :
" Went to a hen and turkey shoot, which is the first
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that it will be tho last, as it failed to leave a pleasing im
pression on my mind."
These extracts from his diary during the spring, summer
and autumn of 1859, are given to show how he improved
his time during the long school recess, and we shall close
them by giving his views of Byron as penned by him, De
cember 3d :
" I have read nearly all of Byron's poems, and have been
fascinated with them. I consider Byron second to no mod
ern poet but Shakspeare, and ' Childe Harold ' the most
sublime, and ' The Bride of Abydos ' the most beautiful, of
his poems."
During the winter of 1859-60, he attended a select school
at Granville Corners, Mass., and had for instructor Mr.
Griffin. During the term, he manifested his usual zeal in
the prosecution of his studies, and made commendable pro
gress. The following summer he spent on the farm, and nothing
of special interest occurred. His mind was continually at
work while his hands were engaged in toil, and his leisure
moments were improved, as they had been in previous
years, in reading and study.
In the autumn of 1860, he engaged to teach a school in
one of the districts in Granville, but circumstances over
which he had no control induced him to relinquish the
undertaking ; and during the winter of 1860-61, he attended
a select school at Granville Corners, and had for teacher
Mr. M. B. Whitney. As he was now in his twentieth year,
he naturally enough looked forward to some occupation
which would be congenial to his taste. He had a strong
desire to avail himself of the advantages of a collegiate
course of study, but after due deliberation he abandoned
the idea, and concluded, wisely, to enter a printing-office,
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mental powers, and an opportunity given him to improve
his talent for writing, by the stimulating process of putting
his thoughts in print in the pages of a rjublic journal.
In accordance with this decision, he entered the office of
the Westfield Neivs Letter in April, 1861. His object was to
prepare himself to edit a paper ; and he deemed it judicious
to learn the art of type-setting. His habits of accuracy, in
whatever business he attempted to perform, enabled him in
a short time to set a column of matter with less typographi
cal errors than most compositors who had served an appren
ticeship of three years at the business. He had been in the
office but a few days, when our nation was thrilled with ex
citement by the news that Fort Sumter, which was com
manded by the gallant Anderson, had been bombarded by
the secessionists, under Beauregard, and had surrendered to
the usurpers. This occurrence inaugurated the era of civil
war in our nation, and fired the minds of all patriots with
enthusiasm for the Union and for Freedom. Mr. Gibbons
at once engaged in the Union cause, and, at first, thought
only of using his pen for the upholding of the supremacy
of the Government. His patriotic spirit was animated by
the crisis, and he wrote the following lines, which were pub
lished in the Evening Daily Bulletin, issued at the News Let
ter office, on the 27th of April, 1861 :
LIBERTY SONG.
"God save our Union 1" let us sing ;
And while our notes spontaneous ring,
Let each their choicest offering bring
To Freedom's holy altar !
Our Stars and Stripes are overshaded ;
How have their former glories faded 1
Our very hearth-stones are invaded !
Then rise and never falter !
Shall rebel hordes of reckless traitors,
Our " Southern Arnold's " imitators,
Of fiendish broils the foul creators,
Infringe our sacred right ?

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No I Union, Justice, Liberty,
Our watchword evermore shall be ;
Then let us make our Nation free,
Or fall in Freedom's fight !
Our poet was modest and unassuming, as is usually the
case with true genius ; and not having arrived at majority,
adopted the signature, " By a Minor," for his first poetic
effusions that appeared in print. He wrote only when his
mind seemed to be under the influence of an unseen agency,
and then words came to him unbidden. On the 5th of June,
after there had been a season of flag-raising in Westfield, as
there had also been through all the loyal States, the follow
ing, from his pen, appeared in the News Letter :
THE FLAG OF OUR UNION.
Hail to the Flag that so proudly floats o'er us 1
Hallowed and loved be the land where it waves ;
Still may false traitors and foes crouch before us,
Nor wantonly trample our forefathers' graves.
Justice and Liberty,
Rising in dignity,
Soon shall assert o'er this nation their claim ;
Sumter and Baltimore
Blush that our brothers' gore,
Shed in their precincts, consigns them to shame.
'I hen wave, thou fair Banner, 'on Liberty's Tree !
Before whom the tyrants of Europe oft trembled ;
Still guard thou the land of the sage and the free,
From the foes who disdain it, with treason assembled :
So our country again
Shall respire from its pain,
And sing the glad conquest that rendered her free ;
And Slavery's strong band
Shall be rent in our land,
"While proud despots tremble at Heaven's just decree.
From the outbreak of the war, he was firm in the belief
that it would end in the emancipation of the slaves, held in
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bold arm of war, a death-blow to free government in Amer
ica. This idea is embraced in the last lines of the foregoing
poem. In that early stage of the war, few supposed that
the freedom of the slaves would result from the sanguinary
conflict ; but his prediction, that —
" Slavery's strong band
Shall be rent in our land,"
has proved literally true ; and the rulers of Europe, in con
sequence of the triumph of freedom in America, now trem
ble for the perpetuity of their despotic institutions.
When quite young, Mr. Gibbons lost a beloved sister.
Time could not obliterate her memory ; and in the News
Letter of July 3, 1861, the following stanzas appeared, ad
dressed , TO E  .
Sweet Sister ! though long years have sped,
Like meteors of the night,
Since o'er thy lone and narrow bed
Grim Death first claimed his right,
Still does thy cherished mem'ry shed
A halo of delight.
Thy fairy form's angelic air,
Endowed with childhood's grace,
Is blent with all that's sweet and fair
Which Time can ne'er efface,
And hovers round my heart to share
A lonely dwelling place.
How dark and drear life's path has been,
Since childhood's years have flown ;
How deeply tinged with grief the scene
Which Fortune made my own ;
Till humbled by this haughty Queen,
I bow before her throne.
But, ah I how soon life's sorrows flee,
When thy loved form appears,
Which, dear as heaven itself to me,
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And robs the dark futurity
Of its most hideous fears.
Then let thy presence hover near,
To glad my longing eye ;
And when this frame shall press the bier,
My spirit soaring high
Shall, joined by thee in concert dear,
Ascend its native sky. by a minor.
Mr. Gibbons did not confine his pen to the construction
of measured lines, but frequently wrote prose articles of
real merit. The following, which appeared in the News
Letter of July 17, 1861, will give the reader a pretty good
idea of the style of his prose productions :
" We have long believed that ' a wise foe is better than a
stupid friend,' according to the old Arabian proverb ; but
have never seen it so fully exemplified as in the present
crisis of our national affairs, in which the mere casual
observer cannot fail to perceive that the stupid friends of
slavery have done more within the last six months by their
rash and treacherous measures to undermine their cherished
institution, than the whole concentrated force of abolition
ists have accomplished during the past half century. Truly,
" ' God works in a mysterious way,
His wonders to perform,'
and in the present instance is employing the Southern fire-
eaters, merely as tools, to work out their own destruction
and the liberation of our sable brethren from their galling
servitude. " For none can fail to observe that the present contest is
between freedom and slavery, government and anarchy ;
and he who now hesitates to assist in quelling rebellion is
totally destitute of true patriotism ; nay, more, is an acces
sory to the most hollow-hearted treason that ever blighted
the most benighted ages of the world. No true patriot will
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that the outbreak exists ; and our business is to inquire, noc
how it originated, but how it can be most speedily put down.
Who, for instance, on hearing that all which he possessed,
together with the lives of his nearest and dearest friends,
was imperiled by a conflagration, would pause to inquire
how such a disaster was produced, and whether it might
not have been avoided if attended to in season? Is the
present crisis an affair of less moment ? Most emphatically
not. For not only all our possessions and lives are endan
gered, but the model of all earthly governments is on the
verge of extinction, unless speedy and effectual measures
are taken for its restoration.
" Then let us rouse ourselves to the herculean task of
defending our country against its traitorous assassins, and
wash the stain of slavery from our nation's honor, if need
be, with the blood of the Southern rebels. Much has already
been done on the part of the Government, but more still
remains to be accomplished ; for, although the rebels are
dispossessed of many of their strongest fortifications, and
becoming greatly intimidated in consequence of it, still we
can never hope for a permanent peace until an entire sub
mission is made by the rebels, and their ring-leaders are
given up to the Government as a pledge of their future
loyalty." His mind dwelt much upon the future life, and the meet
ing of loved ones in that land where sickness and death
never enter, and where partings and farewells are unknown.
The last verse in the following hymn, shows that he had a
foretaste of heavenly joys in the presence of the " Father
of Love," and " the friends of other days." It was pub
lished July 81, 1861 :
THE CHRISTIAN'S PRAYER.
Father of Love ! on Thee I call
To guide my steps in Wisdom's way ;
Oh ! grant that I may never fall
Beneath Temptation's crushing sway.

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But may Thy influence divine
Dispel the storms that whelm me round-
Dark Vice to her own realm consign, \
And widen Virtue's narrow bound.
Though nameless ills have o'er me fled,
And left their footprints on my brow,
Still Thou canst raise the drooping head
If to Thy will it deigns to bow.
Thus shielded by Thy sov 'reign power,
My earthly pilgrimage shall seem
A foretaste of Thy heav'nly bower,
Where bliss eternal reigns supreme.
And when death's joyful hour shall come,
And set my uncaged spirit free ;
Oh ! waft me to Thy hallowed home,
Beyond the storms that sweep life's sea.
There, rapt in sweet communion dear,
With saints — the friends of other days,
This heart shall still Thy worth revere,
These lips still murmur grateful praise. BY A MINOR.
The sons of the Puritans were educated to observe the
Sabbath day, and " keep it holy." Our poet was a lover of
the Sabbath, not as a day of bodily rest merely, but as a
time to hold communion with the "Author" of this hal
lowed day. With this mental inspiration, it is not strange
that he should have penned the following lines, published
Sept. 11, 1861 : A SABBATH MORNING.
A cloudless morn succeeds the vanished night,
And breathes a holy fragrance through the air ;
All nature smiles, enraptured with delight,
' And basks serenely in the sun's bright glare ;
The very trees a sacred influence share.
And wave in adoration to their God,
Whose praise the birds in carols sweet declare ;
While spires, at distance, mark the hallowed road
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Now, pensive Nature, draped in robes serene,
Breathes through her hushed domains a pensive prayer
To Him who framed this heaven-inspiring scene,
His gracious worth and goodness to declare —
Of immortality let none despair,
Where'er we turn it glows with living fire,
And warns frail man to flee temptation's snare
In tones as sweet as flowed from David's lyre—
Of gifted bards of old the true poetic sire.
Who has not felt this soul-entrancing theme
Inspire his bosom with devotion's fire 1
Whose heart not echoes the inspiring hymn,
Rapt Nature chants to her Eternal Sire ?
Till lifted on the wings of chaste desire
Th' enraptured spirit spurns at earthly joys,
And yearns for scenes where bliss doth ne'er expire —
Where neither time, nor moth, nor rust destroys,
Nor bitter poisonous dregs life's sweetest cup alloys ?
I thank thee, Author of this hallowed scene,
That Thou has decked me in an earthly mould,
To live and suffer with the sons of men
A few brief years, then pass to realms unknown,
Where Thy superior wisdom shall unfold
With splendor that doth human thought excel ;
And though I may not^Thy design behold,
In lodging me in this terrestrial cell,
Still will I trust in Thee, and rising doubts dispel.
The following item appeared in the News Letter of Sep
tember 11, 1861 :
" In the present issue we publish the last of a series of
poetic effusions ' By a Minor,' as the author has recently
outgrown his minority, and will publish his future contribu
tions over the signature of J. K. G."
His first contribution under his new signature, was on the
23d of October, 1861. It will be remembered that the rebel
steamer, Jeff Davis, was lost at sea, and this occurrence
called out the following appropriate stanzas :

IN A PRINTING OFFICE. 23

WRECK OF THE JEFF. DAVIS
The dauntless steamer swept the tranquil deep,
And deemed her fame uplifted to the skies ;
For winds had lulled the waves to calmest sleep,
And conscious Nature, rapt in vague surmise,
Beheld false traitors spurn her precepts wise.
And is it thus, 0 righteous Heav'n ! that they
Who grossly trample Friendship's holiest ties,
Receive thy gracious smile's approving ray
To gild their, path to shame, and shield them from dismay ?
But hark ! with frightful swell the billows rise,
And spread a direful consternation round ;
The freighted ship heeds not men's feeble cries,
But, plunging o'er the waves with desp'rate bound,
Reels — falls — and sinks amid the deaf 'ning sound !
The wretched thieves their boasted prize disdain,
And dream no more of conquest, laurel-crown'd ;
Some reach the shore, some sink beneath the main,
While Nature, thrilled with joy, thus swells th' exulting strain.
" Sound the loud anthem, O Land of the Free !
For the proud boast of tyrants lies whelmed in the sea.
Who now shall dare question the justice of Heaven,
And tarnish with doubts her immutable laws ?
For awhile tho' Vice triumphs, ere long it is riven,
And expires in the web its own treachery draws.
Exult then in triumph, and raise the glad song
To Him who has sundered the power of the strong.
" Awaken, fair Freedom's memorial band !
And know thy proud heritage ever shall stand.
For as souls are bedimmed by the clay that encumbers,
But flash forth to view from the door of the tomb ;
So Liberty's fire never dies, but oft slumbers,
To awake and the hour's darkest peril relume.
Then swell the loud anthem in praise to thy Maker,
Thy country is His, and He ne'er will forsake her.

