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a bit of City. (4) "All the world's a Stage" (BuU and 

 Mouth Inn). (5) " At his head a grass turf and at his heels 

 a stone." (6) These came hopping. (7) Non-effectives. 



(8) Frogs and Cranes. Showing a friend the way to covert. 



(9) "My soul's on fire and eager for the field." (:o) A 

 Struggle for a Start. (11) Candidates for Brooks. (12) A 

 check. (13) Death and the Doctors. (14) Home ! 



Much of Henry Aiken's best and cleverest work 

 was done to illustrate books by the leading sporting 

 writers of his day. The Life of John Myiioti, 

 Esq., by Nimrod, which was published by Rudolph 

 Ackermann in 1835, contains numerous plates from 

 Henry Aiken's pictures. The Life and Death of 

 John Mytt07i, published in 1837, is illustrated with 

 nineteen plates, and Jorrock's Jaunts and Jollities, 

 published in the same year, contains sixteen engrav- 

 ings from his pictures. The Life of a Sportsman, by 

 Nimrod, contains thirty-six coloured plates from his 

 drawings ; these plates were published in collected 

 form by Rudolph Ackermann in 1842. The N'ew 

 Sporting Magazine (vol. xxiii.) in reviewing the book, 

 says, "The description of sporting and domestic 

 scenes are in Nimrod's usual style of excellence. 

 Aiken's illustrations, however, form, to us, the 

 principal attraction of this very elegant volume." 

 Aiken, it must be added, etched several of these 

 plates himself. 



The mag-azines contain numerous engravings 



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