This is speaking to the heart. Oh that I could have written my fragments in company with such an observer! Who could have rendered greater services to physiognomy than the man who, with the genius of a mathematician, possesses so accurate a spirit of observation? passage here alluded to; and was therefore obliged to remain satisfied, much against my will, with translating Shakespeare from the German. T. 321 REVISION BY MR. LAVATER. Ì HAVE read this second volume of the Physiognomonical Fragments, which are only occasionally abridged, with the greatest attention; and find little to add, alter, or explain. Some few errors of the press excepted, I have nothing but what follows to remark. 66 Page 43-" Among the portrait painters "I hold sacred Mignard, Largilliere, Rigaud, Kneller, Reynolds, and Vandyke.-I pre"fer Mignard's and Rigaud's portraits to Vandyke's, who is often deficient in in 66 66 66 dustry and illusion, since he rather con"sidered the whole and the spirit of the countenance than its minute parts."-I honour Vandyke perhaps as highly as any man; but should some of his pictures which I have not seen be more laboriously and minutely finished, still it is generally true that for the physiognomist and his studies, his heads (not including the forms, in which he was so fortunate, nor the foreheads and eye 300 brows to vildi he so vell ker litt be pan Idolarly and chenner crotala 100 few of the small ise, and the detait par, base too little precision; he princi pally painted to produce effect at the distance of a few paces. Page 95- Let a number of shales be "taken and classed according to the fore“Leads, we shall shew in its place that all "real and possible human foreheads may "be classed under certain signs, and that “be “their classes are not innumerable.”—I wish to promise less than I shall perform, yet I hope, should I not publish this classification during my life, to leave it behind me at my death. 3. Page 102-To the judgment on the outline from a bust of Cicero, I wish to add"Often disposed to contemn, and imagines "it has an inherent right so to contemn." 4. Page 137" Not very penetrating."Read more accurately-The outline of this forehead is deficient in penetration; or, as I may with greater propriety say, the almost unerring penetration of the original is wanting. The shade has likewise an air of importance, of self-complacency, which is as distant from the modesty of the man as heaven is from earth. 5. Head, number 1, facing page 241-Is more pointed (or conical) in the engraving than in the drawing on which the judgment was given. 6. Page 257-"A touchstone for many coun"tenances."-Instead of this obscure remark add the following-The physiognomist will never overlook the signs of wisdom which exist in a countenance that may be supposed foolish, although it be really wise; he will not be so mistaken: he will be able to investigate them all, and arrange them according to these four classes. 7. Page 257-" The son is often brought in "debtor to the great understanding of the "father."-I know not whether I have or have not elsewhere made this remark, but |