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Noses Classified.

Francis Grose, in lis appendix to
Hogarths Elements of Beauty, delin-
Gates eight typical noses. There is the
angular; the aquiline or Roman; the
parrots beak; the straight or Grecian;
the dubious or bottled; the turned-up or
pug: and the mixed or broken. Of the lat
ter, by the way, the noses of at least two
illustrlous men may be taken as illustra-
tions-Tycho Brahe and Michael An
gelo, the latter of whom owed his grace.
full appendix to violent blow from a
companion with whom he was at vari-
ance, and who thus disfgured the great
artist for life and instantly fed. To
these may be added the orator Cicero,
upon whom nature seems to have be-
slowed a nasal organ Of type decidedly
''mixed," if not broken. Plutarch, in
his life of the querulous Roman, says
that he had fiat excresence on the top
of his nose in resemblance of q vetch-
cicer in Latin-from which he took his
surname. Pliny says, with more proba-
bility, that the name originated in an
extensive cultivation of vetches, just as
others had previously been surnamed
from crops of other kinds. However,
this may be the fact of Cicero snub nose
may no doubt be accepted, and it &C
cords with the traditional belief that
this description of nose is usually indi-
cative of fiery, quick, impetuous tenn
per, Cicero having possessed this char
acteristic in a marked degree. Horace
seems to regard the short nose, with a
little turn-up at the end as a n ark of a
person given a good deal to .jibing and
jeerins. Martial calls it the rhinoceros
nose, and says that it was highly fash.
ionable in his day, eyeryb body affecting
this kind of proboscis as an indication of
satrical humor. The angular nose,
as Crosse calls it, is the long, clearly cut,
pointed organ, and was, no doubt, the
type to which Horace alludes when he
says that it Is indicative of satircal wit.
The ''parrot beak" is the nose with
which DR.. Punch usually adorns his
caricature of the Sultan or Khedive,
and is akin to the typical Jewish nose
al over the world The eight TYPES
given embrace every description of the
feature, and students of caricature are
st, ongly recommended in the treatise al
luded to to make themselves perfectly
familiar with the simple lines by which
these curiously comprehensive sketches
are effected.
A very singular fact has been OBJ
served with regard not so much to the
shape of the uose as to the setting of it
in the FACE, so to speak. To be strictly
correct from the artists point of view,
the nose should be accurately in the
middle OF the face and at right angles
with line from the pupil of one eye to
that of the other. AS matter of fact,
it Is rarely or never found thus placed.
1t is almost invariably a little out OF
''the square" and the fact of Its being
so is often that which lends a peculiar
expression and piquancy to the face. A
medical writer points out that there are
anatomical reasons why slight devia-
ton from the true central line may be
expected, and that the nose which is
thus accurately straight between the
two ewes may be considered an abnormal
one, and that the only absolutely correct
organ is that which thus deviates lit.
tie to the right or left.