The philosophy of beards : a lecture : physiological, artistic & historical / by T.S. Gowing.

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/ tynhtt. rT^HE following Lecture, the first I believe on the specific subject, met -with a warm reception from a numerous and good-humoured auditory; and received long and flattering notices from the local papers, " the Ipswich Journal," and "the Suffolk Chronicle." My enterprising and liberal publisher, has thought it worthy of more ex- tended circulation. May the public tbink with him, and take it off bis hands as freely as he has taken it off mine! T have modified the passages which referred to the illustrations; the greater portion of which it would, inde- pendently of expense, have been impossible to give with any effect on a small scale. Mr. F. B. Kussel, (to whom \