New Physiognomy : or signs of character, as manifested through temperament and external forms, and especially in the "the human face divine." . t. Careful investigation, Mr. Brace says, in his Races of * Our illustrative portrait represents one of the best specimens of themodern Israelite—an eminent merchant of London and one of the leadingmembers of the Jewish community of Great Britain. An English paperthus speaks of him : Sir Moses Montefiore, now in his seventy-ninth oreightieth year, has, by a long course of social usefulness and beneficence,done much to uphold and enhance the respectabil
New Physiognomy : or signs of character, as manifested through temperament and external forms, and especially in the "the human face divine." . t. Careful investigation, Mr. Brace says, in his Races of * Our illustrative portrait represents one of the best specimens of themodern Israelite—an eminent merchant of London and one of the leadingmembers of the Jewish community of Great Britain. An English paperthus speaks of him : Sir Moses Montefiore, now in his seventy-ninth oreightieth year, has, by a long course of social usefulness and beneficence,done much to uphold and enhance the respectability of his people, whoare justly esteemed as inferior to no other class in England in the virtuesof private life, in their character for commercial integrity, and in theirzeal for the public welfare consistently with their belief in the future des-tinies of their own religion and race. 446 NATIONAL TYPES. the Old World, seems to show two physical types amongthe Jews: one dark, with black hair and eyes, and the well-known hooked nose; another, with very regular profile andbeautiful features, but blonde, with light hair and blue eyes *. 5^I7-~ Fig 557.—SiE Moses Montefiore. This latter type is seen a great deal in the East, especially inConstantinople and Africa; even red hair being often metwith. The blonde type is the one from which the traditionalrepresentations of the Saviour are made, and is not improba-bly very ancient among the Jews. The relation of the Jew- ** This type has heen seen hv the learned travelers of New York, Dr. Smith and Dr. W. H. Thompson. i THE ANCIENT EGYPTIAN. 447 ish type to climate, of which so much is made by Prichard,does not seem to bear the test of closer investigation. (SeeDr, Beddoe, Ethnol. Trans., London, 1861.*) A peculiar phys-iological fact in regard to this people should be noticed here,that they are able to live and multiply in almost all increase in Sweden is said to be greater than that of theChristian population
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