6 Life, Genius, and Personal Habits of Bewick-. 
pupil of Bewick, which may be readily discriminated by their 
apparent excellence. The Old Exchange inthe title was cut 
by Bewick in 1719. This volume, valuable in many views, 
contains an impression of the celebrated oo Hound,’ 
which obtained his first public prize in 1775, when only 
twenty-two. It also contains FIVE aout on wood 
(copies), at different and distant periods, of the broad open 
features of my benevolent friend: that facing the title, from 
a painting of James Ramsay, is the nearest likeness during 
the years I knew him. It also contains a catalogue of his 
(congregated) works up to the year 1820. The editor very 
honestly and openly disavows his intention for one moment of 
putting eee pieces in uae Ue with the later productions ; 
but of showing the early powers, the gradual progress, and 
vigorous march of this great master. And I contemplate 
them with the same kind of curious pleasure, as I should the 
boyish rhymes of some great poet’s first sonnet to Delia’s 
shoe-tie, elaborated aneath a ereen weeping birch, when his 
years scarce equalled the mee of verses whereunto he was 
limited by the gagging-bill of Petrarch. It may not be amiss 
to instance a few; as ‘The Dog and Shadow, Bear and Bees, 
Wanton Calf, Trout and Gudgeon (angler’s attitude), Horses’ 
Petition, &c. In these and others the infant Bewick is very 
visible, particularly in the motion, Some insects, too, as tail- 
pieces, are so accurate, as at once to be specific to an ento- 
mologist ; as the Papilio Méeara, Libéllula variegata, Pontia 
brassicee. And the vignettes partake of his determinate pro- 
pensity to morality, tentlerticss, and humour; each (as ever) 
telling articulately its own tale: as (to cite but one or two) 
that of Parson Fatpate, his fat wife, with fat pug-dog, wad- 
dling to a fat dinner, after a fat sermon, at Fatsty ahunehs ona 
fat-melting Sunday; the reverend personage’s motion and 
legs are peculian ly clerical. The beautiful story of Abdallah 
and the Magic Candelabrum is told at a glance. Another 
very admir able hit is at a dignified priest, creeping to duty 
under the shade of a parasol, evidently (by his index-finger 
and closed hand) giving his blessing, but no bawhee, to a 
ragged wocden-legged soldier, holding out his hat, while 
behind him his cocked- legged cur is St ‘oaning against the 
parson’s gown. In the Gictance is seen the church, and a 
yeoman sweating under a heavy load. This is just a swatch 
of Bewick’s way. The middle-: aged gentleman on the garden- 
screen is on a visit to the husband “of his early love; while 
they ave walking from him down the avenue, wishing him in 
— heaven, or at home. <A less fertile mind fhian His of Ab- 
botsford might imagine a romance of terror by a glimpse at 
