The success which had attended the first _Tour of Doctor Syntax_ was so flattering and remunerative that the publisher and his able collaborateurs, the artist and author, projected a second series, entitled _Doctor Syntax in Search of Consolation_--for the loss of that termagant spouse who figures in the original _Tour_, and is decently buried, in the first cantos of the new adventures, to give the hero a fitting cause for pursuing his eccentric travels. The renewal of Dr. Syntax's journeys, which appeared in monthly parts, was completed in 1820, when it was republished by Mr. Ackermann, uniform with the first volume; it was less successful than its predecessor, but it ran through several editions. The plates, which were contributed by Rowlandson, much on his old principle, were as follows:-- Frontispiece.--Doctor Syntax and his Counterpart. Doctor Syntax lamenting the loss of his Wife. " " at the Funeral of his Wife. " " setting out on his Second Tour. " " and the Gypsies. " " loses his Wig. The visit of Doctor Syntax to Widow Hopeful, at York. Doctor Syntax amused with Pat in the Pond. " " in the Glass House. " " visits Eaton Hall, Cheshire. " " making his Will. " " in a Court of Justice. " " present at a Coffee-house Quarrel at Bath. " " and the superannuated Fox-hunter. " " with the Skimmington Riders. " " and the Bees. " " visits a Boarding School for Young Ladies. " " making a Discovery. " " Painting a Portrait. " " Marriage of Doctor Dicky Bend. " " at an Auction. " " and the Bookseller. " " at Freemasons' Hall. Miss Worthy's Marriage--Doctor Syntax in the chair. A third and final Tour, ending with the hero's funeral, concludes the poem. The last volume, which had appeared, like its predecessors, in monthly parts, was put forth in its collected form in 1821; and, similar to the first and second series, with which it was afterwards re-issued, it received sufficient patronage to carry it through several editions, although neither the Second nor Third Tours were reckoned so successful as the original series. The _Third Tour of Doctor Syntax--in Search of a Wife_ appeared with the following 'Preface,' from the pen of the veteran Combe, who, for his private reasons, preferred to continue anonymous throughout. 'This prolonged work is, at length, brought to a close. It has grown to this size under rare and continuing marks of public favour; while the same mode of composition has been employed in the last as in the former volumes. They are all equally indebted to Mr. Rowlandson's talents.