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    • OUR BOOKMARKER.
    • A PLAIN MISTAKE.
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    • A MODEL MAMMA..
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      24 The Tomaha Wk. Ijannary 15, 1870.

      24 THE TOMAHA WK . IJannary 15 , 1870 .

      Our Bookmarker.

      OUR BOOKMARKER .

      The Odes Of Anacreon. Translated By Thom...

      The Odes of Anacreon . Translated by Thomas Moore , with Designs by GiRODET DE ROUSSY . Hotten , London . This charming little book is one of the most delightful volumes that has been given to the public for a very long time . Both is the If nothing the verses pictures and that drawings are can volup offend tuous are the full , they most of voluptuous are pure at - the minded same ideas of time , still mankind , chaste there . be and some graceful who to will the find last degree fault with . As the , in desi spite gns of and this , attempt there may to draw a draught of nastiness from the pure stream , of the artist ' s genius critics , who we may find say a reason at once for that blu these shes will in the be the naked nasty legs -minded of a piano , and a subject for sermons on chastity in the breast of a roasted fowl !

      George Cruikshanks Omnibus. Edited By La...

      George Cruikshanks Omnibus . Edited by Laman Blanchard . New Edition . Bell and Daldy , London . This " work will put many of our modern litterateurs to the blush . It is full of wit and cleverness . When we compare it with with the the difference annuals of between the present the season scribble , we of cannot to-day but and be the struck literature of twenty years since . The great feature of the volume ; before artist ( us who is , may however be c , alled the wonderful the father etchings of modern of the caricature veteran ) , George Cruikshank the Elder . These sketches are superior , by a long Du Maurier way , to anything maybe clever produced , Mr b . y B the runton present grotesque generation , and . Mr Mr . . men Charles must Collette yield the quaint palm and ( as no humorous doubt they ; still would , all these do most gentle wil - - lingly ) to the author of the picture of Fagin the Jew . As . we turn of regret over that the leaves so . many of of the the " Omnibus writers of , " we the do pas so t with are silent a feeling for clever ever , — artist that so whose few things name are is inseparabl now given y to linked the wi public th the by book the before us . Would that George Cruikshank the Elder ' s pencil was once more to the fore ; it would be a terrible thing , it is true Eng , land for , our —Europ caricaturists e , —the , whole but then world it . would be a great boon to

      The Book Of Wonderful Characters. Chiefl...

      The Book of Wonderful Characters . Chiefly from the text of Henry Wilson and James Caulfield . Hotten , London . Those who like the Chamber of Horrors at Madame Tussaud's will welcome this volume with much delight . There are sixtyone illustrations of " pig-faced ladies , " " remarkable misers , " frankl " Botany y admit Bay Rothschilds that we are , " " not Female particularl sailors y , " partial & c , & c to . We the " still Newgate what has Calendar been done , " or to in the this accounts book has of been human well monstrosities done . The , text , is sharply written , and the pictures are evidently speaking likenesses . If Mr . Hotten publishes a hundredth edition of this work rtrait , say of a some Poor fifty -law years Guardian hence from , he the should parish add of St a . specimen Pancras . po

      A Plain Mistake.

      A PLAIN MISTAKE .

      More Military Blunders In India I After ...

      More military blunders in India I After mature deliberation it has been decided that a large number of new barracks for the accommodation of the troops are to be erected in the plains from of Bengal the Indian . If we Government could wonder we should at anything wonder at that this eman . It ates has long since been an admitted , principle that the only way , of selast curing India six is a or b heal y eight keep thy years , ing and the since therefore men the at the institution efficient hill , stations European of telegraph ; and . army for s and the in railways advisable it from has been a military deemed point by all of view competent , to keep authorities the forces most in , these could be healthy thrown quarters into the , whence lains , in at a d few irection hours ci ' r notice cumst , ances they may warrant . What the p authorities any have been about to sanction the erection of" buildings which , if they are to be of any wa use Mansfield y , mus of utilising t overthrow we should the Indian all have preconceived army thou we ht ca would ideas nnot ha guess of v what e had Sir is influence William the best ' enough to , have prevented such g sh , ameless blundering , How

      More Military Blunders In India I After ...

      many hundred thousands of money the new barracks are to whatever cost we have the not sum heard total , possibl ultimatel y because be nobod it will y be knows so much ; but money wasted . And yet may we are told y that , retrenchment in J Indian expenditure is being specially applied to the military services !

