PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION

INTRODUCTION

Origin and object of book.

VARIETY OF HUMAN NATURE

Many varieties may each be good of its kind; advantage
of variety; some peculiarities are, however, harmful.

FEATURES

Large number of elements in the human expression; of
touches in a portrait; difficulty of measuring the separate
features; or of selecting typical individuals; the typical
English face; its change at different historical periods;
colour of hair of modern English; caricatures.

COMPOSITE PORTRAITURE

(See Appendix for three Memoirs describing successive
stages of the method).--Object and principle of the process;
description of the plate--composites of medals; of family
portraits; of the two sexes and of various ages; of Royal
Engineers; the latter gives a clue to one direction in which
the English race might be improved; of criminals; of the
consumptive; ethnological application of the process.