The Strand Magazine : an illustrated monthly. Vol. 1, no. 1, January 1891 / edited by George Newnes.
- Date:
- 1891
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The Strand Magazine : an illustrated monthly. Vol. 1, no. 1, January 1891 / edited by George Newnes. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![PROF. BLACKIE. Born 1809. E are indebt¬ ed to the kindness of Profes¬ sor Blackie for three portraits of himself at widely different ages. Three-quarters of a cen¬ tury is so vast a span of human life, that the re¬ semblance between the charming little boy of five in frills and the grey Pro¬ fessor of eighty, who might be his great-grand¬ father, though distinctly traceable, may not at first be visible to all. At five years old John Stuart Blackie was, we may assume, most interested in tops and pop-guns ; at forty-five he was a Uni¬ versity Professor, and j ast returning from his tour to Athens, which was the origin of his well-known advocacy of the study of modern Greek ; at eighty he was—as he still is, and as we trust he may long be—at once the most learned and the most pop¬ ular of living Scotchmen. From a Fhotograph hj] age 8o, [Jfeasj-*. Elliott f Fry,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b3047940x_0072.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
