A = B b. 1602. | m. 1638. + 1659. | + 1688. +-----------------+------------+ | | Sir Edward James = C b. 1648. b. 1641. | m. 1676. + 1728. + 1680. | + 1697. +-----+ | D = E b. 1677. | m. 1701. + 1721. | + 1747. +----+ | F = G | m. 1725. + 1775. | + 1811. +------------+ | H = Elizabeth | m. 1781. + 1833. | + 1821. +-----+ | I = K + 1848. | m. 1819. +-----+ | L = M b. 1827. | +-----+ | N ] It has been conjectured that a child sitting daily in the presence of a certain portrait insensibly assumes a likeness to it; but such a conjecture will not satisfy the case just mentioned, for L and N till recently had never seen the picture which they so closely resembled. There is another point connected with family portraits that has given me occasion of thought and speculation; and that is, the way in which those children who are named after an ancestor or ancestress sometimes, I do not say often or always, but certainly sometimes, do in a very remarkable manner receive the stamp of the features of that ancestor after whom named. This has nothing to do with the naming of the child at baptism because of a supposed resemblance, for in very young infants none such can be traced, but the likeness grows in the child to the person whose name it bears. Now here is a bit of pedigree, with the likenesses that exist curiously agreeing with the Christian names. In this relation of a new generation to an old there is a point to be remarked. E^2 is in character, in manner, and in tastes and pursuits exactly what E was, but does _not_ resemble him in face. W D^2 is just like W D, his great-great-great-grandfather, whose double Christian name he bears. M B^2 and M B^3 are like M B in face, and M B^2 resembles her great-great-grandmother in face and in character. D A^2 is absurdly like her great-grandmother, whose double name she bears, but is as yet too young for the mental characteristics to show themselves, or at all events to have become sufficiently emphasized to enable one to say whether, in mind as in face, she resembles her great-grandmother. [Illustration: