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In order to accommodate "The People" residing in all parts of the United States, the Pub lishers will forward by return of the FIRST MAIL, any book named in this List. The postage will be prepaid by them at the New York Post-Office. By this arrangement of paying postage In advance, fifty per cent. is saved to the purchaser. The price of each work, including postage, is given, so that the exact amount may be remitted. Fractional parts of a dollar may be sent in postage-stamps. All letters containing orders should be post-paid, and directed as follows: FOWLERS AND WELLS, 308 Broadway, New York.

WORKS ON PHRENOLOGY.

AMERICAN PHRENOLOGICAL JOURNAL. A REPOSITORY OF Science, Literature, and General Intelligence; Devoted to Phrenology, Physiology, Education, Mechanism, Agriculture, and to all those Progressive Measures which are calculated to Reform, Elevate, and Improve Mankind. Illustrated with Numerous Engravings. Quarto, suitable for binding. 283 pp. Published Monthly, at One Dollar a Year.

It may be termed the standard authority in all matters pertaining to Phrenology, while the beautiful typography of the Journal, and the superior character of the numerous illustrations, are not exceeded in any work with which we are acquainted.--American Courier, Phila.

COMBE'S LECTURE ON PHRENOLOGY. BY GEORGE COMBE. WITH Notes, an Essay on the Phrenological Mode of Investigation, and an Historical Sketch. By Andrew Boardman, M.D. 12mo., 391 pp. Illustrated. Muslin, $1 25.

CHART, FOR RECORDING THE VARIOUS PHRENOLOGICAL DEVELopments. Illustrated with Engravings. Designed for the use of Phrenologists. Price, 6 ets.

CONSTITUTION OF MAN, CONSIDERED IN RELATION TO EXTERNAL Dbjects. By George Combe. The only authorized American Edition. With Twenty Engravings, and a Portrait of the Author. Paper, 62 cents; Muslin, 87 cents.

THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND COPIES of this great work have been sold, and the demand still increases.

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CONSTITUTION OF MAN, BY GEORGE COMBE. ABRIDGED AND Adapted to the Use of Schools, with Questions. To which is added an Appendix descriptive of the Five Principal Races of Men. School Edition, in boards. Price, 30 cents.

The "Constitution of Man" is a work with which every teacher and every pupil should be acquainted. It contains a perfect mine of sound wisdom and enlightened philosophy; and a faithful study of its invaluable lessons would save many a promising youth from a premature grave.-Journal of Education, Albany, N. Y.

DEFENCE OF PHRENOLOGY. CONTAINING AN ESSAY ON THE Nature and Value of Phrenological Evidence; also, an able Vindication of Phrenology. By Andrew Boardman. Muslin, 87 cents.

DOMESTIC LIFE. THOUGHTS ON ITS CONCORD AND DISCORD, with Valuable Hints and Suggestions. By N. Sizer. Price, 15 cents.

EDUCATION COMPLETE. EMBRACING PHYSIOLOGY, ANIMAL AND Mental, applied to the Preservation and Restoration of Health of Body and Power of Mind; Self-Culture, and Perfection of Character, including the Management of Youth; Memory and Intellectual Improvement, applied to Self-Education and Juvenile Instruction. By O. 8. Fowler. Complete in one large volume. Muslin, $2 50.

Every one should read it who would preserve or restore his health, develop his mind, and improve his character.

EDUCATION: ITS ELEMENTARY PRINCIPLES FOUNDED ON THE Nature of Man. By J. G. Spurzheim, M. D. With an Appendix, containing a Description of the Temperaments, and an Analysis of the Phrenological Faculties. Muslin, 87 cents. We regard this volume as one of the most important that has been offered to the public for many years. It is full of sound doctrines and practical wisdom.-Boston Med. and Sur. Jour.

FAMILIAR LESSONS ON PHRENOLOGY AND PHYSIOLOGY; FOR
Children and Youth. Two volumes in one. By Mrs. L. N. Fowler. Muslin, $1 25. p
The natural language of each organ is illustrated with wood-cuts, and the work is brought out
in a style well adapted to the family circle, as well as the school-room.-Teachers' Companion.

LOVE AND PARENTAGE; APPLIED TO THE IMPROVEMENT OF Offspring: including important Directions to Lovers and the Married, concerning the strongest Ties, and most sacred and momentous Relations of Life. By O. S. Fowler. Price, 80 cts.

LOVE, PARENTAGE, AND AMATIVENESS. ONE VOL. MUSLIN, 75 Cents.

MENTAL SCIENCE. LECTURES ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF PHRENO logy. By Rev. G. S. Weaver. Illustrated with Engravings Muslin, 87 cents.

These Lectures were prepared for the intellectual, moral, and social benefit of society. The author has, in this respect, done a good work for the rising generation.

