13 OCTOBER 1894, Page 14

A Vindication of Phrenology. By W. Mattbieu (Chatto and Windus.)—The

Phrenology in which Mr. Matthiou Williams believed does not require much vindication. The most interesting part of this volume is the defence of the claims of Gall to the discoveries in the localisation of faculties with which others are commonly credited. Gall certainly followed the true scientific method of investigation by experiment, and the results which he reached are of unquestionable value. The memoir of Mr. Matthieu Williams, by his son, Mr. G. Combo Williams, is well worth reading. He was a man of science, with a disposition to independence,—a disposition which is quite as keenly resented in the province of science as it is in that of theology or that of politics.