whole neck and face was also soon covered with red hairs, which made her so deformed, that she appeared little different from an ape or monkey. A physician advised her to apply to her face and neck a depilatory of the resin or the larchtree, mixed up with that of mastich :" so that the poor young woman had quite a troublesome time of it.

There are others, who, through fright, have had the colour of their hair changed; for instance, we find that a Miss Gardner, in the year 1768, being greatly frightened at a bull, was so strangly affected that her hair, which was before of a beautiful brown, was, in the space of four hours, become as grey as that of a person of eighty.-(Dodsley, 1768.)

There is, also, an interesting anecdote of a boy, in one of the rudest parts of the County of Clare, in Ireland, who, in order to destroy some eaglets, lodged in a hole one hundred feet from the summit of a rock, which rose four hundred feet perpendicular from the sea, caused himself to be suspended by a rope, with a scimetar in his hand for his defence, should he meet with an attack from the old ones; which precaution was found necessary; for no sooner had his companions lowered him to the nest, than one of the old eagles made at him with great fury, at which he struck, but, unfortunately missing his aim, nearly cut through the rope that supported him. Describing his horrible situation to his comrades, they cautiously and safely drew him up; when it was found that his hair, which a quarter of an hour before was a dark auburn, was changed to grey.

A similar account is reported of the unfortunate Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, during her first night of arrest and imprisonment.

Mr. Boyle relates, in his Philosophical Experiments, an instance of an Irish captain apprehensive of being put to death; the colour of his hair was changed in a peculiar manner; not uniformly changed, but here and there certain peculiar tufts and locks of it, whose bases might be about an inch in diameter, were suddenly turned white; the rest of his hair (whereof the Irish used to wear good store) retained its former reddish colour.

Uvipertus, elected Bishop of Raceborgh, went to Rome to receive the confirmation thereof from the Pope; where, finding himself neglected and rejected by him, upon the account of his youth, the next night all the hair of his head was, through grief, turned grey, whereupon he was elected.-(Kornmann.)

Cornelius, a senator, as Seneca sayeth, shed many tears in a full senate, when Corbulo called him a bald ostrich! so deeply did the sneer affect that otherwise-courageous man.

But against HAIR-STAINING, one of the fathers of the church, if his anathemas are availing, is exceedingly decisive. St. Cyprian gives twelve reasons to prove that women ought not to stain their hair. Some of his positions are worthy of notice; for, if they were correct, the saint's morality was rather loose: "The action of staining the hair," says he," is worse than adultery:" and again, "That to blacken the hair argues a detestation of that whiteness which belongs to the head of the Lord."

So far as we have read, mankind seemed, also, to have been equally busy about the extraction of what they deemed superfluous bairs, as increasing, on the other hand, what nature has been pleased to deny them. But that each reader may be pleased, we have already entered into the subject of increase: let us now turn to DEPILATORIES. As to the decrease, it is clear that the Romans had an instrument, much in vogue, called a forceps, for extirpating hairs; and this was used for the same purpose as the Turkish fair do the rusma: but the pincers of the Romans were of such size and strength, as to more than equal a stout pair used by our blacksmiths, in extracting tenpenny nails from doors. (Pennant's Wales, Vol. 1, p. 96.) In these days, we are blessed with Hubert's roseate powder, and Trent's depilatory, for the eradication of superfluous hairs; Atkinson's fluid for dying it; "by which means," as he says, "the eyes appear more animated, and age has the semblance of youth;" and, lastly, the Macassar oil, for producing a quantum sufficit, which with some is no such easy

matter.

As to WIGS, formerly (says a Paris Journal) the hair was worn so long, that a general council thought proper to proscribe that fashion, in compliance with a passage of St. Paul against long hair; and we (the French) have since had square wigs, long-tailed wigs, pig-tailed wigs, full-bottomed wigs, folio wigs, bag-wigs, pigeon-winged wigs, spaniel-eared wigs, horseshoe wigs, lap-dog wigs, wigs à l'Espagnole, à l'Anglaise, à la Consellière, et à la Grecque.

The full-bottomed wigs, which were worn here in the days of Addison and Pope, were first contrived by the French barber Duviller, to conceal the Duke of Burgundy's hump-back, and so became fashionable; for it is always a rule with cour

tiers to ape their king, or prince of the blood. We, then, imported all our fashions from France.

Lewis the Fourteenth, that grand monarque, was so persuaded of the necessity of an uninterrupted appearance of majesty, that no human being was ever permitted to see him without his wig! Even when his majesty was graciously pleased to honour any of the ladies of his dissolute court by sleeping with them, this dignified appendage was not discarded, but formed a night-cap.—(M. de Levis, Souvenirs.)

