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a knowledge of which will prevent the artist from 

 blending the featjres of different nations in the same 

 individual, and enable him to give that true charac- 

 ter to national figures, which has been always felt at 

 a beauty, and the want of it as a defect, though the 

 cause has lain concealed. This subject may justly 

 be considered as new in the natural history of man, 

 and will require the joint labours of physiologists to 

 surmount all the difficulties attending it. 



" The other articles minutely treated of in this 

 book, relate to a new manner of drawing portraits in 

 profile, according to certain rules deduced from the 

 conformation of the cranium, and the changes made by 

 age ; which, being founded on indisputable principles, 

 cannot be subject to any incertitude. The great 

 utility of the remarks concerning the beauties of the 

 ancients, will be generally apparent. 



" The contents of the second book, are the small 

 remains of lectures upon another subject relative to 

 drawing, the ideas of which suggested themselves 

 while the Professor was engaged in the pursuit of 

 the first object. They were collected from imper- 

 fect manuscripts, and published by his son, in as com- 

 plete a manner as circumstances would allow. Al 

 though from this cause, the lectures on the manne 

 of delineating the different passions, and on the points 

 of similarity between quadrupeds, birds, and fishes, 

 founded upon this similarity, are necessarily imper- 

 fect, yet they may be deemed a valuable acquisition 

 to the painter. They abound with much crmcisnu 