MORAL AND INTELLECTUAL SCIENCE: APPLIED TO THE ELEVAtion of Society. By George Combe, Robert Cox, and others. Large octavo. Price, $2 80. This work contains Essays on Phrenology, as a department of physiological science, exhibiting its varied and important applications to interesting questions of social and moral philosophy, to legislation, medicine, and the arts. With Portraits of Drs. Gall, Spurzheim, and Combe.

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MARRIAGE: ITS HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY. WITH A PHRENOlogical and Physiological Exposition of the Functions and Qualifications necessary for Happy Marriages. By L. N. Fowler. Illustrated. Muslin. Price, 75 cents.

It contains a full account of the marriage forms and ceremonies of all nations and tribes, from the earliest history down to the present time. Those who have not yet entered into matrimonial relations should read this book, and all may profit by a perusal,-N. Y. Illustrated Magazine.

MEMORY AND INTELLECTUAL INPROVEMENT; APPLIED TO SELFEducation and Juvenile Instruction. By O. 8. Fowler. Twentieth Edition. Enlarged and Improve 1. Illustrated with Engravings. Price, 87 cents.

The science of Phrenology, now so well established, affords us important aid in developing the human mind, according to the natural laws of our being. This, the work before us is pre-eminently calculated to promote, and we cordially recommend it to all.-Democratic Review.

MATRIMONY; OR, PHRENOLOGY AND PHYSIOLOGY APPLIED TO the Selection of Congenial Companions for Life; including Directions to the Married for Living together Affectionately and Happily. By Ó. S. Fowler. Price, 30 cents. Upwards of sixty thousand copies having been sold in the United States, besides having been republished in London, no man or woman, married or unmarried, should fail to possess a copy.

PHRENOLOGY PROVED, ILLUSTRATED, AND APPLIED; ACCOMPAnied by a Chart, embracing an Analysis of the Primary Mental Powers in their Various Degrees of Development, the Phenomena produced by their Combined Activity, and the Location of the Phrenological Organs in the Head. Together with a View of the Moral and Theological Bearing of the Science. By O. S. and L. N. Fowler. Price, $1 25.

This is a PRACTICAL, STANDARD Work, and may be described as a complete system of the principles and practice of Phrenology. Besides important remarks on the Temperaments, it contains a description of all the primary mental powers, in seven different degrees of development, together with the combinations of the faculties; in short, we regard this work as not only the most important of any which has before been written on the science, but as indispensably necessary to the student who wishes to acquire a thorough knowledge of Phrenological Science.

PHRENOLOGICAL ALMANAC. PUBLISHED ANNUALLY. WITH CALendars for all Latitudes. Profusely Illustrated with Portraits of Distinguished Persons. 6 cts. POPULAR PHRENOLOGY; EXHIBITING THE PHRENOLOGICAL ADmeasurements of above Fifty Distinguished and Extraordinary Personages of Both Sexes. With numerous Portraits and other Illustrations. By Frederick Coombs. Price, 30 cents.

PHRENOLOGICAL BUST; DESIGNED ESPECIALLY FOR LEARNERS. Showing the Exact Location of all the Organs of the Brain fully developed. Price, including box for packing, $1 25. [May be sent by Express. Not mailable.]

This is one of the most ingenious inventions of the age. A cast made of plaster of Paris, the ize of the human head, on which the exact location of each of the Phrenological organs is repesented, fully developed, with all the divisions and classifications. Those who cannot obtai he services of a professor may learn in a very short time, from this model head, the science or 'hrenology, so far as the location of the organs is concerned.-N. Y. Sun.

PHRENOLOGY AND THE SCRIPTURES; SHOWING THEIR HARMONY An able, though small work. By Rev. John Pierpont. Price, 12 cents.

PHRENOLOGICAL GUIDE. DESIGNED FOR STUDENTS OF THEI own Characters. With numerous illustrative Engravings. Price, 15 cents.

PHRENOLOGY AND PHYSIOLOGY; A SYNOPSIS. COMPRISING A CONdensed Description of the Functions of the Body and Mind. By L. N. Fowler. Price, 15 ctr.

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PHRENOLOGICAL SPECIMENS FOR PHRENOLOGICAL SOCIETIES AND Private Cabinets. We have made a selection of forty of our best specimens, among which are casts from the head, size of ife, of John Quincy Adams, Aaron Burr, George Combe, Elibu Burritt, T. H. Benton, Henry Clay, Rev. Dr. Dodd, Thomas A. Emmett, Dr. Gall, Sylvester Graham, J. C. Neal, Walter Scott, Voltaire, Silas Wright, Black Hawk, etc., etc. Phrenological Societies can expend a small sum in no better way than by procuring this set, as they have been selected particularly with reference to showing the contrasts of the Phrenological developments in different characters. They can be packed, and sent as freight or by express, with perfect safety, to any place desired. Price, only $25 00.

