The projector and artist is Mr. Thomas Starling, and its execution, whether graphic or literary, is calculated to give the public a very high opinion of his taste, talent, and application.

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GEOGRAPHY.

Mr. Dowling, of Woodstock Boarding-School, has put Goldsmith’s Grammar of Geography into question and answer for junior pupils, or, rather, he has seized on the simplest part of the information contained in the above work, and added a chapter on latitude and longitude.  We hope the attention of teachers will be directed to his Compendium, as it appears to leave nothing to be desired in facilitating the progress of the learner.

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OUTLINES OF KNOWLEDGE.

Mr. Ince, whose Outline of English History we noticed a few weeks since, has been stimulated to the production of an Outline of General Knowledge.  His present Compendium is satisfactory as a little book of Facts, and may serve as well for a whet to the memory of adults as for the tuition of children.

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CURIOSITIES OF PHRENOLOGY.

The Third Edition of a Catechism of Phrenology, published at Glasgow, induces us to pick out a few of the author’s facts, and we accordingly select the developements of the Feelings and Faculties.  Thus, of Amativeness, the organs are very large in the casts of Mitchell, Dean, and Raphael.  In Dr. Hette, very small.

Philoprogenitiveness, or love of children—­the Hindoos, Negroes, and Charibs.

Combativeness—­The Charibs, King Robert Bruce, General Wurmser, David Haggart, and generally in those who have murdered from the impulse of the moment.

Destructiveness—­In the heads of Dean, Thurtell, King Robert Bruce, Bellingham, in cool and deliberate murderers, and in persons who delight in cruelty, where the organ is large; and, in general, in the Hindoos, small.

Combinativeness—­In Raphael, Michael Angelo, Brunel, Haydon, and Herschel, where it is very fully developed; the New Hollanders, have it small.  Being indispensable to the talent for works of art of every description, it is found large in all those painters, sculptors, mechanicians, and architects, who have distinguished themselves in their particular departments.

Love of Approbation—­In King Robert Bruce, Dr. Hette, Clara Fisher, and the American Indians, where it is large.  Such likewise is uniformly the case in bashful individuals; this disposition arises in a great measure from a fear of incurring disapprobation.

Cautiousness—­In the Hindoos, large; in Bellingham, moderate.  Robert Bruce and Hannibal were remarkable for valour, while they at the same time, possessed cautiousness in a high degree.