Caroline; or, a Lesson to Cure Vanity. From the "Looking Glass for the Mind." 

 Lent by Messrs. Griffith and Farran. 



APPENDIX. 



NOTES ON A VISIT TO THOMAS BEWICK IN 1825. 



From "A Tour through the Hebrides, Highlands, and Lowlands of Scotland. Drawn from the 

 travelling notes of J. F. M. Dovaston and J. E. Bowman, with comments and observations by 

 the latter." — Extracted from an unpublished manuscript in two volumes.* 



Vol. II. pp. 304 — 307. — "Friday, 12th August [1825]. — We rose early and put ourselves 

 into trim to walk up to Gateshead to breakfast, intending to devote the whole of the day to our 

 kind and worthy friend Bewick. When we reached his house, the family had breakfasted, 

 though yet scarcely eight o'clock ; but a second table was quickly spread before us, and our 

 meal was heightened by the conversation of our cheerful host. He told us it was his birthday, 

 having now attained seventy-two. . . . When the tide and effusion of heart at meeting had 

 somewhat subsided, we settled down into calmer delight. His bright daughter, Jane, showed 

 us many boxes filled with blocks, principally fo/i?-pieces for his new work on Fishes, many of 

 which were unsoiled by ink, having never had even a proof impression struck off. As far as 

 could be judged, these are all equal, some of them superior, to anything he has already published, 

 and are full of incident and humour. He told us his inventive faculty and ardour were still as 

 vigorous as ever, though his eyes began to fail, so that he was restricted from working more 

 than two or three hours at a time, and altogether by candle-light ; but that his bodily health was 

 generally good. He is indefatigable in the sedulous employment of his time, and occupies 

 himself as closely, either in engraving or writing, as is consistent with a due regard to his health, 

 knowing, as he says, that his span of life cannot be much longer extended. Thus he often sits 



* The manuscript is in the possession of Henry Bowman, Esq., of Brockham, Surrey, and for the use of it the 

 author is indebted to the kind services of W. Bowman, Esq., Clifford Street, London. 



" There is a vein of generous enthusiasm — a glow of friendship — a halo of the finest feelings of our nature 

 throughout and around Dovaston's Memoir, which has the sincerity and singleness of heart of A friend." — The 

 Mirror, vol. xx. 1 832, p. 18. 