      Cuttings From A Contemporary.

      CUTTINGS FROM A CONTEMPORARY .

      Amongst The Features Of The Pall Mall Ga...

      Amongst the features of the Pall Mall Gazette in its twopenny the Events morning of - 186 form 9 " , arranged there appeared with the , last view week of , acting a " Chronicle as a per of - its manent length reference ( five columns sheet , . ) , to Althoug reprint h the we are list unable in extenso on , account we have of , thanks vate on the secretaries strength to bur intelli ) of , been our gent establishment able fre ' to cis g writer ive the , ( iix an , whole addition officer substance always to our retained six of pri the - chronicle in the following lines : — CHRONICLE FOR 1869 . Condensed from the Pall Mall Gazette of January 3 RD . January . —Disturbances in Spain . Several Members unseated for bribery . Trade dull . Murders . - February . —Several murders . Disturbances in Spain . Trade dull . Election scandals . March . — More Members unseated for bribery . Horrible murders . Revolutionary movement in Madrid . Trade dull . A £ ril . —Trade dull . Lots of murders , and bribery . Rows in Spain . May . —Murders and disturbances general . More election scandals . Trade duller than ever . J une scandals .- —Trade and at its murders dullest . . Spain , as usual . Ditto election A Jul ugust y . ^ - . See — -See January February . . September . —See March . , October . —See April . November . —See May . December . —See J une . N . B . —If carefully cut out an 4 preserved , thjs Chronicle will do nicely for several years to come .

      A Model Mamma..

      A MODEL MAMMA ..

      It Is With The Greatest Pain We Read In....

      It is with the greatest pain we read in . the newspapers that a " respectable looking woman" has been condemned by a imprisonment Manchester mag , for istrate cruelly to ill pay -using forty heir shillings own child , or , six suffer years a month of age ' . s - black When and the swollen child was and first there seen were by other the police marks , her hands her which were showed that she had , been brutally beaten . A upon police-sergeant which her took to her bed her home , stockings they to found his were house that sticking her , and feet when , were and they they covered were were , with about obli sores ged to , put to to stockings steep her feet off . in A water servant for g some irl , who time haji before been they in the coul emp d take loyment her of the " respectable looking woman , " said that she had seen the child badly used by her mother on several occasions . On one occasion , she saw this amiable creature put the child ' s hands on Another a table , and time beat she them saw her with put a cane her child until into the a cane cold was -water smashed bathin . which she was kept with her head under water , and when she , was brought out the kind-hearted materfamilias refused to let found her go necessar near the fire to . et some child brand became for her very . He ill r , bod and had it was become quite stiff y . Once g she saw the y mother strike the y child on the face with her clenched fist with such force as to make the child ' s nose and mouth bleed . loved What her a child nice , ! kind Trul , good it , is gentle hard that creature she ! should How she be so must severe have l punished for inflicting y a little chastisement . Of course forty y to shillings be so in fine the is a terrible of the Manchester punishment , at istrate least it who would informed appear eyes mag , wi the thout prisoner the option that of she a was fine . liable Know to six for months the future ' imprisonmen all ye loving t , mothers who wish to indulge in the luxury of brutality to your this offsp mag ring istrate , the price any is child only ren fort of y his shillings own ? at We Manchester trust riot . . Has

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    • Tomahawk (1867-1870), Jan. 15, 1870, page 24, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/t/issues/ttw_15011870/page/12/