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mated by selfish motives, it is declar- ed, and poor little Cleopatra was his victim, rather than the reverse. IA is further asserted that Cleopatra was the real wife of Julius, and later of Antony. It is admitted that the Queen was very economical in her attire, and at times wore little but seductive smile, but that was the pleasant cua- tom of that period.
 One of the latest writers to come to the defense of the Egyptian Queen is Arthur E. P. Browne Weigall in his Life and Times of Cleopatra Of her style of beauty MT. WeigaII writes:
 'tIt must be remembered that, so far as we know, not one drop of ori-. ental blood flowed in Cleopatra's veins, and that therefore her type must be considered as Macedonian Greek. The slightly brown skin of the Egyptian, the heavy dark eyes of the East, full, as it were, of sleep, the black hair of silken texture, are not features which are to be assigned to her. On the contrary, many Macedon- ian women are fair-haired and blue, eyed, and that coloring is frequent ly to be seen amongst the people of the Eastern Mediterranean. Neverthe- less, it seems, most probabIe, all things considered, that she was a brunette.
 ''The features Of her face seem to
 
 the general effect given is that of smallness and delicacy. Her nose was aquiline and prominent, the nostrils being sensitive and having an appear ance of good breeding. Her mouth was beautifully formed, the lips ap- bearing to be finely chiselled. Her eyes were large and we'll placed. her eyebrows delicate1y pencilled. The contour of her cheek and chin was charmfng1y rounded, softening, thus, the lines of her c1ear-cut features It is probable that she was very small in build. In order to obtain admit tance to her palace upon an occasion it is related that she was rolled up in some bedding and carried over the shoulders of an attendant, a fact which indicates that her weight was not considerable. The British NGu- scum bust seems to portray the head of small woman; and, moreover, Plutach refers to her in terms which suggest that her charm lay to some O extent in her daintiness. One ina zines her thus to have been in ap- pearance small, graceful woman; prettily rounded rather than sligbt; dark-haired; beautiful and yet by no means perfect type of beauty"
 The author believes that her voice and her grace of manner were what made her so irresistible; the latter marked by " a waywardness, an Ru- dacity. a capricousness, which en- chanted those around her" Tn man ner, although t'often wild and tncIin- ed to romp, she possessed consider ' able dignity and at times was naughty and proud" She was a Hnguist, and s'had seldom any need of an inter- preter for her communication with foreigners''
 There was something of the tom boy in her character, for, says MT. WeigaH, with Antony as her c6mpan- ion. fshe was wont to wander around the city at night time, Knocking at peoples doors in the darkness and running away when they were open ed.'' The author adds: ''It is related how once wheu Antony was fishing in the sea, she made a diver descend into the water to atach to This line a sauted fish, which he drew to the sur face amidst the greatest merriment.' Oh. you Cleopatra! Such a cut-ups
 "It must be admitted says Cleo patra's apologist, that she caused the assassination of her sister Arsin0e and ordered the execution of others who were, at that time, plotting against her. But it must be remem- bered that political murders of this kind were a custom-nay, a habit of the period; and, moreover, the fact that the Queen of Egypt used her rough soldiers for the purpose does not differentiate the act from that of good Queen Bess, who employed a Lord Chief Justice and an axe"
 Of her. relations with Caesar, the author insists that Some form of marriage had taken place between them. or at any rate, the Egyptian people, if not the cynical AlexanriaFs, had been constrained to recognize their legal union" After Caesars assasaina- ton the merry widow" of Egypt, young, passionate, and exceedingly lonSly,' gave a glad welcome to Am tony, and their union "was at once by the court and priest hood and was converted in Egypt in- to as legal a marriage as that with Caesar had been."
 This historian pictures her 'noV surrounded by her armies in the thick of battle; now sailing up the moonltt Nile in her royal barge with Caesar beside her; now tenderly playing in the nursery with her babies;" and at last "af1 haggard and forlorn, hold ing the deadly asp to her body" and the reader, like the author. cannot fail to fall himself under the spell of that entertainment by which the face 4I,.1 I -.I,.,