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and of these twenty-two possessed curly or wavy hair. It is an interest- 

 ing circumstance that of these twenty-two personages no less than 

 nineteen were poets, artists or literary men, namely: Dumas the elder, 

 Hazlitt, Leigh Hunt (inclined to wave), Charles Lamb, Washington 

 Alston, Tennyson (wavy), Sir Arthur Sullivan (wavy), Mendelssohn 

 (very curly), Gladstone, Keats (clustering and curly), Lanier (wavy, 

 almost straight), Euskin, Shelley, Southey, Bayard Taylor, N. P. 

 Willis, Chopin, Thackeray. In the entire list of eminent men possess- 

 ing curly or wavy hair only General Thomas, Martin Van Buren 

 (wavy), Charles George Gordon (crisp and wavy) can not be classed 

 as poets, artists or literary men. Hair of marked softness or fulness 

 seems likewise a frequent accompaniment of artistic and literary genius. 

 Thus the hair of Washington Alston is referred to not only as curly but 

 as " silken," that of Eossetti as " silken and abundant/' that of Eugene 

 Field as " very fine," that of Keats as " clustering thickly," that of 

 Lanier as " soft," that of Euskin as " luxuriant," and that of Sumner 

 as a " rich mass." The abundant hair of musicians, as observed upon 

 the concert platform, will in this connection suggest itself to the reader. 



Those in the list of twenty-six whose hair was straight were Daniel 

 Webster, James Eussell Lowell, Grieg and Napoleon, and of these the 

 hair of Napoleon is spoken of as " stiff and flat," that of Andrew Jack- 

 son as " stiff and wiry," and that of Lowell as " wiry." We have seen 

 that the hair of Lowell was of a very unpoetic color, and that biographer 

 who insisted Lowell had not the poet's nose might have included the hair 

 in his remark, alike as to its color and formation. In view of the preju- 

 dice in all ages against coarse, bristling hair the personal qualities of 

 Napoleon and Andrew Jackson are not unworthy of note in connection 

 with the structure of the hair in those cases, and the Indian -like hair 

 of Webster, perhaps, we may associate with the coarse strain that 

 betrayed itself not infrequently in the character of that distinguished 

 personage ; but the wiry hair of Lowell is a warning against too hasty 

 a generalization, and the straight hair of Grieg may read to us a valu- 

 able lesson against carrying too far the notion that wavy hair is the 

 unfailing accompaniment of artistic genius. 



In the paper of the present writer upon " Genius and Stature " in 

 the December issue, 1910, of this magazine, the conclusion was reached 

 that the stature of genius is in general above the medium, and in the 

 discussion of physiognomy and genius, as already mentioned, it was 

 determined that the eyes of genius are usually blue or gray or bluish 

 gray. Thus far, therefore, genius would seem to abide chiefly with the 

 class of humanity called by Huxley the " Xanthachroic," with their tall 

 stature and blue or gray eyes; but the hair of that type ranges from 

 straw-color to chestnut, whereas the hair of genius, as we have seen, is 

 in the very large majority of cases dark. Dark hair, it will be recalled, 

 is a characteristic of the Melanchroic in Huxley's classification — who 