Luckily, the following little affair did not happen to Lewis, that august wig-fancier. During the assembly of the Diet, in Dresden, Augustus the Strong invited several of the principal members to an entertainment; champagne, was, of course, not wanting; a page stole a bottle of it, and put it in his coatpocket. Being incessantly employed, he was unhappily not able to put his booty in a place of security; but his constant motion having caused the wine to ferment, just as he was standing behind the king, it exploded; the cork flew up to the ceiling, and the champagne rushed out of the pocket, in a direction to the king's wig, and bathed it so effectually, that the wine ran in streams from the curls. One part of the company were frightened, while another part could scarcely refrain from laughter. The page, more dead than alive, threw himself at the king's feet, and his majesty immediately sent the pilferer away, not from his service, but for a dry wig, advising him. at the same time, never to carry bottles with such liquor so long about him.

Wigs are of importance at the bar, for they actually show how much the eye expects to be gratified, at the first glance, among objects to which it has been accustomed. On the death of Counsellor Pitcairne, (not many years ago), Counsellor Seare bought his tye-wig; and when Seare appeared in it at the Chancery Bar, the Lord Chancellor (Hardwick) addressing Mr. Seare (or rather the wig), said, "Mr. Pitcairne, have you any thing to move?"

That the sight of a wig, judicial or episcopal, has some effect, we have shewn; why not an evangelical one? A man returned from attending one of Whitfield's sermons, said it was good for him to be there the place, indeed, was so crowded, that he had not been able to get near enough to hear him but then, he said, "I saw his blessed wig."-(Southey's Wesley.)

After all, what would Dr. Bellendenus's appearance have been without his wig? That wig that tremendous wig, whose owner is covered with dust and grease, with all Greece in the cerebellum of the Doctor at the same time; when such a man, with such a wig, shakes his head, his neighbours' eyes may be blinded, but then the importance of the wig should be consid ered as a set-off.

In theatricals, Lee Lewes says, he remembers Garrick, in the scene following that in which he is chosen king, in Macbeth, coming on the stage with a wig as large as any worn now by the gravest of our barons of the exchequer. Tempora

mutantur.

Men change with fortune, manners change with climes;
Wigs yield to crops, and principles with times.

A wig. notwithstanding its importance, is not always a protection from physiognomical insult. LAVATER and his son visited BONNET: Lavater started up all on a sudden, tore off the wig from Bonnet's head, and said to his son, Look, Henry; wherever you can behold such a head, there learn wisdom!— (Karamsin's Travels, ii. 121.)

Hannibal wore false hair but the wig of the Emperor Commodus, if Lampridius may be believed, would have decorated Bartholomew fair; for it was powdered with golddust, after having been anointed with unguents of an agreeable odour. The Emperor Charles the Sixth would allow no one to be admitted into his presence without a wig with two tails: The Grand Signor is most partial to three !

Among the Romans, those who were bald, and would not wear a wig, had recourse to a method quite extraordinary; they caused hair to be painted on their bare skull, with perfumes and essences composed expressly for the purpose. Martial, in an epigram on Phoebus, impudently tells him, "You have no occasion for a barber for your head, Phoebus; you may shave yourself much better with a sponge !"

Lastly, let us advert to NATURAL WIGS; for there are such, being made so by choice or neglect.-Russian to wit; and it appears, by the testimony of several early writers, that the Irish wore their hair, and interfered with its growth and cleanliness so little, that, in process of time, it formed a good natu ral matted wig. In Holinshed's chronicle, Vol. 6, p. 228. we find," Their beards and heads they never wash, cleanse, nor cut, especially their heads, the hair whereof they suffer to

grow, saving that some do use to round it; and by reason the same is never kembed, it groweth fast together, and, in process of time, it matteth so thick and fast together, that it is instead of a hat, and keepeth the head very warm (very much so in the dog-days), and also will bear off a great blow or stroke; and this head of hear they call a glib, and therein they have great pleasure."

But Bulwer, author of a book with this title, "Man transformed, or the Artificial Changeling," 1654, found out another use which the Irish made of this free and luxuriant crop of hair, viz. towels, saying," Who, as they are a nation estranged from human excellency, scarce acknowledge any other use of their hair, than to wipe their hands from the fat and dirt of their meals, and any other filth; for which they nourish long felt locks, hanging down to their shoulders, which they are wont to use instead of napkins, to wipe their greasy fingers." -The old cuts, which are met with in books, corroborate the above accounts.

Let us conclude with an anecdote :-Mr. Pennant, a very pleasing writer, had, however, a very singular antipathy to wigs, which he could suppress till reason yielded a little to wine; but, when that is the case, off goes the wig next to him, and into the fire! Mr.. Pennant dining once, at Chester, with an officer who wore a wig, Mr. P. in due time, became half-seas-over; and, after much patience, and many a wistful look, Pennant started up, and threw the officer's wig into the fire. The wig got in flames; so was the soul of the officer, who ran to his sword: away ran Pennant, and the officer after him; but P. knew the ins and outs of Chester best, and escaped.

PETRIFACTION.

THE power of some waters in congelation is not to be disputed; too much credulity has, however, crept in upon this subject. A well, near Tetbury, in Gloucestershire, is said to turn a stick into a stone. It remained for some greater discoverers to surprise us still more. Heurnius says, "I can affirm for certain, that I have seen, at Padua, the breast of a woman, which was turned into stone: and it was done by this means, -as she lay dead, that breast of her's lay covered in the wa