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 THE PORTRAITS OF JOHN KNOX. 213 of Wickliffe, the deep-lying tap-root of the whole tree ; to want whose Portrait and have nothing hut a name to offer was surely a want indeed. Goulart's Wickliffe gratifies one not a little ; and to the open- minded reader who has any turn for physiognomic inquiries is very interesting ; a most substantial and effective looking man; easily conceivable as Wick- liffe, though, as in my own case, one never saw a portrait of him before; a soKd, broad-browed, massive- headed man; Strong nose, slightly aquiline, beard of practical length and opulent growth; evidently a thoughtful, cheerful, faithful and resolute man ; to whom indeed a very great work was appointed in this world ; that of inaugurating the new Reforma- tion and new epoch in Europe, with results that have been immense, not yet completed but expanding in our own day with an astonishing, almost alarming swiftness of development. This is among the shortest of all the Icon articles or written commentaries in Beza's Work. We translate it entire, as a specimen of Beza's well-meant, but too often vague, and mostly inane performance in these enterprises ; which to the most zealous reader of his own time could leave so