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Show Gt6 DISTJNCTTONS OBSERVABLE AMONG graphical pt·opcrty, bearing upon types of man-Europeans hardly in •ludcd-now in oxistou c. This enables etb11ography at the present advan cd day to b ast, that sh possesses abont half an individual per million to r present all Mankind! whereas, out of 216 known species of Monlce'ys, thoro arc not a dozen of which naturalists do uot possess oxa -t and. elegant d lineations. And yet, ate p din the slotl"'h of out· common ignorance, it is pretended to give us systems vindi ating tho "unity of the human species." Under all those lamentable dcGci n ios, my attempt reduces itself to an exhibition of 54 oC the best characterized othn O'mphic rJortt·aits conucnsiblc into a" Tableau." 1'hcir number (fiftyjour) is ptll'ely accidental. No cabalistic enigma unum·lios its selection, which was supcrinduc d m r ly by th m chanica! ligibiliti s consider d requisite by om publishel's. What may have been tho labor in urrcd. to pro ·ont oven so small a JJumb rat one view, may be infcrr d tht·otwh tho Table of lleje1·ences. uch n.s it is, the reader will :find notlting yet published comparable to it for attempted acoma y; at the same time that none can be more alive than myself to its defc ts, nor will ho more happy to hail the publi ation of something b ttor within tlto limited pri ·e of this pr cnt volume. Had not this last inexorable condition boon part of our publishing at·rang m nts, my own portfolio ancl noto-bo ks could hav supplied for ov ry row ( xc pt f(lr tho Austr·alian realm, which sc me tolerably omplotc in 6 spocimonH) 18 diflercnt heads, each typical of a race, in lien of only 6; aJJd. then, through 132 colored portraits, a commoncommtt migltt have boon made to portray, at one viow, tho earth's lwown inhabitants; leaving to future collectors the task of adding othel' types, in tho ratio either of their discovery Ol' of their acquisition, to cthn ic i onography. With these remarks, tho "Tableau" iA submitted to liberal criticism; which will perceive the reason why so many cas ntial and well-known types are unavoidably excluded, in the fact that 132 distiuct things cannot bo compressed into a space adapted to 54. A FEW O!.OSING ODSERVATIONS. Notwithstanuing that pcrfoctly-tracod fac-similes, and sometimes tho original plates and photographs themselves, were placed in the hands of tho host lithographic establishment in this city, rigid comp:H:ison with a few of tho originals referred to in tho explanatory tex~, will pro~e what has boon previously dcpl rod r garding cthno~ oglC~l portratts g nerally, viz., that a merely artistic oyo, untrained 1n thts now "sp6c.ialit6" of art, is unable oven to copy with absolnto correctness. A draughtsman, accustomed to draw sol Jy European VARIOUS GHOUPS OF HUMANITY. G17 faces, cannot, without l ng practice anu a peculiar instinct for me·icono( rravlty, s iz , on so small a s ·ale as such drawings mu t be made, tlt d licatc distinctions between etlmic lin am ntfl perceived ?Y the eye f au anthropologist. lu cons •qnence, it has ktppencd 1n out· Tableau, that, through infinitesimal toncbes of ]tis pencil. thor ar' few head~; (in tlte eyes especially) wlti ·h have not been mor~ or l f:!s Europeanized by the artist. These d /eeLs arc h rein irrc•mcdiablc; nor would I call attention to th m, but tom eta vossible (nay, very probable) charge, that those portt·aits have been tampered "':ith in ot·<lor to favor Dr. N tt's and my common polygonistic vtows: wltoreas, on tho contrary, the truth is, that artistic x cution, by s f'Lening down diversities of feature, I alpable in the originalH, seems unconsciously to kwo labor cl rather too-ratify tho yearuinrrs and bonhomie of philanthropists and monogenists. b In resp ct to tho coloring, also, aiLlJOuglt to each face I bavo append <1 aulltority fol' iLs }n10, much allowance shonld bo made for a book th price of wlticb, to tho Amcri an subscriber, must not exceed $5. Tbo colorist (wbo has 1 crlorm d bot· part extremely well) !tad to give 53 distinct tints to 54 (the Tasmania·ns, Nos. 53, M, bcinO' Olio ·olor) difl'•rcnt faces,- each, too, rostri ·ted to one stroke of her brush. To kwc attempted tho coloration of eyes, hai1·, or d1·ess, would have made this volume cost half as much again. Nov 1'tholcsA, I have deposited with out· publishers one standard atHl completely-col r d copy, critically ox cntc<l by my wife, and th y toll me that any OliO desirous of possessing our "J£thnocrmphic Tableau," pcdoctly colm·ed, vamislted, aml mounted upon 1·ollers, can obtain such copy on application to them, and paying tho oxponHo thct· of. As for the wood-cuts,-in om pr s ut, no less than in our former volume-! am fro to say, tltat the only extenuation, for oftenstupid d viations ti·om pcdcctly-dnnvn originals, lies simply in tl1o fact, that where (owing to bibliothccal dciicicncics in a given spot of out· yet new and youthful American republic) the plates themsolves ·ould not be fumishcd to tho engraver, my wile's pencil-marks on tit box-wood "blocks" luwin<r been rubbed more or 1 •ss in our trav ls,-ot·, by carelessness, after their d livery to the wood-cut1l't' -"pencils," undct· such circumstances, arc trca ·h rous and slij>pory. Hence OLll' collaborators, Messrs. Pulszky and Meigs, I am sure, will be cbaritabl enough to overlook any a cidcntal drawbacks to tlto ntutinment of that cot'l' ctnes , wl1ich was equally desired l1y Mrs. 0 litldon, Dr. N ott, and myself. Tho r ad or will also, I trust, be o con idcratc as to overlook such blemishes in tho artistil!, cranioscopic, and typogmpical exactitude of our book. 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