Print collector's quarterly (12.1925)

one on the morning of November 8th, 1828,” and in
accordance with his own wish he was buried in the place
of his birth, at the west end of Ovingham Church. Well,
amid the turbulent excitement of the present day, in
art as in everything else, it is unlikely that Bewick’s
genius and work will be widely appreciated to their full
worth. But those of us who grow now and again not
a little dazed and wearied and even sickened by this
excitement, will turn to them gratefully enough as to
a spring-head of natural unaffected beauty, and find
there quiet yet invigorating refreshment.

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