New Physiognomy : or signs of character, as manifested through temperament and external forms, and especially in the "the human face divine." . earance atleast, the law of transmis-sion, we may recur here tothe fact, already incident-ally alluded to, that chil-dren sometimes resembletheir grandfather or iheir grandmother instead o f ^g- Mott. their father or their mother-. This phenomenon, which pre-vails throughout the animal races, and probably among plants,has been called atavism. The writer in The Book of Days, before quoted, sayshe could point to an instance where the beaut
New Physiognomy : or signs of character, as manifested through temperament and external forms, and especially in the "the human face divine." . earance atleast, the law of transmis-sion, we may recur here tothe fact, already incident-ally alluded to, that chil-dren sometimes resembletheir grandfather or iheir grandmother instead o f ^g- Mott. their father or their mother-. This phenomenon, which pre-vails throughout the animal races, and probably among plants,has been called atavism. The writer in The Book of Days, before quoted, sayshe could point to an instance where the beauty of a marriedwoman has passed over her own children to reappear withcharacteristic form and complexion in her grandchildren.* Heknows very intimately a young lady who, in countenance, in ?? A curious illustration of these remarks falls under our notice as weare preparing this chapter for the press. A writer in the Evening Post,describing the means by which Mr. Huntingdon secured the likenesses forhis picture of The Republican Court (including Washington and manyof his cotemporaries), after mentioning the picture of Copley and Stua-t. TRANSMITTED PHYSIOGNOMIES. 561 port, and in a peculiar form of the feet, is precisely a revivalof a great-grandmother^ whom he also knew intimately. Hecould also point to an instance where a woman of deep olivecomplexion and elegant Oriental figure, tiie inheritress, per-haps, of the style of some remote ancestress, has given birthto children of the same brown, sanguineous type as her ownbrothers and sisters; the whole constitutional system beingthus shown as liable to sinkings and re-emergences. Another curious circumstance regarding family likenesses,not much, if at all hitherto noticed, but which has a value inconnection with the question, is this: A family characteris-tic, or a resemblance to a brother, uncle, grandfather, or otherrelative, may not have appeared throughout life, but willemerge into view after death. The same result is occasion
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