" Arouse, ye invincible sons of the brave !
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And your sires who repose 'neath the clods of the valley,
Shall hear the sad tale of your national blight,
And straight in the van of your legions will sally,
And marshal to victory, Truth and the Right ;
Then on to the conflict, ye sons of the brave !
And preserve the rich blessings your sires died to save." J. k. G.
The_ doctrine that the spirits of our departed friends take
cognizance of what is transpiring on earth, has been inves
tigated by many men of sound minds of late years. The
Bible is quite plain on this topic, and those who have ex
amined the subject candidly and without prejudice, believe
that the spirits of the dead have knowledge of what is trans
piring on earth. The following, as well as some other poems
by Mr. Gibbons, shows that this subject had not escaped
his notice. It was first published Dec. 25, 1861 :
ANGEL VISITANTS.
When the day has taken its mystical flight
To distant realms unknown,
And the mournfully-pensive, mysterious night
Re-ascends her sable throne,
And her vassal, Sleep, that magician wild,
Whose sway extends o'er all,
Conjures to the view of the fondly beguiled
Their destiny's rise or fall :
Then the kindred spirits of by-gone days —
New-robed in seraphic attire,
And illumed by the sweetly-endearing rays
That innocence only can wear —
Descend on their missions of mercy benign
From Heaven's enchanted bound,
To the halls where their long-severed kindred recline,
Which their presence makes holy ground.
First, the mother that watched o'er my childhood days
With a seraph's tender care,
And taught me in treading life's thorny maze
To avoid temptation's snare ;

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And still true to her trust as in days of yore,
While my longing spirit thrills
To join her again on the heavenly shore,
Thus her message of love instills :
" Still yearns- my son in the spirit world
To rejoin his kindred band,
And revel in glory our Maker unfurled —
The chief work of His master hand ?
Await, then, His time ; and a few brief years
Will summon you home to rest,
Where Virtue and Happiness ever endears
Our glorified land of the blest 1
" Nor murmur that life's fairest day is o'ercast
With sombre clouds of care —
That misery's poignant and pitiless blast
O'erwhelms the crushed soul in despair ;
For the stormy ills that enshroud life's day
With a dark, sepulchral gloom,
Refine and temper its cumbrous clay
For the world beyond the tomb."
Then follow in concert the household train
With their lessons of truth sublime,
Which sink in my soul, and ever remain
To guide it through earth's dark clime ;
For as Heaven's most distant stars may cease,
And their light thro' long years still gleam ;
So the precepts thus taught, tho' their authors surcease,
Through memory's portal shall stream. J. K. G.
Up to the winter of 1862, Mr. Gibbons, though a model
of goodness and morality, as far as human judgment could
decide, had not met with that change of mind which can
only be explained by those who have realized it. The Scrip
tures declare it a mystery ; and our Great Teacher said :
" The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the
sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh or whith
er it goeth : so is every one that is born of the Spirit." He
attended public worship on the Sabbath at the Second Con
gregational Church in Westfield. This church was then un-
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26 EARLY DAYS.
der the pastoral care df Rev. J. S. Bingham, who was one
of the few who believe that it is possible for every religious
society to enjoy a constant revival. For this he labored,
and, during a ministry of about six years in Westfield, was
. wonderfully blessed.- Mr. Gibbons was one of his converts.
In March, 1862, he wrote the following lines, which seem to
be a transcript of his feelings, after having experienced the
joys of the " new birth :" A SIMILE.
With what a soul-reviving power,
Fair Spring in gorgeous robes arrayed,
Descends to dress her vernal bower
With flowers that deck each rural glade.
From long confinement Nature springs,
Beneath the bonds of winter riven,
And wafts on adoration's wings
Rich wreathes of incense up to heaven.
So when the light of heaven pervades v
The soul that long in darkness dwelt,
And every grosser feeling fades
Before the throne at which it knelt —
With joy the new-born spirit glows
To see the power of darkness riven,
And finds its " inner life " bestows
The bliss which makes this earth a heaven.
The views of Mr. Gibbons in relation to the war, were
comprehensive, and showed that his mind had dwelt upon
the subject. We give his ideas of the " Crisis," as published
in the News Letter of May 7, 1862, as follows :
THE PRESENT CRISIS.
"Among the multifarious conjectures which the present
rebellion awakens in every reflecting mind, by far the most
important one, we imagine, may be expressed in the follow
ing brief interrogatory, ' Can a Free Government exist ?'
In other words, have we, as a nation, arrived at that stand
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us to govern ourselves, or must we acknowledge our ineffi
ciency in this respect, and submit the reins of government
to the hands of despotic rulers ? • Upon the solution of this
question suspends the destiny not only of our own nation,
but ofthe whole civilized world. For if our great and glori
ous nation is doomed to the utter ruin which would ineyit-
ably follow the success of this treasonous rebellion, what
foreign nation would henceforth dare to hazard the experi
ment of a free government for fear of a like result ?
" All who are conversant with our own history must be
conscious of the fact that England sneered at our theory of
a republican form of government ; and that France enabled
us to acquire and support it, not from any real sympathy
for the cause, but from purely selfish motives resulting from
her inveterate hatred to England and jealousy of its supe
rior naval power ; and both of these nations, it is highly
probable, anticipated our downfall at no very distant pe
riod; and should their prophecy prove well founded, and
the success of this gigantic and unholy rebellion plunge us
into irretrievable ruin —
" ' How will posterity the deed proclaim !
Will not our own and fellow-nations sneer.
While Scorn her finger points through many a coming year !'
" But we are persuaded, however, that better things are
in store for us. England and France dare not interfere in
behalf of the Southern Confederacy for fear of a rebellion
by their own subjects ; while the battle-fields of Donelson,
Pea Ridge, Shiloh and New Orleans — to which future gen
erations will proudly advert as the foot-prints of a mighty
nation struggling for human freedom — have demonstrated
the exhaustless resources of the Government, the daring in
trepidity of our soldiers, the invincibility of a just and
righteous cause, and, above all, the strong and overruling
hand of Providence bearing and directing us on to future
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ish in the Red Sea of a just retribution rather than forego
its miserable traffic in human chattels, is already tottering
on the very brink of destruction, and soon to take its final
plunge into utter nothingness."
On the 26th of April, 1 862, New Orleans, thought to be
impregnable by the rebels, fell before the prowess of the
Union forces, led by Porter, Farragut and Butler. This
was a fearful blow to the then waning fortunes of the lead
ers of the " Great Rebellion," and a fine theme for our poet.
Under the inspiration which the fall of this city furnished,
he wrote the following poem, which was published May
28, 1862 : FALL OF NEW ORLEANS.
In that far off Southern region
Where the woes of slaves are legion,
Where the mighty Mississippi pays its tribute to the main —
Calmly sleeps the Cresent City,
Guarded by her fierce banditti,
While the evening wide extends her heavenly pensive reign —
Starts in fright — then sleeps again.
Ah ! for years the bitter wailing
Of these slaves, their griefs detailing,
Rose from thence just heaven assailing with its plaint for freedom dear ;
But their masters' hearts were rigid —
Moral feelings had grown frigid,
Blighted by that institution which doth generous feelings sear,
And they still resolved to scourge them bathed in many a scalding tear,
On these terms — if not too dear.
Moments skip in dulcet measures,
Lulling " Ocean's Queen " in pleasures,
Fleeting pleasures often broken by vague sounds that zephyr bore=j
Still in haughty mood she ponders,
While her buoyant fancy wanders
O'er the shivered wreck of Freedom drifting down Time's sullen shore,
Till her Sibylline predictions which she raved and gloated o'er,
Echo in this strain did pour —
" Wealth is mine and power forever ;
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Though on them with vain endeavor all the banded North should pour.
Freedom 'neath my hand is quailing,
And my raptured sight is hailing,
At a fast-approaching epoch, Slavery's triumph on this shore."
But these baseless, vain delusions which her teeming fancy bore
Vanished soon to cheer no more.
Morning now with purple pinions
Flitting o'er night's dark dominions,
Ushers in a scene terrific, ghastly as the Stygian shore ;
For a fleet, destruction-bearing,
Her confines now fastly nearing,
Led by Porter, Farragut and Butler, famed in years before —
Tn a well-directed torrent, deathful, fiery missiles pour,
And she quailed beneath its roar.
Finding combat worse than needless,
AncUof former boasting heedless,
Low she sinks in tame submission that ne'er bowed to right before ;
And her boasted consort, Cotton,
(Long since buried and forgotten)
For a final expiation for his guilty reign of yore,
Pampered by an institution which Archangels e'en deplore —
Winds to heaven, an offering bore.
But a fearful retribution
Frowning o'er this institution,
Threats to whelm its perpetrators in a flood of human gore ;
And this great secession craven,
Whose destruction is engraven
On the hearts and swords of those who Freedom's cause restore,
Whose brief days e'en, now are numbered as Belshazzar's were of yore —
Soon shall sink to rise no more.
Heavenly Father ! mercy-loving,
And in righteousness reproving,
Thou Jwho reared fair Freedom's structure on this heaven exalted
May Thy strong, right arm protect us, [shore ;
And Thy light divine direct us
How in Wisdom's narrow pathway through the climes of peace to soar,
And our trampled, sable brethren to their native rights restore —
Thus to praise Thee evermore 1 J. k. a.
Mr. Gibbons, though usually grave and somewhat taci
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mirthful. But his mirth never had a tendency towards vul
garity, and his wit was of an elevated character, the ten-
ency of which was to refine, and not debase. The follow
ing, introduction and all, from his pen, shows that he was
not wanting in true wit. Published June 4, 1862 :
THE UPS AND DOWNS OF LIFE.
Mb. Editor : — The following lines which have been ascribed to the
pen of Saxe — though some critics have had the incredulity to question
their authenticity — are sent you for insertion in the News Letter, if you
think them worthy. And whether or not Saxe originally penned them
— which is indeed a very difficult question to determine — is a subject
of minor importance ; since the merit of all literary productions de
pends upon their own intrinsic worth, and not, as some suppose, upon
their authorship. j. K. G.
The morn, adorned in her gorgeous hue,
Dewed the earth from her life cheering cup ;
And the sun first greeted the transient dew,
And then told it to " dry up :"
When a man, in his own conceit grown wise,
Walked forth the scene to review,
And instruct his lad in the mysteries
Of his sage experience true;
" Thou art little versed, my lad," said he,
" In the ups and downs of life ;
Then listen while I relate to thee,
A lesson with woflder rife.
" On most, if not all, who inhabit this ball,
Does Fortune both smile and frown —
First raises the hopes of her credulous dupes,
And then hurls them roughly down.
" Even thus for long years, steeped in misery's tears,
Spurned down by her harshest decree,
Did I plod my rough way till my locks had grown gray,
Through a world void of comfort for me.
" But wondrous to tell 1 a change now befel,
Through Fortune's reversed decree ;
For one day I was run for a constable,
But the next, one run for me.

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" At last did Fortune on me gleam,
And 't was my chance to win ;
For strange to you though the fact may seem,
The last run I got in."
All true patriots desire the melioration ofthe human race,
and the advancement of intelligence and virtue among the
people of all nations. Mr. Gibbons was not only a true pa
triot, but a philanthropist; and loved all mankind, as well
as his country. This innate sentiment of his mind led him
to hate oppression, in all its varied forms, and especiall y
slavery, as it existed in our country. He saw the justnes s
of the cause in which John Brown was engaged, howeve r
rash and ill-advised the means he employed to carry it out,
and in July, 1862, wrote the following introduction to the
John Brown song :
The following spirited lyric which originally appeared in the Kan
sas H&rald, is universally acknowledged to be one of the most remark -
able productions of the age ; and the enthusiasm which it awakened
in the Union Army has been ' unbounded. It is, indeed, to the loyal
Americans of the present day what the "Marseilles Hymn" was to the
French patriots, and " Bruce's Address " to the Scots ; and we venture
to affirm that, in the true essence of lyrilc poetry it is no whit inferi o r
to either of these meritorious productions, notwithstanding the quain t
homeliness which everywhere pervades it, and, which, if duly appreci
ated, will be admitted to form one of its most enduring characteristics ;
as it contributes, in no small degree, towards giving it tjhat indescrib
able something, which the literary world has always been content to
denominate the highest effort of true genius without being able to
point out the primary elements of which it is composed :
Old John Brown's body lies a-mouldering in the grave,
While the bondmen all are weeping whom he ventured for to save ;
But though he lost his life a-fightiug for the slave,
His soul is marching on,
Glory, glory, Halleluj ah I
Glory, glory, Halleluj ah !
Glory, glory, Hallelujah I
His soul is marching on.

