Look at bodily peculiarities. There is not a shape man can assume, but is described in the Directory. There is not an accident that can befall him but it is there recorded, just as if it were the entry book of cases for a London hospital. There is not a peculiarity in his style of dress, or management of his limbs, or complexion of his skin, or colour of his hair, that is not set down with as great a care as if he were a suspected character in a detective’s notebook. Nevertheless, let us be careful not to fall into a trap. A hundred local names look very like nicknames. Tallboy occurs twice in our Directory. These gentlemen represent the Norman Talboys frequently found in Domesday Book. Longness, Thickness, and Redness, may not mean Longnose, Thicknose, and Rednose, although nose was “ness” in the days when these surnames arose. Thickness is known to be local. Any sharp promontory on the coast is a Naze or Ness (_i.e._ a Nose). Hence such a name as Dengeness in Kent. A Miss Charlotte Ness inquired the meaning of the logical terms abstract and concrete. The answer was given in verse: “Say what is abstract, what concrete? Their difference define.” “They both in one fair person meet, And that, dear maid, is thine.” “How so? The riddle pray undo.” “I thus your wish express: For when I lovely Charlotte view, I then view loveli-Ness.” Still we may safely assume of the great majority that they are what they seem to be. We will at once proceed to inspect some of them. Let us begin with the head, keeping our eye meantime on the pages of the Directory for evidence.