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    • IN SACKCLOTH AND ASHES.
    • THE COMING "STRIFE."
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      The Tomahawk: A Saturday Journal Of Sati...

      THE TOMAHAWK : A SATURDAY JOURNAL OF SATIRE . $$ iSff "INVITAT CULPAM QUI PECCATUM PR ^ ETERIT . "

      No. 18.] London, September 71867. [Price...

      No . 18 . ] LONDON , SEPTEMBER 71867 . [ Price Twopence . ,

      In Sackcloth And Ashes.

      IN SACKCLOTH AND ASHES .

      We Write In A State Of Great Depression....

      We write in a state of great depression . Our readers will forgive us if we are not sprightly this week ; there is a time for everything , and now with us it is the time for grieving . We have fallen under the displeasure of Public Mr . HENRY COLE , C . B . It

      Gentle pity us ! Last week , when the blow fell on us with all the terrific suddenness of a thunderbolt , we confess we lost our head . We tried while tears of repentance were struggling towards our eyelids , to conceal the bitterness of our affliction with idle jests ; but now we have no heart to trifle . We own we are crushed . The sublime and terrible lightning of his wrath has Ilcis blierhted unt ^ iiLcu . us Lia , : we vvc are iuc crumpled ui U . 1 J . 1 JJ 1 CU . up u . jj in in the me fiery nci y furnace iuxntiv-c of \ jl his jliis indi iiiuiij < £ - -

      nation . Oh ! Henry Cole , C . B ., deal gently with us . Oh ! creator of South Kensington ; oh ! author of Mumbo Jumbo , don ' t be too hard on us . We are sorry , and our heart is heavy within us . Oh ! inexhaustible Cole , consume us not in thine ire !

      What " WVint have T-mv « = » wp we done r ! r » n # » that i-Tialv we tw < = > should chnn " M be V » A cmitfpn smitten wi vtri th fTi thy tV » v fury fnrv ? i * T JDicl " ) irJ we ever insult thee by coupling thy name with high Art ? Did we ever accuse thee of holding the interests of thy country higher than thine own ? Listen while we praise thee . Yes , we will now praise the great , the mighty , the gentle Cole . We will show him how deep , how sincere , is our love , our veneration , our worshipof Henry ColeC . B .

      Who , is the very greatest , architect of this age ? Henry Cole , C . B . Who is the greatest painter of this age ? Henry Cole , C . B . Who is the greatest military hero of this age ? Henry Cole , C . B . Who is the greatest author of this age ? Henry Cole , C . B . Who is the handsomest man of this age ? Henry Cole , C . B . Who is the most immaculate Having AiiAYUlJ ^ thus 111 statesman US suns IS LIUI ^ : our UU of 1 prelude JJ this 1 CJ . UU age . C Ul of ? supplication SUJJJJIl Henry ( JH . ll Cole ( JU and £ U , C U . praise JJlillSC B . , , IC let t us US go QJ on % JU

      to recount his merits in detail . Other heads of departments advance their own relations , friends , and hangers-on , aye ! even their own creditors to any place which their patronage can bestow , irrespective of their merit . Not so does Henry Cole , C . B . Other heads of departments wilfully waste the public money , and cheat the nation by demanding far larger estimates than they really require . Not so Henry Cole , C . B . Other {~ M"i < = » r 1 heads i # = » nr 1 c ot r \ f departments flpnnrtmpiitc demand / 3 / = » mnnr ? an nn exorbitant < = » Y /~» i-1- » itn « f establishment *»« : lTiWlQTlTn «> nt . iinv

      their employes at preposterously high rates , while they make their work , pay as much a sinecure as possible . Not so Henry Cole , C . B . Look at other offices " under Government . " Where will you find any so economically—nay , so penuriously , conducted as the Department of Science and Art at South Kensington ? Where will you find any officials so thoroughly fit for their work , so self-denying , so scrupulously patriotic , so determined never to take any advantage of Government ,

