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 230 THE PORTRAITS OF JOHN KNOX. palpable oversight discoverable in Goulart's accurately conscientious labour, wHch everywhere else repro- duces Beza as in a clear mirror. But there is one other variation, not, as seems to us, by mere oversight of printer or pressman, but by clear intention on the part of Goulart, which is of the highest interest to our readers : the notable fact, namely, that Goulart has, of his own head, silently altogether withdrawn the Johannes Cnoxus of Beza, and substituted for it this now adjoined Icon, one of his own eleven, which has no relation or resemblance whatever to the Beza like- ness, or to any other ever known of Knox. A portrait recognisably not of Knox at all ; but of William Tyn- dale translator -of the Bible, a fellow exile of Kjiox's at Geneva ; which is found repeated in all manner of collections, and is now everywhere accepted as Tyn- dale's likeness ! This surely is a wonderftd transaction on the part of conscientious, hero-worshipping Goulart towards his hero Beza ; and indeed will seem to most persons to be explicable only on the vague hypothesis that some old or middle-aged inhabitant of Geneva, who had there sometimes transiently seen Knox, twenty-