RELIGION, NATURAL AND REVEALED; OR, THE NATURAL THEOlogy and Moral bearings of Phrenology, including the Doctrines taught and Duties inculcated thereby, compared with those enjoined in the Scriptures: with an Exposition of the Doctrines of a Future State, Materialism, Holiness, Sins, Rewards, Punishments, Depravity, a Change of Heart, Will, Fore dination, and Fatalism. By O. S. Fowler. Price, 87 cents. If ever our various religious opinions are to be brought into harmonious action, it must be done through the instrumentality of Porenological Science.-Christian Freeman.

SELF-CULTURE, AND PERFECTION OF CHARACTER; INCLUDING the Education and Managemen of Youth. By O. 8. Fowler. Price, 87 conts. “SELF-MADE, OP NEVER MADE," is the motto. No individual can read a page of it without being improved thereby. With this work, in connection with PHYSIOLOGY, ANIMAL AND MENTAL, and MEMORY, AND INTELLECTUAL IMPROVEMENT, we may become fully acquainted with ourselves, comprehending, as they do, the whole man. We advise all to read these works.-Com. School Adv.

SELF-INSTRUCTOR IN PIIRENOLOGY AND PHYSIOLOGY. ILLUS trated with One Hundred Engrav ings; including a Chart for recording the various Degrees of Development. By O. S. and L, N. Fowler. Price in Paper, 8) cents; Muslin, 50 cents. This treatise is emphatically a bong for the million. It contains an expianation of each faculty, full enough to be clear, yet so short as not to weary; together with con binations of the faculties, and engravings to show the organs, large and small; thereby enabling all persons, with little study, to become acquainted with rractical Phrenology. An excellent work for students.

SYMBOLICAL HEAD AND PHRENOLOGICAL CHART, IN MAP FORM. Showing the Natural Language of the Phrenological Organs. Price, 4 cents.

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TEMPERANCE AND TIGHT LACING: FOUNDED ON PHRENOLOGY and Physiology, showing the Injurious Effects of Stimulants, and the Evils indicted on the Human Constitution by compressing the Organs of Animal Life. With Numerous Illustrations. By O. S. Fowler. Price, 15 cents.

Should be placed in the pews of every church in the land. The two curses, intemperance and bad fashions, are destroying more human beings yearly, than all other causes; to arrest which, these little (great) works will render effectual aid.-Dr. Beecher.

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By no other way can men approach nearer to the gods, than by conferring health on men." CICERO. IF THE PEOPLE can be thoroughly indoctrinated in the general principles of HYDROPATHY, and make themselves acquainted with the LAWS OF LIFE AND HEALTH, they will well-nigh emancipate themselves from all need of doctors of any sort.” DR. TRALL.

ACCIDENTS AND EMERGENCIES: A GUIDE, CONTAINING DIRECtions for Treatment in Bleeding, Cuts, Bruises, Sprains, Broken Bones, Dislocations, Railway and Steamboat Accidents, Burns and Scalds, Bites of Mad Dogs, Cholera, Injured Eyes, Choking, Poisons, Fits, Sun-stroke, Lightning, Drowning, etc., etc. By Alfred Smee, F. R. S. Illustrated with numerous Engravings. Arnendix by Dr. Trall. Price, prepaid, 15 cents.

BULWER, FORBES, AND HOUGHTON, ON THE WATER-TREATMENT. A Compilation of Papers and Lectures on the Subject of Hygiene and Rational Hydropathy. Edited by B. S. Houghton, A. M., M. D. 12mo. 390 pp. Muslin, $1 25.

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 Hygienic Means. By James M. Gully, M. D. Illustrated. Muslin, $1 50.

COOK BOOK, NEW HYDROPATHIC. BY R. T. TRALL, M.D. A SYStem of Cookery on Hydropathic Principles, containing an Exposition of the True Relations of all Alimentary Substances to Health, with Plain Receipts for preparing all Appropriate Dishes for Hydropathic Establishments, Vegetarian Boarding-houses, Private Families, etc., etc. It is the Cook's Complete Guide for all who "eat to live." Price, Paper, 62 cents; Muslin, 87 cents; Extra Gilt, One Dollar.

CHILDREN; THEIR HYDROPATHIC MANAGEMENT IN HEALTH AND Disease. A Descriptive and Practical Work, designed as a Guide for Families and Physicians. With numerous cases described. By Joel Shew, M.D. 12mo. 432 pp. Muslin, $1 25.

CONSUMPTION; ITS PREVENTION AND CURE BY THE WATERTreatment. With Advice concerning Hemorrhage of the Lungs, Coughs, Colds, Asthma, Bronchitis, and Sore Throat,. By Dr. Shew. 12mo, Muslin, 87 cts.

CURIOSITIES OF COMMON WATER; OR, THE ADVANTAGES THEREOF in preventing and curing Diseases: gathered from the Writings of several Eminent Physicians, and also from more than Forty Years' Experience. By John Smith, C. M. From the Fifth London Edition. With Additions, by Dr. Shew. 80 cents.

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