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of one or two of the tail-pieces, none are of much merit. The best are the 

 resting traveller and the man and donkey, which were used in the editions of 

 Burns's Poems; several of the others were also employed by Davison for 

 various publications. The second volume contains about the same number 

 of blocks, and of a better quality than those in the first. The three 

 cows, the traveller amid rain, and the Ford are the best. The latter, printed 

 on our page 221, is thus spoken of by The Times of January 3rd, 1882, when 

 reviewing The Fine Art Society's " Bewick Notes :" — 



" The back of the sturdy rider who is crossing the stream is turned towards us, 

 and yet we are struck at once by the acquaintance with anatomy it displays. But 

 there is far more in it than mere anatomical knowledge. The angles of the tucked-up 

 thighs and the arms, the stoop of the shoulders, the set of the short back, the very 

 creases in the clothes, as rendered in a line or two, all convey irresistibly the idea 

 of a man who is concentrating his energies in avoiding being splashed, while the 

 rock under the scraggy tree in the foreground, with the gate and wind-beaten 

 bushes in the middle distance, makes a charming sketch of Northumbrian land- 

 scape." 



The fourth edition of both volumes of the " History of British Birds" was 

 published in 1816, being printed on demy octavo paper only, and in separate 

 volumes. The only additional figures in the first volume are the Peregrine 

 Falcon and the Pied Flycatcher. In the second volume the Eared Grebe is 

 the only new one. The vignettes of the fowls under cover on a rainy day 

 and the guillemots on the seashore are vigorously drawn, and rendered with 

 much beauty in black and white. 



The " History of Hartlepool," by Sir Cuthbert Sharp, 1816, contains a 

 number of wood engravings stated, in a note in the work, to be by Bewick and 

 Nicholson. They are principally coats of arms, seals, medals, and initial 

 letters, with a few uninteresting views of old erections. The two largest 

 represent a fisherman coming home from the sea, and a group of detached 

 rocks at Hartlepool — an engraving, the text says, which " may convey a faint 

 resemblance of their general appearance." The block given here, which is 



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