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 242 THE PORTKAITS OF JOHN KNOX. sufficiency and copious river of beard, bestowed by Hondius. The so-called original Knox, still in Glasgow Uni- versity, is thus described to me by a friendly Scottish artist, Mr. Eobert Tait, Queen Anne Street, of good faculties and opportunities in such things, as of doubt- ful derivation from the Beza Icon, though engraved and recommended as such by Pinkerton, and as being an 'altogether weak and foolish head.' From the same artist I also learn that the bronze figure in the monument at Glasgow is a visible derivative from Beza, through Torphichen. And in brief this poor Figure-head has produced, and is still producing, through various venters, a quite Protean peciis of incredible portraits of Knox ; — the latest of note, generally known, is M'Crie's frontispiece to the Life of Knox, and probably the most widely spread in our generation that given in Chambers's Biographical Dictionary. A current portrait, I suppose, of the last century, although there is no date on it, * in the pos- dently of filiality to Hondius or Torphichen withal ;
 * session of Miss Knox of Edinburgh, painted by De
 * Yos,' has some air of generic difference, but is evi-