a foot-ball, and do what you like with its special honestamentum."

PHOTOGRAPHED NOSES.

"Or if you have any doubts of the accuracy of these por traits; if you say that painters are apt to flatter, and so admit the whole argument when you allow that to paint a man with a strong, or bold, or subtle, or heroic nose is flattery, here is a study for you in the nearest stationer's window, or in those admirable collections of photographic portraits in Regent Street, the Strand, or Fleet Street, or scattered over the metropolis [or in Broadway, Chestnut Street, or Washington Street]. Compare a row of distinguished portraits, from the aristocracy of birth and blood, oft ennobled by noble deeds, or the aristocracy of talent and genius, with another line which you may select from the show-board of the sixpenny galleries, and to which no names are attached. Comparisons are odious,' but in the cause of science they are more than justifiable. I could spend hours in studying the distinguished and beautiful faces which bear upon them the stamp of birth and the refinement of breeding, or the power and energy of

genius and ambition-those who have been ennobled in the past, and those who are ennobling themselves."

THE NOSES OF SCULPTURE.

"How beautiful are the noses on the Egyptian sculptures! You may spend hours in studying them on covers of porphyry sarcophagi. But if you would have all the majesty of a nose, look at the Greek Jupiter; or if all the masculine beauty, study the Apollo. The bust of Homer may be of doubtful authenticity as a portrait, but what a nose! You ask, perhaps, what that signifies if it is not a portrait. It shows us, my friend, what the observation of the Greek sculptors had taught them to consider a suitable

Fig. 821.-HOMER.

nose for a Homer; and that is no slight consideration. If painters and sculptors were to represent heroic and beautiful ideals with mean and grotesque noses, we should think them worthy of a lunatic asylum; and in this verdict we concede all that Lavater has claimed.

"Look again at the busts of Pythagoras and Plato. What majesty! what wisdom! and what noses! One nose there was in ancient Greece, which is, it must be confessed, a hard nut for Lavater-the conspicuous pug of Socrates. But we have the testimony of the philosopher himself, that his wisdom and virtues were a triumph of constant effort over his natural dispositions. And such a pug as we see portrayed upon the mug of the philosopher betokens not a little energy, and that it is exceptional, proving a rule, is shown by the fact that everybody is astonished that such a man should have such a nose." [Said to have been broken by accident.]

LORD BROUGHAM'S NOSE.

The author of "Notes on Noses" thus describes the nose

of Lord Brougham. The reader can refer to our portrait of that distinguished man for an illustration of his remarks. It will be seen, notwithstanding our author's facetious description, that the nose is a strong one, and full of character.

"It is a most eccentric nose; it comes within no possible category; it is like no other man's; it has good points, and bad points, and no point at all. When you think it is go

ing right on for a Roman, it suddenly becomes a Greek; when you have written it down Cogitative, it becomes as sharp as a

knife. At first view it seems a Celestial; but Celestial it is not; its celestiality is not heavenward, but right out into illimitable space, pointing-we know not where. It is a regular Proteus; when you have caught it in one shape, it instantly becomes another. Turn it, and twist it, and view it how, when, or where you will, it is never to be seen twice in the same shape, and all you can say of it is, that it's a queer one." And such exactly is my Lord Brougham-verily my Lord Brougham, and my Lord Brougham's nose have not their likeness in heaven or earth-and the button at the end is the cause of it all."

SOME POETICAL NOSES.

Of his own nose, Robert Southey says: "By-the-by, Dr. told me that I have exactly Lavater's nose; to my no small satisfaction, for I did not know what to make of that protuberance or promontory of mine."

Wordsworth's nose is described as "a little arched and large." If another of the so-called "Lake Poets," John Wilson, of Elleray, be nasologically identified with Christopher North, he must have been as noticeable for his nose as that other noticeable personage for his large gray eyes.

"Then," the Ambrosian Shepherd says, "what a nose! Like a bridge, along which might be driven cartloads o' intellectneither Roman nor Grecian, hookit or cockit, a wee thocht inclined to the ae side, the pint being a pairt and pendicle o' the whole, an object in itsel, but at the same time finely smoothed aff and on intil the featur; while his nostrils, small and red, look as they would emit fire, and had the scent o' a jowler or a vultur."

A DOUBLE NOSE.

The nose of Francois, Duke of Anjou, "was so swollen and listorted that it seemed to be double," and at which "people did laugh in their sleeve, and among themselves;" for as the historian tells us, "this prominent feature did not escape the sarcasms of his countrymen, who, among other gibes, were wont to observe that the man who always wore two faces might be expected to have two noses also." When the double

faced Duke visited the Low Countries, an epigram was circulated on the article of his nasal development, of which the following is Dr. Cooke Taylor's English version:

THE END OF THE NOSE

Here we come to the end of the nose-or, at any rate, to the close of this chapter on noses -and wish to conclude by recommending the reader to give the subject such attention as. it may seem to merit, and if any important discoveries be made, to report them to us; and above all, not to forget that the form of our noses depends upon the style of our characters, and that if we desire to improve the former we must elevate the latter.

Fig. 323.-CHRISTOPHER NORTH.

XIII.

ABOUT THE EYES.

"They are the books, the arts, the academies,

That show, contain, and nourish all the world."-SHAKSPEARE

HE EYES," Emerson

says, "speak all languages. They wait

for no introduction; they are no Englishmen; ask no leave of age or rank; they respect neither poverty nor riches, neither learning nor power, nor virtue, nor sex, but intrude and come again, and go through and through you in a moment of time. *** of men coneyes

The

verse as much as

When

their tongues, with the advantage that the ocular dialect needs no dictionary, but is understood all the world over. the eyes say one thing and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first. If a man be off his center, his eyes show it. You can read in the eyes of your companion whether your argument hits him, though his tongue will not confess it. There is a look by which a man shows he is going to say a good thing, and a look when he