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many years Mr. Nichols had been accustomed to pay Mr. 

 Cradock an annual visit at Gumley Hall ; but on Mr. Cra- 

 dock settling in London, the intercourse became incessant, 

 and we doubt not that the daily correspondence which took 

 place between them, contributed to cheer the latter days of 

 these two veterans in literature. They had both of them in 

 early life enjoyed the flattering distinction of an intimacy 

 with the same eminent characters ; and to hear the different 

 anecdotes elicited in their animated conversations respecting 

 Johnson and others, was indeed an intellectual treat of no 

 ordinary description. Mr. Cradock and Mr. Nichols pos- 

 sessed a similarity in taste and judgment. They were both 

 endowed with peculiar quickness of comprehension, and with 

 powers and accuracy of memory rarely equalled." One may 

 say of the liberal minded Mr. Nichols, what Mr. Murphy 

 said of Dr. Johnson, that his love of literature was a passion 

 that stuck to his last stand. The works of Mr. Cradock 

 have, since his decease, been published by Mr. J. B. Nichols, 

 in 4 vols. 8vo. They contain his Essay on Gardening and 

 Village Memoirs. They are enriched by a miniature por- 

 trait of him, by Hone, in 1764, when Mr. Cradock was in 

 his prime of life, in his twenty-second year, and when his 

 piercing eyes and intelligent countenance, were thought to 

 have resembled those of Mr. Garrick. There is also a pro- 

 file shade of Mr. Cradock, taken of him only a month before 

 his decease. In the above quoted magazine, is a copy of 

 this profile, with a memoir. 



SIR JOSEPH BANKS. There is a fine portrait of him by 

 Russel, engraved by Collyer. In Mr. Cadell's Contemporary 

 Portraits is another fine one, from the pencil of Lawrence. 

 His portrait is preserved by the Horticultural Society of 

 London, and in the British Museum is his bust, chiselled 

 and presented by the Hon. Mrs. Darner. A good copy of 

 the engraving by Collyer is in the European Magazine for 