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John Brown was an hero undaunted, true and brave,
And Kansas knew his valor when he fought her rights to save ;
And now, though the grass grows green above his grave,
His soul is marching on.
He captured Harper's Ferry with his nineteen men so few,
And frightened Old Virginia till she trembled through and through ;
They hung him for a traitor — themselves a traitor crew,
But his soul is marching on.
John Brown was John the Baptist of the Christ we are to see ;
Christ, who of the bondmen shall the Liberator be ;
And soon through all the South the slaves shall all be free,
For his soul goes marching on.
John Brown he was a soldier — a soldier of the Lord ;
John Brown he was a martyr — a martyr to the Word ;
And he made the gallows holy when he perished by the cord,
For his soul goes marching on.
The battle that John Brown begun, he looks from heaven to view,
On the army of the Union with its flag, red, white and blue ;
And the angels shall sing hymns o'er the deeds we mean to do,
As we go marching on !
Ye soldiers of Jesus, then strike it while you may,
The death-blow of Oppression in a better time and way,
For the dawn of Old John Brown is a-brightening into day,
And his soul is marching on,
Glory, glory, Hallelujah I
Glory, glory, Hallelujah 1
Glory, glory, Hallelujah 1
His soul is marching on.
The love of liberty and a republican form of government,
was never more nobly illustrated in the history of the world,
than by the eagerness and willingness with which the young
men of the free States volunteered to fight for the mainte
nance of the Government of the United States from its threat
ened overthrow by armed traitors. The sons of the wealthy,
brought up in refined society, those of clergymen, presidents
of colleges, and all kinds of professional men, as well as the
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laboring with their hands, alike offered themselves, and were
eager to join the Union army. From the beginning of the
war, Joseph K. Gibbons had a desire to enlist ; but before
he had arrived at his majority, his father objected to his
joining the army, and that ended the matter for that time.
When, however, he had arrived at lawful age, he thought
his duty to his country was above everything else. He
loved his father and his brothers, but his attachment to
the Government that had protected him rose above that
selfishness which bestows its love upon a few individuals, to
the neglect of mankind.
Soon after the seven days' battles before Richmond, which
ended in the repulse of the Union forces on the 4th of July,
1862, the soul of the nation was depressed. On the 1st of
July, 1862, President Lincoln issued a call for 300,000 more
troops. It was in response to this call that the 34th Massa
chusetts regiment was raised in the western part of the
State. Company G of this regiment was raised in West-
field, and a number of young men, from the most influential
and reputable families in the place, joined it. Mr. Gibbons
seemed to feel as if a necessity was laid upon him to join the
army, and day and night his mind dwelt upon the subject.
He went from Westfield to Granville, to consult with his
father relative to enlisting, and after a long talk about the
hardships and privations of a soldier, and his naturally
feeble constitution, it was found that arguments would avail
nothing, and the father said : " Joseph, go, my son ; but I
I shall never see you again in this world, after you have en
tered the army." He returned to Westfield, went immedi
ately to the selectmens' office and recorded his name as a
volunteer ; and the gloom that had rested on his face for
several days vanished, and it was lifted up with a cheerful
smile of hope, which the withering hand of time can never
efface from our memory. He was full of life and animation,
and immediately set about making preparations to go with
his regiment to Camp Wool, at Worcester. His last work
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34: IN THE ARMY.
at the News Letter office, was to put in type the following
acrostic : ACROSTIC.
Since thy loved spirit left its native skies
And sought a dwelling in this world below,
Reluming with its heavenly-seeming guise
All kindred hearts with pure affection's glow,
How rare have been the joys thy charms on all bestow !
Now circling years have winged their mystic flight,
And ushered in thy life's third lustrum fair —
Oh 1 may'st thou long illumine Friendship's sight ;
May guardian angels holy converse share,
In sweet communion with thy soul, to shield thee from all care !
But may thy days in joyous currents flow,
Unruffled by the stormy cares of time ;
Each passing hour diffuse a roseate glow
Like richest incense o'er thy form sublime ;
Long may'st thou thus remain the grace and glory of our clime.
j. k. a.
After having been in camp a short time, he wrote as fol
lows : " 1 like it, thus far, as well as I expected. Twenty
men of our company were mustered into service on Satur
day afternoon. We had no religious service here on Sun
day, on account of the rain."
The regiment left Camp Wool August 12, 1862, byway
of Norwich, Ct., for its destination near Washington city.
On the 28th of August, 1862, Mr. Gibbons wrote to us as
follows :
"Our regiment arrived at Washington on the 17th of
August, and marched to Camp CaRey, on Arlington Heights,
the next day, where we remained until the Friday following.
We then marched to Alexandria, and camped out till the
next Sunday, when we removed to our present encampment.
Our company is in excellent spirits, and would evidently like
nothing better than an opportunity to show the rebels the full
extent of their power and discipline.
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which the famous ' John Brown song ' had exerted in our
army, and supposed, naturally enough, that the accounts of
it were, at least, highly colored, but I have arrived at the
conclusion that not one half has yet been told. One truly
feels that his " soul is marching on," and can never be stayed
until the last vestige of slavery shall be annihilated."
Again, under date of Camp Worcester, Va., Sept. 9, 1862,
he wrote the following, which breathes the spirit of true
patriotism :
"I acknowledge the receipt of several back numbers of
the News Letter, whose contents were devoured by our com
pany with a rapacity that would seem incredible to one who
is not inured to the scarcity of literary food which a life in
camp necessarily brings.
" Our regiment has not yet been called into active service,
but still remains under marching orders. One company of
our regiment is marched, daily, to Alexandria, to quell riots
and to gather up straggling soldiers. We frequently pass the
building rendered sacred to every loyal heart by the blood
of the martyr Ellsworth, and hereafter to be blazoned by
that divine effulgence which coming generations will delight
to throw around this noble relic of American patriotism.
And none, it seems to me, who are possessed of a single
spark of humanity, can contemplate the untimely fate of
young Ellsworth without feeling that he, too, is ready to
make a similar sacrifice, if his country requires it of him.
" Many persons are disheartened at the late sudden over
turn in our national affairs, caused by the late reckless raid
of Jackson towards the Capital ; but I have no share in this
feeling, and incline to the opinion that it is the enemy's con
dition that is desperate instead of ours, and that this very
desperation forced them into an untimely raid which will
ultimately prove their ruin, and bring the present fearful
contest to a happy and peaceful termination.
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men, perhaps, are unfit for duty ; but none, I believe, are
dangerously sick. A young man, brother to the chaplain of
our regiment, died last night of dysentery.
" I have often heard of instances of soldiers being poi
soned, but place no reliance in these reports. I think that
if the soldiers are permitted to live until poisoned by the
people living in these parts, their days will not be short
ened. For my own part, I have never hesitated to purchase.
of th e inhabitants of any place through which I have passed,
and have never been injured by so doing.
" The soldier's life is much as I expected to find it. I
have never regretted that I enlisted, and think I never shall,
be the result what it may."
A little after this he wrote :
" About one-fourth of our company are off from duty ou
account of ill-health. The regiment is now in camp near
Fort Lyon, situated within half a mile of Camp Worcester."
On the 22d of Sept., 1862, President Lincoln issued his
Emancipation Proclamation, giving freedom to slaves, in
States and parts of States, on and after January 1, 1863.
This proclamation called out Mr. Gibbons' poetical talent,
and, under date of Camp Lyon, Va., Oct. 7, 1862, he wrote
the following :
LINCOLN'S EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION.
" Behold, I will send my messenger, and he ehall prepare the way hefore me."
MatiAchi iii. 1.
Uttered by Jehovah's sanction, through His Prophet's sacred pages,
Which proclaimed the happy advent of the righteous reign of peace,
Was this soul-inspiring promise, which again these latter ages,
In their mystic course have reproduced to bid our trials cease.
For our Nation's great redemption this eventful day presages,
Which has seen our servile bondmen to the heights of freedom reared
By our Nation's wise Preserver, who our toil and grief assuages,
With the knowledge that foul Treason's stain is from our country
cleared.

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Glorious message ! sent from Heaven for the healing of the nations I
Joyous harbinger of Freedom's peaceful, pure, unsullied reign I
Whose great framer shall inherit every hero's heart's libations
And a name that world-wide Washington might emulate in vain ;
For these words of wondrous import, though but few and plainly spoken,
Having once been sent adrift, are doomed forever to expand ;
Till the writhing chains of bondage fall beneath their mystic token,
And the Nation's future glory is with Freedom's rainbow spanned.
Father Abraham ! honored parent of a Heaven-protected Nation !
Who, unaided, dared withstand the shock of Treason's direful brood,
Till thy glowing spirit kindled into wildest adoration,
All the kindred hearts of Freedom with like fortitude imbued !
Words can never frame a tribute equal to thy deed's high merit,
And we shrink beneath the effort aU unable to resume ;
But our children's childrens' praises shall extol thy hallowed spirit,
While they deck, with rural chaplets rare, thy ever-honored tomb.
J. K. G.
Camp Lyon, Virginia, October 7, 1863.
VICTORY.
" So close earth's arms around the true and brave,
Who follow duty but to find a grave."
Many would prefer that their hero, if he must die, should
fall on the field of battle, and should be publicly heralded
to the world in the long list of honored braves whose lives
have bought a victory. Yet the writer of this sketch thinks
differently. It is well that an opportunity should be given,
once in a while, to show the patient martyrdom of those
who have lost their lives for the great cause, through linger
ing disease. Theirs is a glorious record. With enfeebled
bodies, they yet offered themselves gladly for the service of
their country. With weary feet they marched, looking aloft
to God and the flag they loved for strength. With aching
limbs they did not shun the exposure and danger of the
picket-watch, or the irksome duties of camp. Theirs was a
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denly, and then perish as soon. Their strong souls quick
ened their weak bodies ; and, while they had power to stand,
they sought no rest. When at last they were compelled to
keep their tents, they yet hoped against hope. In spite of
all discomforts, of insufficient attendance, of careless or im
proper medical treatment, they lingered near the sound of
battles in which they yearned in vain to join. Then, when
at last the heart gave up, and longed eagerly for home, it
was too late. Rough hands of rough soldier-nurses closed
the eyes of a comrade stricken by disease, but fallen with
his face to the foe.
It was pitiable in the days that preceded the admirable
labors of our Christian and Sanitary Commissions to visit
our ordinary hospitals. There was a lack of everything that
looked, or tasted, or felt like home. Wrapped in their
blankets, the soldiers lay on the ground, or on the floor, or,
perhaps, in cots, supplied with rations little, if any, superior
to the fare of their robust comrades. Yet they made no
complaint, but calmly looked death in the face, as day by
day he came nearer. Ah ! it required even more heroism for
this than to meet him in the maddening tumult of battle,
when armed with the inspiring presence of ten thousand
comrades ! Let a grateful country remember this when she
writes of her heroes.
About the middle or latter part of October, the disease
which had threatened Mr. Gibbons fastened itself upon him
in such a way as absolutely to prevent his return to active
duty. Yet the will to do was as strong as ever, and his
only desire seemed to be that he might resume his place in
his regiment. His daily record shows how earnestly he kept
this in view, while here and there it betrays the fact that
sometimes he doubted whether he- should ever be better.
Most touchingly to those who knew and loved him best, will
this fact be presented in the verses which he wrote on the
25th of this month. They foreshadow his own fate, but rise
grandly above any thought of despondency. They . have

IN THE ARMY. 39
the ring of "the death-song of the Indian warrior, chanted in
the presence of his foe :
THE SOLDIER'S GRAVE.
Underneath a hillock fair,
Where the ever-weeping willow
Chants a weird and dirge-like air,
O'er the streamlet's rippling billow.
Freedom's martyr, freed from care,
Slumbers on his lonely pillow.
Shrine, nor pillar's honored mound,
Decks the Hero's silent dwelling,
Deeds of valor to unfold,
Admiration's thought excelling ;
And his praises manifold
From his bitter foeB compelling.
Human fabrics such as these,
Time's destroying sway soon crumbles ;
Whose fell power, by Heaven's decrees,
Mightiest monarchies oft humbles,
And earth's proudest pageantries
From their lofty stations tumbles.
But a more enduring praise
Thy brave actions shall inherit ;
Which the hearts of men shall raise
O'er thy deeds' exalted merit,
Till eternal glory's rays
Consecrate thy hallowed spirit.
There he sleeps, from trouble free,
Life's dark strife in peace forsaking,
Till the final reveille
Of our new creation's waking,
Calls him with the just to be,
Heavenly joys for aye partaking. J. E. G.
Camp Lyon, Virginia, October 35, 1863.

40 - IN THE ARMY.
At this time he found leisure to finish Spencer's Fairy
Queen, and to write an admirable and just criticism upon
it, giving Spenser the position of honor he should always
hold among the pioneers of our English literature.
Yet the future is not forgotten. For on the 27th, the fol
lowing entry occurs :
" Pondered over the sublime strains of Isaiah, the beauti
ful and lofty diction of David, the elegant and pathetic style
of Jeremiah, and the condensed and comprehensive wisdom
of Solomon."
Again, on November 8th, he writes :
" Read copious extracts from Spenser and the Bible. The
latter work forms my library here, and one which I would
not exchange for any that Christendom affords."
There was light about the dying soldier at every step
through the valley of shadows. The winter winds might
beat upon his canvas roof. Home and its comforts might
be strangers to him. There might be few or none who would
speak of holy things in his presence. But there was light
within that made all serene there, and that shone out through
the weary veil of his flesh to guide his steps in peace to God.
None but a quiet heart, filled with love to God and at
peace with man, could have indited the following exquisite
paraphrase of the 128th Psalm, written at this time. It is his
master-piece ; none the less admirable because, though com
posed in the midst of camp, and under the natural depres
sion of a painful and incurable malady, it breathes through
out a holy spirit of calm. Such voices from the scene of
strife are not often heard, and it is well to pause and remem
ber them :

IN THE ARMY. 41

PARAPHRASE ON THE 138TH PSALM.
How blest the man that fears the Lord,
And walks in virtue's hallowed ways ;
With plenty are his garners stored,
And bliss supreme shall crown his days.
His wife shall flourish as the vine
That yearly swells his fruitful store ;
And round his pleasant arbors twine
^ To cheer his heart with beauty's lore.
His children at his side shall spring,
And cheer his toil from morn till even,
Like olive plants that sweetly wing
Their grateful tribute up to Heaven.
Thus blessed every man shall be
That loves and fear the Lord aright ;
And he shall Zion's glory see
In visions of serene delight.
So shall his days with peaceful flow,
Adown Time's rapid stream descend,
Till children's children's hands bestow
The rites that mark Life's journey's end.
This was Mr. Gibbons' last poem. Slowly and quietly
from henceforth he filled out and perfected the poem of his
life — a true life well spent.
Winter soon began to herald it coming, through the eold
winds and dreary rains of November. The canvas walls,
board floor, and blankets of the invalid, gave little protec
tion against its attacks. But with brave heart he yet hopes,
though writing daily on the pages that were not to be seen
until after death, " Getting no better." On November 23d
is written : " Cold and windy. Remained stupidly in tent
from morning till night, being too unwell either to read or
write, which has been the case for some days past."

