Ago in St. Paul's Magazine,' and which I have often been asked to reprint. I have considerably re-arranged and amplified the subject matter; but whilst I have traversed a wide field, I can lay claim to neither a fixed scheme nor a scientific method. Still I cannot but hope that the following pages may be helpful to some who have never thought much about the in?uence or the art of Beauty; and I may perhaps add that among the portraits derived from nature there.