Of George Eliot the Museum possesses three portraits. Most fortunately, it has also one of her father. It would add enormously to the value of portraits as a means to the illustration of character, if we might always have associated with that of a distinguished individual those of his parents, and even of his brothers and sisters. The portrait of Robert Evans (George Eliot’s father) is a very pleasing one--a grave, serious face, with a large Roman nose, well-formed lips and chin, and a really magnificent forehead. The nose probably gives a clue to his family descent. Of those of the authoress herself, the first, taken when she was 23, by a lady friend (Mrs. Bray), is a poor work of art, and exhibits a commonplace face, surmounted by a very large rounded forehead. It is impossible to judge of the nose. A second is of some years older, and is much better executed. The forehead is still there, and the nose is shown of good size and shapely, and the lips and chin are well formed. The face is a shorter one than in the next, and the hair is of a much lighter tint. The face is pleasing and attractive, not much unlike, if we remember rightly, one which represented Jenny Lind. Lastly, we come to the often copied and well-known portrait at age 46, by Sir F. Burton. In this the nose and face are long, almost suggesting an approach to what is called a horse face. The chin is good, but as the fine forehead is much concealed by folds of hair, the balance of features is not perfect, and the whole result not pleasing. All the three show the eyes light grey or blue. There can be no doubt that George Eliot had a large forehead and a fairly large nose and chin, but further than this these somewhat disaccording portraits do not take us. We must fall back on her father’s Roman nose and really beautifully balanced features. Mary Somerville’s face is a very intellectual one, but a trifle cold as regards mouth and chin. Looking at Mrs. Carter’s width of forehead, no one can doubt that she had “skull-room” for many languages and what had been written in them. There is a most pleasant expression on her face, suggesting a genial companion and ready conversation, but her chin is weak and small. Mrs. Browning’s face is alive with graceful vigour, and her forehead, as we have already said, is full and round. It is held that the heads of women are dolichocephalic (long in proportion to breadth) in larger average than those of men. There is certainly nothing in this collection of portraits which would oppose the supposition that the higher developments of intellect in women, as in men, are usually met with in heads unusually broad. Such an inference must, however, be accepted with some caution. * * * * * THE BRAIN IN RELATION TO INTELLECT.