42 LAST DAYS.
Again, both on November 28th and 29th, he w rites : " I
grow weaker every day ;" and December 1st, prefi xes it by
the emphatic statement, " Unquestionably !" What can the
writer's words add to the siniple, yet strong record : " Day
after day rolls gloomily by, and nothing breaks in to relieve
its dull and tedious monotony."
A ray of light breaks in for a moment in the early part
of December, but only to vanish speedily. On the fourth
of that month he was told by the doctor that he should be
sent North soon, and visions of home must have lightened
his sad heart. On the sixth he was transferred from his
own, to the hospital quarters, where he could receive better
attention ; but the change could only soothe his last few
hours. We come now to the last entry in this faithful private
record of a soldier's experience. On the 8th of December,
his trembling hand has written : " Still gaining a little, I
trust, but long to be getting North, even though it should
prove my death-journey; for I am fully satisfied that I
should live here but a short time."
So, to every dying pilgrim, wherever on the broad earth
his feet may have carried him, comes the eager desire to see
his home once more before his eyes are closed in death.
Often it is denied, and this cross is added to the sorrows
that are purifying the soul. Only in visions of the night,
only in dreams of the day, come the faces of those never to
be seen again on earth ; and the voices of those who
directed childhood's timid steps seem to speak once again.
The old home, the well-remembered hills that encircle it, the
paths that once echoed daily to the prompt tread of feet
that are too feeble now to trust their own strength, the
forms of playmates grown to manhood but all unforgotten
yet, are eloquent pleaders ; and who that is in enjoyment of
the full strength of manhood can tell how bitter was the

LAST DAYS. 43
anguish with which the poor, aching heart saw this prom
ised comfort slowly passing from its grasp ?
Soon after Mr. Gibbons ceased writing further in his diary,
he obtained his promised discharge from the army, and with
it (but too late !) the permission to return home. Hope
sprang up into strength for a moment, and the feeble body
waited " for a day or two " to grow stronger, but it was
only waiting for the silent, sure step of death. He shall
only dream, now, as the first flakes of snow fall languidly
on the plains of Virginia, of the great white seas drifted
between the hills of his home in western Massachusetts,
ploughed everywhere by the merry sleighers. He shall only
dream in future, as the cold wind pierces his thin shelter, of
the sparkling fires at home that defied the peltings and howl-
ings of the foes without, and whose gleams suggested merry
makings and happiness in the Christmas time, and the New
Year to come. Perhaps it were better so — who can tell ?
His Christmas feast was to be eaten with his Lord; and the
New Year on which he entered was to bring him no sick
ness, or sorrow, or death , nor even a tear. Without end of
days, and without limit of happin ess, the victorious soldier
was to enter into the rest provided by his victorious Cap
tain. " Well done !" " Well done !"
A letter from a comrade written Dec. 26th, gives an
account of the close of Mr. Gibbons' life. He fell asleep,
quietly and peacefully, at noon of Dec. 18th ; so quietly that
no one dreamed his end was thus near, until he was gone.
His comrade wrote : " His life while in the army has been
that of a Christian," and, therefore, for him death had no
terrors. For him the last step of all was from death unto
life. He had grown exceedingly weak. His brother soldier
leaned over him a few minutes before his death, and asked
him a question, receiving an unintelligible reply. He re
peated the question, and this time the answer came : " I'm
going home to-morrow." That to-morrow was already at

44 "GOING HOME."
hand, and the echoes of his friend's feet had scarcely died
away, before he had indeed gone home. He did not speak
again, but doubtless the unseen messengers of God were
speaking to him comfortable words concerning that distant
to-morrow for which we live and labor, that was now spread
in awful nearness before him. Voices from that Home,
voices that were sweet even on earth before Death made
them immortal ; voices of those dear friends of the dying man
who had been called before him, mingled in the song of
Moses and the Lamb that was already swelling on his ear.
He heard the " well done " from the Captain of his Salva
tion, and at that word all the disappointments of earth
faded away. For where man saw a life lost, cut down in
the budding promise of its youth, before it had achieved
any great deed, God took it up, rounded, orbed, and com
plete. When He maketh up His jewels, such lives will be
found among His treasures.
Thus, at the early age of twenty-two, Joseph Kent Gib
bons, patriot and poet, passed away from earth. The simple
stoiy of his life and the verses he has left behind him, are
his best epitaph. Nor can any hero of this war whether he
carry the musket or lead an army, have a prouder record
than his — that he did his duty.
He sleeps quietly at his childhood's home in the village
church-yard ; yet, not he, but only the feeble frame that
fettered a strong soul. He lives still in many a heart and
home, and the works of his life survive him. And thus it
came to pass, that some loving hearts gathered these memo
rials, and shaped them into the semblance of his beautiful
life. Being dead they hoped he yet might speak.
As bread upon the waters, this little book is sent out to
do its work. It may teach some hesitating heart, or make
some timid soul to become of giant strength, by its record
of a life of duty well performed. God speed it on its mis
sion I
The death of Mr. Gibbons was sudden and unexpected.

CLOSING SCENES. 45
Even the surgeon who attended him was not aware that he
was so near the portals of another world. The following
account of his last hours was given by Lieutenant Jere Hor
ton, of Company G, 34th Massachusetts regiment :
" His health had been poor for some time, but with great
courage and remarkable fortitude, he bore up under fatiguing
drills and marches, and battled with colds and weaknesses.
It was his aim to run clear of the ' doctor's list,' looking
upon such a state of things as the 'forlorn hope.' His
strong will gave out at last, and the ' forlorn hope,' or last
struggle for life, must be resorted to, and he went to the
camp hospital. Here he received the best care that camp
life gives. He had not been there but a few days, when the
surgeon called upon us for his discharge papers, which I
immediately made out and delivered to him. It was not
more than three days after this that, finding he was failing,
we sent word to his father to come and take him home, as
he would not be able to go alone. We mailed the letter on
the morning of Dec. 18, 1862, and at noon, very unexpect
edly, he died. It was twelve o'clock that the steward passed
around, and asked him what he would have for dinner. He
replied that ' he would take a little chicken and toast. The
steward stepped out to get it for him, and when he returned
Gibbons was gasping for his last breath !"
His body was embalmed and brought to Granville for
burial. His funeral was attended at the Baptist churct in
that place, on Monday, January 12, 1863. The sermon was
preached by Rev. Joel S. Bingham, of Westfield, Mass., who
was his spiritual father. His text was : " He being dead,
yet speaketh." The discourse was very impressive, and
well adapted to the occasion. The church was crowded
with the relatives and friends of the deceased, who came to
pay their last tribute of respect to the memory of him who
willingly offered his services to his country, and diprl o mar
tyr to the cause of human liberty.

46 FRIENDLY REMEMBRANCES.
Mr. Gibbons, during his sojourn in Westfield, formed a
friendship with Mr. H. T. Levi, a man of high literary taste
and refinement. They spent many happy hours together,
and their minds were in unison when conversing on the
varied merits of the great authors of the past. Mr. Levi
had a well-selected library, to which his young friend had
access. These friends on earth are both in the " spirit
world." It seems appropriate to end this little work with
the following notice of the death of " The Poet Soldier," by
H. T. Levi :
THE SOLDIER GRAVE.
" 'Neath a gentle hillock fair,
Where the ever-weeping willow
Chants a weird and dirge-like air,
O'er the streamlet's rippling billow.
Freedom's martyr, freed from care,
Slumbers on his lonely pillow."
We extract the above stanza from a beautiful poetic effu
sion, written at Camp Lyon, Va., under date of Oct. 25,
1862, by Joseph K. Gibbons, then a member of Company
G, 34th regiment Massachusetts volunteers. Since then our
young friend has passed through severe and protracted suf
fering by sickness, and, finally, like the weary and way-worn
traveler after a toilsome journey, has laid him down to rest.
The hoarse thundering of contending armies, the fearful
clash of arms and furious tread of the mighty hosts which
go forth to battle, disturb him not.
" After life's fitful fever, he sleeps well."
The martyrs to the cause of liberty are not few, and
among the names which will ever be held sacred and in
affectionate remembrance, will be that of Joseph K. Gib
bons. The golden links of that mysterious chain which
serves to unite our common humanity in one universal
bond of brotherhood, are not severed by death, but reach to

PRECIOUS LEGACY. 47
and within the veil which divides the known from the un
known world, uniting us still ; keeping sacred and most holy
within the hidden mystic cell of memory's casket, the en
dearing names of the "loved and lost," until we, too, are
called away, and shall have joined them in that " far-off
land," where sorrow and separation shall be known no more.
The deceased was an intimate and tried friend of the
writer of this article, and, possibly, no one knew him better
or loved him more.
Mr. Gibbons possessed a fine and well-cultivated intellect ;
naturally of a desponding and reflective temperament, yet
not gloomy ; truthful and trustworthy in all things ; sincere
in his attachments ; devoted to his country and his God :
" The hand of the reaper
Takes the ears that are hoary,
But the voice of the weeper
Wails manhood in glory :
The autumn winds rushing,
Waft the leaves that are searest,
But our flower was in flushing
When blighting was nearest. •
Like the dew on the mountain,
Like the foam on the river,
Like the bubble on the fountain,
Thou art gone, and forever 1"
Yes, he has gone ! but has left in his brief and useful life
an example of Christian fortitude and pious resignation,
such as only those leave who are the chosen ones of God,
and of whom it is said, " Blessed are they that do his com
mandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and
may enter in through the gates into the city." .His remains
have been buried in the church-yard of his native town,

48 HOME AT LAST.
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beautiful lines :
" He'll sleep from trouble free,
Life's dark strife in peace forsaking,
Till the final reveille
Of our new creation's waking,
Summons with the just to be,
Heavenly joys for age partaking."

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"Works on Physiology.
Pood and Diet, A Treatise. — With observations on the Dietetical
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the Dietaries of some of the Principal Metropolitan and other Establishments for
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Hereditary Descent : Its Laws and Facts applied to Human Improvfi-
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Human Toice, Tlie. — Its Right Management in Speaking, Reading
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Illustrated Family Gymnasium. — Containing the most improved
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Philosophy of Sacred History, Considered in Relation to Human
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great question of Biblical History in relation to the great moral reforms, which are
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Physiology, Animal and Mental : Applied to the Preservation and
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Physiology of Digestion. — Considered with relation to the Principles
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Principles of Physiology applied to the Preservation of Health and
to the Improvement of Physical and Mental Education. By Andrew Combe, M.
D., Physician Extraordinary to the Queen of England, and Consulting Physician
to the King and Queen of the Belgians. Illustrated with Wood Cuts. To which are
added Notes and Observations. By Mr. Fowler. Printed from the Seventh
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Science of Human Life, Lectures on the,— By Sylvester Gbaham.
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Sober and Temperate Life, — The Discourses and Letters of Louis
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Works on Hydropathy, or ¥atei\ Cure.
Cllildren, their Hydropathic Management in Health and Disease. A
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Illustrated with numerous cases. By Joel Shew, M. D. 12mo, 430 pp. $1 75.
Consumption, its Prevention and Cure by the Water Treatment. With
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Hydropathic Cook Book ; With Recipes for Cooking on Hygienic
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to Health ; the Chemical Elements and Proximate Constitution of Alimentary
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Diseases of the Tliroat ami Lungs, including Diphtheria, and their
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Domestic Practice of Hydropathy, with Fifteen Engraved Illustra
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Hydropathy for tlie People. With observations on Drugs, Diet,
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Hydropathic Encyclopedia. — A System of Hydropathy and Hygiene.
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ries and hypotheses upon which the popular drug-practice is predicated are contro
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Hydropathic Family Physician.— A Ready Prescriber and Hygienie
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Diseases, Accidents, and casualties of every kind. With a Glossary and copious
Index. By Joel Shew, M. D. Illustrated with nearly Three Hundred Engravings.
One largevolume, intended foi use in the Family. 12mo, 816 pp. Muslin, $4.
It possesses the most practical utility of any of the author's contributions to popu
lar medicine, and is well adapted to give the reader an accurate idea of the organiza
tion and functions of the human frame.— New York Tribune.
Midwifery and the Diseases of Women. — A Descriptive and Practi
cal Work. With the general management of Child-Birth, Nursery, etc. Dhw-
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Philosophy of the Water-Cure. — A Development of tho true Princi
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Confessions and Observations of Sir Edwad Lytton Bulwer. 12mo, 50 cents.
Practice of the Water-Cure. — With Authenticated Evidence of its
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Manet Golly, M. D. 12mo, 144 pp. Paper, 50 cents.
Water-Cure in Chronic Diseases; An Exposition of the Causes,
Progress, and Terminations of various Chronic Diseases of the Digestive Organs,
Lungs, Nerves, Limbs and Skin, and of their Treatment by Water and other Hy
gienic means. Illustrated with an Engraved View of the Nerves of the Lungs,
Heart, Stomach and Bowels. By J. M. Gully, M. D. 12mo, 405 pp. Muslin, $2.
Water and Vegetable Diet in Consumption, Scrofula, Cancer, Asthma,
and other Chronic Diseases. By William Lambe, M. D. With Notes and Addi
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Water-Cure Manual. — A Popular Work. Embracing Descriptions of
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Miscellaneous Works.
35sop's Fables. — The People's Edition. Beautifully Illustrated, with
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John Gardner, M. D. Tweltb. Thousand. Octavo, 54 pp. Paper, 50 cents.
Essays on Human Eights and their Political Guarantees.— By E.
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Gospel Among the Animals ; Or, Christ with the Cattle. — By Rev.
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Movement -Cure. — An Exposition of the Swedish Movement-Cure.
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Natural Laws of Man.— A Philosophical Catechism. By J. G. Spukz-
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Three Hours' School a Day.— A Talk with Parents. By William
L. Crandal. Intended to aid in the Emancipation of Children and Youth from
School Slavery. 1 vol. 12mo, 264 pp. Muslin, $1 50.
The Christian Household. — Embracing the Christian Home, Husband,
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Weaver's Works for the Young. — Comprising " Hopes and Helps for
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" Ways of Life ; Or, the Eight Way and the Wrong Way." By Eev. G. S. Weaver.
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Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women, on the various DutieB
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Milo, of London. Illustrated. 12mo, 24 pp. Paper, 12 cents.
Father Matthew, the Temperance Apostle. — His Portrait, Charac
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Temperance in Congress. — Speeches delivered in the House of Repre
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Selections from New Physiognomy.
" 0 wad some power tbe glftie gle ns,
To see oureeU as itbers see us 1
It wad frae mony a blunder free us,
Aa* foolish notion." — Bitbns.

