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Professor Arthur Keith 



[Feb. 20, 



represented — if we allow a reduction of 10 per cent in face and head 

 — as a man with facial features of average dimensions. The face, 

 when so reduced, measm-es from the root of the nose to the lower 

 margin of the chin, just over 120 millimetres ; its width, from the 

 zygomatic arch of one cheek to that of the other, is a little over 

 130 millimetres. The mean length of the face of a modern English- 

 man is 120 • 7 millimetres ; its width, 132 millimetres. Indeed, if 

 we presume that the sculptor added about 10 per cent to the actual 



Fig. 5. — Full-face view of -Shakespeare's skull, with similar views of a Bronze 

 Age skull inset. The skull is enlarged 10 per cent. 



dimensions, then, in size of head and face, Shakespeare might be 

 regarded as a representative individual of the shoi't, or round-headed 

 type. 



If there is any truth in the Stratford bust — if it represents the 

 features of Shakespeare — then there is no doubt that our national 

 poet is a product of the round-headed branch of European humanity. 

 We are certain, at least, that Shakespeare does not belong to the early 

 British breed, for not a trace of a " round-head " has been found in 



