determined. Let us make the experiment with the above, and we shall certainly find there are numerous aspects which are not included within these four; such as the luminous aspect, very different from the ardent, and neither fixed, like the melancholic, nor fluctuating, like the sanguine. There is the look, or aspect, which is at once rapid and fixed; and, as I may say, penetrates and attaches at the same moment. There is the tranquilly active look, neither choleric nor phlegmatic. I think it would be better to arrange them into the giving, the receiving, and the giving and receiving combined; or into intensive and extensive; or into the attracting, repelling, and unparticipating ; into the contracted, the relaxed, the strained, the attaining, the unattaining, the tranquil, the steady, the slow, the open, the closed, the single, the simple, the perplexed, the cold, the amorous, the complying, the firm, the courageous, the faithful, &c.

H.

PHYSIOGNOMONICAL ANECDOTES.

1.

I REQUIRE nothing of thee, said a father to his innocent son, when bidding him farewel, but that thou shouldest bring me back this thy countenance.

2.

A noble, amiable, and innocent young lady, who had been chiefly educated in the country, saw her face in the glass, as she passed it with a candle in her hand, retiring from evening prayer, and having just laid down her Bible. Her eyes were cast to the ground, with inexpressible modesty, at the sight of her own image. She passed the winter in town, surrounded by adorers, hurried away by dissipation, and plunged in trifling amusement; she forgot her Bible, and her devotion. In the beginning of spring she returned again to her country seat, her chamber, and the table on which her Bible lay. Again she had the candle in her hand, and again saw herself in the glass. She turned pale, put down the candle, retreated to a sofa, and fell on her knees.

“Oh God! I no longer know my own face. How am I degraded! My follies and vanities are all written in my countenance. Wherefore have they been unseen, illegible, till this instant? Oh come and expel, come and utterly efface them, mild tranquillity, sweet devotion, and ye gentle cares of benevolent love!

3.

"I will forfeit my life," said Titus of the priest Tacitus, "if this man be not an arch knave. I have three times observed him sigh and weep, without cause; and ten times turn aside, to conceal a laugh he could not restrain, when vice or misfortune were mentioned."

4.

A stranger said to a physiognomist, "How many dollars is my face worth?"-" It is hard to determine," replied the latter. "It' is worth fifteen hundred," continued the questioner," for so many has a person lent me upon it to whom I was a total stranger."

5.

"How much

A poor man asked alms. do you want?" said the person of whom he asked, astonished at the peculiar honesty of his countenance. "How shall I dare to fix

the sum?" answered the needy person:

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give me what you please, Sir, I shall be contented and thankful."-" Not so," replied the physiognomist, "as God lives I will give you what you want, be it little or much"-" Then, Sir, be pleased to give me eight shillings."— "Here they are; had you asked a hundred guineas you should have had them."

II.

CONCERNING TEMPERAMENTS.

THOSE who expect in this work an extensive and accurate essay on the temperaments, and their characteristics, will be mistaken. Much of what can be said, good and bad, has been, by Haller, Zimmermann, Kæmpf, Oberreit, and a multitude of others, ancient and modern, from Aristotle to Huart, from Huart to Behmen, and from Behmen to Lawatz. I have not studied these writers; that is to say, not sufficiently to understand them perfectly, or to compare each with himself, then each with the other, and, lastly, with general and individual nature. Yet thus much, I think, I may safely conclude, from all that I have read, that this subject, amply as it has been treated, requires new investigation. I have myself too little physiological knowledge, too little leisure and requisite sensation, for this physiological chemical enquiry, to afford me any hope that I am qualified for a laboured and well digested work of this kind.

Little as I am able to promise, I yet will venture a short essay, not without hope of