Show A LIKENESS the race was a hard one to carve james anthony froude had a striking face but it was evidently one abich lent itself ill to sculpture mrs ireland gives in the contemporary ec vica an amusing instance of a misfit likeness of it mrs ireland was at his house and after dinner she and mr froude were just adjourning to the library when he stopped a moment and pointed out a bust on a bookcase the center of three full sized and dignified representations in marble 1 I must not forget he said to show you the very latest addition to my treasures what do you think of it I 1 looked up and with my head full of the galleries and museums I 1 had been visiting answered its a very terrible head and most repellent yes he said 1 I agree with you now who should you say it is ignorant about these things I 1 answered vaguely nero perhaps or one of the old borgias mr froude laughed try again he said you ought to know it it is a horrid looking thing said I 1 whoever it is atrocious said mr froude emphatically Is it not well im sorry to say it is a bust of myself just presented to me by sir edgar boehm very kind of him it and now of course I 1 have to stick it up here in a very prominent place and show it to all my friends pleasant it boehm see you with my eyes said I 1 it remind me of you in the least lie laughed heartily belll said he 1 I think I 1 was quite such a ruffian as that |