Of a class entirely different to the foregoing may be mentioned the still rarer series of comicalities executed by the artist under the title of "New Readings of old Authors," of which we may notice the following: _Moved in Good Time_ (_Taming of the Shrew_, Act 2, Sc. 1), a tax-gatherer and other creditors bemoaning themselves outside the premises of a levanted debtor; _I am to get a man, whate'er he be_ (Act 3, Sc. 2), disciples of Burke and Hare providing themselves with a living subject; _I do remember when the fight was done, when I was dry_ (King Henry IV., Part 1, Act 1, Sc. 3), a victorious prize-fighter recruiting his exhausted frame by imbibing many quarts of strong ale; _He was much Feared by his Physicians_ (Act 4, Sc. 1), an irascible gouty patient flinging medicine bottles and nostrums at one of his doctors, and stamping a prostrate one under foot; _You are too great to be by me gainsaid_ (_King Henry_ IV., Part 2, Act 1, Sc. 1), a huge woman administering chastisement to a small and probably (in more senses than one) _frail_ husband; _My Lord, I over rode him on the way_ (Act 1, Sc. 1), a miserable huntsman who has ridden over and killed one of the master's fox-hounds; _He came, saw, and overcame_ (Act 4, Sc. 2), a wretched Frenchman, who, overbalancing himself, falls over the rails of a bear-pit amongst the hungry animals below; _Never was such a sudden scholar made_, (_King Henry_ V., Act 1, Sc. 1), in allusion to the installation of the Duke of Wellington as Chancellor of Oxford University; _A Midsummer Night's Dream_, a fat sleeper suffering under the agonies of nightmare, under the influence of whose delusion he fancies himself roasting before a vast fire, with a huge hook stuck through his stomach; and, _I beg the ancient privilege of Athens: as she is mine, I may dispose of her_ (Act 1, Sc. 1), an Englishman attempting to dispose of his ugly, wooden-legged old harridan of a wife by auction. The lithographic stones on which the drawings to these "New Readings" were made, and which comprised no less than three hundred drawings, were effaced before the artist's death, and impressions from them are now, of course, more than difficult to procure. The Shakespeare series were collected and republished in four volumes, in 1841-2, by Tilt & Bogue, of Fleet Street, and even these last are very seldom met with.