A LECTURE

ON

SOME PORTRAITS OF SHAKESPEARE,

AND

Shakespeare's Brooch,

DELIVERED BY MR. JOHN RABONE, TO THE MEMBERS

OF THE BIRMINGHAM NATURAL HISTORY AND

MICROSCOPICAL SOCIETY, NOV. 15TH, 1883.

Reprinted, by request, from the " Birmingham Daily Gazette," November 20th, 1883.

WITH AN APPENDIX AND ILLUSTRATIONS.