      but to do their work well and thoroughly for a very inadequate reward , as the officials at South Kensington ? What department selects its employes with so much care , with such searching and critical severity as to character ? In other departments we have heard of men being appointed to responsible posts , in spite of a solemn warning as to their unfitness received from some one in a high position both public and private . We have heard even of a case in one Government Office

      where , after the appointment had been cancelled for reasons only too sufficient , the same man was reappointed in an underhand way a short time afterwards , when his patron thought that those who knew him would not notice it ; and this reappointment received its thorough justification by the individual in . question dying three days afterwards in a state of delirium tremens , and in the arms of his cook , out of compassion for whom he had deserted his wife and young family . But such things have never happened we know in the department which owns Then for let its us immaculate once more chief in chorus , Mr . praise Henry , Cole the hi , C gh . B . and spotless Cole ; let us sound preans to the glory of him , who after being treated by his

      Sovereign and the nation with the greatest ingratitude ( for h 4 had render rendered ) ; them after having services administered which none other thousands could of have pounds had , the provided courage b to the nation , without ever misapplying or wasting a single halfpenny y ; noble after having and disinterested received no patriotism reward for , yet these in , sp and ite of countless such cruel other neg acts lect of , " yes ! in spite of misrepresentation and calumny , still remains bravely at

      his post , determined that whatever obscurity may bury the name of Cole , whatever oblivion may blot out his virtues and his genius from the chosen memory Retreat of of posterity persecuted , South and neg Kensington lected Art shall , the Home still flourish of Intellect , the , the last Refuge of that poor outcast Economy , the Paradise of Integrity and Self-devotion ! Oh ! Henry Cole , C . B ., will you forgive us now ?

      The Coming "Strife."

      THE COMING "STRIFE . "

      Old King Cole Was A Savage Old Soul, And...

      Old King Cole was a savage old soul , And a savage old soul was he ; Captain Coles was his intimate friend , And almost as savage as he .

      Said Old King Cole , the savage old soul , As savage as ever could be , "My friend you must lend me a turret ship In which I can put to sea ? " Says Captain Coles , while his eyeball rolls ,

      As savage as ever you see , * ' For what do you want a turret ship , And why sail o'er the sea ? " Says Old King Cole , the savage old soul , As savage as ever could be ; " I want it to smash , and crash , and to dash , The Ed . ofthe Tomahawkie ?" w Says Captain Coles while his eyeball rolls , us cvci pu

      -n . x > stivuj ^ c sec , " I heard he had threatened you with 68 pound , Of the finest gunpowder tea ?" Says Old King Cole , the savage old soul , As savage as ever could be ; '' Tf you'll only lend me a turret ship , I'll soon annihilate he ! "

      Shadowy Praise.—Mr. Tom Taylor, Apropos ...

      Shadowy Praise . —Mr . Tom Taylor , apropos of his striking appreciation of Miss Kate Terry ' s acting , most unnecessarily thought fit to assure us , that "he stands in no relation to the lady which can account for loss of reason , or suspension of the faculty of judgment , in relation to her acting . " In the case of any other author , of one less original in his genius , less powerful in his plots , less condensed and

      witty in his dialogue , —of one , m fact , who had not bequeathed to the literature of his country such jewels as The Serf , Settling Day , Sense and Sensation , and last , not least , The Antipodes ; who had lent the undying lustre of his name to many other dramas which else had been but the mis-shapen abortives of semi-sterile brains ; in any other but the Shakespeare of the nineteenth centuiy , we might have suspected that some of this praise of such an actress arose from gratitude for the life which his worksBut lor is above

      , she had infused into . Mr . Tom Tay such a suspicion . Alas ! Miss Kate Terry will soon be lost to the stage ; but , courage ! Mr . Taylor ! her sister still remains . No doubt , before the gods , jealous of mankind's enjoyment of your genius , transport you to Parnassus , your fertile brain may light upon some piece which may contain a character worthy of her talents , and which no | irreverend scribbler shall dare to call The Sister ' s Penance .

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    • Tomahawk (1867-1870), Sept. 7, 1867, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/t/issues/ttw_07091867/page/1/