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Fig. 976. — HENRY W. LONGFELLOW.
'RE following selections and specimen pages from "New Physiognomy," are
intended as an exposition of the general tenor of this admirable work ; which
has received so warm a welcome from the press all over^the country. In his
preface, the author says :
" We know how widely mankind differ in looks, in opinion, and in character, and it
has been our study to discover the causes of these differences. We find them in organi
zation. As wc look* so we feel, so we act, and so we are. But we may direct and
control even our thoughts, our feelings, and our acts, and thus, to some extent— by
the aid of grace — become what we will. We can be temperate or intemperate ; virtu
ous or vicious ; hopeful or desponding ; generous or selfish ; believing or skeptical ;
prayerful or profane. We are free to choose what course we will pursue, and our
bodies, our brains, and our features, readily adapt themselves, and clearly indicate the
li vcs wn lead and the characters we form.
tL It has been our aim to present this subject in a practical manner, basing all our
inferences on well-established principles, claiming nothing but what is clearly within
the lines of probability, and
illustrating, when possible,
every statement. Previous
authors have been carefully stu-
.died, and whatever of value
could be gleaned we have sys
tematized: and incorporated,
adding our own recent discov
eries. For more than twenty
years we have been engaged in
the study of man, and in ° char-
i acter-reading " among the peo- ,
: pie of various races, tribes and
i nations, enabling us to classify '
: the different forms of body.
brain, and face, and reduce to
method the processes by which
character may he determined.
Hitherto,- but partial observa
tions have been made, and of
course only partial results obtained. We look on man as a whole— made ap of parts,
and to be studied as a whole, with all the parts combined."

Fig. 749.— a miser.

Pig. 750.— A LIBEBAL.

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Fig. 434.— DESERTED.

Fig. 435.— malice.

^HYSIOGNOMY OF TnSANITY AND TdIOCY.
The chapters on insanity and
idiocy, are two of the most in
teresting in the work. Not
only are the symptoms and
outward appearances analyzed,
but Mr. Wells endeavors to
trace these abnormal condi
tions to their sources. He
treats of the varieties, the
causes, the treatment, the pre
vention, and the physiognom
ical signs of insanity, illus
trated amply by portraits and
accounts of celebrated maniacs
and idiots.
Idiocy— to which chapter
twenty-one is wholly devoted
— gives the causes, the education and the signs of idiocy ; and is one of the best proc-
tical treatises on that subject in the language. The brain being a subject to which the
author has devoted his attention for a lifetime, stamp these chapters as pre-eminently
valuable and reliable.
Fig. 434, which represents a woman who became insane on account of the unfaith
fulness of her lover, who deserted her, shows the lively, brilliant eyes mentioned by
Dr. Laurent. She still loves ; and in her mental aberration adorns her disheveled hair
with flowers, and with parted lips and " hungry devouring glances " awaits the com
ing of her heart's idol, whom she never ceases to expect.
" Intense thought, habitual reflection, and searching inquiry of any kind cause a draw
ing down of the eyebrows, as shown in Chapter XIII. (p. 249). Persons who have
become insane through hard study or the too close
application of the mind to a particular subject will
exhibit this characteristic.
" In Fig. 435 the eyes gleam with some relentless
purpose of vengeance. Such a character as tlie
one here repre
sented is danger
ous in his aliena
tion ; for he com
bines the cunning
of the fox with the
ferocity of the ti
ger. Fig. 436 is a
woman of the Cas
sandra order. The
eyes, abandoned to
the action of the
involuntary mus
cles (see Chapter
XH1., p. 233), are
rolled upward with a wild look which is indescribable. She is giving utterance to what
she deems prophetic warnings of the most solemn and awful character."'

Fig. 436— raving.

Fig. 440. — love-siok.

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Fig. 476. — THE CAUCASIAN RACE.

Ethnology, or Types of Mankind.
Ethnoloqt is a subject upon which
has been comparatively little studied.
The field is a wide one for inquiry and
research, and chapters on " The Baces
Classified," " The Caucasian, Mango-
lian, Malayan, American and Ethio
pian Baces," "National Types,"
"Ancient Types," are invaluable.
No where else can there be found
such a complete digest of the subject.
In his Introduction to these chapters
the author says :
" The question of race will be found
to resolve itself into that of organi
zation, and this determines and is
indicated by configuration. If we de
sire to ascertain to what race an indi
vidual, a tribe, or a nation may be
long, we must study the character
of that individual, tribe, or nation
through its signs in the physical system. Would we determine the status of a race or
a nation, we shall find the measure of its mental power in the size and quality of its
average brain, and the index of its civilization and culture in its prevailing style of face
and figure.
" In so new a field of inquiry as the one which we are now entering, we can not hope
to push our explorations into every part, or to investigate thoroughly every point that
we may touch upon. "We are, to some extent, pioneers, and as such shall do as well as
we can the work assigned to us, trusting that those who follow will find their progress
facilitated by our labors."
Then follows an agreeable essay fflfifpfa,
on " National Types." The princi
pal nations and tribes composed in
the various races, aie described iu
detail, with a "view to show bow,
in each, the common type is modi
fied without being lost, and how, in
all, conflguratior. and character cor
respond." "We Bhall adopt here, as best
known and most generally received,
though not perhaps most scientific,
the classification of Elumenbach.
This arrangement will serve the fSfesli
purposes we have in view as well as 1®§SS|11
any other yet proposed, and whether
it be accepted by the reader or set
aside in favor of a more recent one,
the value of the facts we shall here
throw together will not be lessened. Fig. 489.— thb American »acb.

Samuel R. Wells' Publications.

HYSIOGNOMY OF LLASSES.

Figs. 71G to 725.
Not only does the author divide the human family into the five great races and
" National types," but he sub-divides them into " classes," presenting us with groupf
of distinguished Divines, Pugilists, Warriors, Surgeons, Inventors, rhilosophors,
Statesmen, Orators, Actors, Poets, Musicians and Artists, etc. Of the poets, he says :
" One of the essential physical qualities of a poet is a susceptible mental tempera
ment. This must be of a cloar and fine— even of an exquisite— tone, to insure perfec
tion In the art. There are all degrees of poets, from the lowest to the highest, juat
as there are different classes of musicians, painters, sculptors, ete. ; but to excel, and
to inscribe one's name on the roll of great bards, one must be not only every inch a
man, but must have ' genius ' as well. It has been said by an ancient author, poeta
nascllur, non JU '—the poet is born, not made ; yet we maintain that every well-organ-
tod, human being should be able to write poetry, just as he should be able to make
music, or invent and use tools ; for has not nature given to each a like number of
faculties, the same in function, and differing only in degree and combination ?"

SJfJECIMJEJST PAGES OF
THE TWO PATHS. '

553

THE TWO PATHS.
The following contrasts, illustrative of the effects of a right
or a wrong course of life upon an individual, are submitted to
our readers. They tell their own story. In the one case we
sec a child, as it were, develop into_ true manhood ; in the
other, into the miserable inebriate or the raving maniac.

Fig. T61. Fig. 762.
Two boys (figs. 761 and 762) start out in life with fair ad
vantages and buoyant hopes. With them it remains to choose
in what direction they shall steer their barks. Fig. 763 rep
resents the first as having chosen the way of righteousness,

j^mBSMi

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Fig. 763. Fig. 764.
the upward path. He lives temperately, forms worthy asso
ciations, attends the Sunday-school, strives to improve his
mind with useful knowledge, and is regarded in the commu
nity as a young man of excellent character and promise.
24

534

NEW PHYSIOGNOMY.
CONTRASTED FACES.

In fig. 764, on the contrary, the other boy is represented aa
having unwisely chosen the downward course, thinking he
will enjoy himself and not submit to what he considers the
strait jacket of moral discipline. He becomes coarse am)

Fig. 765. Fig. 76C.
rough in feature, slovenly in his dress ; he smokes and chews,
drinks, gambles, attends the race-course, spends his nights at
the play-house or the tavern, disregards all parental author
ity and admonition, and develops into the full-grown rowdy,

Fig. 76T. Fig. T68.
and as such he sets at naught all domestic ties and obliga
tions, leaving his wife and children to beg, starve, or eke out
a wretched subsistence by the most exhausting and inadequately

676

SPECIMEN PAGES Of
CHARACTER- BEADING.

THE AETIST AND THE WOMAN" OF THE WOULD.
In Rosa Bonheur we see a child of inborn genius, inherited
from an artist-parent, developed by necessity, and perfected
by persevering exertion. From a love of them, her artistic

Fig. 982.— Eosa Bonheur.* Fig. 983.— Theodosia Bumt.t
sympathies seem to fix upon horses, cattle, sheep, etc., and if
she does not take on their natures, ste portrayed them on can
s' Rosa Bonheur was born at Bordeaux, Prance, May 22, 1822 ; her
father, Raymond Bonheur, an artist by profession, and in humble circum
stances. In 1829 he removed to Paris, where he put Rosa in a boarding-
school. There her poverty, however, was a constant source of annoyance
to her very sensitive nature, as it provoked the sneers of her wealthier
school associates. On that account she did not remain long at school, hut
being taken home was instructed by her father in drawing. From child
hood she exhibited an intuitive love of art, her inclinations tending
toward the representation of domestic animals. Making these her special
study, she soon excelled in their portraiture. The picture which has ob
tained for Miss Bonheur » world-wide reputation is " Le Marche aux
Chevaux," otherwise known as the " Horse Fair." It is now in the hands
of a gentleman residing in New Jersey. Miss Bonheur at present resides
in Paris, industriously pursuing her art. The great feature of her works
is faithfulness to nature and boldness of design.
t Theodosia Burr Allston, the daughter and only child of Aaron Burr,
was born at Albany, N. T., in 1783. Her father tenderly loved her and
spared no pains in" her education. It is said that "in solid and elegant
accomplishments she was very far superior to the ladies of her time.' ' She
married Joseph Allston, who was in 1812 Governor of South Carolina. She
was lost in the schooner Patriot, on the voyage from Charleston to New
York, January, 1813.

NEW PHYSIOGNOMY.
ARTIST AND "WOMAN OF THE WORLD. 677
vas to the life. One almost fancies he can hear her pictured
beasts breathe, so naturally are they drawn. Hers is a beau-
tifulvfaco, if somewhat masculine ; it is not coarse ; if strongly
marked, it is still womanly. The forehead is beautifully shap
ed, the eyes well placed and expressive, the nose handsome,
and the lips exquisite. The chin shows chaste affection, with
nothing of the sensual or voluptuous ; indeed, it is rarely we
meet with more natural feminine attractiveness than in this
artist-woman, and we dismiss her from our considerations
with the happiest impressions.
There is character in the head and face of Theodosia Burr.
See how high the brain is in the crown ! She was emphati
cally her father's daughter. There is great dignity, pride, will,
and sense of character indicated in her physiognomy. Noth
ing but religious influences could subdue such a nature. There
is something voluptuous in the lip, cheek, and chin. The af
fections were evidently ardent and strong. Such a woman
would scarcely be content in private and domestic life, but
would crave a high and even stately position where her pride
and love of display could be gratified. There was nothing
of " your humble servant" in this person. Educated as she
was, she could be lady-like and refined. Had she been un
educated, there would have been much willfulness, obstinacy,
and perhaps sensuality exhibited. Analyzed, her head and
face exhibit the following organs conspicuously developed —
Firmness, Approbativeness, Caution, Ideality, Sublimity, Con
scientiousness, Language, Agreeableness, and those of the
back-head generally.
Rosa Bonheur shows a higher forehead, a more meditative
disposition of mind than her associate ; her head is broader in
Constructiveness, Sublimity, Ideality, and the crown, and more
prominent in the region of Benevolence, Veneration, and Spir
ituality than that of the latter. In a social point of view,
Theodosia shows more ardent feeling, more intensity of emo
tion. The latter had more sympathy for general society, en
tered enthusiastically into its enjoyments ; the former finds her
highest enjoyment in a life of serene retirement with a limited
circle of friends and at her easel.

Comparative Physiognomy— Portraits of a Lion and Man.
" What They Say."— Notices of the Press.

Everybody is influenced in form
ing opinions by what others say. And it
requires everybody to know everything
and to do everything.' A great book, like
a great public work, is, or should be, the
culmination of all past knowledge in that
interest. "Webster's Dictionary contains
the gist of all preceding dictionaries. The
electric telegraph was suggested centuries
ago, and all mankind, dead and living,
have contributed to its establishment. So
the newspaper press throughout the world
may be said to echo the voice of the people.
The Philadelphia Press says :
Mr. Wells has put the thought,
the practical experience, the close observ
ation, and. tbe professional collection of a
life-time into this important physiological
work. He treats, as Lavater did, of Physi
ognomy, shows its harmony with Phre
nology, and explains, to elucidate both
sciences, the whole structure of the human
body. He treats of temperaments, and
contrasts the separate features of various
human races, showing also how character
is affected by climate. Very curious, too,
are his illustrations of comparative Physi
ognomy, showing the animal types of the
human race. The price of the work is $5.
A familiar chapter on Phrenol
ogy is introduced, and then follows one
on the anatomy of the face, with a close
analysis of each feature. First, the chin.
No one will dispute Mr. Wells as to the
infinite variety of chins ; but we are sure
many will be startled to hear that this un
pretending terminus of the face has been
quietly telling their love secrets. The
jaws and teeth also tell their own tales of
character. " The closest mouth can hide
no secrets from the physiognomist." — The
Anti-Slavery /Standard.

