Excerpt from Lords and Commoners
These cabalistic signs having been unintelligibly studied by the company present, Tadema turned the card round, connected the figures by pencil marks, and swiftly drew a woman’s cap over the head thus formed. Behold a living face with eyes, nose and mouth. This looks so easy that Canon Wilberforce, Chaplain of the House of Commons, who was among the guests, asked permission to do the trick. Why, certainly, said Tadema heartily. The Canon succeeded in placing the figures all right, but when it came to drawing the oval of the face and the features he was hope lessly baffled. Perhaps the reader, if he or she tries, may be more successful.
To present the other figure Tadema wrote at a certain angle the word Cohen, placed a hat over it at another calculated angle, and there was an unmistakable Jewish physiognomy.
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