3 DECEMBER 1887, Page 32

ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY IN CHARACTER. [To Tas EDITOR or TEE

.Srsersros.1 &a,—When I wrote my little book on organisation and inherit- ance in character, I was not vain enough to suppose I should oonvert the Spectator and its staff. But being an old subscriber, long familiarity with its temper led me to expect fairness. I do not divide men and women into shrews and non-shrews only ; I speak of a large class who are neither one nor the other. Be it noted also that I nowhere assume that shrewishness and non. shrewishness are the leading features in character.—I am, Sir,

[We understood Mr. Jordan to mean that these are the two types of human character, mach modified and mixed, as types commonly are.—En. Spectator.]