The treatise of Mr. Wells, which
is admirably printed and profusely illus
trated, is probably the most complete
hand-book upon the subject in the lan
guage. It contains a synopsis of the his
tory of Physiognomy, with notices of all
the different systems which have been pro
mulgated, and critical examinations of the
eyes, the noses, the mouths, the ears, and
the brows of many distinguished and noto
rious characters. — Mew York Tribune.
It contains a treatise on every
feature and whatever indicates peculiarity
of character, the knowledge of which re
quires appropriate education to bring into
subjugation and be made to answer a good
end, without which it would mar and in
jure the pleasures of life. All who can
afford to possess this compendium will
have value received for the expense.— Mew
York Christian Intelligencer.
It is a digest of Ethnology, it
gives us the symptomatology of insanity,
it treats of Physiology and Hygiene, and,
incidentally, of Zoology. The chapter on
the grades of intelligence is instructive,
and that on comparative Physiognomy is
exceedingly entertaining.— American Edu
cational Monthly.
There are very few men or wo
men who do not, consciously or uncon
sciously, practice Physiognomy every day
of their lives. They may ridicule the idea
that the shape of a man's head, the config
uration of his nose, or the appearance oi
his eyes, furnish any guide to an estimate
of his character or disposition, and yet the
man of business will refuse an applicant
employment because his glance is restless
and uneasy instead of firm and decided;
and every lady will quietly but quickly
form her judgment regarding the gentle
man who may be presented to her at an
evening party.— Mew York Times.

Resemblance between the Fox and Man Illustrated.

However some may be disposed
to sueev at the claims of Physiognomy to
rank among sciences, the most persistent
of them will guage much of his action in
his intercourse with his fellow-men by
facial signs. That certain facial signs in
dicate peculiarities of character can scarce
ly be doubted. Mr. Wells records the re
sult of observations of others as well as his
own: does full justice, even where he dif
fers from them, to the views of his prede
cessors, and with great industry and faith
fulness to facts, builds up his system.
He exhausts the subject and its cognate
branches, and displays a masterly power
of analysis and generalization. It is an
important volume, and deserving of care
ful study ,—Meio York Courier.
The work is thorough, practical,
and comprehensive. All that is known on
the subject is S3rstematized, explained, il
lustrated, and applied. A chapter is de
voted to Grapbomancy, or character as
revealed in handwriting. Taken as a
whole, it is the most complete and reliable
work on the subject we have ever exam
ined, notwithstanding that we claim an
intimate acquaintance with Lavater'swork
on the same subject. — The Northwest.
It is a voluminous and very com
prehensive work, taking the student by a
thousand paths to a conclusion as to its
entire correctness of theory, demonstrated
by multitudes of the aptest illustrations.
It is very entertaining and instructive, tell
ing the reader in little of great things he
should further investigate.— Boston, Gazette.
As far as the study of the face
can be reduced to a science, Mr. Wells
has succeeded beyond any other writer
or delineator of character. Kis analysis
of the different forms of faces, as in
dicating character, in the expression of
the eyes, ears, nose, lips, mouth, head,
hair, eyebrows, hands, feet, chin, neck,
teeth, jaws, cheeks, skin, complexion, the
laugh, the walk, the shaking of hands,
dress, is fully illustrated by living and
dead characters, besides* numerous out
lines to guide and instruct the reader.
Ethnology is fully treated by illustrations
of the different types of the human race,
and presented in a pleasing and instructive
form.— MiUedgeville (Georgia) Recorder.

It seems quite natural to expect
that the various features of our bodies
should express the qualitiesand powers of
which we are possessed. In all ageB the
eye has been regarded as an index to the
soul, consequently it is a popular mode of
expressing the qualities of another to say
that such a one has the eye of an eagle, a
lion, or a cat. When we think of a people
of one country as distinguished by its high
cheek-bones, and another by its lengthened
nose, and another by its thin or thick lips,
and how each country as a whole has a
mental constitution corresponding to its
physical development, we see reason for
believing in the science of Physiognomy,
and how that which is true of nations must
be more or less true of individuals. Price
$5, $8, or $10.— Scottish American.
¦The illustrations constitute the
most essential part of a work like this. ThiB
is especially evident in the chapter on
' ' Compara ti ve Physiognomy, ' ' in which the
resemblance between certain classes of men
and corresponding animals is strikingly ex
hibited in the cuts. — Methodist.
The author properly considers
Physiognomy as Ihe outward expression
of the inner man ; it shows race, class,
original inclinations, temperament, and
also the effects of association and educa
tion. Close observation and long practice
have given him accuracy in drawing conclu
sions from the peculiarities of the human
countenance, and he has reduced his ex
perience to a system, which is amply set
forth in this volume.— Philadelphia Times.
Among those who have contrib
uted to it in this country, the author of
this book is honorably distinguished, and
we feel pleasure in bearing testimony to
the conscientiousness ana ability with
which he has executed the laborious task
he imposed upon himself.— M. Y. Herald.
The prmciples sought to be laid
down in this work are made sufficiently
plain to the dullest comprehension, whil«
they are elucidated still more clearly by the
aid cf over one thousand line illustrations.
The work is got up in the elegant style pe
culiar to this house, and we regard it as a
valuable contribution to a science that as
yet is but in its infancy. — Jersey C. Times.

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HYSIOGNOMY

Testimonials.
HE most complete hand-book
of Physiognomy in the lan
guage.— iv. Y. Tribune.
It is really a complete en
cyclopaedia of the subject.—
N. Y. Gospel of Sealth.
It will form a text-hook
for Physiognomists and
Phrenologists; and serves
to mark the progress these
studies have made.— if. X. Serald.

By far the best work ever written on
this subject. It cannot be read without
instruction and profit, and it3 sugges
tions are of great value.— Ohr. Inquirer.
It is worthy of very high praise. To
road such a kindly book, puts one in a
good humor.— New York Independent.
Is a work of science, art and litera
ture, whose purity of tone will commend
it to all classes of readers.— Wide World.
Ail who can afford to possess this com
pendium, will have value received for the expense.— N. Y. Christian Intelligencer.
Our extracts last week from this popular work, proved so acceptable that we have
been induced to extend our approbation to some kindred topics.— Some Journal.
This exhaustive and admirable work defines Physiognomy and showB its benefits.
It ought to find its way to every private and public library in the land.— Serald of Sealth.
Take such a volume as this, and every one must acknowledge that Physiognomy
opens a wide field for interesting investigation. — New York Daily Times.
A work of great value. We particularly recommend it to artists.— Philadelph. Press.
We view it as a worthy addition to our library.— American Educational Monthly.
"We cannot help treasuring the book as a highly valuable repository of practical wis
dom, and of vast use to us in our course of life and action.— N. Y. Jewish Messenger.
The best work now extant upon the subject of Physiognomy, and that it is the most
interesting one of the kind ever published, cannot be questioned.— Chicago Even. Jour.
It will take a' place among the curiosities of literature and science. — Palladium.
This work is well worthy of a lengthened notice ; but our space enables us to do
little more than to commend it to the careful perusal of our readers. — Scottish J merican.
This the largest, and undoubtedly by far tbe best and most comprehensive work
upon the subject of Physiognomy ever published. — Chicago Prairie Parmer.
No one can read tbe book with any degree of attention, without deriving much bene
fit from it, and its thorough study would furnish one with a knowledge of the signs of
character indispensable to success in any walk of life.— New Jerusalem Messenger.
New Physiognomy is a voluminous and very comprehensive work, taking the
student by a thousand paths to a conclusion as to its entire correctness of theory,
demonstrated by multitudes of the aptest illustrations. — Boston Gazette.
Those who already love to study character will find this work a delightful companion :
those who desire to acquire an insight into humanity by its outward signB, cannot find
a better guide than in the illustrated New Physiognomy. — Phil. Sunday Times.
It covers the whole ground more thoroughly than any book before issued.— The Field.
The author has thoroughly popularized his language, and is at home in his subject.
The volume is full of materials from which thoughts are generated.— CUn. Inquirer.
In this volumej Mr. Wells, with a very full mastery of his snbject, and in very plea
sant Btyle, takes m all the methods of conjecturing character from external signs. Tho
work abounds with suggestive and often very instructive statements. Its tendency is
decidedly in favor of moral right. In its department, New Physiognomy is, of conrse,
a standard, coming from the standard quarter.— Methodist Quarterly Beview.
Peicb, Muslin, $6 ; Heavy Cam, $8 ; Turkey Kokooco, Gilt, Eleqakt, $10.

"It is an Illustrated Cyclopedia."

As manifested in Temperament and External Forms, and especially
in the Human Face Divine.
By S. R. W^LLS, Editor Phrenological Journal.
Large 12iho, 763 pp. With, more than 1,000 Engravings.
Illustrating Physiognomy, Anatomy, Physiology, Ethnology, Phrenol-
°OUt ond Natural History.

A comprehensive, thorough, and practical Work, in which all that is
"^ known on the subject treated is Systematized, Explained, Illustrated, and Applied.
Physiognomy is he$e.T3hown to be no mere fanciful speculation, but a consistent and well-
considered system- of Character-reading, based on the established truths of Physiology
and Phrenology, and confirmed by Ethnology, as well as by the peculiarities of individ
uals. It is no abstraction, but something to be made useful ; something to be practiced
by everybody and in all places, and made an efficient help in that noblest of all studies —
the Study of Man. It is readily understood and as readily applied. The following are
some of the leading topics discussed and explained in this great illustrated work :

Previous Systems given, including
those of all ancient and modern writers.
General Principles of Physiognomy,
or the Physiological laws on which charac
ter-reading is and must be based.
Temperaments. — The Ancient Doc
trines — Spuraheim's Description — The
New Classification now in use here.
Practical Physiognomy. — General
Forms of Faces — The Eyes, the Mouth,
the Nose, the Chin, the Jaws and Teeth,
the Cheeks, the Forehead, the Hair and
Beard, the Complexion, the Neck and
Bars, the Hands and Feet, the Voice, the
Walk, the Laugh, the Mode of Shaking
Hands, Dress, etc., with illustrations.
Ethnology. — The Races, including the
Caucasian, the North American Indians,
the Mongolian, the Malay, and the African,
with their numerous subdivisions: also
National Types; each illustrated.

Physiognomy Applied— To Marriage,
to the Training of Children, to Personal
Improvement, fo Business, to Insanity and
Idiocy, to Health and Disease, to Classes
and Professions, to Personal Improvement,
and to Character-Reading generally. Util
ity of Physiognomy, Self5mprovement.
Animal Types. — Grades of Intelli
gence, Instinct and- Reason — Animal
Heads and Animal Types among Men.
Graphomancy. — Character revealed in
Hand-writing, with Specimens — Palmistry.
"Line of Life" in the human hand.
Character -Heading. — More than a
hundred noted Men and women introduc
ed—What Physiognomy says of them.
The Great Secret. — How to be Healthy
and How to be Beautiful— Mental Cosmet
ics — very interesting, very useful.
Aristotle and St. Paul. — A Model
Head — Views of Life — Illustrative Anec
dotes—Detecting a Rogue by his Face.

No one can read this Book without interest, without real profit. " Knowledge is
power," and this is emphatically true of a knowledge of men — of human character. He
who has it is " master of the situation ;" and anybody may have it who will, and find in
it the " secret of success" and the road to the largest personal improvement.
Price, in one large Volume, of nearly 800 pages, and more than 1,000 engravings, on
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Education and Self-Improremeiit Complete— Comprising Physiol-
ogy— Animal and Mental ; Self-Culture and Perfection of Character ; including th.
Management of Tontl ; Memory and Intellectual Improvement. Complete in one
large, well-bound 13mo volume, with 855 pp., and upward of Seventy Engravings.
Price, pre-paid, by mail, $4. Address Samuel E. Wells, 389 Broadway, N. Y.
This work is, in all respects, one of the best educational hand-books in the English
language. Any system of education that neglects the training and developing all that
goerj to make up a Man, must neces'iarily bo incomplete. The mind and body are so
intimately related and connected, that it is impossible to cultivate the former without
it is properly supplemented by the latter. The work is subdivided into three depart
ments—the first, devoted to the preservation and restoration of health and the im
provement of mentality ; the second! , to the regulation of the feelings and perfection
of the moral character ; and the third, to intellectual cultivation. " Education Com
plete " is a library in itself, and covers the entire Nature or Man. We append
below a synopsis of the table of contents :
HEALTH OF BODY AND POWER OF MEND.
Physiology — Animal and Mental Health — its Laws and Preservation.
Happiness constitutional ; Pain not necessary ; Object of all Education ; Reciproca
tion existing between Body and Mind ; Health Denned ; Sickness— not providential.
Food — its Necessity and Seleotion. — Unperverted Appetite an Infallible Direc
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cooking, loss in; corn; crawfish; cows'
heels ; crab ; cranberry ; cream ; crusta
ceans ; cucumber ; Curacoa ; curd ; cur
rants, red and black,
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diastaste; diet— animal, fish, for diabetic
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grants, paupers, prisoners, puerperal wo
men, insane, sick, foundlings, orphans,
London Lying-in Hospital, Infant Orphan
Asylum, soldiers', naval service; diges
tion; dinner; drinks — acidulous, alcoholic
and other intoxicating, aromatic or astrin
gent, containing gelatine or liquid ali
ments; duck; eating— times of, repose
after, conduct before, at, after ; eels ; eggs
— can not support life, white or glaire,
yolk; elderberry; ergotism.
Farina; fats, animal; farinaceous food
for infants, or starchy substances; fer
mentation, digestive ; ferns ; ferrotypes ;
fibrine, animal ; fig; fish— diet, methods of
preserving, poison, poisonous species of,

