4=0 Portraits of Shakespeare and Burns [Feb. 20, 



peare a Celt, a descendant of the round-headed people who invaded 

 England in the Bronze Age. Burns is from the western frino-e— 

 usually called " Celtic," but which in truth is pre-Celtic. He comes 

 of the long-headed stock which inhabited our country before the 

 Bronze Age— probably before the neolithic age dawned. Is it possible 



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that we may explain the extraordinary difference in the working of 

 their brains by the diversity of their racial origin ? 



Of the Raeburn portrait it is not for me to speak. That the 

 portrait is that of Burns, I have no doubt. The features of the 

 cranial cast are manifest in the portrait. Those who have seen 

 the Raeburn portrait have seen Burns. 



[A. K.J 



