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a knowledge of wliich «ill prevent the artist from 
blending the features of different nations in the same 
individual, and enable him to give that true charac- 
ter to national figures, which has been always felt as 
a beauty, and tlio 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 difliculties 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 he subject to any incertitude. The great 
utility of the remarks concerning the beauties of the 
ancients, will he 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 wei'e 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 manner 
of delineating the different passions, and on the points 
of similarity between quadrupeds, birds, ami fishes, 
founded upon this similarity, are necessarily imper- 
fect, yet they may be deemed a valuable acquisition 
to the painter. They abound with much criticism, 
