13 DECEMBER 1957, Page 15

6pectator

DECEMBER 15, 1832

SPURZHEIM is dead : his own skull will now stand on his own table. He will lecture no longer, but be lectured over; and his successor will be able to point out the bump of phrenology at any rate, if there is one. To thin complexion we must all come at last. As we have seen SPURZIIEAM turn round the polished ivory of some illustrious unknown, the irreverend idea has often occurred to us, that his turn would come at length. Of course, he has be- queathed his head to his own collection; and his successor next year, at the Crown and Anchor rooms, will garnish his address with an apostrophe to the mortal remains of the great mister's cranium.