the roe or ovary of, the viscera of; fishes;
flounder ; flour, wheaten ; fluorine ; flum
mery; food consumed by and excretions
«f a horse in 34 hours ; animal food — di
gestibility, circumstances, chemical ele
ments, quantity of, at a meal, refusal of,
by lunatics, solid and liquid, nutritive
qualities of, vegetable; fowl; fruits — au-
rantiaceous, cucurbitaceous, drupaceous, or
Btone, fleshy, leguminous ; frying ; fungi
or mushrooms; fur of tea-kettles.
Garlic ; gastric juice ; gelatine altered
by heat ; gelatinous alimentary principle,
Bubstancea ; gin ; ginger beer ; ginger
bread; globules of the blood; glue; glu
ten; glutinous matter; goose— fattening
of, fatty liver of, gooseberries ; gorman
dizing powers of the natives of the Arctic
Regions; gourds; grape, the— juice, su
gar; greens; gruel; gums; gum-arabic
lozenges ; gypsum, eaten, in water.
Haddock, the ; hartshorn ; hazel-nut ;
hemp, Indian; herring; horse, food con
sumed by; hydrogen.
Iceland moss; Indian corn starch;
indigestion, diet for ; iron ; isinglass, vari
eties of.
Jams; jellies, fruit; jelly, calfs foot;
Jerusalem artichoke.
Ketchup; kidney.
Lactic acid; leeks; leguminous fruits;
lemonade; lemon and kali; lentils; lich-
enin, or feculoid ; lime ; limpets ; liquid
aliments, or drinks ; liquorice ; liver, fatty,
of the goose, the frequency of diseases of
in tropical climates ; lobster, the.
Macaroni ; Madeira ; magnesium ;
maize, or Indian corn ; malt, liquor ; meat
—butchers', salted, white; milk— animal,
artificial asses', cocoa-nut, cows', cream
of, ewes', goats', quantity of cream in
cows' ; molasses and treacle ; mollusks ;
morel, common ; moss — carrageen, or
Irish, Ceylon, or Jaffna; mucilage; mnl-
berry ; muscle ; muscular flesh ; mush
room, field or cultivated ; mussels, oysters,
deleterious effects ; mustard ; mutton.
Nectarine ; nitrogenized foods ; nutmeg.
Oats ; oat-bread, unfermented ; oatmeal
porridge; obesity, mode of promoting;
oil— Florence, olive, or sweet; oils, essen

tial or volatile; onion; opium; orange;
organic tissues ; ox, liver of the ; oxalic
acid ; oxygen, consumption in respiration ;
oyster. Packwax; panada; pancakes; pars
ley ; pastry ; peas ; peach ; pemmlcan ;
pepper ; pepsine ; periwinkles ; pineapple ;
plum; pomaceons fruits, or apples; port
wine ; porter ; potash ; salts ; potassium ;
potato flour ; powders — ginger-beer, soda,
seidlitz ; prawns and shrimps ; preserves ;
prunes; pudding; putrescent matter, ill
effects of.
Quina; quince.
Rabbit; raisins; raspberry; ratafias;
rations, army ; receptacles and bractB ;
rennet; reptiles; rhubarb; rice; roasted
flesh; rolls, hot; rum; rusks; rye — bread,
ergot, pottage.
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CONTENTS op
The Illustrated Annuals of Phrenology & Physiognomy,

1865

Introduction. ?
Physiognomy Illustrated.
Debatein Crania.
A Young Hero.
Fighting Physiognomies Illustrated.
The Color of the Eye.
The Five Races of Man Illustrated.
Great Men used to Weigh More.
A Word to Boys.
Lines on a Human Skull.

Palmer, the English Poisoner.
A Good Hint.
Self-Keliance— A Poem.
Our Museum.
The Bliss of Giving.
An Almanac for a Hundred Tears.
The World to Come.
Signs of Character in the Byes.
Where to Find a Wife.
General Information.

18 6 6

Andrew Johnson.
Abraham Lincoln.
Julius Caesar.
Character in the Walk.
The Mother of Eev. John Wesley.
Character in the Eyes.
Practical Uses of Phrenology.
Stammering and Stuttering— A Cure.
Lieut.-Gen. Ulysses S. Grant,
The Red Man and the Black Man.
Heada of the Leading Clergy.
Heads of the Most Notorious Boxers.

Fate of the Twelve Apostles.
Two Qualities of Men.
Home Courtesies.
.Cornelius Vanderbilt.
Language of the Eyes.
Phrenology and Physiology.
Brigham Young.
Richard Cobden.
Phrenology at Home.
Major-Gen. Wm. T. Sherman.
John Bright— With Pom aits.

18 6 7

Names of the Acuities.
Hindoo Heads and Characters.
About Fat Folks and Lean Folks.
Immortality— Scientific Proofs.
Thos. Carlyle, the Author.
How to Study Phrenology.
The Jew— Racial Peculiarities.
Civilization and Beauty.
The Hottentot or Bushman.
Nursing Troubles.
A Bad Head— Antoine Probst.
Forming Societies— How to Proceed.
Matrimonial Mistakes.
Something About Handwriting.
How to Conduct Public Meetings.
Author of the " Old Arm Chair?'
Rev. James Martineau, the Unitarian.
Dr. Pusey, the " High-Churchman."

Fronde, the Historian.
Thiers, the French Statesman.
John Ruskin-the Art-Writer.
Rev. Charles Kiagsley.
A Chartered Institution.
Significance of Shaking Hands.
Wanted— Competent Phrenologists.
Bashfulness — Diffidence — Timidity.
Cause and Cure.
Eminent American Clergymen.
The Spiritual and Physical.
Large Eyes.
Ira Aldridge, the Colored Tragedian.
Influence of Marriage on Morals.
The Bones of Milton.
New York Society Classified.
To-Day— A Poem.

18 6 8,

A Brief Glossary of Phrenological
Terms.
Advancement of Phrenology.
Circassia, and the Circassians.
Jealousy— Its Cause and Cure.
Temperament and Natural Languages.
Voices— What they Indicate.
The Rulers of Sweden.
Marriage of Cousins— Its Effects.
George Peabody, the Banker.
What Makes a Man ?
Senator Wilson, American Statesman.
Bad Heads and Good Characters.
D'lsraeli, tho English Statesman.
Young Men.

Rev. Peter Cartwright, the Pioneer
Preacher.
Victor Hugo, the Romancist.
Miss Braddon, the Sensational Novelist.
How to Become a Phrenologist.
Monsieur Tonson Come Again.
Mind Limited by Matter.
The Two Paths of Womanhood.
Cause of HI Health.
Bismarck, the Prussian Premier.
To Phrenological Students.
General Business Matters.
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Phrenology and Its Uses.
Testimonials from Distinguished Men.

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A. Conjugal Love. — Union for life, pairing instinct.
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6. Combativeness. — Defense, courage.
7. Destructiveness.— Executiveness.
8. Alimentiveness. — Appetite for food,etc.
9. Acquisitiveness.— Frugality, economy.
10. Seceetiveness.— Self-control, policy.
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17. Spirituality. — Intuition, prescience.
18 Veneration — Worship, adoration.
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20. Construotiveness. — Ingenuity, tools.
21. Ideality.— Taste, love of beauty, poetry.
B.. Sublimity.— Love of the grand, vast.
22. Imitation, — Copying, aptitude.
28. Mirth.— Fun.wit, ridicule, facetiousness.
24. ISDiviDrjALiTY. — Observation, to see.

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28. Color. — Discernment, and love of color.
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36. Causality.— Planning, thinking.
37. Comparison.— Analysis, inferring.
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Phrenology and its Uses.
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Phrenology is the most useful of all modern discoveries ; for while others enhance
¦feature comforts mainly, this Science teaches lite and its laws, and unfolds human
ature in all its aspectB. Its fundamental doctrine is, that each mental facnlty is ex
ercised by means of a portion of the brain, called its organ, the Bize and quality of
which determine Its power. It embodies the only true Science op Mra u and philoso
phy of human nature ever divulged. It analyzes all the human elements und functions,
thereby showing of what materials we are composed, and how to develop iliem.
Phrenology shows how the bodily conditions influence mind and morals — a most
eventful range of truth. It teaches the true Bystem of Education, shows how to classify
pupils, to develop and discipline each faculty separately, and all collectively, into aB per
fect beings as our hereditary faults will allow. Indeed, to Phrenology and Physiology
mainly is the world indebted for its modern educational improvements, and most of its
leaders in this department are phrenologists.
Phrenology teaches parents for what occupation in life their children are best
adapted, and in which they can, and can not, he successful and happy. It also teaches
parents the exact characteristics of children, and thereby how to manage and govern
them properly ; to what motives or faculties to appeal, and what to avoid , what desires
to restrain, and what to call into action, etc.
Phrenology and Physiognomy teach us our fellow-men ; disclose theii real charac
ter; tell us whom to truBt and mistrust, whom to select and reject for specific places
and stations ; enable mechanics to choose apprentices who have a particular knack or
talent for particular trades ; show us who will, and will not, make ns warm and perpet
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they even decide, beforehand, who can, and who can not, live together affectionately and
happily in wedlock, and on what points differences will be most likely to arise.
Most of all, Phrenology and Physiology teach us our own selves; -mr faults, and
now to obviate them ; our excellences, and how to make the most of them ; our proclivi
ties to virtue and vice, and how to nurture the former and avoid provocation to the latter.

TESTIMONIALS.
If the opinions of learned and eminent professional men, both in Europe and America,
in regard to the truth and utility of Phrenology be of any account, then the following
testimonials should have some weight with unbiased readers.

Let man confine himself to the
phenomena of nature, regardless of the
dogmas of metaphysical snbtilty; let him
utterly abandon speculative supposition
for positive facts, and he will then be able
to apprehend the mysteries of organization.
—Dr. Gall.
While I was unacquainted with
the facts on which it is founded, I scoffed,
with many others, 'at the pretensions of the
new philosophy of mind as promulgated by
Dr. Gall, and now known by the term of
Phrenology. Having been disgusted with
the uaelessness of what I had listened to in
the University of Edinburgh (on mental
science), I became a zealous student of
what I now conceive to be the truth. Dar

ing the last twenty years 1 have lent my
aid in resisting a torrent nf ridicule and
abuse, and have lived to see Uie true philos
ophy of mind establishing itself wherever
talerit is found capable of rfstirnating its
immense value. — Sir G. S. Mackenzie,
Precedent of the Royal Society ; Edinburgh.
For more than thirteen years I
have paid some attention t.o Phrenology,
and I beg to state, the more deeply I in
vestigate it, the more I am convinced of the
truth of the science. I have examined it
in connection with the anatomy of the
brain, and find it beautifullj .o harmonize.
I have tested the truth of it on numerous
individuals, whose characters it unfolded
wit** "^curacy and precision. For the last

ten years I have taught Phrenology pub
licly, in connection with Anatomy and
Physiology, and have no hesitation in
stating that, in my opinion, it is a science
founded ou trath, and capable of being ap
plied to many practical and useful purposes.
—Robert IEonter, M.D., Professor of
Anatomy, University, Glasgow.
I have great pleasure in stating
my fir:* belief in the truth and great prac
tical utility of Phrenology. This belief is
the result of the most thorough investiga
tion, and was proved by evidence that to
my miud seemed almost, if not altogether
irresistible.— James Shannon, President
0/ Bacon College, Ky., Prof. Mental and
Moral Science.
As far as twelve years' observa
tion and study entitle me to form any
Judgment, I not only consider Phrenology
the true science of mind, but also as the
only one that, with a sure success, may be
applied to the education of children and to
the treatment of the insane and criminals.
C. Otto, M.D., Professor of Medicine in
tlie University of Copenhagen.
I candidly confess that until I
became acquainted with Phrenology, I had
no solid foundation upon which I could
base my treatment for the cure of insanity.
— Sra William Elles, M.D., Physician to
the fanatic Asylum, Middlesex, England.
All moral and religious objections
against the doctrines of Phrenology are
utterly futile.— Ajrcheishop Whately.
As an artist, I have at all times
found Phrenology advantageous in the
practice of my art ; and that expression, in
almost 'every case, coincided exactly with
what was indicated by the cerebral develop
ment.— George Rennie, Esq., Sculptor.
I have long been acquainted with
the science of Phrenology, and feel no
hesitation in declaring my conviction of
its truth. In Phrenology we find the best
exposition of the moral sentiments, and
the most approved metaphysical doctrines
heretofore taught, while it surpasses all
former systems in practical utility and
accordance with facts; being that alone
which is adequate to explain the phenom
ena of mind. This opinion, I am embold
ened to pronounce, not merely as my own
conviction, but as that which I have heard
expressed by some of the most scientific
men and best logicians of the day.— Rich.

D. Evanson, M.D., Prof. Practice of Phys
iology, R. C. S., Dublin, Ireland.
No sooner had I read Dr. Gall's
work, than I found I had made the ac
quaintance of one of those extraordinary
men whom dark envy is always eager to
exclude from the rank to which their genius
calls, and against whom it employs the
arms of cowardice and hypocrisy. High
cerebral capacity, profound penetration,
good sense, varied information, were the
qualities which struck me as distinguish
ing Gall. The indifference which I first
entertained for his writings gave place to
the most profound veneration. Phrenology
is true. The mental faculties of men may
be appreciated by an examination of their
heads.— Joseph Vimont, M.D., of Paris^
an emifjeni Physician and Author.
I declare myself a hundred times
more Indebted to Phrenology than to all
the metaphysical works I ever read. * *
Mental Philosophy is a Natural Science.
The human mind is the most important
part of nature. It rests on experience,
observation, and induction. It is a science
of facts, phenomena, and laws. * * *'
This science of mind is neglected becauso
its benefits are not immediately apparent ;
its attainments are not capable of display.
* * The phrenological division of facul
ties of the mind is far more numerous than
any other ; it looks to the classes of actions
or functions mind has to perform, and finds
faculties to perform them, as the naturalist,
who could not find the ear of a fish by look
ing externally, looked from the lobe in
the brain where the auditory nerve should
terminate outwardly, and found it. * * *
I look upon Phrenology as the guide to
philosophy and the handmaid of Christian
ity. Whoever disseminates true Phrenology
is a public benefactor. — Horace Mann.
We deem it right to mention that
Phrenology appears to us to be true, in as
far as it assigns a natural basis to the mind,
and that it is entitled to a very respectful
attention for the support given to it by a
vast amount of careful observation, and the
strikingly enlightened and philanthropic
aims for which many of its supporters
have heen remarkable. — John Chambers,
of Chambers' Edinburgh Journal.
The more I study nature, tho
more am I satisfied with the soundness
of pnrenological doctrines. — J. Mackhj.
tosh. M.A.

