2 DEATH S DOINGS.

peared in ancient and modern times, and theavidity with which they have been received, itmay reasonably be expected, that the present at-tempt to serve up a sort of Graphic Olio, withsuitable garnishes of prose and verse, may notbe unacceptable to the general reader; and themore so, as the endeavour has been to give (if notaltogether a new), at least a more appropriatereading to the old version of the Dance of Death.

There is little to apprehend in the way of ob-jection, from any application of the designs con-tained in the work to individual concerns or pur-suits, as—

" All men think all men mortal but themselves ;"

and there will be no want of claimants to theheir-looms either of safety or of longevity. At anyrate, the greater part of mankind will assume theprivilege of exemption from such incidental ca-sualties as are pointed out in the course of theillustrations here exhibited, and will find a clausein their own favour. Thus, for example, thesportsman will readily observe,—