celebrated
Professor, who is of the Academy of Sciences, is complete, and at least
equal to any other extant. There are four volumes octavo. The 22d volume
of the memoirs of the Academy was ready in September last; the 23d is in
the press; the 11th volume of Foreign Communications will appear this
month. Twelve vacancies from death of foreign correspondents, are soon
to be filled by election. All merit is ascribed to the work of Dr.
Fairet, entitled _Clinical Instructions respecting Mental Maladies_. The
author, pupil and successor of Pinel and Esquirol, is the physician of
the Salpetriere. Along with the able Doctor Voison, he has a noble
Lunatic Asylum of his own, not far from the capital.

SIR DAVID BREWSTER, it seems, has become a convert to that part of
Animal Magnetism called Electro Biology, and which consists in willing a
person to be somebody else. After describing some wonderful experiments,
made in the presence of several scientific gentlemen, by a Mr. DARLING,
he says, "they were all as convinced as I was, that the phenomena which
we witnessed were real phenomena, and as well established as any other
facts in physical science. The process by which the operator produces
them--the mode by which that process acts upon the mind of the
patient--and the reference of the phenomena to some general law in the
constitution of man--may long remain unknown; but it is not difficult to
see in the recent discoveries of M. DUBOIS REYMOND and MATTEUCIA, and in
the laws which regulate the relative intensity of the external and
internal impressions on the nerves of sensation, some not very
indistinct indications of that remarkable process by which minds of
peculiar sensibility are temporarily placed under the dominion of
physical influences developed and directed by some living agent."

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Ladies' Fashions for Early Spring.

More attention than previously for many seasons appears to have been
given this winter to ladies' fashions, and some that have come out are
remarkably tasteful, while generally in fabric and manufacture they
appear to be unusually expensive. We compile this month mainly from the
London _World of Fashion_.

_Bonnets_ are remarkable for a novel form, the front of the rims
continuing large and open, the crowns round, low, and small. Of an
elegant style are those made of Orient gray pearl, half satin, half
_velours epingle_, having a very rich effect, and decorated with
_touffes Ma