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THE TOMAHAWK: \ A SATURDAY JOURNAL OF SA...
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No. 15.] LONDON, AUGUST 17, 1867. [Price...
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PERSONAL.
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It is rarely a wise, and never a pleasan...
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man A " Naive is likel Remark y to know ...
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RECIPES FOR AUTHORS.
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prising As everything that a " Hand is n...
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A TALE OF TWO CITIES.
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House We of are Commons told by Lord tha...
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DINNERS AND DESSERT. field Forg 's p ive...
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A GROUSE MISAPPLICATION. The birds will ...
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The Tomahawk: \ A Saturday Journal Of Sa...
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No. 15.] London, August 17, 1867. [Price...
No . 15 . ] LONDON , AUGUST 17 , 1867 . [ Price Twopence .
Personal.
PERSONAL .
It Is Rarely A Wise, And Never A Pleasan...
It is rarely a wise , and never a pleasant action , for any journotice nal—especiall the attacks y one of , like its ours contemporaries , yet in its earl . But y youth there —to are have excep to - tions to every rule , and it appears to us that we owe it to ourselves as well as to the Public to say a few words in vindication of ourselves against the extreme severity of criticism to which
we have been subjected . We have nothing to complain of against our brothers of the openl Press y , avows if they its choose determination to abuse to us speak . A paper the truth like , however ours , which unreceive p of leasant contemporaries , any , and more to spare . than For no to the ask offender most for , part gentle , hi , g indeed h treatment or low , we , is have not at the received likel hands y to far more friendly recognition at their hands than we might have
lapse looked in for the ; way but they of good seem -nature determined which they now may to make have committed up for any . Misrepresentation has always been the favourite weapon of those whose who prejudices are confronted suddenly receive by an obnoxious a rude shock truth . It outspoken is the fashion , or any so much attempt now to -a- write days to or disguise even to one think ' s real the feelings truth , is in so public very rare , and , that lence , commonp and revile lace sincerity people sti as gmatize scurrility fearlessness . And this as public
insogrades dishonesty their in criticism writers , to which senseless steeps adulation their pens ; which in flattery makes , and them deits accept outside sham be s as onl realities y gilded , and , co- bow exists down , strange before to the say stuffed , with a image greedy if sinuation love for the which filthiest bespatters scandal its in victim private with , and dirt a mean from habit behind of the incowardly shelter of anonymous hearsay . The man who will whisper dinner table the , vilest goes calumny home to against his study a public , and character sits down at the to
be tre write a very cherous columns refined , and of conduct adulation untruthful , but of in to the the us same it hi appears ghest person degree . ignoble This . may and We prefer to strike boldly , and to strike openly ; we prefer to to say say privatel in y public nothing nothing more than less we than dare we say dare in say public in , and private j and be the consequences what they may , we are rethat all solved hatred in to the adhere , pages is openl to of this y the expressed princ Tomahawk iple , and ; and not , all we insinuated censure warn all , all . our We reproach readers sati- , , rize — — ¦— ' " »~ ¦ ¦ , y but » ¦»»¦ ^ . v w > - e ^» do »» ^^ ^ not ^ - »^ ^ ^ sneer tm »^ ^^ ^^ ¦¦ * . m Nor i ^ fc ^ ^^ «¦ will r w tm * * we » » ^* be w ^ ^ r responsible ^ fc ^ m ^ i * mt ^ ¦• ^^ ^ *^¦ » " " ^^ ^ ^^ for ^ ^^ ^» the ^ ^ ^ ^ i ^
1 meanings coy prude with which calumny those who may seek dally to with fix on scandal our word , and s or p actions lay the . what Our weapon is good shall and true always , in the be defence employed of the on weak the and side the of honest , in defiance of the strong and the dishonest . But we recognise no law which calls on us to spare evil or folly , beour cause critics they , may public be or allied private to , weakness assure themselves . Finally , , that of this calling let all us hold deter all w the » ie us names hig fro h m place which our in purpose the the world vocabulary as which long as of they Humbug abuse do in contains the and present H , ypocrisy will age not .
Man A " Naive Is Likel Remark Y To Know ...
man A " Naive is likel Remark y to know . —The most " club about " that is Mr the . policeman Beales' " working ' s truncheon .
Recipes For Authors.
RECIPES FOR AUTHORS .
Prising As Everything That A " Hand Is N...
prising As everything that a " Hand is now -book worked to Literary by machinery Success" should , it is be not talked surabout coming . H volume aving , been we have favoured much with pleasure a glance in at the making pages a of few the extracts for the benefit of those of our readers who are fond of " writing . " How to Write a Sensatio 7 t Novel— . Take two breaches of the
well seventh together commandment . Throw in , and a few one dolls breach , a souftqon of the ei of ghth sermon , and , mix and pensive serve up shop with -keepers a handful . of ( well-paid-for ) allusions to exand Ditto an assortment Nautical— . of Proceed naval terms as above , such , but as introduce " lubber , " " marling sea fight - sp Ditto ike , " & Sporting c , & c . Get — . Sam your e as seamen Sensation from Surrey Novel , melo but flavour -dramas with . " culled horsey from " slang the and of anecdotes BelVs Life about in London popular . jockeys , & c ,
pages play How , lig to htly Write translate a New it with and Ori the ginal aid of Comed a French y . —Take -Eng a lish French dictionary and an English-French grammar . Then throw in a few-English names , and remove the immorality that floats to the little surface sauce . Serve a la poster up with . two or three national " d ns , " and a childish How bh doggrel to Create add 0 f a a Successful load f of music Burlesque -hall tunes tf — . To . Dish three up cwt with . of
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A Tale Of Two Cities.
A TALE OF TWO CITIES .
House We Of Are Commons Told By Lord Tha...
House We of are Commons told by Lord that F the . Cavendish indignation and of Mr the . Baines population , in the of of Leeds is old extreme Greenland , in , consequence the late of the liberation of the Leeds from prison Bank before poor his sentence of fifteen , months manager had expired . The imma- , culate purity of Leeds revolts at the very idea of a poor old man of 72—his character blasted , his position destroyed , his health
prison broken , to friendless sink into and a wretched helpless grave —being one moment allowed before to leave he had his fully exp , iated his crime . What a contrast to Sheffield ! Here we prosperity see the , holding unctuous levies murderer and receiving crowned with with laurel gracious , rolling conde in - scejision both the custom , and applause of his admiring townsmen . Which shall we admire most—the purism of Leeds , or the— well , the toleration of Sheffield ?
Dinners And Dessert. Field Forg 'S P Ive...
DINNERS AND DESSERT . field Forg ' s p ive etticoat us our government pronunciation is , enoug but reall h to y Sir make William any Mans aide- - decamp .
A Grouse Misapplication. The Birds Will ...
A GROUSE MISAPPLICATION . The birds will not agree with us , after the 12 th , in thinking " the Moor the merrier . "
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Tomahawk (1867-1870), Aug. 17, 1867, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/t/issues/ttw_17081867/page/1/
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