locality above them in the forehead, and accompanied by the well-known Greek character-a preference for a diagonal action, craft, sharpness, good bargaining, and refinement. They loved the arts rather than war. They admired eloquence because it indirectly persuaded. They were fickle, and were for ever seeking something new. The Romans would have battered down the walls of Troy in half the time in which the Grecians did, or they would have died under them. The Grecians loved to talk rather than fight. They remain in history, and occupy so large a space, because of the genius of their authors, not of that of their people.

The possessors of the Greek nose who have become celebrated in history will very fairly indicate the general character which it seems to point out. Addison, Byron, Shelley, Petrarch, Spenser, and Milton (in his youth), are those amongst poets who were distinguished by this feature. Of painters there are many who, as their portraits show, possessed it Raffaelle the divine, one of the most beautiful of men, Canova the sculptor, Claude, Titian, Murillo, and (when young) Rubens. Under this class naturally falls a very excellent kind of nose, called the Græco-cogitative. In youth many noses are almost purely Grecian; but these afterwards develop into the rugose, widely nostrilled, cogitative nose, which the majority of great thinkers appear to have possessed. This is the last class of which we can at present treat. It should not turn up, nor be bluntly snubbed, but gradually widen below the bridge. The nostrils should be fine and wide, not close and thin. The tip should, as we have

said, have a character of its own, and should certainly not be thin, which would indicate weakness and curiosity. Men of war or of theology, inventors, agriculturists, or strict men of business, possess this nose; and to enumerate the number of first-rate men who have possessed it would occupy more space than we can afford. Wycliffe, Luther, Knox, Tyndale, and Fuller; Bunyan, Paley, Hooker, Jeremy Taylor, Chalmers, Priestly, and Wesley-all possessed it, with many other great theologians. Amongst poets are Homer, Chaucer, Tasso, Ben Jonson, Shakspeare, and Milton in manhood and age; amongst men of discovery and science, Galileo, Caxton, Bacon, Newton, Smeaton, Cuvier, Des Cartes, Whiston, and Alexander von Humboldt; amongst artists, Michael Angelo and Hogarth; amongst statesmen, Oliver Cromwell, Burke, Franklin, Edward III., Colbert, Talleyrand, Fox, Walpole, and De Witt; amongst historians, Hume, Robertson, Burnet, Archbishop Usher, and Macaulay; amongst lawyers, Erskine, Blackstone, Hall, Coke, Somers, Mansfield, and Lord Brougham.

The last-mentioned eminent nose is perhaps the best known of any in this generation. Innumerable caricatures have made it celebrated everywhere. It is slightly bent upwards, and has a defiant and combative expression; but its end is decidedly cogitative, its nostrils wide and full of character. To its partly turned-up style no doubt his lordship owes that insatiable industry and curiosity which has made him explore all science, and has rendered him eminent in law, politics, and literature; to its cogitative

character, that boldness of thought, and noble defiance of oppression and wrong, and that far-seeing depth, which he has ever exercised, happily, for the benefit of humanity. It is a nose far above par. The common run of us cannot boast one at once so characteristic and so ugly : Non cuique datum est habere nasum (Most noses have no character at all); a quotation which should be remembered as having been most elegantly used by Joseph Addison when he received a handsome snuff-box, and wished modestly to testify that he did not take snuff.

I

ON THE FACES AROUND US.

(Continued.)

HAT illustriously obscure author Marolles, who made a list of his own works extending over two thousand subjects, and who, since no one would

buy them, used to circulate them by slipping them in between the volumes on the second-hand book-stalls, has not forgotten the subject of Noses, and opens his chapter, we are told, by a disquisition on the nose of the Virgin Mary, which he declares was of a sweet and feminine aquiline, and which, therefore, shall head our list of illustrious noses of that kind. Mr. Holman Hunt, in his new picture, has not followed the authority of Marolles; but then, as he has made a mistake in the architecture of Herod's Temple (having pictured it Oriental instead of an imitation of the Greek), we may excuse his falling short in this particular. If we want examples of the aquiline, eagle's beak, or Jewish nose, we have only to look round about us on our Hebrew brethren. The species is good, shrewd, and useful. Perhaps selfishness and determination are more strongly marked in it than in any others. Not only the Jews, but nearly all the ancient

Easterns appear to have it; and one proof of the origin of the gipsies is found in the character of their noses. In the Egyptian sculptures we continually find the Jewish nose: nay, so far as we can judge from the unrolled mummies which are to be found in the British Museum and elsewhere, the noses in mummy flesh are aquiline. So also with the Assyrians in the Nineveh marbles, that type of nose is strictly adhered to; and, whether the king be hunting, or pursuing, or fighting with his enemies, we find the prominent aquiline the leading feature of his face. Grecian and snub noses do not seem to have been dreamt of by the prolific artists of those days. The Grecian was probably the nose of Mahomet and his successors, as it is of his devotees, who are to be found all over Persia and India. The Hindoos also partake of the type; and it was but lately that we were watching the countenances of Duleep Sing and of the first of our Eastern baronets, Sir Cowasjee Jejeebhoy, and marking the long, curved, thin, and somewhat pendulous "beaks" which they possessed. The only exception is, they say, Nana Sahib, whose nasal organ is more straight than those of his brethren.

Amongst a rare collection of various woods in the museum of Kew Gardens are to be found two wooden statues of Siva, a deity much worshipped by idolatrous Easterns; and the frowning brows, fierce eyes, and cruel expression of the thin, drawn-up lips, are much aided by the narrow, finely cut, aquiline nose, which, with thin nostrils widely inflated, seems to run down to meet and cover the upturned lip. You