His intellectual lobe is uncommonly large, and well balanced. It has scarcely a weak point, but contains many very strong ones. Its forte consists in very large Eventuality and Comparison. The former remembers, the latter compares election returns, and that vast range of misceilaneous knowledge of which he is so complete a master. These organs,

in combination with his predominant Benevolence, Friendship, Conscientiousness, and Firmness, more than all his other faculties combined, have raised him to his commanding post of influence, and lead off in his character. I rarely find equally large Eventuality and Comparison, and both friend and foe are witnesses of their great power in his character. These are also ably supported by uncommonly large Causality; hence the clearness, cogency, and power of his arguments, and his copious flow of thought and sound sense. This organization coincides with the fact that he rarely puts pen to paper without SAYING Something, and something having a high MORAL bearing.

Form and Size are large. These contribute largely to success as a practical printer, proof-reader, &c. Order is also large, yet, as Neatness is small, and his mental temperament and intellect are powerful, it would naturally combine with the latter, and render him methodical in arranging his ideas, sentences, and words, and enable him to find what he alone uses, yet not give regard to style or etiquette.

Language is good, but much less than the reasoning or thought-manufacturing organs-sufficient to furnish words enough, and just THE words, for the pen, yet too little for extempore fluency. His ideas would therefore flow much more copiously than words.

Agreeableness is rather deficient; but Human Nature is very large, and would be likely to manifest itself, by enabling him to find ready access to the human mind, and to sway mankind; that is, to touch the secret cords of human action, and urge those motives which shall produce EFFECT. Large Comparison, also, contributes greatly to this result, as well as to an intuitive knowledge of human nature.

This summary of his organic conditions renders it apparent that he is no ordinary man, but that he combines great STRENGTH of mind with a high order of intellectual capacity and moral worth.

The following brief biography shows how perfectly his Phrenology coincides with his life and character.

HORACE GREELEY was born at Amherst, N. H., February 3d, 1811, and is the oldest survivor of seven children; two having died before his birth. A brother and three sisters are still living. His father and mother, who still survive, and now reside in Erie county, Pa., were both born a few miles eastward of Amherst; the latter in Londonderry, of Scotch-Irish lineage (her maiden name Woodburn); the former, in that town, or Pel

ham, of English extraction; but both families had long been settled in that region—the Woodburns since 1723. All his ancestors, so far as there exists any remembrance, were farmers-the Greeleys generally poor ones; the Woodburns in comfortable circumstances, having been allotted a good tract of one hundred and twenty acres in the first settlement of Londonderry, which still remains in the family, the property of an uncle of the subject of this sketch, who, when not quite three years of age, was taken to spend the winter thereon, in the family of his maternal grandfather, with whom he was early a favorite. After the novelty of his visit had worn off, he was sent to the district school, a few rods off, rather to diminish the trouble of looking after him in a large family of grown persons, than in the hope of his learning any thing. But he had already been taught the alphabet, and the rapidity with which he passed from this to the first class in reading and spelling, is still a matter of vivid local remembrance, and even fabulous exaggeration. At four years of age, he could read and spell creditably; at five, he was esteemed at least equal, in those branches, to any one attending the school. He continued at his grandfather's during most of the school months-usually six in each year—until six years old, the school in his father's district being two miles from the family dwelling. But he evinced no such faculty for learning higher branches. Grammar, commenced at five, was not fairly comprehended until eight, nor mastered until some time later; in Geography proper (the relation of places to each other) he was not proficient, though the historical and other statistics intermingled therewith were easily and rapidly assimilated; Penmanship utterly defied all his exertions; and it was only when he came, some years later, to take up the elemental Arithmetic of the common schools, that he found himself able to press forward with his infantile celerity. He could not remember the time when he had not the Multiplication Table at command, and all the processes of School Arithmetic seemed but obvious applications of, or deductions from, this. But his school-days in summer ended with his seventh year, and in winter with his fourteenth, being much interrupted at earlier periods by the necessities of a life of poverty and labor. He never enjoyed the benefits of a day's teaching in any other than a rural common school, generally of two to four months each winter and summer, and these very far inferior to the schools of the present day, even in the least favored sections of New York or New England.

