Minor Notes.
Family Likenesses.
—I believe that a likeness always exists in members of the same family, though it may not always be seen, and, even then, not by everybody. I have seen at times a striking likeness in a pretty face to that of a plain one in the same family.
In one of the Edinburgh Journals (Chambers') a stranger is said to have remarked the likeness to the portraits of Sir William Wallace of a passer-by, and was then informed by his companion that he was a descendant.
I am witness of a strong likeness in a young man, born in 1832, to the portrait of his great-great-uncle, born in 1736,—which carries back the inherited likeness to the latter's father, who was born in 1707, and married 1730. It is no mere fancy of my own, but has been noticed by several on seeing the portrait.
A. C.
Bloomerism in the Sixteenth Century.
—Happening to pitch upon the following extract, I forward it to you in the belief that it may, at the present time, have an interest for some of your readers:—
"I have met with some of these trulles in London so disguised that it hath passed my skills to discerne whether they were men or women."—Hollinshed, Description of England.
X. X. X.
Inscriptions at Much Wenlock and on Statue of Queen Anne at Windsor.
—Carved in a beam over the town hall of Much Wenlock, in Shropshire, stands (or perhaps stood, for the building was very old thirty years since) the following curious verses:
"Hic locus odit, amat, punit, conservat, honorat,
Nequitiam, pacem, crimina, jura, bonos."
I am not aware if they have appeared previously in your publication; but they are worthy of preservation, I think, if for nothing else, for the oddity of linking one line with another.
There is also a couple of lines on the town hall, Windsor, underneath a miserable statue of Queen Anne:
"Arte tuâ, sculptor, non est imitabilis Anna,
Annæ vis similem sculpere? sculpe Deam."
The unintentional satire conveyed in the first line is very appropriate, as the statue is a thing of wood, and forcibly reminds one of the charming statue of George IV. formerly at King's Cross.
PROCURATOR.