After discussing Lavater's place in eighteenth-century German letters and his importance in
the history of Western physiognomy, Dr. Tytler examines the literary portrait in the modern …

In late fifteenth century Florence, Renaissance humanists rediscovered a secret, natural
language hidden in the visual wisdom of the proverb'the eyes are the windows of the soul' …

Jeanne Fahnestock inward being. But in the mid-nineteenth century they were often
physiognomists in a precise sense, and, what is most interesting, they began to give …

“You will find more drawings than one on the subject of adminiration, in Le Brun,” wrote
Henry Siddons, son of the great actress Sarah.“The first of these drawings is the most …

Contributors to this volume: Anthony J. Berret, SJ William F. Byrne John Francis Devanny Jr.
Mary R. Reichardt Thomas W. Stanford III Aaron Urbanczyk Mark Twain's Adventures of …

Attention has increasingly turned in recent years from the economic and agricultural
framework of the life of the English villager in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to his …