When not quite ten years of age, his father lost his little property in New Hampshire, and removed to Westhaven, Vermont, near the head of Lake Champlain, where he remained nearly six years. The first two were employed in land-clearing upon contract, with the aid of his two sons; the next, in a saw-mill, while the boys worked on a small, poor farm ; the residue, in clearing and farming upon shares. During these, as before, our subject was favored with the loan of books and periodicals, by

neighbors of ampler resources, and devoted very much of his spare time to reading, especially in the winter evenings, when the labors of the long days of summer, which so severely tax the sinews of a youth of ten or twelve years, had been succeeded by shorter days and lighter tasks.

At eleven years of age he made (at Whitehall, N. Y.) his first attempt to find employment as an apprentice to printing, which he had previously decided to follow as a vocation, but was rejected on account of his youth. Afterward, he could with difficulty be spared. When fifteen, however, his father found himself enabled to make a long-meditated tour of observation westward, with a view to the removal of his family; and now the eldest son was permitted to gratify the cherished desire of his heart, by entering (April 18th, 1826), as an apprentice, the printing-office of the Northern Spectator, at East Poultney, Rutland county, Vermont. Here he remained more than four years, until late in June, 1830, when the paper was discontinued. Meantime, his father and family had removed, in the fall of 1826, to Wayne, Erie county, Pa., where he visited them in 1827 and 1829, and whither he repaired, on quitting Poultney, in 1830. Working by spells on their rude wilderness farm, and, when opportunity offered, at his trade, in Jamestown and Lodi, N. Y., and in Erie, Pa., he remained in that region for a little more than a year, finally quitting it, when work ran out, about the 1st of August, 1831, for New York, where he arrived on the 16th of that month, and has ever since resided. He worked as a journeyman during the first year and a half of his stay, with some unavoidable interruptions, through want of employment, until early in 1833, when, in connection with another young printer, he purchased materials, and undertook the printing of a cheap daily newspaper, for a man who failed soon afterward. Other printing was soon procured, less promising, but better paid. His first partner was suddenly taken away by drowning, in July; another took his place; the concern was moderately prosperous; and in the following spring (March 22d 1834), our subject issued, without subscribers, and almost without friends, in a city where he was hardly known beyond the circle of his boarding-house and his small business, the first number of The New Yorker, a weekly jour nal, devoted to popular literature, and an impartial summary of transpiring events. That paper was continued through seven years and a half, having a circulation which rose, at one time, to over nine thousand, and averaged more than five thousand throughout, but was never pecuniarily prof. itable, owing, in good part, to bad management in the publishing depart. ment. In September, 1841, it was merged in the weekly issue of The New York Tribune, started as a daily on the 10th of April, in that year, and still continued under his editorial management.

He was married in July, 1836, to Mary Y. Cheney, of Litchfield, Conn. They have had four children, of whom only the third survives-a redhaired, blue-eyed boy, born in April, 1844. Our subject renounced the

use of intoxicating beverages in his fourteenth year, and of tea and coffee in his twenty-seventh, and in his twenty-ninth became an advocate of those ideas of social reorganization, or comprehensive renovation of society and industry, known among their advocates as Association, and by their opponents as Fourierism, to which his energies are still devoted, so far as the unremitting duties devolving on the editor of a political daily will permit. He is now, of course, in his thirty-eighth year, slender in frame and stooping in gait, and, in spite of the incessant cares and unseasonable abors of his vocation, in the enjoyment of average health.

ARTICLE LXII.

DOCTOR ANDREW COMBE.

OCTOBER 18TH, 1847.

