66 PREFACE EXCEPT to explain its appearance, there is little need of preface to the present volume. It is, for the most part, a reprint of two articles on Bewick and his pupils, prepared in 1881-82 for the New York Century Magazine." That on Bewick, when illustrated, was found to be too long for publication in one number. An entire section devoted to John Bewick was consequently omitted, and other retrenchments were effected. In this reissue, the portions withdrawn are restored; and such corrections and additions as a writer usually makes in the case of a paper republished some time after it was written, have been inserted. The account of the Pupils, which, when first printed, was not abridged, has not now been materially altered. In both cases it would obviously have |