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We say these things not in any spirit of vain boasting, we only wish to intimate to the Editor of the Gazette, and the world without generally, that if they will come and live with us for a season, they will learn to regard many thoughts and things which now seem strange, and are, therefore, unintelligible to them, as strange and unintelligible merely because they have not extended their view over but a very limited portion of humanity.

In looking over the materials which make up the contents of our present number, we cannot forbear directing attention to the peculiar merit of the "Considerations on subject of Insanity." This most painful of human calamities, it is supposed, has been but recently a subject of scientific and philanthropic investigation. The author of these communications proves that the men of genius of past ages have made mental disorders the object of their study. It is thus, that in illustrating his "Considerations" he has drawn so freely from the celebrated Essay on Man; and we trust that in his future contributions he will present us with drafts equally liberal from a still higher authority, even Shakspeare, the master of human nature, in all its phases, whether healthy or diseased.