person with a low flat nose, hollowed in the middle. The Tartars are great admirers of camus beauties. Rubruquis observes, that the wife of the great Jenghiz Khan, a celebrated beauty, had only two holes for a nose.

Camus, John Peter, a French prelate, born in 1582. He was author of a number of pious romances (the taste of his time), and other theological works, to the amount of 200 vols. His definition of politics is remarkable; "Ars non tam regendi, quam fallendi, homines: The art not so much of governing, as of deceiving mankind." He died in 1652.