ADDRESS TO OUR READERS.

WITH the present number of our Journal we enter upon the third year of our eventful existence. We have outlived a most unfavourable prognosis. Dismal were the forebodings with which our entrance into life was greeted. Persons who wished us a happy and prosperous voyage, speculated (as kind friends often do) either upon our gradual decay or premature dissolution. Thank God, we still breathe. We can throw ourselves into the editorial chair, and with philosophical benignity, look back with pleasure upon the past, and with glowing anticipations towards the future. We do not wish our kind friends to misunderstand us. We have not for the last two years been reposing upon a bed of down. Our editorial life has not been one of ease and quiet. Our path has not been across flowery meads, and by the side of purling streams. The road we have travelled has been a rugged and circuitous one, often full of great discouragement, and as we have paused on our journey, we have occasionally allowed the thought to glance through our mind, whether we should ever reach the goal towards which we were bending our weary steps.

The idea of establishing a Psychological Journal in this country was one of our early aspirations. Twenty years before the first number issued from the press, we had sketched in MS. the design of the work! Our notion was anticipated by the production, in Paris, of the Annales Médico-Psychologiques; and in New York by the American Journal of Insanity. This circumstance did not alter our intentions, and we resolved, on the first favourable opportunity, upon launching our fragile bark upon

Conscious that we were engaged in the advocacy of a good