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probably not extravagant. This part of his disposition is, 

 however, so evenly balanced that there is not likely to be 

 much peculiarity. 



" (h) His domestic affections are his best. Conscientious- 

 ness ought to be one more, but I do not see what will try it. 



" J. Q. Rumball." 



I will make a few remarks on this estimate, referring to 

 the lettered paragraphs: (a) This is more medical than 

 phrenological, but it is strikingly accurate. So long as I was 

 at school I suffered from indigestion ; but my after life, 

 largely spent in the open air, has almost entirely removed 

 this slight constitutional failing, (b) A very accurate state- 

 ment, (c) This is strikingly correct, (d) I have already 

 shown how my experience at Leicester exactly accorded 

 with this estimate, (e) This also is an exact statement 

 of my relation to music. (/) Here I think Mr. Rumball 

 has gone somewhat beyond his own detailed estimate of 

 the development of my organs of Weight, Form, and Size, 

 which are put at only a little above the average. The posi- 

 tion of these organs over the frontal sinus renders their 

 estimate very difficult, and I am inclined to think they are 

 really a little below rather than above the average. At the 

 same time I did draw a little without any teaching worth the 

 name, and I have a high appreciation of good design, and 

 especially of the artistic touch, so that if my attention had 

 been wholly devoted to the study and practice of art, I may 

 possibly have succeeded. But my occupations and tastes led 

 me in other directions, while the progress of photography 

 rendered sketching less and less necessary. 



(g) The first statement here is not only correct, but it is 

 really the main feature of my intellectual character. I can 

 hardly write with ease, unless I am seeking to prove some- 

 thing. Mere narrative is distasteful to me. The remainder 

 of the section calls for no special observation. 



(h) I will only remark that the defect here pointed out 

 does undoubtedly exist, and it has been of some use to me to 

 know it. 



