CHAPTER VII.

CLOSING YEARS OF HIS LIFE

ALL Dr. Anderson’s pictures exhibit the same careful execution, and show plainly that he was an artist as well as an engraver. Nothing is overlooked or slighted, even the smallest detail being worked up conscientiously. He was a close student of Bewick, and engraved in his style; for with the eye of genius he saw that it was the true method. Like his English prototype, he was a lover of nature, and would spend his rare holidays in wandering through the fields; stopping here to gather some shy wild flower coyly hidden in the grass; now gazing with wrapt and loving attention upon a sweet-voiced songster, from whose feathered throat welled a stream of liquid melody; and anon pausing to rest under a wide-branching tree, where, free from all interruption, he could sketch the beauties around.
   He also made a close study of New York architecture, and engraved for the "Mirror" (now the "Home Journal"), published by George P. Morris, a