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the subjects ill-chosen, and devoid of that humour whichmight have been expected from the pencil of Rowlandson,whose grotesque predominates as usual in the groups.

XI. "Death's doings, consisting of numerous originalcompositions in prose and verse, the friendly contributionsof various writers, principally intended as illustrations oftwenty-four plates designed and etched by R. Dagley,author of ' Select gems from the-antique,' &c. 1826." 8vo.

From the intrinsic value and well-deserved success ofthis work, a new edition was almost immediately called for,which received many important additions from the modestand ingenious author. Among these a new frontispiece,from the design of Adrian Van Venne, the celebratedDutch poet and painter, is particularly to be noticed.This edition is likewise enriched with numerous elegantcontributions, both in prose and verse, from some of thebest writers of the age.

XII. A modern French Dance of Death, under the titleof " Voyage pour l'Eternite, service general des omnibusacceleres, depart a toute heure et de tous les points duglobe." Par J. Grandville. No date, but about 1830. Aseries of nine lithographic engravings, including the frontis-piece. Oblong 4to. These are the subjects:—

1. Frontispiece. Death conducting passengers in hisomnibus to the cemetery of Pere la Chaise.

2. " C'est ici le dernier relai." Death as a postilion givesnotice to a traveller encumbered with his baggage, &c.

3. "Vais-je bien 1 .... vous avancez horriblement."Death enters a watchmaker's shop, and shows his hour-glass to the master and his apprentice.

4. "Monsieur le Baron, on vous demande.—Dites queje n'y suis pas." Death having entered the apartment, thevalet communicates his summons to his gouty master lyingon a couch.

5. " Soyez tranquille, j'ai un garcon qui ne se trompejamais." The apothecary addresses these words to somecautious patients whilst he fills a vessel which they havebrought to his shop. Death, as an apprentice in anotherroom, pounds medicines in a mortar.

6. " Voila, Messieurs, un plat de mon metier." A feastDeath as a waiter enters with a plate of poisonous fruit.