By this science the faculties of
the mind have been, for the first time,
traced to their elementary forms. — Robert
Ciambebs, of Chambers' Journal.
Phrenology has added a new and
verdant field to the domain of human in
tellect.— Rev. Thos. Chalmers, D.D.
Phrenology undertakes to accom
plish for man what Philosophy performs
for the external world — it claims to dis
close the real state of things, and to pre
sent nature un vailed and in her true fea
ture.— Prop. Benj. Siluman.
To a phrenologist the Bible seems
to open up its broadest and highest bean-
ties.— Rev. P. W. Drew.
Phrenology is the true Science
of Mind. Every other system is defective
'n enumerating, classifying, and tracing
',he relations of the faculties. — Prof. R. H.
fftTNTER. If we would know the u uth of
ourselves, we must interrogate Phrenology,
t and follow out her teachings, as we would
a course of religious training, after we had
once became satisfied of its truth. * * *
The result of all my experience for some
thing over two-score years is this: that
Phrenology is a revelation put by God him
self within the reach of all His intelligent
creation to bestudied andapplied in all the
relations and in all the business of life ;
that we are all of us both phrenologists and
physiognomists in spite of ourselves, and
without knowing it, and that we have only
to enlarge our observations, and be honest
and true to ourselves, and these two sci
ences will have no terrors for us, and our
knowledge of them, instead of being hurt
ful or mischievous, would only serve to
make us wiser and better, and therefore
happier, both here and hereafter ; and in
conclusion, let me say that I have never

yet examined a sturdy disbeliever with a
head worth having.— Hon. John Neal.
All my life long I have been in
the habit of using Phrenology as that which
solves the practical phenomena of life. Not
that I regard the system as a completed
one, but that I regard it as far more useful
and far more practical and sensible than
any other Bystcm of mental philosophy
which has yet been evolved. Cwrtainly,
Phrenology has introduced mental philoso
phy to the common people. Hitherto, men
tal philosophy has been the business of
philosophers and metaphysicians— and it
has just been about as much business as
they needed for their whole lives ; but since
the day of Phrenology, its nomenclature,
its simple and Bensible division of the hu
man mind, and its mode of analyzing it, the
human mind has been brought within reach
and comprehension of ordinary common
intelligent people. And now, all through
the reading part of our land, it may be said
that Phrenology is so far diffused that it
has become the philosophy of the common
people. The learned professions may do
what they please, the common people will
try these questions, and will carry the day,
to say nothing of the fact that all great
material and scientific classes, though thoy
do not concede the truth of Phrenology, are
yet digesting it, and making it an integral
-part of the scientific Bystein of mental phil
osophy.— Rev. Henry Ward Bickcher.
I speak literally, and in sincerity,
when I say, that were I at this moment
offered the wealth of India on condition
of Phrenology being blotted from my mind
forever, I would scorn the gift ; nay, were
everything I possessed in the world placed
in one hand and Phrenology in the other,
and orders issued for me to choose one,
Phrenology, without a moment's hesita
tion, would be preferred.— George Combe,
AutJwr " Constitution of Man."

We may also mention the names of the following prominent men who have accepted
Phrenology as a true science, and in various ways given it the support of their influence :

Dr. John W. Francis.
Dr. Chaeles A. Lee.
Dr. J. V. C. Smith.
Dr. MoClintook.
Dr. John Bell.
Prof. C. Caldwell.

Prof. S. G. Morton.
Prof. S. G. Howe.
Prof. Geo. Bush.
Judge E. P. Hurlbut.
Hon. T. J. Rusk.
Hon. Wm. H. Sewari*.
Phrenology being true, it should be learned, and cordially embraced by all, and ita
benefits appropriated. It comes to mankind, not as a partisan or sectarian proposition,
but as the voice of God revealed in nature to aid and guide mankind.
Phrenological Journal Office, 389 BroadiJay, New York.

Hon. Horace Greeley
Wm. C. Bryant.
"Hon. Amos Deane.
Rev. Orville Dewey.
Rev. John Piebpont.
Hon. S. S. Randall.

The Utility of Phrenology.
" I look upon Phrenology as the guide to philosophy and the handmaid of Chris
tianity." — Horace Mann.
To one unacquainted with the nature of Phrenology this
may seem an exalted assumption. The experienced philan
thropist and educator, however, knew well of what he was
speaking, and his earnest tribute is warranted by facts. The
science we advocate is regenerative and beneficent. It is a
great good to man, individually and socially. To be specific, we
will state some of the particulars in which Phrenology is useful.
It is useful because it presents the only sure basis upon which
character and disposition may be interpreted, errors pointed
out, and methods of reformation prescribed.
It is useful because practical in its adaptations. It consid
ers the human organization as it exists ; where there is a lack
of .harmony it indicates the source of that lack, and the means
of improvement by employing counteracting influences,
already in the- organization, which have been neglected.
It enables the parent to understand the natural character
istics of her child, and to intelligently unfold its budding mind.
It enables the teacher to analyze the temperaments and
cerebral capacities of his pupils, and properly classify them,
and so to adapt his instruction that they shall make the best
progress commensurate with their several abilities.
Its utility is further seen in the assistance it renders to
young men who would select pursuits in life best suited to
their natural capabilities ; relieving them of uncertainty and
hesitation with respect to this important subject, and giving
them assurance of ultimate success.
Phrenology is of great importance to the merchant or man
ufacturer, or any who require skillful and intelligent aid in the
prosecution of enterprises. It enables them to select with con
fidence those persons whose service will prove of the greatest
advantage, and thus obviate the disappointment and embar
rassment resulting from incompetent help.
It enables the business man to understand his customers, and
to conduct his negociations more satisfactorily and successfully.

Instructed by those " signs of character " which science has
classified he can avoid the fraudulent and disagreeable, and
consort only with the just, honorable and the kindly.
In social life, as in the individual character, Phrenology
exerts a beneficent and reformatory influence. They who
know each other best can best associate, and their mutual
influence will be mutually improving.
Applied to politics, Phrenology would operate as a check
upon partizanship, and promote the welfare of communities by
the elevation of honest and capable mon to positions of trust.
Intelligent men, however strongly imbued by party feelings,
are not likely to sanction the election to an office of a candidate -
whom they know to be altogether incapable of discharging its
duties. They would have their public servants competent to
meet the requisitions of office, because their own personal inter
ests are concerned ; and they would advance those interests
not depreciate them.
Phrenology furnishes correct data by which those who have
the care of the insane and vicious in hospitals and in prisons,
may be guided, and confidently expect good results.
In general society the use of Phrenology tends to inspire
closer intimacy, cordial sympathy, and a more liberal spirit.
The rough and disagreeable man knowing his disposition to be
thoroughly understood by others would endeavor to modify it,
and so gradually become gentle and courteous. The pompous
and domineering man, finding little encouragement for his
peculiar characteristics among those whose good opinion he
would have, would seek to check his loftiness and cultivate
the spirit of conformity ; while the diffident and weak would
find encouragement and gain confidence and self-reliance.
By the adaptation of Phrenological principles to his avoca
tion the clergyman would be enabled to do his onerous duties
better, and the benevolent man would be instructed in dispens
ing his bounty. We fully indorse the statement, that, " Who
ever disseminates true Phrenology is a public benefactor."

It is the office of the Phrenological Journal and Life Illustrated, a first-
class Magazine, to both teach and apply Phrenology. The Prospectus, to which we
refer the reader, sets forth in a detailed manner its special mission.

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PHRENOLOGICAL JOURNAL AND LIFE ILLUSTRATED.
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Few books will better repay perusal in the family than this rich storehouse of in
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life with its lively expositionSjappropriate anecdotes, and agreeable sketches of dis
tinguished individuals.— New York Tribune.
It is not necessary, we trust, to accept the doctrines of Phrenology in all their full
ness, in order to enjoy the Phrenological Journal. Perhaps no publication in the
country is guided by clearer common sense or more self-reliant independence. Cer
tainly none seems better designed to promote the health, happiness, and usefulness of
its readers ; and although we cannot imagine a person who could read a number of it
without dissent from some of its opinions, we should be equally at a loss to fancy one
who could do so without pleasure and profit. — Round Table.
It grows steadily in variety and value. It is uot confined to discussions of Phrenol
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It takes us longer to read the Phrenological Journal and Life Illustrated, than any
other periodical which comes to our office. Its articles are various and interesting,
and beneficial to the intellect and morality of the readers.— Religious Herald, Hartford.
Besides the matter pertaining to its speciality, the Phrenological Journal contains a
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A periodical which, more, perhaps, than any other publication in the world, is calcu
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ought to have a place in every family, and once having gained a foothold, its mainten
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Its practical teachings are of the highest value in the promotion of physical develop
ment and health, and all aim at moral improvements.— The Methodist.
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We find both instruction and amusement in this monthly visitor. — Chris. Advocate.
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The Phrenological Journal is a live, wide-awake, and progressive institution. Its
talk about Physiognomy, Ethnology. Phrenology, Physiology, etc., is both interesting
and instructive, and its numerous Illustrations add to the beauty and value of the
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The Phrenological Journal has portraits and biographical sketches of prominent
persons, both oi this and foreign countries. It is a magazine conveying knowledge
that cannot easily be obtained from any other source.— Providence (R. I) Evening Press.
The Phrenological Journal should be in the hands of every one interested in the
study of human character. — Rock Island Daily Union.
No other journal in America imparts in one year so much valuable information as
does this, and certainly no other teaches man so well to know himself. Each single
number is worth the entire amount of a year's subscription.— Cumberland (Md.) Tele
graph. The Phrenological Journal and Life Illustrated is one of the most pleasant periodicals
published. It contains an amount of reading matter far more sensible and instructive
than can be found in many journals of greater pretensions. Even those who disap
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Life is Illustrated in all its
various phases in the Phrenological Journal— a First-class Monthly
Magazine — now in its Forty-eighth Volume, edited and published in the
city of New York, at $3 a year, by S. R. Wells, at 389 Broadway.
SPECIAL OBJECTS OF THE JOURNAL.

Anthropology 5 or, the Science
of Man, considered Physically. Intel
lectually, and Spiritually, forms a
leading feature in tbe Journal.
Phrenology — the Brain and its
Functions; the location of the different
groups— social, selfish, perceptive, reflec
tive, moral— and their respective organs,
with the office or function of each, is given,
with directions How to Cultivate the
Memory, and to improve the mind.
Physiology — the Temperaments;
Dietetics ; Exercise ; Bodily Growth ;
Hours of Study and Sleep; Laws of Life,
with How to Secure aud Retain "Health
at Home," on Hygienic principles.
Physiognomy; or, the Science of
Expression'1 in the Human Face, Voice,
Walk, Action, with other Signs of Charac
ter, and "How to Read Them." If one
may sometimes detect a rogue or an im
postor without the rules of science, he can
do bo much more certainly with reliable
rules, such as are taught in this Journal.
Psychology ; or, " the Science
of the Soul." The Immortal part, in rela
tion to the Here and the Hereafter, may be
better understood and appreciated when
looked at from our stand-point. We pro
pose to give the History of All Religions
Sects andCreeds, in connection with man's
spiritual state, growth in grace, change of
heart, the better life, etc.
"What to Do." The question
"What Can I Do Best?" occurs to every
one, and the choice of a life pursuit is the
most important step in every man's history.
Success or failure; riches or poverty : fame
or infamy j happiness or misery, depend
on the choice of a calling, or the occupation
in which a person engages. One may
shine in the law, another in medicine,
another iu divinity; one is inventive;
another prefers agriculture, commerce,
mechanism, or manufacturing. Phrenology
"puts the right man in the right place. ,r
Marriage. " Be ye not un
equally yoked." Temperament indicates

who are and who are not adapted to each
other in this relation. Phrenology dis
closes the natural disposition or each,
enabling the parties to know in advance
what to expect, and how to conform where
differences exist. Why not consult it?
Children. The right education
and proper training of children is vastly
important. The usual methods are faulty.
Lives are often sacrificed by too closexon-
finement to books and to brain work.
Children should be classified by teachers
accardirfg to temperament, constitution,
and capacity. They should be governed
according to organization and disposition.
Our science affords the only means by
which to arrive at correct, conclusions
concerning temperament, disposition, char
acter, tendency, and innate capability.
The Criminal, the Insane, the
Imbecile, the Idiotic, the Inebriate, the
Pauper, and the Vagrant should be classi
fied, employed, trained, educated, and
developed according to their several char
acters. Ml maybe improved; some, made
self-supporting. Phrenology and Physi
ology should be understood and applied by
those having charge of these classes.
Finally. Our public men, ser
vants of trust, our preachers and our
teachers, ought to be chosen or selected
with reference to their constitutional fit
ness for the several posts to be filled.
Neglect of this important principle gets
communities into quarrels, contentions,
confusion. Ignorance and corruption com-.
bine to put thieves in places of trust. We
have perverted and dissipated gamblers
and pot-house politicians where we should
have statesmen. A thorough knowledge of
Phrenology would serve to correct these
evils. To disseminate such knowledge is
one ofthe objects of The Phrenological
Journal. Our writers are among the
foremost in science, philosophy, literature,
art, and education. The editor rides no
hobby; is tied to no ism, ology, or party.
Man is his theme; the world is his field,
and with God for his gnide, he will work
for'the improvement and elevation of the
one, and the approval of the other.

Reader, this is our programme. Are you with us ? The best field in
which to work is at home ; lend your Journals ; indoctrinate your neigh
bors. Begin at once, and may God abundantly bless with large accessions
all good efforts in behalf of human improvement and human happiness !

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