" The absurdities of the physiognomical system of Lavater, and of the craniological system of MM.

There is a physiognomical character in the tastes for food.

Add to this physiognomical sketch the minor points of costume, the open shirt-collar, the single-breasted coat, the old-fashioned half-boots and ribbed stockings; and you will find in Mr. Bentham's general appearance a singular mixture of boyish simplicity and of the venerableness of age.

It was one of those finely chiselled heads, which arrest the imagination, and seem to bear incontrovertible evidence of the certainty of physiognomical science.

Houses undoubtedly present to the eye of fancy, an appearance analogous to physiognomical expression in men.

Mr. Bartlett began collecting fully twenty years ago, his aim being to secure data for a study of Mr. Lincoln from a physiognomical point of view.

The physiognomical difference between different men being so numerous and small, it is impossible to measure and compare them each to each, and to discover by ordinary statistical methods the true physiognomy of a race.

Now there can hardly be a more appropriate method of discovering the central physiognomical type of any race or group than that of composite portraiture.

And since some LAVATERS, with head-pieces comical, Have pronounc'd people's hands to be physiognomical, Be sure that you stuff it with AUTOGRAPHS plenty, All framed to a pattern, so stiff, and so dainty.

Every man has noted the legs of a tailor, and the gait of a seaman; and a little extension of his physiognomical acquisitions will teach him to distinguish the countenance of an author.

All that a man does is physiognomical of him.

This unfortunate physiognomical revelation was not lost upon the keen eyes of the inventor.

MUSÆUS, JOHN AUGUST, German author, born at Jena, famous as the author of German Volksmärchen, three of which, "Dumb Love," "Libussa," and "Melechsala," were translated in the volumes of "German Romance" by Thomas Carlyle; he parodied Richardson's "Sir Charles Grandison" and satirised Lavater's "Physiognomical Travels" (1735-1787).

Among these, I shall not easily forget the head and the physiognomical expression of one old manwho, having been supported by crutches, which lay by the side of himappeared to have come for the last time to offer his orisons to heaven.

Such a physiognomical trait is perhaps indicative of power of brain and will, but I do not recall it among the usual descriptions of Jackson.

We took our supper with a numerous company at the public table, when it happened that they made themselves merry over the peculiarities of the Swiss in connection with the belief in mesmerism, Lavater's physiognomical system, and the like.

That would, I suggested, go something beyond Lavater's physiognomical skill.