To obtain the typical representation of a class is something that painters and novelists have always professed to do, and it is something which they have nearly always failed in accomplishing. The ...

MAY I be permitted, as an intimate friend of many years and under deep obligations to the late Sir Francis Gallon, to say a word upon a matter which is perhaps not sufficiently emphasised? I refer to ...

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