26 CATTLE-BREEDING. 



dusky, curly-haired type of the negro races; 

 these all produce generation by generation the 

 same type so long as kept pure; but when the 

 blood of one intermingles with another an in- 

 stant change to an intermediate type ensues. 



Then we have well recorded instances of 

 close resemblances in families for many gener- 

 ations. Thus the ill-fated house of Stuart was 

 marked by a family resemblance of the most 

 striking kind, one which the portraits of its 

 members, even under the utmost efforts of 

 court painters to "individualize" their "sub- 

 jects," makes startlingly clear to us. In the 

 families of Yalois and Bourbon, too, ran a 

 line of strong resemblances. Indeed, not only 

 among ruling families, but wherever a long 

 line of portraits have preserved to us a record 

 of the personal appearance of a number of 

 generations we find that in a large majority of 

 cases there is a strong resemblance. 



But this influence is not confined to mere 

 externals; it goes to the deepest things of the 

 mind and character. If the Stuarts were alike 

 in form and feature how much more in that 

 headstrong, incapable nature that could learn 

 neither from precept nor experience! How 

 plain bluff Hal shines out in good Queen Bess 

 despite the powder and the patches with which 

 so many generations have sought to hide the 

 too palpable likeness. 



