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WANDERINGS AND PONDERINGS, &C. 



Hunter as illustrations of his " Wanderings." They repre- 

 sent very faithfully the objects from which they were drawn ; 

 although, in justice to the engravers, it should be stated, that 

 they complained grievously of the want of composition in the 

 drawings, and also of their being positively commanded to make 

 exact copies without embellishment. In these respects, tastes 

 widely differ. The Insect-Hunter likes faithful representations 

 of all things. He would rather possess exact though homely 

 likenesses of his friends, than more brilliant ones, nominally 

 representing the same person, but modelled after the Venus de 

 Medicis and the Apollo Belvidere. 



But the Wanderer is wandering from his subject. The want 

 of connexion between the cuts and the accompanying text is 

 the difficulty before us ; and that difficulty he hopes to obviate 

 on a future, and, mayhap, not far distant occasion, by reprint- 

 ing these chapters, with an illustrative cut at the head of each. 



