you have not escaped the scientific mania that is mounting from area to attic throughout this country.

Hence arises the morbid mania for imitation, which is called in Java Sakit-latar, and here Mali-mali.

It is not the first time I have had to ask myself, seriously, "Why this mania for possession?"

Both of them in the end attributed the disaster to practically the same cause, the speed mania which has overtaken the nations, the heedlessness of man's over-confidence which takes risks so many times successfully that it grows to forget that risks exist.

Have you, too, caught the mania, that you are in such a hurry to get to California?" GEORGE.

To comprehend a witch-mania, you must look at it aswhat the witch-literature confesses it unblushingly to be man's dread of Nature excited to its highest form, as dread of woman.

I earnestly hope that, ere long, the existence of good schools near themselves, planned by persons of sufficient thought to meet the wants of the place and time, instead of copying New York or Boston, will correct this mania.

They seemed apprehensive of incurring the blame of encouraging the speculating mania which raged so extensively at Sydney, and which has reacted with so pernicious an effect upon the colony.*

"Owing to my knowledge of your condition for the last year, my dear child, I don't blame you for any thing that is past, not even for those delusions with regard to my own acts and intentions which formed your mania, nor for the misfortune and sense of shame which, no doubt, caused your hasty flight, and whose evidences you brought with you from the raft, in the shape of a nearly year-old child.

I said, "Well, you have got the travelling mania on you yet, I see."

It went spy-mad, just as all Europe went spy-mada mania from which this Continent has not entirely recovered by any means.

They could influence the passions of the mind, procure the reconciliation of friends or of foes, engender mutual discord, induce mania, melancholy, or direct the force and objects of human affection.

Now, the Americans at the present moment are suffering from a mania which we, happily, have passed through, that is, the mania of exhibitions.

The favourable accounts of Humboldt excited a spirit of speculation that was wholly regardless of passing events; and the Act of Congress, facilitating the co-operation of foreigners with the natives, produced a mania which has been destructive to numberless individuals, who trusted too much to names.

We accept their mania and cease to regard it; it, in a word, becomes bromidic.

Meanwhile, it has started a speculative mania that almost rivals the tulip excitement in Holland.