One of the strangest aberrations of a disordered state of mind was exhibited by some impudent fellows who fancied themselves virtuous and modest females. Esquirol relates the case of a young man of 26 years of age, handsome and of a good figure, who had been in the habit of occasionally putting on woman's attire to perform female parts in private theatricals, and who had actually fancied himself a woman. In his paryoxysms he would put off his male clothes, and equip himself like a nymph,--the greater part of his day was spent before his looking-glass, decorating his person and dressing his hair--he was incurable! ANCIENT IDEAS OF PHRENOLOGY. Although Gall and Spurzheim may fairly claim the merit of having developed in this science the particular parts of the brain that are the seat of different faculties, yet we find in various ancient writers similar notions. Burton, in his Anatomy of Melancholy, thus expresses himself on this subject: "_Inner senses_ are three in number, so called because they are in the brain-pan; as _common sense_, _phantasie_, _memory_. This common sense is the judge or moderator of the rest, by whom we discern all differences of objects; _the fore part of the brain_ is his organ or seat. _Phantasie_, or imagination, which some call aestimative, or cogitative, (confirmed saith, Fernelius, by frequent meditation,) is an inner sense, which doth more fully examine the species perceived by _common sense_, of things present or absent, and keeps them longer, recalling them to mind again, or making new of his own: his organ is the _middle cell of the brain_. _Memory_ layes up all the species which the senses have brought in, and records them as a good register, that they may be forthcoming when they are called for by _phantasie_ and _reason_; his organ is the _back part of the brain_." This corresponds with the account of the faculties given by Aristotle, and repeated by the writers of the middle ages. Albertus Magnus, Bishop of Ratisbon, designed a head divided into regions according to these opinions in the thirteenth century; and a similar plan was published by Petrus Montaguana in 1491. Ludovico Dolce published another engraving on the subject at Venice in 1562. In the British Museum is a chart of the universe and the elements of all sciences, and in which a large head of this description is delineated. It was published at Rome in 1632. In the _Tesoretto_ of Brunetto Latini, the preceptor of Dante, we find this doctrine taught in the following lines: Nel capo son tre celle, Ed io diro di quelle, _Davanti_ e lo intelletto E la forza d'apprendere Quello que puote intendere; _In mezzo_ e la ragione E la discrezione, Che scherne buono e male; E lo terno e l'iguale _Dirietro_ sta con gloria La valente memoria, Che ricorda e retiene Quello ch'in essa viene. PERFUMES.