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 THE PORTRAITS OF JOHN KNOX. 307 spect to costume, as we have seen, is without validity, and may he classed, in House-of-Commons language, as * frivolous and vexatious.' The Picture is not an ideal, but that of an actual man, or still more pre- cisely, an actual Scottish ecclesiastical man. In point of external evidence, unless the original turn up, which is not impossible, though much improbable, there can be none complete or final in regard to such a matter ; but with internal evidence to some of us it is replete, and beams brightly with it through every pore. For my own share if it is not John Knox the Scottish hero and evangelist of the sixteenth century, I cannot conjecture who or what it is. THE END. BRaDBLRY, AGJNEW, & CO., PKlNTtRS, WUIXEFRIARS.