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 THE PORTRAITS OF JOHN KNOX. 233 Hague a folio entitled PrcBstantinm aliquot Thcolo- gorum 8fc, Effigies, in which Knox figures in the following new form ; done, as the signature bears, by Hondius, an Engraver of known merit, but cognizant seemingly of Beza's Book only, and quite ignorant of Goulart's translation and its Tyndale Knox; who presents us, to our surprise, on this occasion, with the portrait given over leaf ; considerably more alive and credible as a human being than Beza's Figure-head ; and bearing on it the monogram of Hondius ; so that at least its authorship is indisputable. This, as the reader sees, represents to us a much more effective-looking man in matters of refonnation or vigorous action ; in fact it has a kind of brow- beating or almost bullying aspect ; a decidedly self- sufficient man, but with no trace of feature in him that physiognomically can remind us of Knox. The river of beard flowing from it is grander than that in the Figure-head, and the Book there, with its right- hand reminding you of a tied-up bundle of carrots supporting a kind of loose little volume, are both charitably Avithdrawn. This woodcut, it appears, pleased the late Sir David Wi^ie best of all the