and curves, considered as such, are related as power and weakness, obstinacy and flexibility, understanding and sensation.

(13) I have seen no man, hitherto, with sharp, projecting, eyebones, who had not great propensity to an acute exercise of the understanding, and to wise plans.

(14) Yet there are many excellent heads which have not this sharpness, and which have the more solidity if the forehead, like a perpendicular wall, sink upon the horizontal eyebrows, and he gently rounded on each side toward the temples.

(15) Perpendicular foreheads, projecting so as not immediately to rest upon the nose, which are small, wrinkly, short, and shining, are certain signs of weakness, little understanding, little imagination, little sensation,

(16) Foreheads with many angular, knotty, protuberances, ever denote much vigorous, firm, harsh, oppressive, ardent, activity and perseverance.

(17) It is a sure sign of a clear, sound understanding, and a good temperament, when the profile of the forehead has two proportionate arches, the lower of which projects,

(18) Eyebones with defined, marking, ea

All the ideal

sily delineated, firm, arches, I never saw but in noble, and in great, men. antiques have these arches.

(19) Square foreheads, that is to say, with extensive temples, and firm eyebones, shew circumspection, and certainty of cha

racter.

(20) Perpendicular wrinkles, if natural to the forehead, denote application and power: horizontal wrinkles, and those broken in the middle, or at the extremities, in general, negligence, and want of power.

(21) Perpendicular, deep, indentings, in the bones of the forchead, between the eyebrows, I never met with but in men of sound understanding, and free and noble minds, unless there were some positively contradictory feature.

(22) A blue vena frontalis, in the form of a Y, when in an open, smooth, well arched, forehead, I have only found in men of extraordinary talents, and of an ardent, and generous character.

(23) The following are the most indubitable signs of an excellent, a perfectly beautiful and significant, intelligent and noble forehead.

(a) An exact proportion to the other parts of the countenance. It must equal the nose

or the under part of the face in length (i. e. one third).

(b) In breadth, it must either be oval at the top (like the foreheads of most of the great men of England) or nearly square.

(c) A freedom from unevenness, and wrinkles; yet with the power of wrinkling, when deep in thought, afflicted by pain, or from just indignation.

(d) Above, it must retreat; below, project.

(e) The eyebones must be simple, horizontal, and, if seen from above, must present a pure curve.

(f) There should be a small cavity, in the centre, from above to below, and traversing the forehead, so as to separate it into four divisions, which can only be perceptible by a clear, descending, light.

(g) The skin must be more clear in the forehead than in the other parts of the coun

tenance.

(h) The forehead must every where be composed of such outlines as, if the section of one third only be viewed, it can scarcely be determined whether the lines are straight or circular.

(24) Short, wrinkled, knotty, regular, pressed in on one side, and sawcut fore

heads, with intersecting wrinkles, are incapable of durable friendship.

(25) Be not discouraged so long as friend, an enemy, a child, or a brother, though a transgressor, has a good, well proportioned, open forehead; there is still much certainty of improvement, much cause of hope.

We shall defer more accurate and copious definition till we come to speak of physiognomonical lines.

B.

THE EYES.

BLUE eyes are, generally, more significant of weakness, effeminacy, and yielding, than brown and black. True it is there are many powerful men with blue eyes, but I find more strength, manhood, and thought, combined with brown than with blue. Wherefore does it happen that the Chinese, or the people of the Philippine islands, are very seldom blue eyed, and that Europeans only, or the descendants of Europeans, have blue eyes in those countries? This is the more worthy enquiry because there are no people more effeminate, luxurious, peaceable, or indolent than the Chinese.

Choleric men have eyes of every colour, but more brown, and inclined to green, than blue. This propensity to green is almost a decisive token of ardour, fire, and courage.

I have never met with clear blue eyes in the melancholic; seldom in the choleric; but most in the phlegmatic temperament, which, however, had much activity.

When the under arch described by the upper eyelid is perfectly circular, it always