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 800 THE POKTRAITS OF JOHN KNOX. ' pages in larger type than that of the text. Each ' verse is separate, and the gaps at the ends of many I was informed by Mrs. Ralph Smyth that she knew nothing more of the Picture than that it had, as long as she could remember, always hung on the walls of the Somerville town-house in Hill Street, Mayfair, — but this Lady being still young in years, her recol- lection does not carry us far back. One other light point in her memory was, a tradition in the family that it was brought into their possession by James, the thirteenth Baron Somerville ; but all the Papers connected with the family having been destroyed some years ago by fire, in a solicitor's ofiice in Lon- don, there was no means either of verifying or contra- dicting that tradition. Of this James, thirteenth Lord Somerville, there is the following pleasant and suggestive notice by Bos- well, in his Life of Johnson : ' company with Pope, and that after dinner the " little
 * ciently indicates itself. Headings at the top of the
 * of them are very like those seen in the Picture.'
 * The late Lord Somerville, who saw much both of
 * great and brilliant life, told me, that he had dined in