MESSRS. FOWLERS AND WELLS:

GENTLEMEN-Mr. Wells expressed a desire to obtain a notice, or materials for a notice, of Dr. Andrew Combe. The following is at your service. Dr. Andrew Combe died on the 9th of August, 1847, near Edinburgh, aged forty-nine years. From early manhood he had been seriously afflicted with disease of the lungs; so severely, indeed, that more than twentyseven years ago Dr. Gregory announced that he could not live more than a few months. By extraordinary prudence in diet and regimen, guided by a thorough knowledge of the laws of health, he lived long enough to produce some of the most profound and useful works of the age, and establish his claims to the gratitude and admiration of mankind.

Dr. Combe, in pursuance of a long-existing desire, visited the United States during the early part of the present year. In April, he sailed from England, in company with his niece, Miss Cox, and arrived in this country on the 13th of May. Owing to the state of his health, he could see but few of the numerous persons who desired to show him respect. The principal part of his time was spent in comparative seclusion, at the residence of his brother, Mr. William Combe, and of his friend, Mr. Boardman. The only journeys he made from the immediate vicinity of New York, were to Philadelphia and West Point.

On the 8th of June he left the United States. He arrived safely at Liverpool, after a very short voyage, and having rested there three days, he proceeded to Edinburgh, where he arrived just three weeks after leav. ing New York. His health seemed rather to improve, after his return, until the evening of the 2d of August, when he was taken ill, with what was supposed, at first, to be common bowel complaint, but which went on in the most inveterate manner until his death. His mental manifestations were, to the last, in accordance with the whole tenor of his life, calm, cheerful, affectionate, benevolent, and thoughtful. He occupied his time

in arranging his affairs in such manner as to relieve his relations from as much trouble as possible, and in leaving appropriate and affectionate messages for his friends. He died with the utmost composure and resignation. Post-mortem examinations showed that his bowels had been long the seat of disease; the coats were thickened, and extensively ulcerated. The liver, stomach, and heart were quite sound. The left lung was shrunken to the thickness of a hand, and quite dense; the right lung had increased above its normal size, to supply, as it were, the place of both. It was nearly sound in its substance, but adhered to the pleura. The brain was found in the most perfect condition, the convolutions being of great depth.

Doctor Combe was never married; he was one of a family of seventeen children. His brother George, the celebrated author of "The Constitution of Man," and other works, was some years his senior. The sturdier nature of Mr. George Combe shielded, supported, and encouraged the gentler organization of his younger brother, and thus helped to bring forth and mature its fruits. This the doctor gratefully acknowledged, in the dedication of his work on Physiology. "Without your cheering encouragement," he says to his brother, "to urge me on at the beginning, it is doubtful whether any one of my volumes would ever have been written." Doctor Combe was one of the founders of the first Phrenological Society, and one of the originators of the Edinburgh Phrenological Journal. The controversial papers he published in that journal are among the most learned, logical, and effective we have ever read. He is principally known, however, by his works on Mental Derangements, Dietetics, Physiology, and the Management of Infants. These works, it is conceded, manifest profound knowledge of the subjects on which they treat, and great originality; yet the style is so simple, clear, and interesting, that the unlearned reader can readily understand them. Their rare combination of profundity of thought with clearness of expression, and high moral aim, accounts for their great popularity and pervading influence. They have doubtless contributed largely to produce that pervading interest in the subject of sanitory measures which now exists.

It is worthy of remark, that, true to his benevolent nature, the doctor was engaged, just before his last illness, in writing a letter to the editor of The Times, on the ship fever, which has, during this year, destroyed so many emigrants, his principal object being to point out the means of preventing its ravages hereafter. Mr. Robert Cox, to whom he gave the manuscript in charge, is about to give this letter to the public.

In the forthcoming number of the Edinburgh Phrenological Journal there will, we are informed, be a biographical notice of the deceased, from those most intimately acquainted with him; but we deem it our duty to render this tribute to the memory of one whom we rank among the greatest and best men of the age.