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much of this particular nose. Neither do I. I 

 think it is situated rather too near the eyes and too 



far from the mouth. It is a 

 little too small also, and wants 

 style. But you must not judge 

 a first attempt too critically. 

 I have seen human noses of a 

 pattern not unlike this, but 

 they are not considered aristo- 

 cratic: perhaps they indicate a 

 reversion to the ancestral type. 

 But the noses even of 

 monkeys are not all like this. 

 In fact, there is a good deal 

 of variety, and two in particular 

 are not considered have struck me as quite re- 



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markable. One is that of the 

 long-nosed monkey (Semnopithecus nasalis). I think 

 it must have suggested Sterne's stranger on a mule, 

 who had travelled to the promontory of noses and 

 threw all Strassburg into a ferment. I have often 

 contemplated this nose in mute wonderment, and 

 longed to see that monkey in life, if so be I 

 might arrive at some understanding of it ; for the 

 taxidermist cannot rise above his own level, and 

 the man who would mount S. nasalis would need to 

 be a Henry Irving. Then there is the sub-nosed 

 monkey, labelled rhinopithecus, of which there is 

 an expressive specimen at the South Kensington 

 Museum. Who can consider that nose seriously and 



I HAVE SEEN HUMAN NOSES 

 OF A PATTERN NOT UN- 

 LIKE THIS, BUT THEY 



