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LITBaAKY INTEL.LiaENCE 770—785 BOOKS AKT...
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1 St. Dunstan's House, E.C. July 1, 1889.
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Litbaaky Intel.Liaence 770—785 Books Akt...
LITBaAKY INTEL . LiaENCE 770—785 BOOKS AKT > KTTMOTXRS OF BOOKS 770—772
NOTES AttT > NEWS 712—7 Q [ CONTINENTAL NOTES 774 , 776
UTHEWOBSHIPFUI , COMPANY OF STATIONEBS 775 , 776 \\ saxe Jottings .. ^ 777 , 778 TBADE CHANGES 778
\ FOBEIGN CATALOGUES j ... 778 r FIRST IMPRESSIONS 778 , 779 REVIEWS , & c 779—785
INDEX TO BOOKS PUBLISHED IN GREAT BBITAIN BETWEEN JUNE 17 « fc 29 786 , 787
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FOBEIGN WOBKS . * .. ^ ... ? ... 790 K & N ^ OOKS AND BOOKS LATELY PUBLISHED . 4 pl ~? 80 V
MISCEliiAlOiOUS J . 80 & --815 BTTSIldlSS CABDS . 811 , 812
ASSISTANTS WANTED - „ 814 WANT SITUATIONS 814
BjpOKS FOR SALE ..... 815 BOOKS WANTED TO PURCHASE 815—820
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1 St. Dunstan's House, E.C. July 1, 1889.
1 St . Dunstan ' s House , E . C . July 1 , 1889 .
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BOOK ; illustration in oni of its most entertaining forms can be studied to perfection
just now in K- Piccadilly , at the Exhibition ^ of the ^ V Works of the English Humourists in Art . N " ot
only specialists , 'but students of " men and manners , who care to contrast the freaks and
follies of past generations with the social foibles of their own , can find abundant food
for far reflection TAflfiftHmi in itv this f . lns unique nninnp collection r » r » 11 ftr » f . irvn of of droll droll ' pictures , drawings , and engravings , in wljich the ebb * and flow of the tide in politics and
society from Hogarth to Pellegrini is reflected , sometimes , it must be confessed , with fierce
satire , but more often with genial humpdr . Pictorial caricatureif not exactly as old as
the hills , can at least be ^ traced as far back as the Egyptians , Greeks , and Romans of
antiquity , and , like satirical songs and lampoons , it was often used as a stinging
whip for folly . Many a clumsy woodcut was fashioned in the Middle Ages to pour
ridicule on lay or clerical oppressors ; and in Englandunder Henry VIII . and Elizabeththe
, , Pope frequently figured in this dreaded form of f free-hand' drawing . During the Civil
Wars , and in the reign of William III ., artistic satire of a crude and often of a coarse
description was common enough , and became of a powerful ^> he first weapon writers in to political use the warfare Italian . word One
€ caricatura' was Sir Thomaa Browne , who borrowed the term in the pages of his ' Christian
Morals . ' Although ' caricatura Vwas familiar enoug h to justif « F y its appearance A . A in 1712 in ' the
Spectator , it had not been adopted into English speech when Dr . Johnson ' s Dictionary
appeared some forty years later ; but , long before the Eighteenth Century drew to a close
the genius of Hogarth , Rowlandson , and , Oillray had awakened the rank and file of
theEnglish people to the significance of the , term ^ , alike in its political and social aspects .-IB a
\ It was Mark Lemonif ' , we remember rightly ,
, who stoutly maintained that the liumourist with brush or pencil was one of the best of all
historical commentators , and this opinion may be set over against the harsh verdict of Holbein ,
who held that caricature was the prostitution of art . Hogarth declared that he '; had lost ,
by ^ r the « * m long ^ b ' practice ¦ * ' * i - of caricature * ' - ~ ' ' , the ~ ~ td lenjpy . a - ment of beauty ^ r , and . added that every r face he t
saw looked distorted in his eyes . If thai ; was so , all we can say is that he must have had
many a dream of fair women , for some bewitching coquettes appear in his drawings .
It was a happy thought on tha part of Mr . Grego and his colleagues to , bring together an
exhibition which vividly illustrates the political and social progress of England from the middle
of the eighteenth to the closing years of the nineteenth century- Lovers of-English litera-,
tureandart , to say nothing of stray moralists and publishers of illustrated books in search
of ideas , will find their time well spent in the , survey of a collection of pictures , whieh look
as if they were fresh from the hands of such kings of caricature as Hogarth , Rowlandson ,
Gillray , Bunbury , Cruikshank , the Doyles , father and son , John Leech , H . K . Browne ,
William Makepeace Thackeray , and Randolph Caldecott . We are compelled by the stern
exigencies of space to tear ourselves away from such good company , without so much as
mentioning a group of distinguished living
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Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), July 1, 1889, page 770, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01071889/page/4/
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