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.
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