JOHN BEWICK. 



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By permission of Messrs. Griffith and Farran, St. Paul's Churchyard, the 

 successors of Newbery, the original publisher of the work, impressions from 

 the chief blocks are inserted at various places throughout this book. Of those 

 illustrative of the letterpress, the best are " Louisa and the Boy who sold the 

 Birds," at p. 21, and " Mrs. Lenox and her children Leonora and Adolphus," 

 at p. 148. In these the cleverness of the draughtsman and engraver is fully 

 displayed, particularly in the attitudes and the racy expression of the faces in 

 the first mentioned. The others — viz. "Mr. Jackson and his son Junius" 

 (p. 210), "Madam D'Allone admonishing her four pupils" (p. 150), and 

 the following towards the end: "William and Amelia, and their friend 

 Charlotte," "Bella and the poor stranger Marian," and "Caroline, 

 or a lesson to cure vanity" — 

 have all been chosen as among 

 the best pictures John Bewick en- 

 graved for children's books. Of the 

 six vignettes, "The Singing Milk- 

 maid" (p. 66), and "Feeding the 

 Fowls ' ' (above our Table of Contents) , 

 are as dainty and delightful pictures as 

 possibly can be obtained ; they excel 

 anything Thomas Bewick did in human 

 figure engravings. "Till death us do part" (p. 86) possesses a large element 

 of comicality ; "Ruminating" (above) is an animal not far short of those in 

 the Quadrupeds, while "The Ford — Left behind" (p. 127), and "Waiting 

 for Death" (p. 245), have been chosen on account of similarity to cuts by 

 Thomas Bewick. The first will be found to be of a corresponding character 

 with "The Ford" (p. 220), taken from Ferguson's Poems, and the other 

 exhibits a sentiment closely allied to the large block of "Waiting for Death." 



The cut of a gravestone, with the inscription " Firmum in vita nihil," is 

 in the Quadrupeds, and is also like that in the "Pleasing Instructor," 



Ruminating. Vignette in the " Looking Glass for 

 the Mind." From the original block engraved by 

 John Bewick. Lent by Messrs. Griffith and 

 Farran. 



