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In 4to, 16 Plates, price 30s.,

THE GEOMETRIC BEAUTY OF THE HUMAN FIGURE DEFINED.

To which is prefixed, a SYSTEM of ÆSTHETIC PROPORTION applicable to ARCHITECTURE and the other FORMATIVE ARTS.

_From the Cambridge Journal of Classical and Sacred Philology._

We feel bound to pay Mr Hay a large and glad tribute of praise for having devised a system of proportions which rises superior to the idiosyncrasies of different artists, which brings back to one common type the sensations of Eye and Ear, and so makes a giant stride towards that _codification_ of the laws of the universe which it is the business of science to effect. We have no hesitation in saying that, for scientific precision of method and importance of results, Albert Durer, Da Vinci, and Hogarth—not to mention less noteworthy writers—must all yield the palm to Mr Hay.