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THOMAS BEWICK. 



training; and though it might be interesting to speculate how Bewick would 

 have bent his genius had he received competent teaching — for, as Mr. Ruskin 

 tells us, Bewick "without training was Holbein's equal" — yet, after all, it 

 was best as it happened ; and above everything we have to congratulate 

 ourselves that no teacher of the false or feeble order had any hand in rearing 

 Thomas Bewick. 



The Hungry Ewe and Lamb. From a vignette in the " General History of Quadrupeds.' 



