244 THE PORTRAITS OF JOHN KNOX.

there will be speech enough by-and-by), * and to beg ' you to do me the favour of looking at the sketches ' which I have modelled, and to give me your valu-

• able opinion about them. — I have just been to the

^British Museum, and have seen engravings after 'four pictures of John Knox. The only one which 'looks done from nature, and a really characteristic ' portrait is that of which you have a print. It is I 'find from a picture "in the possession of Lord ' Somerville." Two more, which are very like each ' other in quality, and in quantity of beard and gar-

• ments, are, one in the possession of a Miss Knox of
• Edinburgh (painted by De Vos), the other at Calder

'House (Lord Torphichen's). The fourth, which is ' very bad, wherein he is represented laughing like a ' ^^Hofnarry^ is from a painting in Hamilton Palace ; ' but cannot possibly have been the John Knox, as he

• has a tumed-up nose and looks funny.'

But enough now, and more than enough of the soul-confusing spectacle of Proteus driving all his monstrous flock, product of chaos, to view the lofty mountains and the sane minds of men.